Bradford County telegraph. (Starke, Fla.) 1888-current, 1895-11-29
CAPITAL NOTES.
GossIR OF WASHINGTON IN
BRIEF PARAGRAPHS
Doings Of tho Chiefs and Heads Of en- 9
Various Departments.

United States governments through
acceptance from the contractors. the
Cramps Shipbnilding company, of
Philadelphia. -
The annual meeting of the National
Civil Service Reform League will be
held in Washington December IL and
ID. x-Secretary of the interior Carl
Schurz, the president, will deliver his
annual address On the opening night,
and q reception win be given the next
evening. All municipal associations
and affiliated organizations have been
asked to send delegates.
Hiram Hitchcock, president Of the
Maritime Canal Company Of Nicara-
qua, has submitted his annual report
to the secretary of the interior. There
are no new features contained in it ex-
cept that the Nicaragua Canal Con-
struction Company has been reorgan-
lied and is now the Nicaragus O0mpa-
ny. When the construction company
failed in 1893 al work was suspended,
but now the Nicaragua Company is
making active preparations for resum-
ing the work under the contract which
the construction company had with
the maritime company.
Monroe Doctrine Resolutions.
From hints thrown ont by leaders
of both political parties at the capital,
strong probabilities seem to exist that
two important joint resolutions will be
offered Immediately sitter the assem-
bling OF the fifty-fourth congress. The
first will be an affirmation Of the prin-
ciples embodied in the Monroe doc
trine, expressing in plain and vigor-
GUS language the sympathy Of the
American people with the government
of Venezuela in its boundary dispute
with Great Britain. The second, 3
joint resolution, which. is being pre-
pared with much care, provides for
the annexation of the Hawaiian Islands
to the United States under q terrific
rial form of government.
The Philadelphia Mint on Full Time.
The treasury department was in
formed Thursday of the withdrawal Of
$500, 900 in gold at New York for ex-
port to Europe. This reduces the
treasury gold reserve to $50, 304, 557.
Of this reserve about $50, 000, 900 is in
gold coin, against which no gold GER
tificates are held. The gold coin hold
ings at New York, because of the
recent heavy exports Of gold, have
become less than it is customary to
have in the subtreasury and gold coin
has been ordered shipped from the
Philadelphia mint to replenish the de-
pleted stock Of gold coin on hand at
New York. The Philadelphia mint is
now at work on full time and has been
for several weeks past in turning gold
bullion into coin. The coinage this
month at the mint will be unusually
heavy.
Internal Revenue Receipts.
The annual report of the commits
sioner of internal revenue just made
public shows receipts during the last
fiscal year as follows:
From spirits, $40, 862, 627; decrease,
IS, 1896, 624. Tobacco, $29, 704, 907; in
crease, 81, 0S7, 009. Fermented liquors,
S31. 440, SIT; increase, S225, $40. In
come tax, $77,139. Oleomargerine,
81, 400, 211; decrease, 1914, 22S. Mis-
cellsneous, 1851 ,b83; increase, 1898, :
554 The total receipts from all
sources were Sl49, 246,077, q decrease
Of SO, 922, 371.
During the year $500 violations of
the internal revenue law were report
ed by revenue agents; 1,727 stills
were seized, lat stills removed, 871
persons arrested, one officer was killed
and three others were wounded.
Commissioner Miller estimates that
the revenues for the year will sggre-
gate $165, O00, 900.
Famous Gaines Case Ended.
The famous Myra Clark Gaines case,
it is believed, was finally ended in the
supreme court of the, United States
Friday, when Chief Justice Fuller an
nounced that the appeal of the city of
New Orleans from the Judge of the
circuit court of the United States for
the eastern district of Louisiana, in
favor OF the United States ex rel, W.
W. Whitney, had been dismissed for
failure to print the record. Myra Clark
Gaines, then Mrs. W. W. Whitney mot
the W. w. Whitney Just named)
instituted the first suit for the
recovery of the property bequesth-
ed her by the viii of her father.
Daniel Clark, In the circuit. court of
the United States for the district of
Louisisns in 1886, and five years later
it had reached the supreme court of
the United States. From that date
1SA-until nov, in one form or an
other, the controversy has bai place
on the calendar of the court. In 1856
the plaintiff, then widow, having sur.
vived both Mr.. Whitney and General
e. P. Gaines, whom abe subsequently
married, filed an original bill in tho
supreme court of the United
States against the city of New Or
leans to recover property held by it
and q decision, in her favor was
rendered at the December term, 1867.
The value of the property claimed was
estimated in 1861 to be SIS. 900. 900.
Suits subsequently prosecuted were
nied for the purpose of getting posses
sion OF the property included under
the supreme court Judgment OF 1857.
1t was estimated that sbo rooovo,oa