Evening Star Newspaper, March 28, 1935, Page 15

Custer Scouts Renew Claims Two Indians Fighting for Congress Relief Since 1883. BY BLAIR BOLLES. \WO year-seamed Indians who claim they scouted the North- west plains for Gen. Custer in 1876 are still trying to get $800 | apiece from the United States Government for the job. Since 1883 their case has been pre- sented annually for congressional sanction and yearly it has been turned down. The House and Senate Claims Com- mittees are ready to trot this red- skins' relief bill to the floor again, along with thousands of other meas- ures providing payment of damages to countless people who feel they have & claim against the Government. The Government can’t be sued without its permission; so if you are run down by a mail truck, bitten by a dog of an Army post, or bowled over by a departmental messenger, you **6,000 NEW FORD V-8s Bring Greatest Used Car Opportunity in Years Supe have to take your suit to your Con- gressman, who will endeavor to obtain cnngreumml and presidential okay for your plea. The biggest sum of money involved Oogw’\nuun SUE T BeveanmenT’, 2 in any case the Claims Committees are confronted with is the Minnesota fire case, a hardy perrenial which has been debated and voted down annually for four years. It all started when a carefree loco- THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €, THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 1935, motive engineer set the northern half of Minnesota afire in 1918, when the Government operated the by idly tossing red-hot embers intq the State's sun-dried forests. $12,500,000 in all Every time it comes to the floor it is the signal for a spirited scrap and returns to the committee defeated. This year, however, it has new strength in the support of President Roosevelt. The smallest claim before the com- mittees comes to $7.42, but it costs the Government $100 to carry each bill to passage. A novel but unscientific private system of inflating currency brought the committee one of the strangest suits now pending hefore it. Bruno Tarzio of Albany, N. Y., had $275. Anxious to increase his wealth, he drew ciphers on pieces of green paper and pasted them along the legal zeros stamped on the bills by the Bureau of Engraving. Thus $5 be- came $50, $10 grew to $100, etc.. The domestic infationist stopped when he reached $2,400 in all. Bruno was arrested when ongof the | $25. home-made ciphers fluttéred to the tendered a bill for a pur- chase. A jury found him guilty of tampering with the currency, although two alienists testified he was feeble- minded. The judge sentenced him to enednyln jail and fined him $1. Bruno disappeared. The Treasury, which had taken the $275, sought him to return it. The Italian consul re- fused to take the money. The Treas- ury finally put the sum into its general fund. At length Tarzio’s brother stepped forward with power of attorney to col- lect the money. Bruno was in Italy, P <Thi <ol ve* 500 DoLLARS. he said. But he was foo late. “only Congress can authorize taking money from the Treasury's general fund. Hence a bill has been introduced to horse case was savagely debated in Congress for eight years before it was finally settled for A Georgia farmer living next to an Army post owned what he declared r Serviced USED CARS 1933 Chevrolet Master Sedan 1933 Ford Fordor Sedan 1932 De Soto Custom Sedan 1934 Ford Fordor Sedan... 1932 Chevrolet Sedan. ... 1932 Chevrolet RMMA SEEO O 1933 Chevrolet ‘Roadster. 1930 Ford Coupe. 1931 Ford Roadster. 1930 Ford Roadster. 1930 Chevrolet Coach. 1930 Chevrolet Coupe. . cesssasssssas 215 265 315 145 sseeses 1931 Chevrolet Conv. 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