The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-05-22

GOSSIP or THE CAPITAL IN
PITHY PARAGRAPHS.
DoinEn Of the Chiefs and Heads Of the
Various Departments.

doing q fraudulent business under the
name Of Professor Godfrey, alias Pro-
feaaor Winters, with several other
aliases, at Chattanooga, Avondale AID
Sherman Heights, Tenn.
The house Wednesday morning
adopted q resolution for the adjourn
ment Of congress on the 18th. This
is notification on the part Of the
house 10 the senate that IL is ready TO
adjourn. The resolution will rest in
the senate until that body thinks 1t
sees It's way clear 10 adjournment.
That may be the first Of June or It
may be the middle Of July.
Mr.. Butler offered joint resolution
In the senate Monday 10 carry into eff
feet two resolutions Of the continental
congress directing .Aonuments 10 be
erected to the memory Of General
Francis Nash and Mr.. William David
son, OF North Carolina. II appropri
ates $4,000 for each monument and
directs the money be paid TO the gov
ernor Of North Carolina.
The secretary Of the interior has APP
proved the report of Special Agent
Robert l.. Berner, who spent last sum-
mer investigating the noted Des
Moines river land grant. The amount
of indemnity carried aggregates about
S185.000. Only claims accompanied
by written evidence Of title we're al
owed and only $50 out Of 526 claims
hat we're fled at tho department we're
hus favorably passed upon.
The fiery Boutelle, of Maine, is in
lignant that the senate should have
cut down the number of battleships
provided for in his naval appropria-
ton bill from four to two. He made
q great fuss over it in the house Mon
day when a motion was made to con-
cur in the senate amendments. He
criticised in severe language senators
who had cried for our interference in
Cuban affairs and yet refused to vote
to protect our government from war.
! Speaker Reed called him to order for
criticising senators and Boutelle then
turned upon Reed. But the big speak
er was not in a fighting humor. Like
everybody else, he laughed at the dis
play Of temper on the part of Boutelle.
May Ship Argentine Sugar.
In view of the small crop of sugar
produced in Cuba last year, United
States Minister Buchanan, at Buenos
Ayres, in a report to the state depart
ment, says the belief has gained ground
that Argentine raw sugar and molasses
can be proftably exported to the
United States.
To illustrate the extent of the sugar
industry in that country the minister
submits statistics showing the produc-
ton by mills and by departments. In
one province, Tucuman, thirty-one
mills produced 24O, 1856, 976 pounds of
sugar during the nine months of 1895
ending December 81, being an in
crease of 1912, 236 pounds over the
corresponding period of 1894.
Working for Savannah.
Senators Bacon and Gordon made q
hard fight in the senate Tuesday for
the reinstatement Of the Savannah
harbor appropriation, stricken out by
the senate committee. They didn't
get the entire appropriation rein
stated, but they saved the Savannah
harbor proper, for which nearly 81,
600, 600 is appropriated.
That portion providing for deepen.
ing and improving of the inland steam.
boat channel between Savannah and
Beaufort was stricken out. The Geor
gia senator's did well under the circum
stances. When the bill gets to confer
ence Colonel Lester will endeavor tC
have all the house provisions reinstateC
and he may be successful. The great
est danger to Savannah now is that thu
president will veto the bill on accoun
of the very large sum it carries.
More Contests Decided.
BY vote of five to one the hous,
elections committee decided the con
tested election case of Mitchell agains
Walsh from the eighth New York city
district in favor of the contestant.
In the case of Martin, populist
against Lockhart, democrat, from sixth
North Carolina district, Martin got tn
decision, and in the case of Thompson
populist, against Shaw, democrat, from
the third North Carolina district, tn,
report is in favor of Mr.. Shaw.
Elections committee No. 8, by vot
of six to one in the contested election
case of Yost against Tucker, from tn
tenth Virginia district, authorized tn
report favoring contestee, Mr.. Tucker
Mccall, of Massachusetts,, chairman O
the committee, was directed to max
the report of majority, which will b
} signed by three republicans and tire
democrats.
Civil Service Extension Law.
The president, by his signature
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