New-York tribune., 1901-12-07
Aetu21ork daily @ibn,re.
SATURDAY, DECEMBER Z, 1901.
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

CONGRESS-Th Senate was not In session
the Foreign Relations Committee ordered IA
vorable report on the Hay-Pauncefote treaty,
- House: The committees on WAYS ana
Means Appropriations and Enrolled Bills We're
announced by Speaker Henderson; the Repuo-
lican members Of the Ways ana Means OIL Cis
rnittee will at once prepare Philippine tarllI
bill: a bill tc pension Mrs. Mckinley at the rate
of 5000 a year was introduced by MI IeHlei'
of Ohio; the House adjourned until 1oesuaS-
FOREIGN.-A dispatch from Amsterdam, re-
ceived in London, reported that Major van
Tets who was injured in q duel with fFlnce
Henry, the result Of the latters III treatment OF
Queen Wilhelmina, died on Thursday. -
Liberals and Conservatives alike in Lonoon
agreed that the speech Of the Prince OF "ales
was the feature of the Guildhall function al
though there were rumors that Mr .Charnber-
lain had drafted the speech for tne pIIIce
- There is an optimistic feeling in London
over the recent important captures OF nghuhs
Tsoers In South Africa - The imperial gov
eminent of Great Britain Will ald on d
large scale the defence system OF the DoylilI.o5
of Canada - The Budget bill was submitted
TO the Reichstag; the estimates for revenue ana
expenditure balance at 2.349, I42.4J marks; the
Chancellor IS authorized in the ON 10 ooriST St
1S2.05S,945 marks. - Marcom is at ol
Johns y. F.. experimenting with his wireless
telegraphy apparatus; he expects to transmit
MESA ges four hundred miles =" american
oficiaIs in Constantinople received information
from Salonica that both Miss Stone and Nine
Tsilka are alive and well. - Franco-AIllerle :
can relations were discussed at meeting OF
the French Industrial and Commercial society
in Paris; the French Government VIII send
trusts The Peruvian Chamber or Depu-
ties sanctioned the gold standard law, "hlch
had already been approved by the senate -.
Merchants of Manila are preparing pellIon
TO Congress. asking that their city oe lilaue
free port -
DONESTIC.-ColoneI Robert L. Meade, OF the
Marine Corps was acquitted by the court mar
tial which tried him charges OF drunkenness
at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. - Ihe Gath-
mann gun was condemned as practically value
less by the board which recently conducted tests
at Sandy Hook - Senator Sewen, Of New
Jersey. who has been III at Asheville, N e. was
able to start for home in his private car. -
The convention of the National Live Stock AS
sociation ended in Chicago after the election OF
officers and the selection Of the place for meet
ing next year. - The grand jury at Barn
stable, Mass, returned three indictments, each
charging murder by poisoning. against Jane
Toppan a nurse. - Extremely cold weather
is reported from the Catskills and the upper
Hudson: at Hoosic Falls the temperature early
yesterday morning was % degrees below zero
CITY-Stocks were weak and lower. -
The appointment of Robert w. De Forest as
Tenement House Commissioner and of John c
Clark Assistant Corporation Counsel and
legal adviser 10 the Mayor was announced by
NIayor-elect Low: Mr.. De Forest announced that
he had asked Lawrence WELLER and Wesley e
Bush TO be his deputies. - It was said thal
Richard Croker would go TO West Baden, Ind
On Wednesday. and would probably stay there
until he sailed for Europe in January. =
Justice Newburger handed down a decision de-
nyinC the motion Of Roland 3. MolineuXs coun-
sci for the quashing of the indictD1ent against
him and for an examination OF the minutes ol
the grand jury. - The Appellate Division
reversed the decision Of Recorder G0m dismiss
ing the Indictment against Police Captain Her
nhy. Max Hochsti:n, Martin Engels lied
tenant was sentenced TO Sing Sing for viola
tion of the election law. - Colonel Partridge
spent several hours at Police Headquarters
THE wEATHER.-Forecastf for to-day: Fair
The temperature yesterday: Highest, - de-
grees; lowest, -; average. -.