Rufus Wheeler Peckham

“ Laying for a moment the act of 1893 out of view, it seems clear to us that there was no power on the part of the officers of the treasury to re-examine the correctness of the claim paid by virtue of the act of 1891, or to reverse that action on the ground that a mistake of law had been made in the decision reported to congress upon which it passed the act last named. ”

“ It cannot be possible that congress had the least intention, when making provision for the payment of other and further claims of the same character, to in any wise open the transactions which had been closed by the payment of the moneys directed by the act of 1891. ”