Morning journal and courier., 1886-01-28
News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. A TRUCE AT COLUMBUS. Both Parties Willing to
 Compromise. THE FALL OF SALISBURY. Gladstone Making 0vertures
 to ParneII. THE BRITISH FLEET AT SUDA. Schaefer Still Leading the
 Frenchman.
THE BRITISH FLEET AT SUDA.
A TRUCE AT COLUMBUS.

Sc
 Both Parties Agree to Seek a Way
 Out of the Dfdiculty-A Committee
 ef conference Appointed Who Will
 Fix Up Plan of Compromise.
 COLUMBUS, Jan 27.-Roth parties to the senatorial conflict have agreed upon truoe and tie possibilities are that after all the difficulty may be adjusted upon ''peace with honor'' basis for all concerned. Senator Ferdinand H. Eggers, of Cleveland, is credit ed with having brought about this unexpect- ed change in the situation. The Senator, who is middle-aged, level-headed man of Teutonic extraction, arrived yesterday at the conclusion that the policy being pursued was not only obstructing the regular business for which the Senate had been convened, but was lowering the body in the estimate of the outside world and creating record which would be anything but creditable addi- tion to the legislative annals of the State. Well on towards night the Senator determined to confide these views to 8 few of his Republican colleagues and rather broadly intimated that if no other way of ending the deadlock could be found he might find it necessary to vote with the Democrats in order to effect that result. As the rs- suit of such action on his part would have been to give the Democrats a maj jority of one exclusive of the Hamilton county dele gation, the necessity of immediate action be- came apparent and after a brief conference between those Republicans who were in possession of the facts it was decided to con- vey hint to the Democrats that the Republi +o tions they might care to submit At 10 o'clock this morning the Republicans met as usual in the Senate chamber, listened to prayer in which the divine aid was invoked in behalf of harmony and then settled back for day of idleness. At the same hour the Democrats met in caucus at their hall on the west side and after brief discussion decided to notify the Republicans that they were ready for compromise propositions. To this response was made that the Republicans had no proposition to submit, but that they were ready to appoint com mittee of five to meet similar num- Der of their political opponents. The Democrats accepted this arrangement and Cleaf, Dodd and Sullivan their quota of the peace makers, while the Republicans se lected Senators Ford, Rannels, Pringle, Pavey and Dow. The two committees came to- gether after dinner, but did nothing beyond agreeing to hold the first formal meeting to- til the joint committee has finally decided to agree or to disagree no sessions of the Senate should be held.
 This programme was carried out in the afternoon and the presidents gavel had scarcely called the body to order when mo- tion to adjourn until tomorrow was moved, seconded and declared carried, the entire proceedings occupying little more than half minute. Senators and newspaper representatives only were allowed admission to the chamber and the thousand or more individuals, many of them of tough appearance, who were gathered in the rotunda and corridors howled their dis pleasure at the brevity and lamblike charac- ter of the session.
 It is not probable that anything def nite will be accomplished to-mor- row. The. session will meet as usual in the morning and adjourn until Friday. Then the committee will settle down to work The Democratic propositions are for the appointment of special committee to take charge of the Ham, ilton county contests and for the approval of the journal as prepared by Clerk Vallanding- ham. The latter demand is antagonized by the Republicans, who also want the rules adopted at the opening of the present Senate replaced with those in force during the last Senate. Opinions as to the outcome of the conference differ radically, many men of both parties expressing the belief that it will be impossi- ble for an amicable understanding to be reached. Meanwhile, after the tension of the past few days, the breathing spell IS gladly welcomed by every man on either side. Caucuses of both parties will be held tomorrow night or Friday morning at which the progress made will be reported and 1t IS not probable that anything will be done in the Senate until four o'clock on Friday.