Show washington LETTER washington may there to ie a now new flag fieg in town it is the royal banner of spain and it proudly floats in the balmy may breezes in full view of the white house and yet the most mort intense american has baa no criticism to make because of its presence pree ence it flies files over the hotel at which is quartered ohp abe royal representatives of one of the oldest courts in the world that of spain to which this continent owes an everlasting debt of gratitude for having furnished columbus the means to dickover di coover a country destined to be ome not only greater than spate spain but greater than any other country in we world the royal party to la headed by the infants infanta eulalie who visits us BB as the proxy of the queen regent of spain who was wag by special act of congress invited to grace our columbian exposition with her presence none of the perplexities which headed toadies predicted would follow the arrival of the infanta and her party have materialized she has baa been treated with all the courtesy due a labys and she has shown herself sensible enough not to expect any royal in a country where royalty is unknown although every honest man is in a king and every virtuous woman a quee she was met at the railroad station by secretary gresham as the personal representative of the president and escorted by bv two troops of U S cavalry to quarters that tor luxurious ingo and costly magnificence are doubtless fully equal to those to which she is accustomed at home saturday morning accompanied by her husband and the rest of her suite the gentlemen being in full court costume the infanta made a formal visit to president and mrs cleveland and delivered the verbal message with which she had been entrusted by the queen regent saturday afternoon mrs Cleve cleveland fand accompanied by all of the ladies of the cabinet who are in town returned the visit tomorrow evening a state dinner will be given by b y president and mrs cleveland in honor of the count rys royal guests on thursday the infants and her party will go to new york to remain a several days day a after which they will go to the worlds fair to remain as long so as may suit euit their convenience from the time the party stepped aboard the U S ds dispatch patch boat dolphin in new york harbor they became the guesta of the U S government and until they shall take their departure from our shores every ex pense incurred in their tbell will be paid by uncle sum barn ahot althou although jh not royal to rich reoh and boasts a more hospital hn spital heart than ever beat fh any kings kinga breast he has hag placed all his hie broad possessions at the disposal ot of eulalie and her party and if they dont donot see gee just what they want they have only to ask for it aud it will be forthcoming about delegates are in attendance upon the hundred and fifth gen eral assembly of the presbyterian church in worth north america which has been in session here since last thursday and will probably continue a week or ten days longer no better evidence could be given of the great public interest in this gathering than the fact that two washington daily papers are printing full stenographic reports of its proceedings the celebrated case of dr briggs will be settled by this assembly it to is now certain that the unregistered chinese will not be deported unless congress appropriates a large amount of money the administration having decided that it would require all the money now available to deport those Chiv amen who are in the united states in violation of the sot act of 1884 senator jones of nevada who is fig ranked among the ablest advocates of the he free coinage of silver says tha he does not believe that the sherman silver law can be repealed at the coming session of congress unless an agree ment men t be reached upon a substitute that will add an equal or a larger amount of money totham to that in circulation he thinks the greatest panic this country has ever seen would follow its repeal without providing something to take its place he also thinks the present financial troubles should be an object lesson to the whole world which ought to bear good fruits according to a decision of the U S supreme court dealing in options on the future delivery of cotton to is not gambling or at least that it was not gambling in the particular case involved in that suit which was brought by a new york firm cf f brokers against an alabama customer who had bad been speculating in cotton for future delivery through them for commissions and money advanced the defense was that the whole transaction was but a series of wagers and there tore illegal the court decided the whole transaction legal and tie the customer will have to pay his losses |