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Show LATEST DISPATCHES,1 GENERAL. WASmxciTOX. The Silver II 1 ! I President- n it Liu if. Washington, 8 The bill carrying into ellect tho Hawaiian treaty is now considered certain to pats by a large majority, since the strong speeches by Garlic-Id and others sustaining the treaty pulicy. T'iie prospects or tho silver currency b;ll are utill considered doubtful, ('''lie senate will probably adopt ttie amendments reported by the tiuanco committee, but they will encounter lively opposition in the houso, even if the senate sends tiie bill there, which many seriously doubt. Senator' Jones' argument before the finance committee was very effectual. His contemplated speech and interesting facts in support of liis general propositions may strengthen tho bill. He will cihow conclusively that tho world's silter production has decreased instead in-stead of the contrary, and cites a wonderful collection of acknowledged authorities to show that injudicious taxation and not over-production has produced an apparent silver glut. No ono who converses with lum fails to be impressed by Ida exhaustive explanation, expla-nation, ot this whole subject. Tho presidential speculation continues, con-tinues, opinions concentrating among agreement between Conkliug and.Mor-tou and.Mor-tou not to antagonize, is thought to tend to help .Morton only, because while neither of them is likely ever to withdraw in favor of the other under the belief that the other is tho strongest, strong-est, Morton can probably control aud transfer part of his vote, while Conk-ling's Conk-ling's will bo uncontrotable, when this nomination is found impossible. Few believe the story that Cameron has agreed to give Pennsylvania to Conk-ling, Conk-ling, because Cameron is too wiiy to sell whathecan'tdeliver.and the Pennsyl-vania Pennsyl-vania managers don't believe Conkliug would be strong at the polls. Morton's expectations of the limited Boutheru vote are delusive. Blaine's friends claim Virginia and North Carolina. Bristow's friends are sure of Tennessee Tennes-see and Kentucky, and have strong hupes of South Carolina. Mortou really seems to have little strength outside of Indiana, with tho exception of the south. The Bristow movement is in the hands of inexpcrienced iuen, with little organization. In this it is weak. The cooler political managers insist that the whole foundation of Bristow's claims is simply official integrity. in-tegrity. There are many better known of whose integrity the country has had longer and fuller evidence, who are equally known for statesmanship, of which he has had no opportunity to exhibit his knowledge. The tcntiment which presents Bristow would be equally, truly aud more safely represented by Charles Francis Adams. Governor Hayes is no longer talked of, except as a possible compromise candidate. The talk of Minister Wasbburne for governor of Illinois is thought to mean that he is to be kept insight, so that if the leading candidates defeat de-feat each other be may be brought forward. Except that Lincoln and Grant are credited to Illinois, Wash-burne Wash-burne would be formidable from the start. Blaine's forces are beyond be-yond doubt the best organized and most confident. To-day he would lead all others, and bis position promises lUiuipiuve uwlcmbiij uciuic the convention meets. His record is gen rally acceptable to republicans and not offensive to independents. Shrjwd men are watching the situation situa-tion and say Conkiing cannot carry New York if nominated, and Morton would be weak in New England, because be-cause of bis financial uncertainty. Buine's hard money utterance leave the democrats ground to make points against them. Blaine when anked by Jerry Black, denied that he feared Morton, Conkiing or Bristow in the Cincinnati convention. "Are you afraid of anybody?" said Black. "Yes" replied Blaine. "Well, who is it?" To which Blaine responded, "the great unknown." Among the democrats Hendricks appears to have lost ground. Bayard, than whom the party has none abler or truer, fails to excite any enthusiastic enthusias-tic organizers in his behalf, and seems little inclined to seek it. Thurmau's friends still cling to his prospects, but their hold is loosening. Tilden, with all his New York strength, makes little lit-tle impression here, but he is an awful i worker. His parly associates quietly I admit he is not growing in the country. Judge David Davis of Illinois looks to be the coming man, especially if the republicans nominate any other than Conkiing or Morton some onej identified with the mistakes of the! present administration. The democratic demo-cratic leaders, warned by their past defeats, are alive to the fact that tiie coming election will be decided moro on the personal merits of candidates than on parly names or resolutions. In short, as Curtis says, "The candidates candi-dates are to be the platform." Tuey strongly favor pome fresh name of high repute outside of active party circles. Tne I'acific coast congressmen are preparing to mako a vigorous effort to secure an incrc.istd appropriation ! mints. Director Linderman has fur-'nished fur-'nished a letter from Superintendent jLaGrango, in which it is shown that the proposed reductions of force and salaries would be disastrous to the service and that the item of $75,00') for contingent expenses is not half enough to furnish materials and perform per-form the work required by law, wnicb must be doneduring the coming year. LaGrange does not object to a reduction reduc-tion of his own salary, but averts that I the effect of the proposed reduction ol the pay of mint employes will bo to (drive them into private employment iat higher compensation, and that to irplarcthem by inexperienced men ! would bo equivalent to taking from the government an amount of bullion through the wastage, moro than twenty times the sum Baved in tiie diilerenco of wages. This letter has been ordered printed. The cause of Dana's rejection was not the chargo of literary piracy or resentment of his (Boutweli'a) letter. Do would have been confirmed despite these, except for the conviction convic-tion that the latter, under the circumstances, cir-cumstances, indicated n want of gol tomper essential to a successful diplomat. diplo-mat. The ooramiltoo on elections, to-day decided by a strict party vote, to give the seat now held by Farwell, Irom the ;id district of Illinois, to Lemoyne, tho contestant. In the bouse of representatives, to-dny, to-dny, l'iper delivered speech on railroad rail-road HulHidifcs and land grants, taking the ground ti at congns baa no constitutional con-stitutional power to aid railroad pro-1 jocts on account of supposed incidental inci-dental advantages which may accrue to the public. Ho argued against the policy of alienating immense portions ul the public domain by land grants; denounced tho Central l'acihu corporation cor-poration fur attempting to rulo the California L'islaturo find congre-s, for bhieknmihng towns and conimuiii-I conimuiii-I tie i ii tl io location of routca of subsidiary subsi-diary lines. |