Arizona weekly citizen., 1895-09-21
COMMITTEES STATEMENT
They Receive Dunraven's Letter and
 Reply to it.

| NEW YoEK, Sept. 13.-The Americas cup committee went into session at 9:45 Thursday night. Ex Commodore ames ID. Smith, chairman of the cup commit tee met, and ID reply to the question what he though of Lord Dunravsn's action in refusing to sail today's race, replied that there had been several mis- understandings between Lord Dunraven and himself, but he did not care to ex- press an opinion on that matter. Soon after the committee went into sesslon the following letter posted on the bull letin board: ''The America's cup com mitte received at s p. m. the following from the Earl of Dunrsven, Dear MT. Canfeld-I have just received your let. ter. l reget that being engaged at the time you and MT. Busk were kind enough to call at the Waldorf. I could not give decided answer to the propo- sitions made in your short conversations | have since considered the matter care- fully. Your proposition to postpone the start until we have sufficient room is only one of several serious difficulties | mentioned iu my letter of the 10th, and | if no solution can be found to the diff | faculties l must adhere to my decision as expressed in that letter. I sm fully convinced the committee have done, and will do tomorrow all in their power to keep 8 clear course, but under exist ing circumstances they are powerless As I told you, 1 would sail If the com mittee would take 1t upon themselves to decide the race tomorrow, void If in their judgement either vessel was inter- fered with by steamers or tug boats. I regret you are unable to agree to that. 1 regret that the race fixed for tomorrow could not be postponed in order to give the committee ample time to consider my former letter, and I am sorry that my letter was not delivered to you soon- CT. As it is, it was explained to you that l was under the impression that the committe heard the protest, and pending the difficulty I did not think it right to place the letter in their hands. When l learned this morning that the cup committee had nothing to do with the protest l requested MT. Kersey, to whom l had entrusted the letter, to hand it to you.
 III Cds0 yOu uO uOb EeCelV6 LDlS tO- night, I shall take Valkyrie to Sandy Hook lightship tomorrow morning and will cross the line to give Defender a start. I enclose Q copy of letter I have written to MT. Iselin and addressed to the New York Yacht club. Yours very truly. DUNRAvEN.
 All the propositions of the above let ter were discussed between Lord Dun raven and the members of the commit tee at 9 p. m. yesterday. The reply given to this conditions was as follows:
 First-That it was impossible to post pOne the race fixed for today on so short notice.
 SecoDd-That the race would not be started until a clear space for maneuv- ering was secured.
 Third-That the committee could not assume the responsibility of agreeing to declare the race void if either vessel suffered from the accompanying steam CTS.
 The committee regret that they vera unable to send an answer this morning. As, however, their reply would be the same as that conveyed verbally last night, the fact of no answer having been made IS uDimportant.
 For the Committee,
 JAMES R. SMITH, Chairman,
 A. CANFiELD, Secretary.