Show POLITICAL POINTS by our special correspondent ME PLAINER will he back down in the behring sea controversy with Enoi and ENQUIRER correspondence washington D C may 8 well well can it be that alter all of mr blames jingoism as to our rights in sea that we are to humbly fact down the talk here now according to my information mr blaine has discovered that we have nothing to arbitrate and that russia never set up such claims as he has done whan she was the owner of alaska and does not recognize that the united states has any eccli rights As the story goes as soon as mr blaine saw that we had not the slightest show under the proposed arbitration he began to search for a hole to crawl out of with as little loss of dignity as possible he began then to lay cirps for a triple international agreement between the united states russia and england for the prevention of the indiscriminate killing of seals in bevering Be hering sea and now it is said that pending further negotiations no seals are to be taken at all this season officials at the state and treasury departments refuse to either confirm or deny story A whole week has pone by without new and entirely different statement rom the preceding one of the condition f the treasury haying been given out last week there ware three er four of hem mum is the word now while he and his expert account ints are preparing pre parine the figures for the aresto voto change statement which if t meets mr Harn sons approval ind of that theres little doubt is to be aven to the public on the first of june che intention is to follow republican precedent by manipulating the trust ands in the monthly statement of the rational lat ional debt in such a way as to show 1 large available surplus where ally none ex ats the first mut of a storm in the auks of the republican parly are being abard here so for mr harrison has apparently had it all his own way in his I 1 barch towards a second nomination ind none of his party have fit to attempt to make any organized opposition to him but squalls are ahead for im this week representative far of new york has openly stated bere iere his belief that harrison could not possibly be elected and an indiana of prominence has said that larrison could not carry that state chese are straws showing the drift of le publican sentiment the blaids blains men can not be kept down kiich longer they bate harrison and esy time that bussell harrianna Harri aona newspaper lews paper in its silly attempts to make lory tor harrison casts a slur upon laine that hatred is intensified sheea len would rather see a democrat elected than have to stand harrison for mother four years and mark the pre diction lic tion in six months they will be shouting that sentiment the house aps ops mr blaine may be perfectly villine that mr harrison should be re dominated lomina ted although I 1 have serious doubts of it but his friends are not ahey hope of course to nominate blaine whether he consents or not but hey are determined as will be seen afore long that in any event harrison ahall not be the nominee if they can it and they think they can chores music ahead aa sure as you are om and with good management the democrats can march to victory keeping ime with it the opinion of leading members of the party as expressed here lately have any influence with the democratic caucus of the house of representatives the next speaker of the house will certainly be a southern man these gentlemen have argued that the south s entitled either to the Speakers bip or 0 a place on the national ticket and hat it would be better politics to give it the if a southern man is to be speaker it will probably be either representative crisp of georgia representative mills of texas or representative mcmillin of tennessee either one of them would suit me therefore I 1 can speak of their chances without prejudice mr mills was largely in the lead a month before the adjournment of congress but it now looks as if mr crisp waa ahead and were it not for the liquor declerg national organization which it is stated here will bitterly fight him I 1 should select him as the winner mr mcmillin has surprised a good many people by developing more than he had been credited with but his only hope of winning is in the event of a protracted et ruggle between the two first named candidates which many shrewd observers ara now predicting as certain to occur government officials decline to express any opinion for publication on the report of the new orleans grand jury on the lunching lynching lyn ching of the italians but privately the universal verdict is just I 1 expected and many people haye recalled the words of edmund burke A f whole people cannot be indicted senators brice vilas hill and gordon will all sit in the rear row of seats on the democratic bide when the senate meets next december venezuela has accepted the reciprocity proposition made to her by this government |