The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1886-06-05
CAPITAL GOSSIP.


The White HoSse Wedding To Take Place
june 2-AnOther Batch of Vetoed Pen
sion BIlls-The Eads ship Railway BIZ
Recommended For Passage by the Sem
ate Committee on Commerce.
DAY AND DATE FIXED.
WASHINGTON, May 29.-All speculation
about the fact and date Of President
Cleveland's marriage was brought to q
close last night by an authoritative an
nouncement that the much talked-of event
will occur here next Wednesday. The
knot will be tied about five O'Clock In the
afternoon in the Executive Mansion, and,
after an ample COLLATION., the evening will
be passed with an old-fashioned social
mingling of q few and select invited
guests. The President will go to New
York on Sunday to participate in the Dec
Grafton Day ceremonies there, and in
Brooklyn on Monday, and will return to
Washington Tuesday, accompanied by
Hiss Folsom and some of the invited
guests to the wedding.
1t is not expected that the President
and his bride will make bridal tour.
| They viii remain ut the Executive Man.
| sion for while, he attending to his
! business and his wife devoting her time
to fitting up and furnishing the new
home in Tenallytown, recently pur-
chased by the President, which will
! probably be ready within month, and
will then be occupied as a summer resi-
dence.
There will be no fuss and no feathers
at the wedding or on the wedding day.
Jeffersonian simplicity will predominant
throughout.
Colonel Lamont returned to Washing
ton yesterday morning after having met
Miss Folsom on her arrival Wednesday
night. He was at the White House for
few minutes about noon to see the Presi-
ident, and then went to his home.
PENSION BILLS VETOED.
WASHINGTON, May 29.-The President
returned to the House of Representatives
yesterday, without his approval, the bill
entitled: Gan act for the relief of Re-
becca Eldridge." In this case the widow
of WILDER II. Eldridge claimed pension
on the ground that her husband was
slightly wounded during the war. The
President says: "On the 2Sth of January,
1881, while working about building,
he (Eldridge) fell backward from
ladder and fractured his skull,
from which he died the same day. With
out particle of proof, and with no fact
established which connects the fatal ac-
cident in the remotest degree with the
wound referred to, it is proposed to
grant a pension to the widow of $l2
per month. 1t is not pleasant thing to
interfere in such case, but we are deal.
ing with pensions and not gratuities.
The President also returned to the
House, without approval, bills entitled
can act for the relief of Eleanor c.
Bingham" This bill is vetoed on the
ground that the disease which Indirectly
. caused the death of the claimants hus-
band was not contracted in the service1,
g and can act granting pension to Sim
: mons A. Harden" The President de-
clines to approve this bill because the
q claim, in his opinion, was justly over
ruled by the pension bureau. The claim
ant, the President shows, has survived
: all his ailments long enough TO reach the
y age of seventy-two.
Bills granting pensions to Mrs. Annie
4 c. Owen and J. ID. Haworth were re-
p turned to the Senate without approval,
on the ground of insufficient evidence to
e warrant payment of pensions.
THE EADS SHIP RAILWAY BILL.
i WASHINGTON, May Ex-senator Con.
\ ger yesterday submitted to the Senate
. !, the report of the committee on commerce
a on the Eads Ship Railway bill. The re-
+ port states that many of the most dis
tinguished engineers, naval constructors
| and ship builders of the world concur in
o the opinion that the project is lip every
9 way practicable, and that the largest
ships, with their cargOes, can be safety
!. carried upon a properly constructed rail-
way over moderate grades. From these
n opinions the conclusion is irresistible
, that the project is practicable one.
& The committee is of the opinion that
an isthmian transit way is now absolute
" ly necessary, from whatever way the mat
g ter may be regarded; and that it is tC
Il the interest of the government and of the
% enterprise that the company organized
d should be chartered by Congress. The
a report of the committee in concluding
/, saws:
8 Believing that the commercial and indus
+ trial interests of this country will be great,
n benefited by the construction of ship rail
e way; that 1t will have tendency tOlargel
D shipping and ship building interests, ant
x that it Is essential, II our Government woul
retain the respect of its own people and G
r foreign nations, that 1t should now practi
e caly demonstrate its determination to for
IL ever discourage foreign control npOn thi
n continent.
D. The committee report back the accom-
a. panying bill with recOmmer
as dalton that 1t do pass.
sc THE PROPOSED LAW ON THR PIsHERIE
C. ...... QUESTION.
nc OTTAWA, Ont, May 2S.-The bi
to amending an "act respecting fishing b
ce foreign vessels" was amended by ii
a. Senate yesterday by repeating the sectlO
rk and substituting the following:
by ANY one, officers or person hereinbetor
id mentioned lotlicers OF the royal navy, cut
y" tom house officers, stipendiary magistrate
oy and others specially appointed may brin
any ship, vessel or boat, being within an
haTbOr in Canada, or towering in BIRTHS
waters within three marine miles of any
any of the coasts, bays, creeks or harbol
tn in Canada, into port and search III
cargo and NAV also examine IL