Show telegraph BY per reh union teeb TZER TELEGRAPH apil Arll une USE arile AISIE AMERICAN RI CAN washington 24 0 H browning of quincy illinois formerly secretary of the interior has addressed a letter to senator davis propounding a number of queries which he be prel prefaces prefaced laces by complimentary allusions to the statesmanlike qualities of davis the senators answers to the queries are found in his reply which follows UNITED STATES SENATE washington may 14 my dear sir I 1 haver had the pleasure to receive your letter of the uth oth dinst As a constituent a friend briend and an honored citizen of illinois you have h avo ave a perfect right to ask for my views on public questions and I 1 have no hesitation in expressing them taking the inquiries in tho the e order presented peace in the union permanent ra prosperity pertly and ind fraternal frater nai naJ fellowship are only to b be attained by silencing sectional sec see tibal tri strife trl fe A A faithful fajth ful fut adherence to the constitution and all amendment amendments a strict observance of the laws in conformity therewith and equal rights and equal protection for every citizen in every part of the republic will soon end the discord that have too long iong vexed the country and injured R its s material welfare people are weary of agitation a ita and want peace centralization the constitution n wisely defines the respective limits of the federal and state governments under a happy and harmonious system wherein each is independent in its appropriate sphere and both operate concurrently to protect the integrity and stability of the union any encroachment on the distinctive domain of the other necessarily dislocates the machinery of the constitution and involves dangar to the whole body politic in fact every departure from the great charter of liberty and law is attended with peril the demand made by th the adherents of one of the tho great irti parties es for a strong government means substantially a centralized government destruction of home rule in the states and chevery the very re verse of bf what mr lincoln well described as a government of the people le by the people and for the people V carried jd to its logical conclusion such a change would finally overthrow the republic the third term an innovation upon the sanctified traditions of the presidency first established by the example of uj is ui urgently gently demanded hya bya by a powerful interest in the republican party if the limitation of two terms heretofore universally accepted be destroyed ti the 10 way to a self perpetuating presidency will bo be opened by the use and abuse of enormous public 1 bublic patronage break down this carrier brier and an end nd of the experiment of republican government looms loom up darkly as the cost of a fatal fatai concession great corporations the rapid growth of corporate power and the malign influence which it exerts by combinations on national and state legislatures le 11 is a well grounded case of alarm A struggle 01 is impending in the near future between this over grown power with its vast ramifications all over the union and a hard grip on much of the political machinery on one hand and the people in an unorganized condition oil on the other I 1 civil service neither laws nor commissions created under tiem them will effectually remove many and nd glaring abu abuses es of the civil service the former have been constantly evaded and the latter are powerless power less leis for good an honest executive bent on a real and not simulated reform ilas jias las abundant authority to make it effective everywhere if lie he has the capacity to see his duty and courage to perform 1 it 91 subsidies bridles bs idles idies experience has demonstrated rated that subsidies in any form are sources of corruption and ou ought ht to be forbidden private enterprises terp rises that depend for success upon legislation procured by venal ag agencies encie encle do not deserve oserve public favor public lands more moro than principal and hi interest terest has been voted by congress to railroad corporation the remaining lands fib sih should ouid be sacredly reserved for cultivators of the soil so that the laboring inc man shall shail I 1 have a chance to iiii 1111 improve his condition and open the future for his children away from the seductions of great cities elections the ballot box should be the safeguard of for it is intended to express the free will of a free people therefore elections ou ought 40 ht to be exempt from the presence of any menacing force and to 0 be free from the contamination of corrupt returning boards no party dec deserves erves confidence that seek ascendancy by striking ng down honest suffrage either by ohe the use of or troop 3 or by fraud or by intimidation it would nov not be proper for me to express any opinion upon the measures pending or proposed in congress my lly liy votes vo tes res will speak for themselves at the fitting time H having ang thus freely answered your inquiries 1 I may addan addin add in conclusion ion lon that ahat my support will be cheerfully given bally to any candidate for president who in good fal fai faith falth th will s strive tri trl ve to carry out this general line of policy which in my judgment is of far more importance than the