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Show ', MAKING IT WARM FOR LOG AX. ; Mr. Logan's party colleagues in the ? Senate continue to expand their ar-u- a mentative ammunition in opposition to ' ; his pat Army bill, and there sem to be : . little doubt that when the measure is brought to a final vote, it wiil be buried . j so deep under an avalanche of "noes" ' from both sides of the Chamber, that no thought of resurrecting it will ever enter ; -. Mr. Logan's head in thes3 piping times : of peace, at least. ; ; But the funny and, to Democrats, most ; - interesting phase of the fight against this j bill, is the attack made upon both it and , P its author by Republican Senators, not ;; because they are honestly opposed to -i increasing the army, but because of a desire to rule Logan off the track in the !; race for the Presidential nomination. Yesterday, as the dispatches show, : despite the peace-making efforts of Phile- tus Sawyer and Don Cameron, Plumb (Rep.) of Kansas denounced Logan's bill in good round term3, and the family quarrel is expected to continue until the measure is knocked out beyond recovery. In this connection, the following dispatch dis-patch from Washington to the New York Sua will be read with interest: Washington, March 31. Republican Senators Sen-ators are alarmed at the bitterness of the fight that has sprung np between Locin on the one side and Hale, Plumb, and "feller on the other, in the Army bill debate. The Army bill is only the pretext for the row, and not its rent cause. The fight is reallv a prelude to the Preaidential contest of 188, nd the three Senators who are opposing Logan are all in the Blaine movement. Gen Logan is aware of the purpose of his enemies, ene-mies, and he has been in a wild rage over it for a fortnight. Last week he boiled over at Hale and stated very broadly that he knew somebody was behind Hale in opposition to him. Everybody within hearing of his voice understood him to mean Blaine. Mr. Teller, in a catting speech yesterday, expressed a very uncomplimentary opinion of Logan, and made the Illinois warrior exceedingly ex-ceedingly angry. Ha replied to-day in an aggressive and personal speeoh, attacking Teller all alone: the line. He said the Col- oruuo (senators speech was "low, despicable, and mean." He denied that he referred to Blaine as behind Hale in the attack upon him. There was an effort on the part of oertain members of the Senate to make trouble between himself and a man to whom ho was a better friend than they were. Such an effort could not sucoeed. It was apparent after Logan's speech today to-day that the controversy would surely lead to the dragijing of Blaine into the arena if it were kept tip, and so old Philetua Sawyer, j the universal peacemaker, and Don Cameron, Cam-eron, who saw that Logan was likely to get worse hurt in the row than Blaine and and didn t want to have that happen, put their heads together and agreed to see what oould be done toward bringing about a re- conciliation. They let Eugene Hale alone, and used all their powers of persuasion on Plumb and Teller. The peacemakers are now at work on WackJaok. His wrath is very slow in cooling, cool-ing, and it will be difficult to convince him that there was no significance in the movement move-ment of the Blaine Senators. The other seven Presidential candidates have all kept r .of row, e3?ePt Allison who had one little tilt with Logan yesterdav. It is worthy of note that all the Blaine Senators are opposed to increasing the army to 30,000 mea. nnd are great friends of the workin-I workin-I men. |