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Show WASHINGTON. Washing'nn, G Tee advocates ot the repaal of the specie ri- inplion act were squarely defeated i a test vote in the senate to-day. 'luey antagonized an-tagonized the resump;ion repeal bii' against the consideration of the army appropriation bill, avowing tneir re lieduat, if the former were r.ot taken ' o-day, there would op no pssinn-' pssinn-' further financial k oration this 6. .ion. Ine i-eue being thus distinctly dis-tinctly joined the vote renul'.ed in a final defeat of the repealere and inflationists by a majority of twelve. Knends of the army, to-night, are thoroughly confident that in view ot ibe emphntic nature of to-day's action of the benato on the army appropriation appropria-tion bill, the bouse will be speedily lorced to abandon its propositions fir ne reduction and reorg&n z uiou Tiie number of senators who voted to reduce the total strength of the army Irom 2o,000 to 20 000 men, was only nineteen, including only four of any prominence namely, Tburman, La mar, Beck and Voorhees. On the other band, Bayard, Kernan, Davis, (Ills. ) Wallace and six other democratsunited with the republicans in casting no less than iorty votes against a reduction, and it is etill more noteworthy that not a single tonator of either party opposed the amendment hy which all the boune provisions reorganizing the army and lor reducing the rank, pay and number num-ber of the officers, were unanimously stricken out. Tue vote to reler the whole nubject to a commission was also unanimous. The proposition (or the transfer of Indian atlairs to the war d partme.nl would have been defeated if brought lo a vote to-day, and it may now bn considered certain that this section of the house bill will also be Btricken out to-morrow, and the amendment adopted referring all questions iu-!volved iu-!volved in the proposed trau-tVr, to a separate coaimiMiun of inquiry. , Last night's mass meeting of the workingmen of Washington, wuu made a very orderly and imposing demODstr .tion in favor ol the intorcf-inent intorcf-inent ol the eight hour 1 tw, adopted, among o'her resolutions, oue reeom-mending reeom-mending Senator Sargent aod Kepre-senalives Kepre-senalives Banks, Bu'.Ur, Wright, Uoode sul Wilson to the confidence and support of the workmmeu of their several districts on the ground of their having advocated iu congress Buch measures as wuuld give eaiiploymeut to the milliom ol idle men and relieve the country from its sulleriiig condition, thereby proving prov-ing ihcoualvefl goud friends of lbs vorkijiK'nen. Prominent republican members ol the house are not at all disquiett-d by Lavisse's testimony before the Potter -investigating committee lo-dny. t appears that he cast his voir as an 1 elector for Hayes and Wheeler, and I actually signed one Bet ot ce:-' ce:-' tilicates to that ellect, but th t i whfn another set was made out iu order to correct some technical delect in them, be was not present ind hi name was tigued by anoUe r person, lit is contended, IhTefore, th it no change in the result waa effected by j thin apparantly authorized pro.-ei-d ; ; ing, and that no que-ti' n now be proper'y raised en ; cerning the certificat's as tne) were passed upon hy the tribuual nt the last resort, aud were substantially a clearly truthful, even if technically incorrect, expression of the action really taken by the electoral college .of Louisiana. Republicans also ( claim, with great unanimity, that Levissee's testimony concerning the 'attempts of a Louisiana democrat to purchase his electoral vote, has ren dm-d him a very unprofitable witness lor trie nuqtiri'y ul Potter s co nmiltee, who cail-d on him. Tiie president, to-day, received the resolution of the Potter committee re questiLg bim to furuiah the origin ils or Authenticated opics ol the letters of S;aoley Matthews to the president, presi-dent, and the president's reply, intended to secure an appointment appoint-ment for James E. Anderson. Several days may elapse before the request can be complied with, fis in the earlier part oi the nministra tion thousands of letters were re ceived at the executive mansion, but lor want of lime were not indexed, and therefore it will be necessary to make careful search lor tho desired correspondence. |