Chairman. in the view in which the case is presented here by the committee in the report. these facts are ist aside otirely. because we are asked to give this person out of the Treasury of the United States $5.000 in recognition of an art of heroisr. That is the language of the report. Now. sir. the facts in this case. as I have gathered them from the report. so far as they are pertinent to the inquiry. it seems to me. are these : A party of overlaad emigrants in 1849. at the time when persons were seeling their fortunes in the mining regions in California. were snowbound. and intelligence came to this Petri and others that they were in distress. and that an expedition should be organized to go to their relief. Tihe State of California. through the governor. issued a proclamation. which is recited in the report. calling for vohuteens. and promising remunaeration to any person who should carry relief to the emigrants. so that. so far as this report establishes any liability on the part of any government to recognize this as an act of heroism. or to remunerate these peisos for any expense that they may have incurred or any hardships .hat they may have endured. it is the State of California which has pit itself in that attitude.
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