Show BY UNION amr AME AMERICAN RI 0 AN washington 30 rumors were current at the capital that the trouble about abdu t the newyork was to be settled by making postmaster general james collector and putting judge robertson in the cabinet in james place it was said sald that secretary blaine blame had consented to this as it would give him one more staunch friend in the cabinet but it need hardly be added that the rumors could not be traced to any substantial foundation it appear sto be equally certain that the president intends to standby stand by nomination and that senator conkling and platt will strenuously oppose his confirmation conkling is constantly in receipt of letters and telegrams from the tho stalwarts stal warts of new york advising this course and representing that the tiie passage of the resolutions in the legislature endorsing nomination was permitted by his Con klings friends under the influence of false statements to the effect that lie had consented to it he received u upwards of telegrams on this su subject act from one county of new york in lna ina in a single dav day recently and it is said that he now feels sure of the solid support of his party in that state in any plan of opposition that ho he may conclude to adopt his prospects of success in the senate are however considered to be practical ly hopeless for the great mass of the democratic senators will undoubtedly vote for confirmation AS a means of 0 plan pian planting tino ting a permanent cause of discord in tre tue republican party and farfield and blamed immediate mediate following in the senate would unquestionably give a sufficient number of votes to make the confirmation certain attorney general macveagh spent an hour at the capitol thi this afternoon miln mingling gling with the senators on both sides of the chamber he was inquiring about the deadlock chanice charice sot sofita its being terminated and he niso aiso also is said to have made inquiries as to the probability of wm E chandless chandlers Chand lers confirmation as solicitor general the democrats talk of solidly against chandler chaudier aud and lif if they prove to be unanimous on oil this question there will be only one republican vote needed to defeat him this tills vote it is rumored will certainly be cast don cameron even if no other republican will emi blaed the opportunity to pay ott off the scores which a number of them have against chandler for his hia oca pc austic ustle pamphlet attacks from time to time upon those who have failed ao eto come up to his stalwart standard f pin P rin in regard to the senate dead lock there ia still no signs of its breaking of the republican senators are getting nervous over the nomina it ions lions in which they are interested cibat they hold together and apparently intend to do so indefinitely the democratic leaders on the other hhand express a determination to their solid opposition and arsay they are not in an any y degree troubled either by the drift which t the he pending debate partakes or by ap as to the final result of the contest 14 1 4 A report is circulated today to day of a Fi compromise arranged between the and the administration istre tiou by which postmaster gen P eral james would be appointed col alector at row now york and robertson Rober tsou to be put in the cabinet as 1 lter ter general intelligent inquiry iacong the republican senators fail to give a confirmation of this well informed republicans say there la no tru troth thin in it and that the president intends Jn tends intends to stick to robertson bertson Ko conkling conking platt piatt and arthur held several conferences today to day they have llave ascertained certain certa ined ed that robertson It will not be withdrawn and they mean to fight him all the democratic democrat lc senators will support Ro bertson berteon ouy believing they are sustaining blaine whom they like it is M probable that chan adlers name may be withdrawn as lie stands but a poor chance for confirmation nir fir the democrats are all against him also don cameron 13 inch in a close senate would reject decision was rendered by the court of the united states to daan a case which has a good deal of for officers of the army an navy and which settles the ques of the right of the president by aid with le the consent of tile tiie senate tf dismiss army or navy officers from the service without court martial charles M 1 blake was in 1868 post chaplain at cam camp P forwarded forward pd to the president during temporary un fitness what was construed as a resignation the resignation was waa accepted and shortly thereafter alex gilmore nominated and confirmed as blakes successor in 1878 president hayea upon reconsideration of the circumstances of blakes resignation set aside its acceptance and restored him to services whereupon the latter brought suit for back pay the conclusion of tile the court is that whatever view may be taken of blakes resignation and the appoint ment and confirmation of another man in his hia place it iad llad lad the effect of discharging him from the service on Gil mores appointment he su merceded per ceded blake who was wim discharged from the service without any re ro ference to the latter iatter 14 mental capacity to understand what was a resignation blake could not thereafter have been