Show BEFORE THE STORM Yester yesterdays dayts republican senatorial caucus by W U telegraph ic emph to tho the herald washington may 10 10 the event of bf interest toda today to da day I vas was the republican caucus abit which remained in s session about six hours senator colliding conkling instead of going into tho the caucus entered his committee room and remained there until the caucus sent ft a request that he would join in its deliberations A proposition or suggestion to rule out Robert sona case ease for action by agreeing to act only on oil nominations to fill existing vacancies vacancies was speedily discarded aa as such a rule would include full fully y half die the nominations made however a general discussion arose participated in by blair dawes fry pry edmu edmunds ads davis davi and in fact by nearly all present the discussion took a wide range and embraced all the topics now of interest to tho the republican party much time was consumed in debating the policy of conti continuing cuing i tile figlia feht for tho tile election of orham Gorham and borne some senators opposed the policy of renewing renewing g t tho E light fight and several who are firm friends of the president declared that they would not again join join in in i a fi fight I t for gorham and T they iley insisted that new and more acceptable nominations would have to be made to induce them to resume their former stand conkling made a speech of over an hour statin stating liis ills objections td robertson ana and admitting that arthur and platt carried his ultimatum to the president tand and appeal appealing ill to the republicans icons to sustain gustain him him he dwelt more particularly on oil what lie called the usurpation and invasion of the senates rights and privileges and said if the senate did not maintain its rights they would be taken from that body od edmunds adm ads and ana dawes it is understood spoke saying that if tho the president attempted usurping any functions of the se senate nae they would resist their speeches were rather noncommittal non committal though some construe them as us favorable to Con conkling klink the caucus adjourned finally without reaching any conclusion to meet again tomorrow to morrow one ono senator who is a close observer believes the result will be a determination nto to act upon nomination and all others the president may send in there is also a belief prevalent that the senate will a adjourn as soon aa as all the business the president may have for its consideration shall have been disposed of 11 senator Con klings voluntary absence c from the caucus at first is attributed tri buted to the pressure now being brought to bear upon him from new york stalwarts stal warts to save the party from probable disruption b by permitting ermit the senate to dispose op of robertson t without any fight some of his best friends foresee a defeat for him if he persists ia in a fight so many senators of both parties openly declare for robertson roberth that there is no room to doubt bi his s co confirmation and warm varin friends of Oon Con kling kline aou would I d have him remain silent and let the COnAr confirmation mation ome come unless conkling should be attacked by the administration or ts friends jn that event they advise conkling to fight f agthe as the jdie dissension sension and its consequences would then be removed from his shoulders Con klings caucus S oh did not indicate that he would adopt adoff this policy but it may be that no ic con c one last ina appeal it I is s certain that the republicans seem to ael more hopeful of avoiding an this question than sc several da days adof sanator expressed the sentiment of the democrats in an interview in ill the eren evening star today he ile cornea out boldly ar for the confirmation of robertson Roberts son on tile ground that the democratic senatore senators have nothing to do with republican quarrels that their duty is to con confirm ainu nominations if the nominees are am capable and honest and that no one denies to t robertson still conkling has some prominent democratic friends aps inside to and outside of the senate who work for ills his caucus to days estimate made by the coolheaded cool headed senators on both sides was conkling ten republic republicans cans and eight democrats these men will apparently stick to th him stanley mathews nomination is not I likely to be taken up tomorrow to morrow on account of tho the republican caucus his case will probably be debated several hours matthews friends count confidently fi upon his confirmation claiming twenty five democrat and fifteen republican votes several senators who oppose matthews express the opinion that he will be confirmed but say it will be a close shave a and nd indications arc are that he lie will get through by a narrow majority an ingenious mathematician has figured out the tile size of heaven as suming that there is room for 10 per cent of the worlds inhabitants there the inter ocean thinks hia his time would be better employed in in an en ell deavor to discover the easiest anil and best route hs w |