The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1895-05-03
WASHINGTON NOTES
ITEMS or NEWS PICKED UP AT
THR NATIONAL CAPITAL.
Sayings and Dolngs OF the Omcial
Heads Of the Government

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Secretary Morton's interview of some
days ago on the monetary question
might be regarded as representing his
views, replied: ~ am in no manner
responsible for Mr.. Mortonsintoryiow,
and knew nothing of it until read it
IN the newspapers. When / have seen
iit to say anything TO the people on the
money question or any other question,
/ have found IL quite easy to do 80
directly and on my own account
The volume annually prepared by
the clerks of the senate and house of
representative appropriation commit
tees, showing the exact appropriations
and the new offices created has been
prepared for the last session Of the
SD congress by Mr.. Thomas p. Cleave,
clerk Of the senate committee and Mr..
J. 9. Courts, n clerk of the house com
mittee. The statement gives the APP
preparations in detail and specifies the
new offices created and abolished with
the salaries, and also the salaries in
creased and reduced, together with a
chronological history of the regular
appropriation bills.
Assistant Supervising Architect
Kemper has returned. to Washington
after trip to Atlanta, Ca, where he
went to look after the new government
building. He expresses himself as
eminently satisfied with the progress
of the work and says it will be COM
pleted on schedule time, July lst. Mr..
Kemper bubbles all over with enthusi-
asm about the cotton exposition when
the subject is mentioned. He was
amazed, he says, at the outlook and
predicts that it will be second to no
American exposition save the worlds
fair at Chicago. cit Will be as great
an exposition, said he, "as the Phila-
delphia centennial of 1876"
J. H. Kohlsaat, the new owner Of
the Chicago Times Herald, has offered
Mr.. Eckels, the comptroller of the
treasury, large salary, said to be
nearly $40, 900 year, to go to Chicago
and become financial editor of that
paper. In view of the Importance Of
financial questions in business circles
and politics, Mr.. Eckels saw in this
editorship an opportunity to WELD
great influence in the west, and was at
first much inclined to accept Mr.. Kohl
saat's generous offer. On consultation,
however, with other members of the
administration, he deemed it his duty
to remain in his present Office until
the expiration of Mr.. Cleveland's term,
and has wired his determination to
that effect.
A bill recognizing the belligerency
of the Cuban revolutionists has been
prepared in Washington and will be
introduced in congress when that body
convenes in December next. 1t was
drafted at the suggestion of certain
representatives and senator's who are
in sympathy with the efforts of the
Cubans to throw off the yoke OF Spain,
and these gentlemen will use their in
fiuence to pass it through both houses.
Such action on the part of the United
States would, of course, be of immense
service to the revolutionists. It would
result in the free shipment of armsand
men to the island in support of the
insurgents cause and would give them
the moral and material support which
they so greatly desire.
1t is positively learned at Washing.
ton that public sentiment in Japan il
strongly turned in the direction Of
taking possession of Hawaii. While
the native Hawaiians still constitute
the largest nationality, "a, 900, to the
Japanese $4,000, the latter have the
largest number of male adults, being
10000 to the native 10000. There
can be no doubt that a small japanese
squadron, with l 200 troops co-pperat
ing with the resident Japanese, could
easily overcome any resistance possible
for all the rest of the population o.
Hawaii to make. The safety OF thil
government against an early conquest
by Japan must be in the protection O.
the United States. Failing in that
appeal must be made to British pro
lection.
The Months Revenue Receipts.
The monthly statement of collec
tions of internal revenue issued Tues
day shows the total receipts from al
sources for the nine months of tn,
present fiscal year ended March 81
1895, to have been $109, 995, O15, o
which $40, 1902 was from income tai
from persons, and So, 855 from corpo
rations, companies and associations
, The remaining items Of receipts wer,
, from spirits, tobacco, oleomargarine
, etc. The net increase was 81, $50, 1863
The principal item of increase wa
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