Show ja BY Y TET TELEGRAPH f D ante anie AMERICAN lui iti CAN ll 11 washington 1 16 A large number of prominent gentlemen met in this city lasts night and organized a national N L at on a blaine blaid e club C I 1 u b with w i ti 1 congressman hiram price of iowa as al president of the organization and a long listor list of vice presidents including the names Senator of booth of california senator biair blair of new hampshire general S A hurlbert of illinois governor mccormick of aro gon delegate brents of washing gr ton n territory J JF wilson Wil wll soll of iowa win wm E B chandler of new hampshire H aula jeremiah if wilson of indiana J W bartlett of kansas congressman williams ams of wisconsin mitchel penn ketcham of new york mr browne of indiana mr air haskell of kansas and a number of ot others liers addresses were nere made byi byl by congressmen calkin calkins of indiana I 1 reed peed 1 of maine price of iowa and Willian william Ls of wisconsin ia and by col brown of kentucky strongly stOn gly advocating blarneys Blar Blaff meys iOs nomination for the tilo presidency and sandwith with equal earnestness condemning the grant third term project the headquarters h oad quarters of the club were established in washington to remain open till after the meeting of the Natio Kation ration lid ild nl I 1 convention the tho organization of this club has been hastened by the recent positive tivo announcement put forth by close dose rk personal rhonal and political friends of general grant that should the republican convention nominate him in the same fame manner as another candidate would be he nominated lie he would deem it his duty to fo the country suntry and to tho the party to accept tha meeting last night was wa saiso salso aiso also intended ya to initiate a general movement in ov e on od the part of blaines milnes supporters pur pir throughout t the country gou pou having mr for its thi the development men tand and manifestation of such an amount of opposition to grants iio llo nomination as may deter the third term ml managers from presenting oran grants t Is name to the conventi convention 1 ow jt it is proposed iii jn the event of grants friends so securing curing the control conti olof of the new yew york and an A I 1 1 delegations dejeon tibits to calia calla call cali a convenio con convention venil of all the anti grant republicans to meet in inacay may a few weeks in advance of the chicago convention convent 1 on and then tilen make fuch such a as will will compel the grant managers to withdraw with araw from the contest or of else risk certain defeat by defections from the tile republican ranks in the presidential election this purpose has ilas been strengthened by the knowledge of F significant declarations s laade made by don cameron to some sonto of his friends within the past pasi few rew days he says that his lils purpose is to support I 1 that cn candidate whoever ho lie aay may i be whose chances of election keena heena best I 1 I 1 yso to grant unies s those nav managing his causo cause become convinced before tile tiie the convention colv e antion proceeds c eds to business filat he can be nominated on the first ballot his liis nanie name will not be brought before the convention at all further than this unless his friends friend a still feel sure when amen aden tile the convention meets that ho lie can ean be fleeter fleeted if nominated his name will not be presented the glie gile measures me measures agures coming before con gress gresa now are tested ip in the light t of their possible effect upon the ap poi pol mg presidential election and when wirch a conclusion is ren red reached hed that harm harng might come of a bill its fate for the present is 19 settled the eielt democrats 1 are anxious alous to avoid avold questions that may cause partisan debate debato and hd this accounts for the unwillingness of the muse house to touch the fitzjohn porter bill a the dem democrats ay that general porter can wait 11 until til tia after the presidential election for the passage of his bill and in the ioli iori of many mahy prominent mc members 14 it will rest quietly without action until the next session the superintendent of census in m a circular el to supervisors says tha the appointment of enumerators must be nonpartisan non partisan parti an he hels is aware of no legal reasons for regarding regarding garding ap wamen w men ineligible for fen appointment each supervisor must be judge whether suil sull suii such appointments an any number would be practically advantageous in his hia aistro district ld it Is dear in many regions tuat eti appointments would bce fco highly objectionable but tile the superintendent ten teh dent is not prepared W cosay say that localities may not bo be found where a advas i of the tile population by women could be conducted without disadvantage P ac by y reason teason of sex the modified postal posta order arrangements with en england land and germany germany the remitter t ter will IV it be informed by the postmaster of the exact sum kuln necessary to transmit to the pa payee yec yee voc giving the amount in tho the money of the country of destination tile order furthermore will be handed directly to the purchaser tobe tobo forwarded to td the correspondent I 1 the times says bays that the of officers fleer of tho the pacific mail mall steamship C company announced a few days ago that their new reduced sell schedule p lillie of or freight rates to san frabel franciaco seo would be ready yesterday yeste aday they said sald they did not propose prop j to issue any schedule but would make private terms with shippers giving to large customers for long terms advantages es over those whose who SO co contracts would provo Prove less profitable to the company they declined to make public any figures figure alleging that shippers did not desire desiro it they said they had entered into no contracts for so long as a year as is yet being r engaged for the present in getting gottie as favorable terms as possible nickee for gie zie tile large amount of freight oT ering thus thua far they had found no difficulty in filling their vessels at comparatively a small mall a reduction it is the opinion of many that the tho recent back down from the spirit of defiance thrown out to the pacific railway company means that there is a possibility of concluding a new working arrangement between the rival ri lines iines and that tilo public will not be so greatly bene fitted as was at finst first believed 16 the executive committee committe 6 of the national republican convention of filley ilcy llcy new now and cooper report that the exposition E X P 0 building when fitted up according to plans will vill be the most perfect ct hall in the country for the convention the democrats are making strenuous exertions to tb secure the democratic nad nae national lonal convention for chicago and a committee of 11 eminent citizens will start for washington IN ashington C thursday night to present arguments the urh union on pacific today today to day notified western railroad managers meeting 9 here that their p proposition ro position respecting ln a pro rate per mile ticket from san F franeisco francisco ran cisco to new york with rebate at new york was w is ej and