The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1886-06-03
CAPITAL GOSSIP.
The White House wedding To Take Place
June 2-Another Batch of vetoed Pen
sion BIlls-The Eads ship Railway Bill
Recommended For Passage By the Sem
ate Com mi ee On Commerce..


sion BIns-The Eads ship Railway Bill
Recommended For Passage By the SEN
ate Committee on Commerce.
DAY AND DATE FINED.
WASHINGTON, May 29.-All speculation
about the fact and date Of President
Cleveland's marriage was brought to
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 few and select Invited
guests. The President will go to New
| York on Sunday to participate In the Dec
oration Day ceremonies there, and in
Brooklyn OH Monday, and will return to
Washington Tuesday, accompanied by
! Miss 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 will remain at the Executive Man.
sion for while, he attending to his
business and Ms wife dcvoting 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 summer resi-.
| dence.
There will be No fuss and no feathers
at the wedding or on the wedding day.
Jeffetsotian simplicity will predominant
throughout.
Colonel Lamont returned to Washing
ton yesterday morning after having met
! Ig,.l. har r.tr rnl Wn1n ~
night He was at the White House for
few tt1inutts about noon to see the PreS-
| 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
enttled: Gan act for the relief of Re-
| becca Edridge." In this case the widow
of WILDER II. Eldridgc claimed II pension
| on the ground that her husband was
! slightly wounded during the war. The
| President says son the 2Sth Of January,
! 1881, while working about a building,
he (Eldridee) fell backward from
Il ladder and fractured his SKILL,
from which lie died the same day. With
out particle of proof, and with no fact
established which connects the fatal ac-
cidcnt In the remOtest degree with the
wound referred to, it is proposed to
| grant pcnsiOt to the widow of Sl2
per month 1t is not pleasant thing to
interfere in such case, but we are deal
ing with pensions and not gratnities.
The President also returned to the
House, with6ut approval, bills entitled
| "An act for the relief OF EledHor C.,
Bangham'' 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 service
and "An act granting pension to SIM
mons A. Harden" The President de-
clines to approve this bill because the
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
age of seventy-two.
Bills granting pensions to Mrs. Annie
c. Owen and J. ID. IIaworth were re-
turned to the Senate without approval,
| on the ground of insufficient evidence to
warrant payment of pensions.
THE EADs SHIP RAILWAY BILL.
WAsnINGToN, May Ex-senator Con.
ger yesterday submitted to the Senate
the report of the committee on commerce
on the Eads Ship Railway bill The re.
port states that many of the most dis
tingushed engineers, naval constructors
and ship builders of the world concur in
the opinion that the project Is In every
way practicable, and that the largest
ships, with their Gargoes, can he safely
carried upon a properly constructed rail
way over moderate grades. From these
| 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.
ter may be regarded; and that it is to
the interest of the government and of the
enterprise that the company organized
should be chartered by Congress. The
report of the committee in concluding
| SAYS:
| Believing that the commercial and indus.
| trial interests of this country W i'll be greatly
benefited by the construction OF II snip rail
| way; that it will have tendency to largely
increase our commerce and stimulate our
| shipping and ship building interests, and
that 1t is essential, II our Government wonld
| foreign nations, that it should now pract
! cally demonstrate its determination to for
ever discourage foreign control upon this
| continent.
The committee report back the accom-
panying bill with recommen-
datlon that it do pass.
THE PROPOSED LAW ON THE FISHERIES
| QUESTION.
| OTTAWA, Ont, May 28.-The bill
amending an "act respecting fishing by
foreign vessels" was amended by the
Senate yesterday by repeating the section
and substituting the following:
Any one, officers or person hereinbefore
| mentioned Iofficers of the royal navy, Gus
| tom house officers, stipendiary magistrates
and others specially appointed may bring
| any ship, vessel or boat, being within any
| harbor in Canada, or hovering in British
| waters within three marine miles of any of
any OF the coasts, bays, creeks or harbors
cargo, and may also examine the
master upon oath tohchng his
| cargo and voyage, and II the master or per
son in command does not truly answer
| questions put to him in such examination he
| shall Issue penay OF $500, and II such ship,
| vessel or boat, II foreign. or not nnvigated
| according to the laws of the United King
| dom or of Canada, has been fonnd fishing or
| preparing to fish, or have been fishing in
| British waters within three marine miles of
| the coasts, bays, creeks or harbOrs of Cana
| da, not included within above mentioned
| limits, without license, or after the eXpira
| ton of the term named In the last license
| granted to 1t under the first section OF this
| act; or has entered such waters tor any pur-
| pose not permitted by the law of nations,
such ship. vessel. or boat, shall be forfeited.
| The act of the former colonies of Nova SEQ
| tia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward
Island are repealed by this act.
This bill has been passed by the lower
House.
Board of Visitors to the Naval Academy.
WASHINGTON, May 29.-The President
yesterday appointed the following board