ambition of any man or even the success of any party liser liver your trl fri friend f erid erld DAVID davir DAVIS SAN francisco 24 A santa cruz dispatch says A young son of herman ih on of san francisco has just diede making 15 dead all the hotels have been thrown open for hospital purpose purposes and sand an efficient corps of physicians and ana I 1 d nurses is in attendance A train from santa cruz arrived early ely this tills morning bringing a number of killed and wounded by yesterdays accident the crowd awaited the arrival anxious for the fate of their friends and many touching scenes occurred when the ferryboat ferry fenry boa boat reached the slip two more of the dead dea have dhave been identified clayton J merrill of soquel and J korpits of san francisco three remain unknown or 14 in all those most seriously injured remain at santa cruz the mayor of which city has requested business houses to close to today day the wounded are comfortably provided for at theocian ean can house and with two exceptions are doing C well A santa cruz dispatch says that immediately following follow mg the accident the passengers exhibited strong in dig nation against the engineer and fireman and talked of hanging or drowning them subsequently finding they were not in fault the feeling turned against the railroad coffi comply lay jAy it is now stated that there was only one brakeman on the train that the cars cara were not nol provided with air brakes and that the train could not be promptly and properly handled the en engineer ineer states that none of the cars ears left lef the ties this however is disputed by one passenger who testified before a coroners jury that the first car was off while others had wheels on one side between the rails at the middle of the curve in the track the ties seemed to have moved so that the curve became bohme irn an angle 0 the th e inquest is not yet complete the president of the santa cruz narrow gauge says the wrecked train was the regular passenger train flat cars being put on for the temporary accommodation of the picnic people the engineer says he had the lever ever reversed had whistled down brakes an and d was gol goi going n g abou about t 20 miles per hour down grade when the accident occurred he hesitates to give ills his theory for the accident but intimate intimates there might amigh t have been some come obstruction on the track some other parties assert that the train was going at a rate of speed unsafe in curves of such a radius there i a theory amono among among some of the railroad employed emp loyes thaia that a number of or passengers climbing upon the rocks placed un oil the flat cars lifted the opposite wheels from the track when the cars went over they struck against the embankment dragged some distance and meeting t a reverse revers rovers curve jumped over the rails to the other side doun down the tiie declivity many jumped or fell off on the bank side and rolled down under the wheels the coroner has impanel led a jury there were cases noticed of attempts at robbing the injured passengers by others during the confusion following the accident which were promptly checked NEV NEW YORK 24 the heralds madrid special says full fall details have been reee rece received lAfed in this city in regard to the strikes and riot that have just taken place in barcelona it seems that some of the operatives who were incensed against their comrades for having accepted a te ie duct loii of wages in a woolen factory mustered lom loog strong before the works and ordered their fellow workmen to leave and aud join the strike T meeting with a refusal t they hey entered the factory drove the men out and destroyed the looms and macleery macL mery Anery and finally set fire to the building in several places As they were pre paring to visit other establishments for foe the purpose ot 0 carrying out a similar program pro gramme mothe methe tha civil au author thorl tie vies attempted to interfere but were T powerless verles verle s to suppress the disorder they thes constantly increased until finally it assumed most form torm formidable idab proportions alarm speedily spread aspre ad and all the old shops were immediately closed the operatives all left their benches and the military and mounted gen darme 3 were called out As soon as they appeared the operatives separated into angry and hostile groups but no resistance n cebas was oli oll offered bred upwards of 50 of the rin nin ning ring leaders were arrested meantime the nimo firo engines were hard at work endeavoring to arrest the progress of the flames flamey in the burning 0 factory the striking workmen were so threaten threatening ing in their depredations that thatis it was found necessary kopro to protect the firemen and to station military in the street streets avenue avenues 3 and roads so as to prevent the operative 3 in the suburbs from froin joining those of the city the governor of barcelona and the military authora ties report that all is now quiet numerous arrests have been made it hab hag been learned that the workmen were excited by revolutionary agents agats and socialist propagandists 0 by y order of the government the unions have been dissolved the world do declares clares there is not the slightest ground for the belief that tilden can by any means