| Show BY Y per X uirl alne aine RICAN washington 18 tt was rumored that the republican senators would hold a caucus this morning to discuss the expediency of taking some steps to break up the deadlock but the report proved to be unfounded anti and senator dawes who has charge of vf the resolution asserts that no caucus meeting is ig now in contemplation he further said today to day that lie he did not think there was any necessity for holding another caucus on the subject as the reau republicans have ave no proposition to 0 or except that which they have been n offering to the democrats so long namely to elect of ficera first and proceed to executive business the democrats likewise say they have no proposition to except to go into executive session and transact the accumulated executive business and thus according to present appearances the deadlock stands as firm as ever there is no doubt however that the pressure to set aside the contest for offices ana obtain action on some at least of the pending nominations is constantly gaining force and cannot very much longer be resisted it appears there crai cral im important P awen amen agencies cies clos vacant and a I large larg amount of government property is left in the hands of persons not under bond and must remain there unguarded until the senate confirms the appointments point ments to fill the vacancies 1 it t arises from the fact that under the law jaw an indian agent does not hold office until his successor takes charge his off leial official tenure expiring with his term torm the blone slone of indian binic himself zelf has an appointment as chief clerk only some bome of tho the republican senators now express themselves in favor of an executive session for the confirmation of certain nominations and the tho general belief seems to be that this policy will be adopted soon though this conclusion may bo be reached without tho tilo necessity of holding a caucus no criminal cases can be tried in this district because there is no united states marshal to serve the pro processes cesse and the indian bureau is embarrassed for want of a legitimate head to direct it ex congressman munroe will be nominated minister to brazil when the deadlock breaks three western candidates for speaker of the house dunnelli Dunn elJi eili hasson and keifer have arranged arrange to 6 meet here next week and form an offensive and defensive alliance kasson karson is i 8 the administration candidate while hiscock ia is Con klings man becks beeks union soldier candidate for sergeant at armbis arms armb is said to th be a citizen of kansas and a republican but beek beck and his friends decline to give his name saying only that he ia is a prominent romi nent and popular pu ar reau republican I 1 cau can vest est says saya he will nominate john ohn D stevenson t venson of st louls louis uis who was one of loans guns best fighters lozan Logan says he is game and a true republican the national rationed republican will publish ton tomorrow to tom n orrow morrow an interview with captain paul one of the re adjusters adjust ers era congress congressmen inen inea from virginia virglnia jn in which lie lakes a stalwart anti bourbon position emphatically declaring the adjusters re cannot be intimidated being at least as good fighters as their opponents the tone tore of captain pauls paull 4 interview is in accord with the policy of mahone and his position in the senate it is evident from what captain paul says that lie he and his colleagues from virginia do not intend to support the democratic candidates until the house is organized although he does not say in advance what his liis position will be NEW york 18 A reporter recently interviewed ex governor john evans of C colorado ol orado who said in regard to the recently organized denver new orleans railroad of which company he is president the company was organized about a month ago with a capital a stock took of and arrangements for tile construction of the road are being pushed engineers are in the field and when their surveys are reported contracts for building would be let it was expected to connect the road with the railroads of texas which were now building u up toward the tho proposed denver new orleans road bead which would almost moke an air line from denver to galveston and over the texas pacific lines it lt would be a very direct line from denver Daver to new orleans in this way denver would be abbul about as near to galveston as it is to bt st louis and as near to new orleans as to chicago the new road would connect the system of roads centering in denver with all the roads of texas and the south it is expected ex lct let edth thab atthe the railroad will be kilt milt built bulit next year and arkansas will probably be lie reached this year where east and west connections will be make w with th th the a atell atchison ison lson topeka railroad one bundred hundred and fifty miles of or steel rails have been already purchased evans said that the road was wag one of the most important lines running out of Dt deliver dellver liver ilver going aqil ait would through a great cattle country and having access to coal and the products of the south A dispatch bays anys no fears are fel fei t at the tilo navy yard for the safely of the frigate constitution last fall she