restored to the service without a new nomination and confirmation fir SAN SO 30 this thia morning judge sullivan of the superior court decided one of the numerous suits instituted by burke against against the bonanza firm the suit de decided id is that of burke burice vs flood et dl al the tile complaint charged the fraudulent conversion of only a few feet of minin mining vL ground grounds but the principles involved voi vol are very important the judge held that the resolutions of ratification adopted at a consolidated virginia stockholders meeting were ineffectual because not ado adopted t by the unanimous consent of t the e whole body of stockholders all transactions except one were held to be such buch that stockholders might have had notice from the books at the time of their character or at least sufficient notice to put them upon inquiry therefore tile the statute of limitation was held to have run against all except one transaction in which heydenfeldt purchased red qed 12 feet of ground from george mckinney the interest of the flood party did not appear to have llave been disclosed to the body of stockholders and the tiie books conveyed no notice to put stockholders upon an inquiry BO so that the transaction was held to be exempt from the operation of the statute of limitation defendants therefore were required to account for the profits of that transaction this accounting must be the judge said to the body of stockholders constituting the corporation all holders of stock at this date will be bb allowed 60 days after public notice given by the master appointed by the court within which to elect to take the benefit of the decree here in and present their evidences of ownership the court will provide in its decree that all partie parties s failing to come in within that time shall be foreclosed of all claim against the defendants or either elther of them arising out of the transactions considered herein on payment of the several amounts that may be determined to be due to the parties electing to take advantage of the decree herein the defendants will be released from all claim against them arising on the part t of said corporation or its B stockholders toc toe the 1024 shares of stock issued in the transaction became the equivalent by re reason haon maon of several increases in the capital stock of the defendant corporation po ration and the dividends of california stock issued to the stockholders of the defendant corporation to shares of stock of the corporation defendant shares of the california mining company the defendants other than the corporation are to account for said shares of stock or their value at this date and for all dividends raid paid on said shares of st shown by evidence at the trial together with interest on such dividends from the dates of payment the defendants are to be credited with actually paid for the ground with interest thereon from apul it Is esli esti mated that the tiie amount of money flood and others will be called upon to pay over should they oon conclude clude not to appeal will be between and find the deemon will have an important bearing oil on tile other suits now dendiu peu pen dlug diug diu involving several million dollars the news of the decision had llad no marked effect on the prices of stocks the decision of judge sullivan suj sul livani in the bonanza case h has hns a 3 been the general topic of conversation on the streets this afternoon the tho plain plaintiff tit and those interested on hn hi side sido of the question in this and other sui sul sult suit t express great satisfaction and boid hold that although the recovery of a larger portion of the amount at issue in this suit something over Is held beld bi by decision to be barred by bv the tho statute of limitation the principle for which they contended is tiley naim maim thit in the suit to recover the value of tailings to the tiie amount of which is set for may the statute of limitations wll will I 1 be inoperative and that a decision in their favor is almost a foregone conclusion as the case is much stronger than the one decided today to day the case will ably be taken to the supreme court on appeal I 1 A about agola t fifty suits suite have been brou brought in the superior court by wealthy citizens and corporations to restrain the tax collector from col taxes on supplemental tax lists the amount of property rep resented in the list is A por port t townsend dispatch ca says advices advises from sitka per steamer are the indians at hooch denoo are reported to have burned two of their number at the stake for some bome offense not stated there are fifteen feet of snow at takoon mining district experts and prospectors are erecting cabins in which to await the opening of spring the sanitary and educational system imposed on the indians at bitha bitka sitka by commander glass of the sloop of war is a decided success th there ere is much regret at the prospect of his liis departure asignar A signal service station is being established at SI sitka aka NEW york SO 30 the northern pacific directors held their first meeting yesterday since ethe the shares were issued villards dillards Vil lards movement was discussed there appeared entire unanimity among the directors rectors sms aa to the necessity of fully endorsing the action of the