Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 July 1904 — MONEY FOR SPECULATORS [ARTICLE]

MONEY FOR SPECULATORS

Claims of the Cabas Patriots Can Be Ball at 3S Per Coat. Discount for Cash. Havana, July 15.—The minority congressmen refuse to met for the purpose of passing a bill covering the proportionate distribution of the proceeds of the 135.000.0C0 for the payment of veterans or to authorize an additional loan, becauae the adjudication of soldiers’ claims Is not likely to be completed until November, when it Is supposed that another session of congress will begin. The veterans say they will not accept an immediate payment of 75 per cent, in full satisfaction of thelrclaime, BS contemplated by the additional loan Scheme. United Statesan speculators, however, are buying the claims (pater than at any time previously, paging three-fourths of their face value.