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Show IX TI3IE OF EE ACE. THE NATIONAL CAPITAL NOW SENDING OUT MANY WARLIKE RUMORS. Our Navy Being ltupldly Fitted Out F Active Herrlce The IntorTlew Hetween ltlaine and Moult What lNHld At the liepitrtuientiia AV.fnixoTrtv, D. C, Dee. 30. It has beea Impossible to learn ttui nature of the inter-view inter-view hctet r. Secretary of State Pluiilo and Senor Moult, the Chilean, ministet. Am-w Am-w ithstanding the fact that Secrntary Blalno is now dealing almost entirely with thet nil. etui minister, instead of with his jrovnrumcnt through the intervention of Minister Egsii, it does not appear that tho result has been the saving of much time, and tliero is reason to suspect that the secretary is cballng at the delay he encounters in securing a limit response to the rcprcsrdtillon uiuiln by this government concerning the attack upon tha Ualtimorc's men. licprescutatives Dodge and Houtello called at the navy department. They ure both re. publican members of the house eommlttea on naval affairs, the chairman of which lie p. rosenlative Herbert, Is absent from tire city. 1 nles the houso of representatives recurs to the old Uandall rules, the naval committee w ill retain In its charge all matters relating to appropriations for naval service, while in the senate the concurrent a ol the comtnittea on appropriations with tha committee on naval affairs is usually necessary to securo provision for any naval expenditure. Secretary Sec-retary Tracy bus been in communleatioa with the member of each of tuce commit tees but with what purpose Is not definitely! known. An otlleer of tho department, fcpenklng oS tho consultations, said: "It means just this: That wo are abiding by George Wash. Ington's maxim, 'In time of pence, prepare . for war.' We dun' I belicv.s there will bt war. Hut If if the administration failed to exercise all of its power In making prepanu tion, it would bo ojwn to avsrvre criticlam it hofetllilki should acrmilly cu.ue." |