executive committee and a resolution eo so announcing noun cing was presented john C bullit a lawyer and one of the syndicate directors opposed its adoption calling attention to the preliminary injunction secured from judge spier by villard he said a formal endorsement of the issuance of the stock pending the injunction would render the directors liable for contempt of court john C bullit then offered the following substitute which was adopted resolved that the suit of henry villard against the northern pacific railroad company its directors and others for an injunction be vigorously defended by all legal means counsel were given special instructions in accordance therewith in discussing the legality of the action of the executive committee in issuing the stock the following extract from the bylaws by laws of the company setting forth the duties and powers of that committee were considered si the executive committee when the board is not in session shall have and may exercise all powers of the board of which can be lawfully delegated or exercised by them and they shall cause to be kept a full and accurate record of their actions and proceedings and submit the same pam efrom from to time to the board attention was aiso also directed to the fact that the plan of reorganization adopted in 1875 to which villard in his plea for injunction refers frequently ly provides that common stock share shall shail be issued to the amount authorized by the charter i less the amount of of preferred stock the centi fi cates of this stock shall be issued to the holders of or those now entitled to certificates share for share and find the residue rateable rate ably to those originally entitled to them or their assigns 11 in these quotations may discovered the keynote to the defense which will be setup set up the pleas of villard A st petersburg dispatch says public curiosity centres bentres in the female prisoner sophie sophle whose close connections in social positions sit ions and whose superior r education excite general wonder she the daughter of a former provincial governor and niece of an officer high rank in the army according 0 to o the confessions of and Jel je ahon lahoff they alone knew of the attempt to be made on the czars azars life and the time and place their they fellow conspirators in london and elsewhere knew in a general way that another attempt would be irude only informed of or what was required of of him on the day of the murder Je Jel ahoff lahoff chief ehler direct director our in the matter having been arrested two days bafo before pie 10 became the guldin guiding spirit s irit an and sent Rous and oth other r mur derer deren s with bombs to the stations assigned then Rous protests that ho be was not admitted to council of the conspirators but was merely merelyn a fellow rellow worker he asserts that the nihilists nihl lists latterly have had no money and that there was considerable sid erable disagreement among them and they thoy would probably hayo hay dis dir persed ased had bad their last attempt failed Rous koff seems to be a nihilist pure and simple having no project oi or desire beyond the de destruction s tru C tion of the present order of things pleos sky and avow that thai the object j act of their operations operation s was to terrorize the country disarrange the ma chinery of government and anti bring brin about if possible a socialistic republic a after the pattern af pf the earls paris commune to te e other two prisoners eloff and the woman helf mand seem to be less important both refuse to answer the charges made against them cirt Ciri CHICAGO cAGo 30 the tho gyrn tim es london special says As a result in the surplus in finances some of the taxes will be reduced I 1 have reason to state that one article which will be affected is manufactured silverware on wiach which duty is now levied alike on home and foreign products I 1 have reason also to assert that tile the duty will be wholly taken ow off which will produce very important results both here and in america there will be an increase in the value of native silver but arthe he most important detect effect will be lo 10 cause an immediate rise in the value of manufactured american ware in this market I 1 had an interview yesterday with one of t the he hda hia heaviest dealers in silver plate who said eaid Ameri amerl american gan pan goods are superior to anything manufactured in this country in style finish and quality the duty now enforced is practically prohibitory of importation but should the proposal of government be endorsed as it Is sure to be then certainly a large tradel trade with america will spring up provi provided aed ded american manufacturers are willing to maintain the pria present sent standard and avoid shipping inferior goods to this market the contemplated abolition of duty is intended to stop the mouths of those who favor bi on the whole it is expected that england will make vigorous opposition to the tiie terms of the treaty proposed by france and america just now it seems doubtful if belgium will take part jn in the monetary conference general jaubert the boer boen leader turns out after all to he be an american he is a native of uniontown Union town fayette co pa where he was bom in the spring of 1841 1811 his parents came from holland |