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Show LATEST TELEGRAMS. lUsiiiNirtt.v. Washington, 7.Tii.' cabin. t has deeidtd to jppoii.it the following m!in-hers m!in-hers ol tim n.4tiuii4l b.nard ! hrlih: Surgeon Genera! V."u ' n "t tue marine hospiUl n-mcu, r; j.: -dents tho treasury drp :rtim-nl; M ihc::l Directo.- Fr-iiivin M. Gunet-I, thu navy depart msiit; Solicitor General Phillips, tat department of j is'.ice, and Assir;ttnt burgeon .l-Am S. Impi, tho war depurimeiii. The canvass for Uie ypukcr-nhip progresses vory quiviy, to day. Speaker Randall 1ms guna t; Nuw York serenely coutilent to li outward out-ward appaarawo that his rtei'eciion is secured. The friends of Colonel Blackburn, however, figure up eighty-four eighty-four votes tor their candidate and therefore there-fore assert that he is certain to revive the caucus nomination. Multilarious (peculations contii:uo to bo based upon the possibility th.u tho democrats demo-crats will Jail to concentrate a Bufli-citut Bufli-citut number ot votes to elect their caucus nomineofur speakership. This contingency is claimed to be not only possible, but probable, in view of the tact that several democratic members elect ure ill, and by reason of current assertions that Inorrison and one or two others will holt the rauriiA if Randall ha noitmiattid. These prognostications aro largely based upon an assumption thut a majority ma-jority of the whole number of 2'Jo members of the full house will bs required re-quired to determine ita organization, itiHte'ad of 144, which would ba a majority ma-jority of tbe members actually cboueu when the house asaemhlca, there being four vacancies for Calafornia and two caused by the deaths of Reprcsouta tivea elect Smith, of New York, and Scbleischer, of Texas. Whichever be considered the requisite majority, the probabilities, in the opinion of tue best informed observers, still strongly indicate that a sufficient number of democratic members will bo on baud to eflect a prompt organization of tbe house, in accordance with whatever what-ever may be the caucus' decisions. Rumora of a combination between tbe republicans and a few dissatisfied democrats to elect General Garfield as speaker, have gained considerable currency, but are destitute of any respectable foundation. The republicans repub-licans have- no desire to elect any one to preside over a house which he could not control and for the legislation legisla-tion of which the republican parly does not want lo be responsible. The talk of a republican coalition with tbe greenbackera of the house seems tc have littie if any bettor foundation for an overwhelming majority ol republican members havo already firmly planted themselves upon tlx hard money platform and expect tc mako the BuccesB of specie resumption resump-tion one of their principal claims lot popular Bupport during the next presidential campaign. The prospects pros-pects for the termination of the extrn aeasion early in May are not now at promising as they seemed to be a fow days ago, but nothing has since been developed to warrant the extravagant predictions put forth in certain quarters quar-ters that congresswill remain in session throughout the summer, and perhaps until next December, There will, undoubtedly, be a contest, of considerable consider-able duration in regard to the repeal of the federal election law aud very probably, though not certniuly, a majority may be obtained in the house of representatives to attach it to the general appropriation biil, but in thie event tbe president will veto the aDDronriation bill and all rnenibfira nl ihe house will then be confronted with the certainty of having to do without their own salaries, to say nothing of the need of money for all other legislative expenses aud for carrying on tho indispensable operations opera-tions of many department of the public service throughout the country, unless a majority consent to send the bill again to the president, divested of the proposed political requirements. Tho result will be either alternative by the first of July if not much sooner. 1 Senator Sargent haa accepted an! invitation tendered by the secrotary! of the navy to take an extended sea1 voyage for the benefit of bis health on tho school ship Saratoga, which will leave Annapolis about the 1st of April with the graduating cla a of the naval academy, for a cruise of four montba to Madeira, Capo Veide islands, Gibraltar, etc. His return to California will therefore be deferred until late in the summer. |