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have found it impossible to doubt whether thew
regarded the claims as obligatory upon the govern
ment, or as constituting an equitable demand upon
the treasury" Yet Of the grounds taken bv him
in this veto message is thus expressed


at is scarcely probable the claim had been regarded
as obligatory upon the government constituting an eau


table demand on the treasury that those who
long since, have done justice to the claimsntsn


Sir it has seemed to me matter of surprise ,ba,
all the public men who cogpizant OF the lead
ing facts connected with the negotiation of the con-
vention of 1900, and who were contemporaneous
with that convention, should have concurred in
opinion on this subject; for however far they NAV
have differed on other questions, they all agree thai
by the convention of lS00 we released these claims
TO France for valuable consideration received bv
our government. And ii is still more Remarkable
that this opinion prevailed universally at the time
that no ventured doubt the fact Of the LIABILITY
of this government to the claimants during tha,
whole debate in the House of Representatiyes n
which have already referred, which occurred onlv
about six months after the ratification of the conven.
tion--athough the whole mass of documentsrv ev;
dence upon which the claimants now rest their case
was concealed at the time from the public and re-
mained concealed in the Department Of State fol
nearly quarter ofa century thereafter.


| The question made by the President why thes,
claims were not paid by those who were contempo.
raneous with the events out of which they arose is
| in my judgment, easily answered by reference V
the state Of our finances during the fifteen wears AZ
ter these claims had been assumed bv this goyern
ment. In Seybert's Statistical Annals, page $50. !,
statement Of the public debt Of the United State,
from 1871 to 1917, inclusVe-it states the debt nm
provided for thus--viz:


i t. 1910 A7o -ra Esa ~