The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1895-05-31
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tired, accompanying IL with a severe
rebuke.
Senior v. z. Dominiguoz has pre-
sonted 10 tho state department his Gre
dentials as charge d'affairos and minis
ter ad interim for the Argentine re-
public.
The supreme court Monday swept
every vestige Of the income tax from
tho statute books by vote Of 8 10 4,
and thereby reversed all the previous
decision Of the court and declared that
for oil time 10 come the federal gov
ornment should hold sacred from the
hands Of the tax collector the $4,000
OOO,O 600 Of incomes annually derived
from real and personal property,
stocks, bonds, etc. in the United
States.
The decision against the income tax
will cut of the $50, 900, GOO Of revenue
expected, and has naturally created
much talk apout an extra session Of
congress TO provide means for supply
ing the deficit, but it is said that Pres
ident Cleveland has positively declared
no would not call an extra session. lie
would prefer to issue bonds to tide
over the summer.
The retirement Of Rear Admiral
Meade promotes Commodore Lester
A. Beardslee TO be rear admiral. Cap
tain John A. Howell 10 be commodore,
Commander Nicoll Ludlow to be cap
tain, Lieutenant Commander Chap
man @. Todd to be commander, Lieu
tenant Gottfried Blockinger to be
lieutenant commander, Lieutenant Ju-
Nor Grade Leroy M. Garrett to be
lieutenant, Ensign Wilfred b. Hog
gait to be lieutenant junior grade.
The official service of Lorin M.
Thurston, as Hawaiian minister to the
United States, closed Tuesday, when
Mr.. Frank P. Hastings presented to
the state department his credentials,
which had just been received as charge
d'affaires. The official mail from Hon
olulu arrived during the morning, and
soon afterwards Mr.. Hastings went to
the state department. 1t was the first
mail from Hawaii since the recent
press reports from San Francisco, Civ
ing an unofficial outline of the pur-
port of the Hawaiian government in
replacing Mr.. Thurston with Mr.. Hast
ings.
Our Domestic Cottons in China.
The department of state has received
an interesting report from United
States Consul General Thomas r. Jer-
nigan, of North Carolina, stationed at
Shanghai, China, on our trade relations
with the empire.
Noting a falling off in the importa-
ton of domestic cottons from the
United States, as we'll as Great Britain,
Mr.. Jernigan advances the opinion
that the manufacture of cotton cloth
by China and Japan is responsible for
the decrease. In 1868 the first spin
ing mill was erected in Japan, with
5, 456 spindles; in 1883 there were six
teen mills, with 43, 700 sprindles, and
in 1898 there we're forty-six mills, with
some 900, 900 spindles. The statistics
regarding the industry in China have
not been published, but a conservative
estimate is that the end of this year
will witness 800, 900 spindles and 5000
looms, besides numerous cotton gins,
ready to operate in fifteen cotton mills.
In Japan the mill owner pays from
8 to 20 cents per day in silver for mill
hands, while in the United States la
Dor, he says, gets pay in gold. Since
1894 one dollar in gold has been equal
to two dollars of japanese silver,
which makes clear, according to his
reasoning, that the mill owner in the
United States is paying twice as much
for labor as the Japanese.
Mr.. Jernigan says that he does not
wish to intimate that the price of Ia
Dor in the United States should be
regulated by the price of labor in the
oriental countries, but unless some
standard of international value for the
payment of labor is agreed upon, the
products of the oriental laborers will
become a dangerous rival to those of
the occidental laborers.
Steamship Mail Contracts.
A number of sensational reports
have been circulated recently in re-
gard to the subsidy TO the American
line steamships for carrying the mails
between New York and Europe. 1t
was asserted that the postmaster gem
eral had determined to break the con-
tract made with the company by Post
master General Wannamaker, on the
ground that he had exceeded his pow
ers in making the agreement read per
statute mile instead of per marine
mile. The contract goes into effect
next October. 1t may be authorita-
lively stated that the rumors are in