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Show WASHINGTON. Chicago, 26. Tribune's Washington: Washing-ton: The senate judiciary committee has 'before it the cass of Naval Officers Draper and Runkle, whom the present administration restored to rank after they had been out of it. many years. It is said Runkle has received $20,000 back pay. It iB believed the committee will report that both these restorations are illegal aud that the act of the president cannot can-not he sustained. Representative-elect Tom Young, from Ohio, has been much with the president of late, and says the most htalwart of the republicans will be thoroughly j-atbfied with, the portion of the president's message regarding GOtithern affairs, if his private conver-Batiuu.ia'any conver-Batiuu.ia'any index. The Sar to day publiaboa an interview inter-view with Senator tiargeut, to which it call3 attention by the remark that the result of the next election in Calaforoia will beof great importance, because, as that state goes, bo will the next presidential contest be decided if thrown into the house. The Star's interviewer reports that Sargent, having been very ill recently, did not like to talk much, but that in repponBe to the question as to how his state would go next September, he said: I have no doubt that the republicans republi-cans will carry California. The Kearney party draw principally from the democratic party. The republicans, republi-cans, it ia true, favored and made succeesful a non-partisan movement for the election of a constitutional convention, but they will press their own candidates at the election next year. . |