The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1895-01-11
FROM WASHINGTON.
NEWsY ITEMS PICKED UP AT
THE NATIONAL CAPITOL.
Sayings and DOings Of the Onicial
Heads Of the Government.

A Washington special says: The
most interesting possibility in the con-
gressional perspective is q special mes
sage from the president urging the ne
cessity for harmonious and non-parti-
san action upon some scheme for the
Mobilization of the decaying national
financial system. That the situation
is desperate, every one will admit.
Solicitor Reeve, of the treasury de-
partment, in regard to tie legality of
private parties printing facsimiles of
United States and foreign stamp al
buns, has given an opinion that the
printing of stamp albums must be
stopped and the plates seized and de-
stroyed, but recommends that dealers
now having them be allowed to dispose
of the stock on hand. The case, how
ever, is not likely to stop here, but
will eventually find its way into the
courts.
The officials of the United States
marine hospital service are watching
with interest the results obtained from
the new diphtheria cure. The officials
are already in possession of considera-
BILE information as to the manner and
results of applying the anti-toxine in
Berlin and Paris, and the bureau re-
Gently published two reports made by
DIR. J. ]. Kinyon, who visited the
children's hospital at the former place
and the Pasteur institute at Paris to
study the methods in vogue there.
John w. Foster, ex-secretary of
state, left Washington Saturday en-
route to Toxic, or Hiroshima, proba-
bly, the latter city, where he will join
the Chinese ENJOYS, who go to arrange
terms of peace with Japan. Mr., Fos-
ter is accompanied by Mr.. Yang Yu,
Chinese minister, who is said to have
suggested to his government the desir-
ability of securing Fosters services as
counselor to the ENJOYS. Mr.. Foster
was advised before leaving of the de-
parture of the Chinese ENJOYS, but he
expects to arrive at Toxic or Hiroshima
as early as they. 1t is said that Japan
will not abate any of her vigor hereto
fore shown in prosecuting the war un-
til the terms of peace are concluded.
Guarding Against Disease.
The commissioner of pensions has
issued an order which will, prevent
clerks in the pension department from
practicing medicine while off duty.
The order states that if any clerk or
employe Of the pension bureau shall
attend patients as a physician or medi-
cal advisor it will be regarded as suffi-
cient ground for removal from the bu-
reau. The danger of bringing conta-
gious diseases to the other clerks is too
great, so the commissioner thinks.
Moreover, it is q calling likely to keep
the clerks and employees up at night
and thus unfit them for work during
the day.
Their Back Pay Stopped.
An apparently innocent provision in
the last Legislative appropriation bill
set aside the custom of half century
and provided that salaries of senator's
elected or appointed to fill vacancies in
the senate, or of senators elected for full
terms subsequent to the commencement
of such term, shall commence on the
date Of their election Of appointment. 1t
will be noticed that this limitation
does not apply in the case Of members
OF the house of representatives who
may be elected or appointed under
exactly the same conditions. But for
this modification Of the law senator's
to be elected from the states Of Wash
ington, Montana and Wyoming would
have received back salaries from the
beginning Of their terms, amounting
to a bonus for each Of $4,000.