The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1910-03-18
Washington.

Formal recognition of Robert e.
Peary as the discoverer of the perth
pole has been given by the leading
scientific societies of ten govern
ments, according to advices which
have reached the National Geograph-
ic society These eembrace the Ma.
tlonal Geographic Societies at Wash
ington, the Royal Geographic society
at London and the Geographic society
at Paris, Rome, Berlin, Antwerp, Brus-
sells, Vienna, Dresden and Geneva.
A protest against the bill to grant
federal charter to the Rockefeller
foundation has been received in
! Washington from George w. DaCun-
ha, an architect of Upper Montclair,
n. j. He claims the bill is class lag
islation in line with the granting of
charters to crowned leads with 'ex.
traordlnary powers" He says it will
remove the possibility of an inheri-
lance tax from the succession of this
fortune, and that it sets precedent
for granting similar charters to all
wealthy families in the country, add
ing: They (the families) in turn
could combine and form one of the
greatest aggregations of money in the
world and one that could dominate all
opposition
Congressman Sisson of Mississippi
introduced joint resolution direct
ing the attorney general to institute
proceedings in the United States
court to test the validity of the four
teenth and fifteenth amendments to
the constitution. The resolution also
calls upon the attorney general to
submit to the court all the available
information bearing on these amend.
ments. Mr.. SiSson, in common with
others, claims that the amendments
were never legally adopted, and that
the supreme court of the United
States, in fair trial, could be com.
PEELED to set them aside.
Charges that they exact unjust and
discriminatory rates on coal were
made to the interstate commerce
commission by the Alabama Coal Op-
orators association against the South
ern railway and the Illinois Central
railroad, The complaint alleges that,
by reason of these rates, the coal op-
orators in the Alabama field lost a
large volume of business in Georgia,
South Carolina and Florida, because.
by reason of the small differentials
allowed, they are unable to compete
with the operators in the Coal Creeke
field of Tennessee.
Conditioned upon municipal coon.
Grafton the construction of adequate
Wharves and other equipage the war
department recommended to congress
the Improvement of Hillsboro bay.
n n init ;n1
and or $4,000 annually for five years,
and $4,000 annually thereafter. The
project is in connection with Tampa
Bay.
A new bill providing for the cree.
ton of American embassies abroad
was reported by Representative Low
den from the foreign affairs commit
tee. The bill, which takes the place
of the one defeated on the floor of
the house last week, provides a limit
OF Sl5O,O0O for any building, includ.
ing grounds and furnishings.
The quantity of 1909 wheat crop in
farmers hands March / was about
23.5 per cent, equivalent to 1894
600 bushels, compared with 21.6 per
cent Q43,692,00 600 bushels) Of the 1908
crop on hand March 1, 1909, and 23.8
per cent Q52,571 900 bushels), the
average for the past ten years, &C.
cording to the crop reporting board
of the department Of agriculture.
In answer to inquiries sent out some
days ago by the American National
Red Cross, to their representatives in
the flood districts of New York and
Ohio, letters have been received stat
ing in each instance that it will not
be necessary for the Red Cross to for
ward money, as the emergencies were
being met by the communities in
which the floods occurred.