The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-04-10

GOSSIP or WASHINGTON ~
nRtEF PARAGRAPHS
Doings ofths chiefs aud Heads Of the
Various Departments.

General wheeler, OF AAuuauht mas
offered in the house a bill providing /
that so long az the gold standard ia
maintained Ia this country the salaries
OF an officials, including congressman,
bat excepting the United States judges,
shall be reduced 20 threo-fourtha the /
salaries as now provided by law.
The committee on ways and means /
have ordered q favorable report on the |
bill Of Mr.. Evans, Of Kentucky, 70 |
allow the bottling Of distilled spirits
in bond. The bottling is 10 be done
in the bonded warehouses under the
supervision Of the government officers
and without intermingling spirits OF
different kinds, age or proof
Tuesday the president nominated
Colonel VIM. A. Little, Of Georgia, to
be assistant attorney general, vice
John /. Hall, resigned. Colonel Lit
ties appointment was the only ono
sent in by the president during the
day. Senator Gordon or Bacon will
call up the appointment at the first
executive session for immediate con-
/ firmation.
The secretary Of war has sent TO the
house the report Of the survey for a
canal connecting Lake Superior with
the Mississippi river The cost Of such
a canal, the report says, will range
from 100000 to $50, 600, 000 ao-
cording to the different routes and the
sites proposed The route costing the
least is decided to be the most feast
BILE.
An Important Bill.
A bill was favorably reported TO the
senate Thursday from the committee
on education and labor, agriculture
and capital for the purpose of investi-
eating those questions and recommend
ing such legislation to congress as may
be necessary. Those representing la
Dor are to be selected by the president
upon the recommendation Of labor or
ganizOtions; those representing agri-
culture, three from the farmers ALI
Rnce and two from the national grange;
those representing capital from various
manufacturing industries.
Cuban Resolutions Accepted.
The conference committee on the
Cuban resolutions has arranged to re-
port il in favor of the original senate
bill. 1t is not expressed exactly in the
terms the conferees would prefer, but
it is the best that can be done at this
time in view of the opposition which
has been manifested in the senaia
That will end the matter so far as con-
gress is concerned, for the senate has
already adopted them. In the form
az agreed to, the resolutions are as
follows:
Resolved by the senate the house of
representatives concurring therein),
That, in the opinion of congress, a
condition of public war exists between
the government of Spain and the gov
eminent proclaimed, and for some
time maintained by force of arms by
= the people of Cuba, and that the
United States of America should
maintain a strict neutrality between
the contending powers, according &c
each all the rights of belligerents il
the ports and territory of the United
: States.
Resolved further, That the friend
ly offices of the United States should
8 be offered by the president to tn,
Spanish government for the recogni
tion of the independence of Cuba"
They express the sentiment of con
| gress, but are not binding upon tn,
president, as would be joint resolu
, TONS What the president will do nj
one seems to know.
, Seed Contract Let.
= Secretary Morton has let the con
tract for the 10,125, 900 packets o
Q vegetable seeds to be distributed to th
s public under the recent act of congress
q to d. Landreth & Sons, of Philadel
q phia.
: The price fixed is $40, 900, the seed
r to be delivered subject to germinativ
test, under a very carefully drawn con
Q tract, free of cost, at the department
q in Washington, ready for mailing
L The contract for a million packets O
9 flower seeds was let to L. L. May
) Co., of st. Paul, MINI, at half cen
: per packet Under this new metho
= of buying seeds and compelling th
sellers 90 put their own firm names uI
n on the packets, it is believed by tn
secretary that better quality of seed
will have been secured.
Senator Proctor, chairman of th
q committee on agriculture, in the ser
ate, and Representative Wadswortl
= chairman of the agricultural oommit
= tee in the house, together with Dl
> Dabney and Secretary Morton, COZ
:, stituted the board of award. The
: agreed unanimously that the purchase
s. above indicated were the best unde
all the circumstances, which ooul
possibly be made, time of delivery, II