The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-05-08
NATIONAL CAPITAL
GOSSIP or WASHINGTON IN
BRIEF PARAaRAPHa
noingu Of tho Chiefs and Heads Of the
Various Departments.


ball OF statuary in the capitol, was
officially presented Thursday and &c
oepted by the senate.
Postmaster General Wilson has de-
MED the privileges Of the mails to a
trance medium concern alleged 10 be
doing a fraudulent business under the
name Of Professor Godfrey, alias Pro-
lessor Winters, with several other
aliases, at Chattanooga, Avondale and
sherman Heights, Tenn.
The senate has made some big in
crease in the river and harbor bill and
Florida, through Senator Pasco's
efforts has proiited materially. He
has had the appropriation for the ST.
Johns and Jacksonville increased from
$50, 600 to $500, 600; Pensacola from
500, 600 to $500, 900, and Key West
from $50, 900 to 100000.
Senator Stewart prepared and circu-
lated in both houses OF congress a Pc
tition addressed to President Kruger,
OF the Transvaal republic, asking him
to pardon John Hays Hammond. The
fact that such a petition had been
signed and would be forwarded was
oabled to the Transvaal government.
The petition was signed generally in
both houses.
An error in the calculation that gave
the battleship Massachusetts, a speed
of 6,270 knott has been discovered at
the navy department. Corrected the
speed stands 162029, and this reduc.
ton means that the contractors will
get 100000 in premiums instead Of
Sl25, 900. However, the Massachu-
sets still holds the record for her
class.
Treasury figures officially proclaim
ed Friday show that up to May / the
excess of expenditures over receipts
for the fiscal year aggregate s23, 200,
600. For the month of April the ex-
cess is 81, 100000. In round figures
the receipts for the ten months of the
fiscal year are S274, 800, 600 and ex-
penditures S29S, 600, 900.
President Grants Pardons.
The president has granted a pardon
to r. J. Gilley, Of Alabama, sentenced
in July, 1898, to six years for con-
spiracy to intimidate witnesses. In
his Endorsement the president says he
is satisfied that Gilley is not guilty of
the charge.
A pardon, for the purpose of re-
storing him to citizenship, was also
granted NJ. r. Fleming, OF Texas, who
was sent up for passing counterfeit
money.
In the case of I. A. Hall, ofFlorida,
convicted of cutting timber on gov
eminent land, and sentenced in March
1895, to eighteen months in Jail and a
fine Of $3.50, the imprisonment is re-
mitted.
The application for clemency made
by Samuel Peoples, John Carnes and
Anderson Black, convicted in Georgia
of conspiracy to kill person who had
given information concerning viola
tions of the revenue laws, was denied
Capture Of the Competitor.
Advices have reached Washington
confirming the report from Havana of
the capture by the Spanish naval
forces of the American schooner Com
petitor, loaded with arms and NUM-
tions of war for the insurgents, and
with party of men aboard:
Contrary to the first report, however,
it was found that the vessel came from
Key West and not from the Mosquito
coast, as reported, and there is reason
to believe that the Spanish officials
were aware in advance of her depart.
ure from Key West and were on the
lookout for her appearance on the Gu
ban coast
The Competitor was seized at Punt0
Berraco, on the north coast of Pinar
del Rio, and according to the Spanish
reports there can be no question Of
the legality of the seizure, for she was
not only inside the marine league ovel
: which the Spanish jurisdiction extends
, but at the moment the Spaniard
swooped down on her, was actually
engaged in landing men and stores
1t is reported that several Americans
l we're of the party and that at least two
D of them were killed in the capture o
I the schooner.
G Rivers and HarboFs.
, The senate committee on commerce
completed the river and harbor appro
priation bill and it was reported to TIN
Q senate Monday.
The committee struck out items Il
? an aggregate of 1851 1858 and increased
j. or inserted items aggregating 1861,
800, making a net increase OF $2,029,
832-the bill now carrying a total o
s $12. 444, $50.
The improvements placed under tn
/. contract system we're increased net b,
: $8, 504, 403, leaving the total Of thi
: form OF liabilities to be provided 70