that arrangements have been made with the pennsylvania road to earry carry sa san i n francisco passengers via st louis louls the chicago roads road swill will attempt to interfere with ath this plan by an appeal to eastern trunk trulie lines SAN FRANCISCO 16 A tucson dispatch says on the oth dinst captain lucher JR ucher ninth cavalry I 1 commanding one of the columns pursuing in hostile indians after following them two day days with his entire command in the direction of san andrews drews came suddenly upon them strongly fortified in a narrow rough cat car canon on the troops were received by a heavy fire under which several ho horses and men fell the indians charged the troops who gave way and retreated poll pell nie mell meil TheIn the TAe Indians dian dlan s drove the troops across the river rations and bedding were abandoned which the indians secured general I latch hatch leaves santa fe today to day to look after indian amm aff mairs affairs in southern NewIl new mexico exico lieh lieb lieutenant tenant terry with company L sixth CaN cavalry cavalry airy alry numbering thirty men from fort bowle arizona will reach fort bayard today to day and will act under the tiia personal orders of general H alch Hl ch two companies of the ninth cavalry numbering men left santa fo yesterday for southern new mexico neav NEW YORK youk 17 the sus washington special says there is good reason creaso n to believe that the H hayes aves ayes 7 administration hag engaged to buy or has alread bought a pair of naval coaling stations in central america andis and is negotiating for the entire region vj 0 n known as the Ch iriqui tract with t h the view of holding a belt across the tiie isthmus it is also aiso alsobr be lieveld that a naval expedition has rendezvoused already at the points indicated to take possession of the land and to establish the stations it is certain from official records that on the ath of F february the adana adams under commander john A howell put out from san francisco on a secret mission arid anid under sealed orders while sundry circumstances strongly indicate that her destination was IV panama somewhere along the central american coast aro ane are the kearsarge mear Kear sage which left keywest key west on february F 3rd ard with tidings destination unknown probably aspinwall tho the tuscarora tho the constitution and possibly the lysic which at it last accounts was on her way to la guay ra whilo while the pensacola will soon panama from callao cailao the finst first point to ascertain is under what title it is proposed to acquire these foreign footholds here the tho glib response is that tho Ch iriqui tract and both bays belano to a tta tia private r 1 citizen an A american amerlean at that t who has aag owned them for the past 20 i ears care and is now willing like most holders of real estate to sell them at a price prim lie fixes but obviously the proprietary rights in this sense sensor are not all that the government has to deal with there must be a national as well as an individual claim involved when we come to look at the locality iwo we find I 1 it t to be on a line between costa rica and columbia a boundary that has sometimes been disputed accordingly either columbia or costa rica claims sovereignty over shenew the new acquisition most probably both do so that we shall have llave some chane chance of buying not only a fore foreign foothold but an international controversy antro whether under the guise of coaling ng stations a new now canal route project is concealed remains to be determined te ter r mined in the tile meantime it may bo be well for congress to exert itself to find out how far the country ha hm already been committed in this mst mat teri tor mid and whore where it is likely to come out the tribunes washinton washington correspondent t interviewed frye fre wh who 0 said so far as I 1 am concerned I 1 have no hesitation in ex expressing my views because my min mind is made up on this question in the first place I 1 think that the inter oceanic ca canal nal nai ou ought lit tit to be built secondly Second secondly lK I 1 thing think the time has come v when on the work should bo be begun thirdly I 1 think thill k that the united states ought to aid ald in the construction of the tho canal by guaranteeing bonds issued for that purpose indeed I 1 would be willing adling to go still further if a private corporation did not ste step in to do the work I 1 think the united states ought to undertake jn in the vie cano canal would cast let the united states appropriate prop a year for five years and the work might be completed I 1 believe it would bo be worth as much as all the internal improvements we have made during the last ten years and for which we have pi probably expended an equal eq ual amount 11 other republican congressmen and some democrats democrat s take similar ground the tribunes same correspondent shows the absurd inconsistency of some members of the election committee who propose to steal the Sta teof minnesota by giving wash burnes burnIs sent seat to do donnelly anelly and de mon strates that if the minnesota e election laws were in vo votie vogue tie tle in their own states they thenis themselves elves could not possibly have been legally elected e 1 the rime time ri cwashington correspondent compi complains ains that evarts is delaying za business in the mattei matter of bf the spanish claims commission by refusing to sign more than 20 checks a day declaring this merely red tape and that sound business principles ou ought ht to be practiced at the state department CHICAGO 17 the tribune has mor more especial special dispatches dav favorable orabie to blaine and hostile to grant it also publishes a three column article from the tho new york san showing up the corruption of boss Shep shephard liard ilard and the rin ring that misruled mis ruled washington and denouncing grant as responsible for their success in evading punishment t editorially tho the tribune directs attention to the recent remarkable growth and developing of the blaine campaign especially in ohio and washington it says it has been generally geneW lly liy conce cone eded ewed during the past three months that the re republican u publican convention would be divided between grant blaine and sherman with a strong probability that Was washburne liburne would be 16 nominated in case of the contest among the friends of the three other gentlemen should become so close and bitter th that a t no oneff one of th them eni could be fafel safely elected the events event of the hist list two weeks have advanced blaines Bla bia ines inea name towards the head bead of the dat hat when grants adherents surrendered the tile hope of nominating him by acclamation and aj announced tho intention of making a struggle for a bare majority in the tile convention there is no doubt his jils candidacy was injured the chief conditions condit hons fons which have brought blaine so conspicuous to the front within the past few days and his present boom bo ommay may bo be attributed to the popular admiration ho he commands and by the active work of tho the blaine clubs un unless CS s som somo 0 U nf or seen event shall intervene to change the current of public sentiment he will deceive the nomination |