Mr. TRUMBULL. I am not at all anxious about it. I think it is a thing that ought to be attended to. The construction of the law has be n such as not to carry out the intention of C ngress. The Senator seems to have taken alarm, and supposes that here is a bill opening the Treasury. It does not affect the course of proceeding in any respect whatever, exec it to remove the obstacle which the Supreme ourt say exists to entertaining appeals. lie practice, ever since the passage of that law, has been for the Treasury to make an estimate for the judgments of the Court of Claims, and Congress appropriated in its appropriation bill last year a certain amountI o not remember what it was 2 or 300,000 dollars, I thinkto pay the judgments of the Court of Claims; and out of that appropriation the judgments have been paid. The Court of Claims is a very cautious court; and it has never rendered judments up to the amount that was appropriated to meet them; and the Senfrom Kentucky [Mr. Gurn mn] who spoke on that subject must have spoken in reference to the law as it existed before the act of 1863 was passed. Before 1863 the judgment was not conclusive. In 1863 we amended the Court of Claims act, and made the judgment of the Court of Claims conclusive; and it was to be paid out of any money in the Treasury appropriated for the purpose of paying the judgments of the court. hat was our law; but as a safeguard we also required the Supreme Court to take jurisdiction o all cases where the judment amounted tomore than 3,000 dollars; and also of all cases where the judgment would form a precedent for the decision of other cases or where a constitutional question was brought in issue; but the Supreme Court refused to entertain these appeals. The law of 1863 is a positive statute requiring them to do so. This is its language: “Thatoither partymay appealtoth c SCOTUSfrom any final Judgment or decrce which mayhereafterbe renderedin any caseby said courtwherein the amountin controversyexceeds 3000 dollars, under such regulations as the said Supreme Court may direct.” Now they refuse to entertain that jurisdiction, because of the 14thsection of the act of 1863. That was not in the original bill as it was reported from the committee. The 7th section made provisions for paying the judgments of the Court of Claims out of appropriations made by Congress for that purpose. en the bill was ending, Mr. Hale, who was then a member of) the Senate, and whowas opposed to the bill, moved the 14thsection, which is " as follows: That no moneyshall be paid out of the Treasury for any claim passedupon by the Court of Claims till alter the igiopropnationtherefor shall be estimated for by the SecyTreasury.”