sailed from fortress monroe for league island and meeting with heavy weather was two weeks mak ng thoria when she left delaware breakwater a week ago she was in a seaworthy condition A savannah dispatch says the steamer TV T wheeless with bales of cotton and general freight was burned to the waters edge no ilfe life lost the steamer ran between savannah and augusta and was only in service three months she cost insured for A warehouse on the wharf containing guano and several hundred tons of cotton seed was also destroyed the wheeless 68 drifted to the opposite side of tho the river setting fire to two schooners ners an and several tugs the times says the success of the antimonopoly anti monopoly patty at there the re cent municipal election in jersey was special it nevertheless has much significance the tile city in which this organization had its origin is simply railroad ridden it ia Is a railroad centre and the rights of citizens are not weighed at all when the demands of tile the corporations are in the question it Is alleged that the pennsylvania mys pays no taxes whatever to the jersey city treasury while the other railroad corporations contribute only a fraction of what they ought to A correspondent says the grow ino ing in feeling among the masses not only in jersy throughout the state ig Is that corporations have gone far enough and that it is high time to teach them the rights of the people the feeling is shared by the bulk of the republican party ll 11 just as much as it is by the anti monopolists themselves undoubtedly this movement will have an influence on the election this fall falls and perhaps be on the elections after that MILWAUKEE IS specials to the republican from the interior ol 01 wisconsin report an alarming fiod flod flood alpon dulac the river is a raging torrent at 5 pm the river was a fearful sight eight the water had overflowed the banks and submerged a great many streets the entire western portion of the city is under water bich bach which is till still families in the third fourth sixth and seventh se anth wards have been compelled to evacuate their premises and andjus lum lam ber her yard along the river are converted into floating wood yards the narrow guage track is under water and several washouts was wa shouts bouts have already resulted on the south and western parts washouts wa shouts are reported the damage will lie immense and it is useless to estimate it now bow no av as tile tho flood just seems to bo be coming fortunately tuna tely none of the city bridges have been washed away in some localities the streets are being navigated with boats A republican special from watertown says rock river has risen five feet in the past two days causing a sudden break up of iee ice which comes down in large C masses the bridges leading to oak hill cemetery and boughton bough ton were both swept away today to day the river is still rising and und threatening much damage specials to the republican continues to come in from all parts of the state rivers all through the southern half of wisconsin are rising in remarkably fast and trains on all lines are more or leas less delayed the chicago milwaukee and st paul track between milwaukee and chicago is covered with water in the vicinity cf wadsworth and trains are delayed on the milwaukee lake shore and anil western the tracks in the north are in a flooded condition for miles cincinnati 18 warrants have been issued for the arrests of the proprietors and actors of the coliseum theatre the exhibitors at robi sons sona opera and the opera house proprietors phie prie tons tors of el dorado eleven persons in all for violation of what hat is known as stubbs sunday law which forbids places of amusement being kept open on sunday the arrests will be made and prosecutions follow NEW york 17 the tribunes london says though the greeks have accepted the european terms their thein ungracious recriminations are said to be very offensive their note J is regarded as a virtual submission certain vienna telegrams say tile the greek acceptance is surrounded with reservations this is possibly the case but they tire lire not such as are likely to prove fatal to the maintenance of peace several of the powers are willing to exercise pressure on the porte to carry out its proposals the tunis difficulty causa mo tion between italy prance france and england but italy will seek peek her revenge in diplomacy rather than in war the revelations of lord salisbury policy his secret assurance to minister waddington on the one hand and to the bey on the other compromise seriously that statesman maus reputation not kot only do the disclosures again associate him with secret undertakings of which the balls salisbury bury sehou schou arrangement was the type most offensive to englishmen lish men but unless he makes a good explanation they will convict him of actual dishonesty and will sri sni sri s ri rl bously interfere with his chance of the conservative leadership though the conservatives are not overburdened with political wisdom th they can appreciate honorable condee conduct and the limits of state statesmanship manship the correspondence between franco france and tunis is published barthelemy st hellaine Hi llaine french minister of foreign affairs cnadis in a dispatch to Ro bousian dated oth