Show TELEGRAPH TIDINGS baly U tele raph to the illers id I abe world worlds comments Com mont NEW IN ew dec the journals are crowded today to day with tile lents message and documents incident to the tile opening of the congress Con gresA the ine message asage itself is universally well avell s spoken of particularly br by the republican lea n and ild independent dependent zi fa cheeta leets the world bays the messa gein a wordis full of views and the views arc not pretended to be the views of the country or even of the party but only personal opinions odthe of the message which arc tire to be taken as saying for what they are worth no careful reader of the message can fail fall to note thia this peculiarity and few reflective tive readers will bo be at a loss to assign to it its true cause it is the same cause which made the letter at of acceptance of the republican candidate for vice president last year so much in uch more outspoken out spoken aad aind positive than tile letter of the candidate audi date for president the world concludes in regard to finances and to our foreign relations the president speaks I pea ks with force and clearness which will command the respect of the patriotic men cfall of all parties railroad NEW YORK dec C P huntington in behalf of the central pacific R it JL yesterday signed a contract with win cramp A sons to build a large iron steamship of tons for the pacific coast and freight trade the vessel is to be feet in length another steamer will be contracted for in a few days A meeting ot ot the conference committee of the pacific mail Steam steamship shil co with officers of the oy overland erland raib rails roads was held beld yesterday esterday there were present sidney dillon president odthe of the union pacific C P huntington vicc vice pre president aident of the central pacific and president J I houston and director henry hart of the pacific mail Com committee mittet the only other member of lie the committee sage was absent from tile city A previous meeting odthe of the officers odthe of the overland railroads bad made it a condition of the renewal oi of the contract between tho companies that the pacific mail should sell to the or erland railroads railroad ift its china Chin allne line at the meeting yesterday the pacific mail committee offered to sell the line on oil the tile teni terms proposed but only on the th e condition that the tile recent agreement by which the overland railroads railroad paid lie tile steamship company a subsidy of a month should be continued on in the same terms for a of often ten years the price offered for the two steamships team ships of the china line city oty of tokio and city aly of peking a is is 12 and the value ef cathe the companas comp anys property necessary to the operation of or the lit line which the oTer overland lahd railroads proposed to buy makes the proposed sale about the of the committee however was arm dejected at once onee by the officers of the overland railroads who declined peremptorily to conclude a bargain on the terms temis proposed at the end of the conference president houston of the pacific mail called the meeting of its directors for thursday to report to them that the coni companies were ere utterly unable to agree upon terms fora for a renewal odthe of alie contract it is understood that instructions have been given giren to the freight agent of the steamship line to fill the corn com banys remels bep sels on every trip the action of the committee is introductory to lowering the rates to the war footing |