Excerpt from The French Spoliation Claims: With Special Reference to Insurance Companies The French spoliation claims form one of the oldest and most discussed sub jects that has ever been before Congress. AS we shall point out, they have engaged the attention of committees of both Senate and House ever since 1802, and yet the policy of Congress to pay these claims was not established until 1891. For the last fifteen years the subject has not been before the Claims Committee Of the House, which has proper jurisdiction over it, because these claims have been put in the various omnibus claims bills as Senate amend ments and have been accepted by the War Claims Committee conferees and then passed without dissent or debate by the House. In the present instance the bill before the committee (h. R. 22534) includes certain French spoliation claims upon which the Senate committee has post poned action on account of the practical necessity of keeping down the total amounts of the omnibus bills. Realizing the uncertainty arising from loading such bills to death, and believing in addition that it is timely to present the subject of French spoliations afresh to the House for the benefit of the many Members who have had no opportunity to acquaint themselves with it, we now come before you, begging the relief which we feel is justly due. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.