The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1895-05-03

ing holidays Tho amendment states
that postmastors may observe as hole
days January lst, February 22ud, May
80th, July 4th, the fret Monday Ia
September. known az Labor Day, DE.
combef 25th, and such other days ne
the president of the United States on
the governors. In their respective
states, may designate as fast or thanks.
giving days or proclaim specially as
holidays. On other occasions their
Offices can be closed only after pormis.
sion obtained therefor from the de-
partment, 90 be obtained through the
fret assistant postmaster general
Upon holidays postoiliecs must be
opened sufficiently 90 meet fairly tho
public convenience. Mails must be
made up and dispatched MS on other
days. When O legal holiday falls upon
a Sunday the following Monday may
be observed, unless otherwise special.
ly provided for by state authority.
Movements Of Naval Vessels.
Secretary Herbert has ordered Ad-
miral Meade 10 seud the crtisor Min
neapolis 90 Kingston to take on 500
tons Of coal which remained ia a col
liery at that port when the feet left
for San Domingo, and which could
not be sent to Colon on account of the
exorbitant freight rates. The New
York, Columbia, Atlanta, Raleigh and
Cincinnati will sail directly from Co
Ion for Key West, where nearly 1000
tons Of West Virginia coal have been
sent for their use. Any portion of this
that the New York, Columbia and Gin
cinnati do not need will be landed OF the
Key West naval station for future use.
The New York and Columbia will
spend but a few days at Key West and
will then hurry to the New York navy
yard to prepare for their cruise to the
KEEL celebration, which occurs June
10th. Captain Evans, Of the New
York, expects TO get away from. New
York for Europe about June LIST, when
Admiral Meade's flag will be transfer
red to the Minneapolis. Secretary
Herbert says one OF the vessels will
return to Colon from Key West but
all the others will come north. The
Montgomery will be used to convey
the members of the Nicaraguan canal
commission to Greytown.
Talk of an Extra Session.
Some talk of an extra session Of con-
gress was produced at Washington
Monday by the publication in an after
noon paper of long article alleging
that the advisability OF an extra ordin-
airy session of congress was being Sc
riously considered. The alleged req
son given was that the dissension in
the democratic party on the subject of
silver had grown to such an extent
that the party leaders considered it
advisable to have an extra session
in order to demonstrate that the re-
publicans were as badly split up as
their political adversaries, and to
show the country that they too, were
incapable of agreeing on remedial
legislation. While it is doubtless true
that the republicans are about as deep
in the mud as the democrats are in
the mire on the silver question, NO
one at the capital who knows Mr..
Cleveland believes he would call an
extra session for the sole purpose OF
putting the republicans in a 'hole. u
He doesn't play politics after that
fashion. 1t would require some sort
of national exigency, fancied or real,
but sufficient to his mind to induce
him to summon congress to Washing
ton. For this reason no one con
versant with the situation takes an
stock in the extra session talk.
A Forty Million Deficit.
The decision of the supreme cour
in the income tax case necessitates
rehearing of the estimates of govern
ment receipts for the fiscal year end
ing June 80, and from the best datI
obtainable it is believed that the defci
for the year will probably amount t.
100000. The amount of the defci
to date is $47, oil, Sal, with indication
Of further increase before the clos
of the present month, but the incom
tax receipts, it is expected, will mate
rally cut down this amount during
the remaining ten weeks of the fisca
year.
Receipts from customs and from in
ternal revenue sources continue to in
crease, but not at the pace expected
and with fully one-half of the antici
pated receipts from the income tax Gu
off, it is doubtful if the close of tn
year shows a deficit less than $40, 900,
900.
AS has been the case for some years
the expenditure on account of pen
sions is more than a third of the en-
tire expenditures of the government