The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-01-31
NATIONAL CAPITAL
GOSSIP or WASHINGTON n
BRIEF PARA0RAPHA
Doings Of tho Chiefs aud Heads Of the
Various Departments.


q plan for the adjustment Of the debts
OF the Central aud Union Pacific 10
the government.
The announcement by the WeHtmin-
stor Gazette Nondon) that tho British
government is about TO reopen nego-
tiations with Venezuela on the bound
airy question puts an entirely new face
upon the condition OF matters at Wash
ington aud is causing a good deal of
tall. az 10 It's bearing upon the prosi-
deuts Venezula message, aud the events
which have followed IT,
William II. Morrison is soon TO be
formally announced as a candidate
for the democratic presidential nomi.
nation. Ex-Representatives Ben Ca
bic aud Foreman, OF Illinois, are now
in Washington quietly booming him.
They regard the selection OF Chicago
ns the place for holding the conven-
ton favorable for him, and they are
now arranging a conference OF his
friends 10 decide upon a formal an-
nouucement.
The house committee on appropria-
tons Saturday completed the urgency
deficiency appropriation bill. 1t car
ries a total of 81, AIS, 922, divided as
follows: Office OF the public printer,
$3.50, 600; state department. $50, 900;
treasury, Sl49,9S7; District of Co
lumbia, S34,059; war department,
1866, 1913; navy department, $50;
interior department, S34, 800; depart
ment of justice, S5,7l4; judicial,
$40, 900; United States courts,
SO, 242, $50; house Of representatives,
s35, 1879.
Secretary Olney states that he has
received no reply to his kilograms of
inquiry to Minister Terrell, at Con-
stantinople, asking whether or not the
sultan had directed that the Red Cross
officials should not enter his dominions
for the purpose Of distributing relief
among the Armenians. In the mean
time Miss Clara Barton, president, is
engaged in periecting preparations for
the voyage to Turkey, which she and
her associates will undertake, despite
the report that they will not be per-
mitted to discharge their charitable
trust.
As to Cuba's Recognition.
A New York Herald special from
Washington says that the administra-
tion is giving the Cuban situation
careful consideration, but there is no
reason to suppose that President
Cleveland and Secretary Olney con-
template any immediate action. On
the other hand, it is understood that
they have intimated to the foreign re-
lations committee of the senate and
the foreign affairs committee of the
house their desire that no immediate
action should be taken. The change
in the policy of Spain indicated by the
relief of General Campos by General
Weyler may have some effect upon the
plans of the administration, and they
may be disposed to give the new com
mander an opportunity to demonstrate
whether or not there is any hope of
the success of the Spanish arms within
q reasonable length of time.
Discussed the Monroe Doctrine.
The senate committee on foreign re-
lations discussed for two hours Friday
morning, the Monroe doctrine and
finally, by a vote, ordered a report on
the resolution submitted by Mr.. Da-
Wis, of Minnesota, chairman of the
subcommittee. Mr.. Turpie made an
argument against the affirmation by
congress, of the doctrine as general
principle. He believed it was sufl-
cient for the doctrine to be applied
when the specific cases arose. He fa-
vored its application to the pending
difficulty between venezuela and Great
Britain, but thought that it might rest
there for the present.
Mr.. Gray, of Delaware, was opposed
to any action whatever that had for its
object the affirmation of the doctrine
by legislative action. He believed the
whole subject was one in which the ex-
ecutive department of the government
alone should act, and that upon that
branch of the government, and not
congress, rested the responsibility OF
enforcing or not the doctrine laid down
by Monroe.
Neither OF these arguments had any
weight with the committee. They
were combated by Senators Sher-
man, Lodge, Morgan and others. Mr..
Mills, one of the new members of the
committee, an ardent admirer of JEFF
ferson, was one of the most enthusiasts
tic supporters of the affirmation of the
doctrine. The vote to adopt the Da-
Wis resolution, which was drawn along
the lines of the Lodge resolution, was
agreed to, after one or two alterations
in the verbiage had been made. The
committee also decided to vote, upon
the motion of Mr.. Sherman, that the
action of the committee and the text
of the resolution should not be given