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3 300,000 hotel bill. It went through more as a salve for Curtin? than for any other reason. With best regards, I am,
Gratefully yours, Arthur Elston Sacramento, Feb 17th, 1905 2 next Tuesday on special order. Belshaw has been out
of town for the last two days, and there is very little gossip around. Lukens is still noncommital, but I believe he will
vote all right. I can see no discouraging signs to date, notwithstanding the passage by the Senate of Curtin?