whatever be elected but there is the strongest t ground for the belief that lie cannot be aud and cites the oregon case cage as one of the most serious impediments ments it says belay we jay before our readers this morning a carefully digested abstract of the only too infamous oregon case together with certain eloquently suggestive telegrams and other communications bearing vitally upon the grave question of tiddens Til dens personal responsibility for positions taken for work done by individuals close to his person and holding most confidential relations with lil ill him we have nothing to say as to the true signification and interpolation of this most uncomfortable oregon case we content ourselves with repudiating th the story as it stands As we print it today it jt is as colorless as could well be made of such a case in pur politics tics bics but is there any democrat democh tin in his right mind north or south who can possibly need to be told what fata fate awaits any party which goes into the next nest presidential election with a candidate about whom such a wall of circumstantial evidence his ability his integrity his method his whole political manner in be woven as is simply outlined in the summary from the official papers of the oregon story atory which we print this morning mornin the warm weather on sunday sent geat people to coney island and to rockaway somewhat to the surprise of the hotel keepers who were not prepared for the tiie influx of such crowds of hungry as well as is thirsty visitors the hotels will open d during arin the tile ensuing on quing suing fortnight yd 4 and t the tho g gay 1 a and lid iid b busy u y scenes of last year r wiil will I 1 ill lii soon be repeated everything promises promie 3 a more successful season than that of 1879 which was itself unparalleled and the new hotels and transportation lines are ready to reap the tile harvest A A hearing had today to day before judge choate of or the united state circuit court in the suit of the emma silver mining lining IN company of london against the same company oi 01 new york and other defendants the pre ent suit is brought to re clad cind the sale of the mine the de fend ants pleaded in bar io to the bill hip of complaint a judgment rendered in their favor in an action of law tried in this city in 1877 and the hearing bearing to day was an argument on the pleas it was claimed on behalf of the tile defendants that the question involved in this suit had been fully adjudicated in the former action the heralds Herald 8 washington special kays bays says speaker randall will be absent during the first part of the week on account of the health of his mother rho fhe impression among members of the house is that this will be pret pretty tv certain to delay the tile proposed adjournment journ ment since no lid temporary speaker can push the closing bustness business through gli as rapidly as randall nan Ean dall dali general bradley johnson of baltimore is authority for the statement that justice field has a literary bureau in full operation he says W it is well organized and that afis it is flooding the tho country with literature which it is expected will advance fields chances for the cincinnati nominee the tho main maln material cincu jated by the die bureau up to the present time is 1 said to be made up from the recent dissenting opinions of field president prado was interviewed by a correspondent yesterday and aud said he was wa discouraged he will not return to peru having received letters from his friends there working and begging him not fo to return he denies that he had run away fro from in his country or that he was a decaul defaulter t the drought still continues hereabouts tatu though th refreshing showers in the nel nei neighborhood hg have a done much good 6 to vegetation and have extinguished damaging forett forest fires CHICAGO 24 the galena spec spee special ial says the gazette whose writer is a personal perso fial ilal friend of gen grant will publish tomorrow to morrow a statement denying the current item that 0 IV childs of the philadelphia ledger has hat information that gen gr grant nt will order his name withdrawn from the chicago 0 convention ven tion he says heither neither childs nor any anyone one else has authority to make any such as assertion se artion general grants name has never been before the public as a candidate can didace by any word or act af ar llis his ownard own and ho lie most certainly will not order ills his name withdrawn A very large largo class ot the american people have chosen to make him a candidate bandi bandl date and if the republican convention see fit to fo tender him the nomination he will not decline he knows this to be the fact and publishes it because it is w well weli e 11 for the republicans of the country torease to cease to hold the matter in doubt gen logan today to day said to a reporter he had received no answer to his telegram informing gen grantor graut grant of the action of the illinois bention ven tion wt on a friday night chas herch herd locked out his room mate august from their room 1 in the thel pekin house peoria hauser returned to the brewery where both were employed obtained a key to the room I 1 and entering brutally beat herch kicking him in the stomach breaking his ribs and |