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It tho Senators vote In executive session like tiny ti'.lk in public the notorious purchase and sale of the position posi-tion of Arab.iS4.tdur to Italy will never bo ratified by the confirmation o( the purchasers pur-chasers nomiiinlluu foi the )o..i run. Tho gcnetal belief here is that I'rcsidcnt Cleveland was Imp-ised on by somebody and that ho was ignorant uf Mr. J.J. VanAleu having contributed 460,000 to the campaign fund iu exchange for the promise of being nominated American mliilslbr to Homo it woe not at that time known that tho legation would bo raised to an embasny, However that may be there is no doubt that Van Alcn paid tho money and tlial he was doing some very lively "kicking" just before he was nominated, because of thodelay. |
