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Show WASHINGTON. j Wasb'mglon, go. The bouse foreign for-eign committee approves the action of the president aud secretary of state on the address of the Irish nation brought by John O'Connor Power, and say the subject calls for no congressional con-gressional action. All communications communica-tions ef the kiud must come through the minister representing their gov- ernment. Judge Davis was on the bench ol the supreme court, to-day, when he received a telegram from Springfield informing him of hia election to the , United States senatorship. After adjournment ad-journment of the court he was called on by Illinois friends, who congratulated congratu-lated him on the result, end inquired as to his acceptance of the office. He did not say whether ho will accept or not, but if he Bhould conclude to do eo, he will not resign before the 4th of March, tho senatorial term not beginning be-ginning until that time. He stated that he had not been consulted regarding re-garding the use of hia name as candidate can-didate and had not authorized it. The calculations of gentlemen about (ha capital to day wero that three-fourths ol the members of the houBe will vete in favor of the compromise com-promise bill. Should the bill pass to-morrow to-morrow afternoon as contemplated, it will be sent to the n resident on the night of that day, or on S-Uurdy. As the biij involves constitutional questions, it will, under usage, be relerred to the attorney general for examination before final executive action. It is not apprehended that the attorney general will interpose any objections, as the president to-day repeated that fie wat. in favor of the passage of the bill, considering it a measure in the interests of peace and tho bilKinPo of the oountry uow languishing lan-guishing owing to the uncertainty of the electoral count. It iB safe to conclude con-clude that the bill will promptly become be-come a law. Secretary Chandler, to-day, on hearing the character of the alleged telegrams passing between Governor Stearns and himself, as ewrn to by witness Deberry, Tallahassee telegraph tele-graph operator, said he never sent or received such dispatches, branding them as fabrications, and expressing hie intention to make such a statement state-ment before the committee. Railway mail service is ordered on the Amador branch railroad from Gait to lone, California. tirover left for Oregon to-night. After turning over the governorship to Chad wick he will return as senator. Notwithstanding the consignment of the Texas Pacific bill to the committee com-mittee of the whole on points ot order, its friends say they have votes euough in combination with the supporters ot the Northern Pacific bill, to bring it before the bouse for action next week, and are fully confident tbey can then pass it. Washington organs of both political politi-cal parties continue, to-day, their denunciations de-nunciations of the compromise electoral elec-toral bill, and call for its defeat by the house. , |