The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1895-09-06

GOSSIP OFTHE CAPTTALIN BRIEF
PARAGRAPHS.
Dolngs Of the Chiefs and Heads Of the
Various Departments.

The postolloo department has mado
annual allowances as stated for clerk
hire at the following poslofiees: Key
West, Fla, $1,000 Jackson, Miss,
81, 500; Meridian, Miss, $500.
The exports Of gold and silver from
the port OF New York the past week
aggregated $500, 76s, Of which g.
or, 600 was Uuited States and Spanish
gold, against al, 100, 700 the cores
ponding week Of last year.
Clerk Kerr, Of the house Of repre-
sentatives, has begun the oonsidera-
ton Of tho contested election cases in
the ffty-fourth congress remaining on
his docket, but there is little proba-
bility Of anything being done owing
10 the expiration OF the time limit
within which proceedings in contest
may be prosecuted. There are twenty
nine contested cases in all, and Of
these but four remain TO be disposed
Of, so far as the clerk Of the house is
concerned.
Considerable demand is being made
on the treasury from New Orleans, st.
Louis, Chicago and other western and
southwestern points for small notes
with which to move tho crops. The
treasury is we'll supplied with these
denominations and will furnish the
points asking for them as rapidly as
demanded. The effect will be not only
to distribute money among the people,
but at the same time to build up the
treasury gold reserve by the exchange
in which these small notes invariably
take part.
Up to Tuesday morning Acting Sec
rotary Adee had received nothing from
Minister DENLY concerning the infor.
nation on the Chinese situation con-
tanned in the press dispatches. Mr..
Adee is exceedingly averse to making
any comment on what this absence Of
official communication signifies, and
he would not talk on the subject be-
You'd the remark that nothing had
been received by him to show whether
or not Mr.. DENLY was carrying out
the instructions sent him by the de-
partment.
A dispatch appeared in some west
ern papers a day or two ago to the eff
feet that the department of agriculture
had revised its report on winter wheat
by increasing the average yield per
acre from 81 to 10 bushels. This
would indicate an increase in the total
yield aggregating II, 100000 bushels.
Secretary Morton and Statistician Rob-
inson requested the statement to be
made that no dispatch of this kind had
been authorized by any one connected
with the department and that it has nc
foundation in fact.
Income Tax Money.
Less than one-third of the claims
for the return of the SIT, 900 of in
come tax, paid in by about l, 400 per.
sons, firms and corporations, have
been passed through the auditor
Office of the treasury. There is nc
delay in that Office, but there il
with people who have SO far neg
lected to file their claims with col
lectors of internal revenue It il
said that probably one-third o
those who paid the income tax did Sc
that they might hurry over to Europe
and desired to comply with the law be
fore their departure. Most of then
have not returned yet. The treasury
department is represented as anxiou
to close up the income tax matter anC
. official are rather surprised at the re
missness of those who paid in not ilint
their claims for it's return.
DENLY Heard From.
The state department is in receip
of G cablegram from Minister DENLY
in which he states that in response t
request made by him to the Tsung
Yamen, the Taotai, Hsu Hsing-li, ha
been sent to cooperate with Consu
Hixson in investigating the Kutie
(Ku Cheng) riots. The rank of tn
commissioner, who is an intendant c
! circuit (Taotai) is by treaty equal t
that of the consul.
The wording of Mr.. Denby's cable
gram leads the department to believ
that this commissioner has been ser
from Pekin, and it is also inferred tbs
/ Minister DENLY has given ample il
! structions to Consul Hixson and tbs
he is enjoying ell the facilities neceI
sary to carry out his instructions {
Kutien.
} This cable, it is stated, should pu
: to rest the reports that Minister Denb
a was not carrying out the instruction
of acting Secretary Adee, that there WI
dissatisfaction with him at the stai
department.
Librarian SpofTord Explains.