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1318 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Mar. 29,
The claim set up was for the amount of three hundred
dollars, and after the passage of the law, it was in proof that
this amount was paid to Mr. Webster.
No charge has been made that Col. Woolford was ia any
way to be benefitted by the payment of the claim of Mr.
Webster, or that he was interested in any way in regard to
it, except to see justice done to a very poor man, whom he be-
lieved to have been injured by the action of the State's offi-
cers, and which injury he regarded it as obligatory on the
State to repair.
Col. Woolford testified before the Committee, that he
was present at the drawing made by the Commissioner
appointed by Governor Bradford, and that he was cognizant
of the fact that the name of Noah Webster was twice drawn
frem the wheel, and after learning that proof had been fur-
nished the Commissioner that Mr. Webster was over the age
of forty-five years at the time, and knowing the fact that
Mr. Webster had to sell his home to raise the money to pro-
cure a substitute, he did take an interest in the case, and
represented to the Committee on Finance that the case was
one of very strong merit, and ought to be paid.
Col. Earle and Mr. Claggett have each manifested their
concurrence in this opinion, by reporting favorably upon the
bill introduced to pay the same claim at the Session of 1874,
and which passed the Senate without a dissenting vote.
Your Committee, therefore, after a thorough investiga-
tion, are of opinion that in advocating this claim, Col. Wool-
ford was actuated by the purest motives, and that the claim
itself was an eminently just one, and which he was entirely
right in urging upon the favorable consideration of the Com-
mittee on Finance.
Respectfully submitted,
WM. T HEPBRON, Chairman,
JOHN CARROLL WALSH,
JAMES FENNER LEE,
A. P. GORMAN,
On the Part of the Senate.
D. W. SNOWDEN, Chairman,
FETTERS. HOBL1TZELL,
G. WASHINGTON LEWIS,
IGN. E. MATTINGLY,
W. H. NEAL,
On the Part of the House.
Which was read.
The question recurring upon the adoption of the re-
port,
Mr. Hoblitzell demanded the previous question.
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