Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-10-30
HE HAS NOTHING TO SAY.
Lord Sackville's Lips Sealed
 on the Great Sensation.
NO INFORMATION ANYWHERE.
Still It Remains the Talk of Two Nations. Who Wrote the Decoy Letter-Murchi- son Myth-Rumor That Sir Charles Tupper is to Succeed West.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 30.-A London dis patch, announcing that Lord Salisbury had telegraphed Lord Sackville that his accession to the peerage would offer sufficient excuse for his retirement from his post at Washing ton, was shown Lord Sackville. He read it carefully and then said:
 II have nothing to Say.n
 When the advisability of a confirmation or denial ot the fact was suggested, he replied
 Ut is very kind of you, but have nothing to say"
 To all further questions he returned the same stereotyped answer All the legation attaches were equally reticent One of the secretaries said to a representative of the United Press: "Why should the minister or why should we be expected to say anything. The very worst that could be printed or spoken has been published or said Nothing that we could say now would in any way alter the situation
 Secretary Bayard said that no new facts foreign or domestic. bearing on the subject had reached him, and therefore he had nothing to say. It is admitted that cable grams were exchanged by Secretary Bayard and Minister Phelps on the subject of Lord Sackvilles recall. The secretary sent his first cable after an extended conference with the president, and a reply from Minister Phelps is said to have been received two hours later. The contents of the various messages is kept inviolate by the state de- partment.
 Los ANGELES, Cal, Oct. 30.-Nothing new has developed respecting the identity of the mysterious Charles F. Murchison, writer of the Pomona letter to Minister Sackville- West, The story telegraphed from here that w. 4. Bell, lawyer of Pomona, is the real writer of the letter, has foundation. Col. H. G. Otis, editor of The Times of this city, who has been in the secret from the first, stated that the story was absolutely untrue. Col. Otis further said that the name of the person who wrote the letter would be made public when the necessities of the case require, land that" he added lis a question to be determined by those who are in possession of the facts" He denied he was the author of the letter.
 POMONA, Cal, Oct. 30-The excitement oyer the Murchison affair is great. Four de- tectives are at work on olews. Gen. Barnum, of the national Democratic committee has sent word to spare no expense in revealing Murchison's identity, and especially to ascer- tain if Patrick Egan had anything to do with the authorship of the letter
 NEW YORK, Oct. 30-Chairman Quay has received telegram from w. T. Fitzgerald, of the Republican state committee of Cali fornia, denying that he, Henry T. Gage, or Harrison G. Otis, of The Los Angeles Times, were responsible for the authorship of the Sackville-West letter, or that they or their associates, so far as can be learned, knew anything of its conception or had any knowl- edge of the correspondence until after its publication.
 OTTAWA, Oct. 3O.-The latest rumor in political circles here is that Sir Charles Tup- per, high commissioner to England, will sue ceed Lord Sackville as British minister to the United States. The authorship of the story is unknown.
 LONDON, Oct 30--The Standard believes that Lord Sackvillo has intimated his readi- ness to resign.