dinst says french generals will give the tunisian troops notice of the time when exigencies will lead them to borrow for their operations op rat rations lons ions tunisian territory either near lAical lacalle 6 or in Med jerda valley the indian government hrs hag made such strong representations in favor of the retention of Pih iii valley and all posts between chojak and quetta that it is thought the home government will sanction this arrangement ran gement which would be a decided modification of their views in regard to the abandonment of southern afghanistan the news that a compromise is probable has given decided satisfaction in india the british war office officials experience peri ence some consolation for their own inherent shortcomings in the difficulties which have confronted the french military authorities in dispatching troops to tunis the mobilization is alarmingly defective fec tive criticisms on the land bill increase one set of ol critics point out that inasmuch as the tenants interest must be deducted for the rent as assessed this arrangement will reduce the value to the landlord one third in cases where the es tates are encumbered landlords may be forced to fell pell out or accept bankruptcy it Is likewise urged as that the tee commission cannot purchase property until the tho tenants agree upon the e price pr I 1 the tenants may ay be in n no hur hurry to decide upon one knowing bowing that if they let the landlord simmer sim or in hig his di ties h os the estate may pass to them for a mere trifle another letof set bet of critics consider that competition will wili arise for the newly created tenant interest est which Js Is held to be really so much plunder from the tho landlords the present tenants are the more likely to sell their interest in the hope of getting ready money anew race of tenants will then spring up who will have parted with i their working working capital in purchasing sing the prelim preliminary ary interest th the e answer to these those objections is obvious namely that the thu equitable powers granted to tile the land commission are extensive and may cover these cases of supposed 1 injustice the most serious practical objector object on to the bill seems to be that it will encourage much litigation the law journals jo urnIs anticipate that much of the effects of both landlords and tenants will pass to the lawyers liners the attitude of dillon and okelly finds little littie support among moderate moderato liberals of the shaw school til e meeting at belfast expressed approval of the bill mr air parnell and T P oconnor regard the in measure as a substantial installment holding out good prospects for irish tenants the second reading is now assured an obstinate fight L is expected in committee but the bill bil I 1 is certain to pass in the house of commons dillons followers show sh ow no signs of cil cli ci lable liable hostility to the broad and most striking feature of the measure mr Gos chens coming return from turkey Is regarded as tilo the turning point in the eastern question the fact that lord dufferin succeeds hi him ni tenes tones to destroy the belief in lord return from india which was expected in midsummer As lord Du Dul Terin flerin is credit d with the revision of the viceroyalty lord early return is ble the news from transvaal continues co n very satisfactory the maintenance te nanee nance of peace is far from assured mr gladstone in writing to mr air Tomkin sons the liberal candidate for west cheshire said the government mantwill men will twill adopt no apologetic tone the transvaal settlement he says was a question of saving england from sheer blood guiltiness mr Brad laughs reelection election re will occasion a controversy regarding his right to take bv his seat amt the liberal are calling on the speaker to allow mr bradlaugh Bradi bradl augh to take the oath orth the dispute regarding his affirmation nir fir can only be settled by legislation gi philadelphia 19 the ledgers new york special says mys the now york branch of the international society at a secret meeting yesterday are said to have gone through the the form of trying and condemning the czar alexander III for the murder of sophie and her confederates on such euch occasions it is said wd all the regular forms of a judicial proceeding are scrupulously observed the accused being allowed counsel oven even to plead against the indictment and a verdict being dependent upon the decision of 14 12 men regularly sworn the president of the society acting as judge when the proceedings are aro concluded an off official lelal report is drawn up and aud forwarded to the tho parent society in london or wherever else it may be cocat located the same ceremony is said to be observe Oll oli serve I 1 in all the great cities where a branch of the international exists the existence of a branch society annew in new york it may be added is well known to the embassy at washington Washing ton tou as well as to the bussian russian consulate here and it is pretty certain that tha the outgoing lists of passengers for europe are narrowly watched by their paid agents with a view of keeping track of whatever suspicious characters may be on boari if any roy sueh ench are discovered a fuli description of his person ia Is cabled to the consul residing at |
