WAKI1IXGTON. The I'liKlilMMlt (nso The l.ouiHianu 1 0111 promise The en lofilai;e Kulc. Washington, 17. Tho postpon-nieut postpon-nieut ol Finchbuck'scaso was a sudden sud-den movement of his friends, determined deter-mined upon after a carelul canvass, showing his certain ejection on a iliroct vote. Their reasoning is that tho Wheeler committee of arbitration arbitra-tion may result in such a chaDge in tho Louisiana legislature as will cause tho election of somebody as senntor more objectionable than l'inchback, and that in such case tho latter may bo admitted in order to oxcludo the other. This anticipation necesiarijy presumes that tho republican' re-publican' opposition is based on expediency, ex-pediency, not principlo. All the republicans re-publicans opposed to Pinchback voted to postpone, except Christiancy and Hitchcock, who voted no. Eu-munds Eu-munds was silent. The tendency of tho present situation is to promote Casey's election to the senate by the aid! of tbo conservatives, who are against Pinchback irrevocably, and wlip fear that the choico of a conservative conser-vative would seat Pinchback. While nothing oflictal is ascertainable, ascertain-able, the Wheeler compromise forwarded for-warded to Kellogg at New Orleans yesterday it is believed will Beat one additional conservative state senator, and give the conservatives twelve majority ma-jority in tho lower house, which will tie the legislature in joint ballot on any party vote. If the compromise is accepted, many think speaker Hahn will vote for tho conservatives sooner than for Cassey or anybody else not considered a bona fide citizen cit-izen of the state. His vote would settle the senatorship. Postmaster Jewell says it is impracticable im-practicable to enforce the modified postage on transient printed matter, as two thousand tons were in the mail belore tho change of the law was discovered. In the meantime ca'ro should be taken to inform the public that all newspaper postage, except when prepaid at tho office of publication, is at the rate of one cent per ounce.