Show bismarck juries mr bayard ehg matter aiu ba left for president barrison president list waite house AT dmn n t anili TH to alit rul aad drw to tut waiting fir the chih at con n mils feb am washington special pays it looks now ery much as if the samiaa conference tit I 1 erlin will not be belli by of the administration count arco valley the german minister called upon secretary bayard and informed him that the lattera answer to proposal for a conference had been sent to berlin by mail it will reach berlin about the the german foreign office will probably take several daya to consider banarda Ba yarda buggea tion and the answer if sent by mail will hardly reach this country before the beginning of the II arrison regime there seema to be LO good reason why the correspondence should not have been conducted by telegraph but the presumption id that Bis marcks resort to the mails is simply a trick to gain time to inah the before the negotiations at berlin in well informed quarters here there la a suspicion that germany has already sent reinforcements to samoa to revenge the killing ol 01 men in the recent fight with mataafa it is not at all unlikely ne all alti hear 0 another bloody battle bayard however has made most vigorous protest against lucli ft lourae and has hinted that it will be scarcely worth while to hold conference unless germany gives practical evidence of a sincere desire to promote the restoration of peace in the islands by foregoing her desire or vengeance BIDD la noun feb 14 the appropriation pria tion committee of the house grappled the revenue problem in earnest this morn iDt with little opposition the committee decided to consider cowles internal revenue bill when its format reading was completed the members began to express their views and suggest alterations just what the of the consideration will be no member felt warranted in predicting beyond the statement that it poems probable he bill will eventually ba reported favorably bot with important amendments amend menta striking out the moonshine sections or those provisions intended to mitigate the rights of administration of the internal revenue laws tho vote by which the committee resolved to consider the bill resulted yeas 9 nays 2 later on the question nas put shall diatoms revenues be considered lo 10 cou lection with this bill and was decided in the negative yeas I 1 nays 12 other members leaving entered the room aiace the airet vote bew mexican feb 14 President pro efm today to day laid before toe senate tuo petitions of citizens of albuquerque new mexico denouncing as misleading and false the allegations contained in alie memorial recently presented as protesting against the of tho territory as a A memorial from alie len is lattee council of new mexico waa presented to the senate today to day relating to alie price of public lands in alie territory it recites hint a great quantity of public land in the territory about oue quarter of ita total area haa been granted to the railroads rail and is hold at an acre notwithstanding the fact that no railroad haa been built under the grants the conse quence is eliat be immigrants aro brhen to other territories the pray that all public agricultural lands in alie territory he opened to settlement at 1 25 an acre and eliat lie price ef coal landi within miles of be fixed at flo an acre and 0 land further removed ta aa narb baul Cli anzen washington feb U secretary today to day issued aa order d lne commodore george Itol knap from lia duty as of mare island navy yard and or derine bilm to duty of the asiatic stalios to calro the placa of acar admiral chandler who died last sunday no person has yet lieen selected 03 commandant of hare island navy yard captain I 1 M karoley was today to day ordered by the secretary of the navy to duty aa commandant of the navy yard at new york aeb 14 it la bald at the that as there ia not the or desire cm tho part of alie Iles ident or secretary bayard to embarrass tha incoming with respect to tha samoan policy it is not at all litell that the present will arro cite to itself the selection at the american at the pro conference at berlin or that it will take any action whatever that tend to commit the next ad fadil aeb 14 the baat of the batata reception of Ire aident society drew an unusually large crowd to the whito house tonight to night the reception was tho army aad navy alie decorations v ere ela borato aej beautiful |