Birmingham age-herald., 1895-01-24
SOME INTERESTING GOSSIP On Diversified Subjects Gathered
 at Washington. THIRD BOWS ISSUE TALK
 v.=. News Fror >>the Eastern War. A Res bIioan Caucus
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'HIRD BOWS ISSUE TALK

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 l WASH = iToN, Jan. 23.-The Tennessee
 friends ol Senator Harris residing here are l preparing to give him banquet in honor
 of his re- election. Senator Harris is the
 first man Tennessee ever elected to the I United States senate for fourth term. GOLD WITHDRAWALS. Gold to the amount Of S1, 700, ,000, ot 1 which Il 500, 900 was for export and $l00, 900 l for exchange of United States notes was
 withdrawn from the New York sub-treas- | sury today. This reduces the gold reserve
 to s65, 795, ,0C0. Notice Of Fl 900, ,Oo0 to be 1 withdrawn tomorrow was also received. l LOOKS LIKE ANOTHER BOND ISSUE. | The gradual reduction of the gold reserve has not up to this time given rise to any | authorized statement that a third bond is- l sue will soon be made, but considerable is | being said that another proposal inviting l bids for bonds would certainly be issued in 1 the absence of action by congress. At | what point the gold reserve would be al- | lowed to decline before the thlrd issue | would be made is matter of discretion | solely, aud must naturally be decided by 1 circumstances.
 l No RULING TILL MONDAY. 1 The supreme court did nothing today on | the petitions for writs of habeas corpus | led by Broker Chapman and Correspond | ent Shriver, and 1t is now understood that | no ruling will be made until Monday. So- | licitor General Maxwell has filed his brief | in opposition to the granting of writ in l the case of Elverton R. Chapman. Its | main point is that the writ will not issue | unless the court under whose warrant the | petitioner is held is without jurisdiction. | it cannot be used to correct errors. Nothing short of want of jurisdiction in | the court by whose warrant the applicant
 is held will justify his release on habeas | corpus.
 DANIELS RESIGNATION. Although the resignation of Chief Clerk | Daniels of the interior department has not l yet been accepted by the secretary of the | interior, there are number of applicants | for the position and an equal number of l names rumored as his successor. It is not probable that a successor will be appointed | for month, the custom being to grant the | outgoing official thirty days leave. HIS PROBABLE sUCC LESSOR. Emmett Wormer of Georgia, an assistant | attorney for the department, will most | likely succeed MT. Daniels. MT. Wormer will be detailed as acting 1 chief clerk for the next month, which | practically means his appointment to the | position. MT. Daniels, the outgoing clerk, | was today given an ovation. The heads of l bureaus aud clerks called upon him and ex- pressed their sincere regret at the severance | of his connection with the department, and | the watch force presented him with sil- | yer set as a token of their esteem. REPUBLICAN CAUCUS. The epublicans of the senate have just is- | sued call for party caucus, to oe held | Friday morning at 10 o'clock in the room | of Mir. Sherman.
 One of the chief matters to be considered | will be the position to be assumed on fnan-
 cial legislation. Thero has been canvass | of the situation, and it IS said the caucus | will indorse the views individual senators l have xpressed-Lhat there is no time dur l ing this session for any elaborate revision | of the currency.
 They will agree, if the deficit in the | treasury requires an issue Of bonds, to vote | for sucn q proposition, but on condition 1t l carries no other currency legislation. | The republicans, 1t is said, will also in- l dorse the proposed increase the tax on | beer, as outlined in an amendment which l Mir. Squire gave notice of today. | DEMOCRATS WANT MORE STATES. There appears 10 be disposition on the | part of the democrats to urge the passage | of he bill admitting the territories of New | Mexico, Arizona and Oklahoma to state- | hood.
 | There are few republicans who favor | this action, but ma jority of republican senators seemed to be opposed to the ad-
 mission of any more states at this time. NEWS FROM THE WAR. The navy department has received the
 
 ger of the Yorktown at Chee Foo: "Teng Chow Foo, China, was bom- barded by ten Japanese vessels on January | IS and 19. On the Fist, In answer to an appeal of missionaries, and as travel by land was considered imprac, ,icable, the | Yorktown transported to Chee Foo seven- | teen women, children and sick of the mis- | sionary families. On the 20th and Fist tue men of war, landed a large force at shang- | tung promontory to attack the Chinese | Notifications at Wei Hai- Wei. On the 2i a | small force was landed at Chee Foo from | this vessel to protect neutral citizens and property. This landing was in common l with that from German, British and | French vessels.'
 SOME EXPLANATIONS. With reference to this dispatch 1t was
 said at the Japanese legation ia this city | that tho forces were probably landed to | protect citizens of these countries-priuci- pally missionaries who reside there-from | an uprising of Chinese, and not in the ex- | psctancy that their interests would be Jeop- | ardiZed through an attack -on the place | by the Japanese. The foreign residents of | Cnee Foo, it was explained, would have no 1 fear from the Japanese forces, and further than that, it is not likely that the Japa- nese will ake an attack on the port. | Chee Foo is a treaty port, but according
 to tie authority mentioned, is the least im- portant of these, not excepting Chin
 Kiang. The Japanese might desire 1t for a
 base of supplies, but even this Is un- likely, as there are other haroors along the
 coast better adapted for the purpose, the Chee Foo anchorage being an open road. stead and practically unprotected. As to the probabilities that the Japanese might desire Chee Foo for tho purpose of landing | troops there predatory 10 an attack on | Pekin il was stated that the Japanese had | already sufficient force in China for all purposes contemplated at present. CHINESE IN coREA. The state department has received a dis | patch from Minister Sill at Seoul, Corea, | under date of December 20, giving the | trausl ition of royal decree limiting Chi
 nese residence in Corea to the open ports,
 forbidding them to settle in the interior
 and compelling them to register Etthin-
 twenty tour hours after their arrival and
 removing their extra territorial rights by
 bringing them under the jurisdiction of | Co:ean courts.
 Secfe ary Gresham receivsd dispatch itd ~ rom Minister Denby from Pekin r p riiig tnat ii;s Chinese peace plsnipo-