The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1895-06-14

ITEMS OF NEWS PICKED UP AT
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL
Sayings and Dolngs OF the Omolal
Heads Of the Government.

Ahe ifht NATIONAL nnuk OF IDIln, IA
capital $4,000, closed its doors Mon
day. Bank Examiner Howard has been
placed In charge
II iB reported in Cincinnati that
President Cleveland will recall Minis
ter Dun from Japan and appoint
James Connolly, late comptroller Of
Newark, n. j., 10 succeed him. Mr..
Dun is nephew Of Allen w. Thur
man.
The president has removed from of
Gee @. b. Morton, Of Maine, auditor
for the navy department in the treas.
ury. His successor will bo promptly
announced. Mr.. Morton is charged
with writing uneomplimentary things
about the president.
Attorney General Olney has mp
pointed Thomas NJ. Miller. assistant
United States district attorney for tho
eastern district Of Louisiana, 20 prose-
cate A. Neil for defrauding the govern
ment while keeping a bonded ware
house in New Orleans.
There were seventeen cases disposed
OF by the United States supreme court
Monday and then it adjourned for the
term. IL will assemble again for the
term of 1895 on the second Monday of
October. The record of decisions
Monday was remarkable for the unu.
sUally large number of land cases it
contained, Justice Brewer reading the
opinions in the most of them.
Minister Ransom on Sick Leave.
Much concern is expressed by the
friends of Minister Ransom, who is on
his way home from Mexico on sick
leave. The minister was taken i'll
while en- route to his new post Of duty,
aud has not been able at any time
since reaching there to transact the
business of the legation He went,
under advice of the officials of the de-
partment at Washington, to the hot
springs at Monterey, but has evidently
received no substantial benefit from
the treatment of the waters there.
Upon the statement of his physician
that five or six weeks stay in his ma
tive country would probably result in
his complete restoration to health,
the department of state has granted
him sixty days leave of absence
Minister Ransom will go direct to
Asheville, in the western part of North
Carolina, where it is hoped the
bracing mountain air and generally
salubrious climate will unite in the
realization of the physicians expecta-
ton. Mr.. Ransom was i'll and quite
feeble last winter, and it was hoped
that his trip to Mexico would result
in aspeedy improvement of his condi-
ton.
AS to Gresham's Successor.
It has been discovered that the pres.
ident is not under the necessity oil
making an appointment to fill the va.
cancy caused in the office of secretary
of state by the death of Secretary
Gresham within thirty days, as was al
first supposed.
While the statute does provide thai
no such vacancy can be filled by tenn.
porary appointment for a period long,
er than thirty days, preceding stat
ute, section 1T, provides that, in the
case of the death, resignation, absence
or sickness of the head of any depart.
ment, the first or sole assistant there.
of shall, unless otherwise directed by
the president, as provided by section
179, perform the duties of such head
until a successor is appointed or sucf
sickness or absence shall cease.
Now, in this case, it is held that Mr.
Uhl, the first assistant secretary, be
comes acting secretary without any &C
of the presidents, and SO the latter
makes no temporary appointment ant
is not obliged to fill the vacancy il
thirty days, as he would be If he did
make such an appointment.
Public Debt Statement.
The debt statement, issued Friday
morning, shows a net decrease in thu
public debt less cash in the treasury
during May of So, 436, 611.8S.
The interest bearing debt increased
800; the non-interest bearing deb
decreased 1884, SGT, and cash in thu
treasury increased 81, $50, 184.9S. Thu
balance of the several classes of deb
at the close of business, May 3lst
we're:
Interest bearing debt $716, 202, O1O. Oh
Debt on which interest
has ceased since ma
turity. ....... 49,. 1,734, 900. q
Debt bearing no inter-
est. ............... 1885, 46I. g.
Total. ...... 81, 097, 773, 500. i
The certificates and treasury note
offset by an equal amount of cash il