New-York tribune., 1903-02-14
Nesp11nrk DAILY Gribnats
SATURDAY. FEBRUARY IA. 1908.
s-BE NEWS THIS MORNING.

coNGREss-senate: Debate on the state
hood bill continued: the District oil SoluhaDId
Appropriation bin was passed. =, house. L ne ~
Filjns Antitrust bill was passed by vote OF
24l to 6: consideration Of the Sundry civil Dill
wes completed.
FoRFIGN.-Prerner Balfour, in a speech at
Liverpool announced the practlca4 settleil5et y.
the Venezuela affair. and defended the BRUSH
Governments course; in Berlin a sellll-olllVtdl
statement said that it was Impossible 10 ignore
The United States in dealing with Nenezuela-
Nationalist Deputy created a scene in
the French Chamber by attacking the govern
ment in connection with the HurnpeTls- -,
General Uribe-Cribe recently reported 10 nav {
committed suicide Is said to have shot ana
killed General Waterman. the commander IN
chief of the Colombian army - 1t Is TepoI1- II
ed in London that the Beaver Line OF steahIeI >
will shortly he acquired by the Canadlan fa-
cffc Railway An exhibition Of water colors OF
unusual excellence opened at the AsneW
Galleries in London. -= Memorial services
will be held Sunday at the wreck OF the pat
tleship Maine in Havana Harbor- - ,Hs hIlls
Edward received Signor Marconl at Bucklhs-
ham palace g. The United States revenue
cutter Seminole is at St Johns, n r, waltlns I1s
q chance TO rescue the american hSlihs Hes9ei'
3cebound in Bay Of Islands
DOMESTIC-The British, German ana ltal-
fan protocols providing for settlement Oh @ the
Venezuelan controversy were signed at tLe
british Embassy in Washington - The re-
mort of Admiral Bowles chief constructor
Of the navy, shows great delay IN the pulloiIe
of warships. many of the vessels oelng Iar pc
hind contract requirements. =. fresiueli'
T9oosevelt has chosen the United states COM
,oissioners provided for in The Alaskan boun-
Diary treaty and will announce thelT names
soon - The Regular Republicans IN Dela-
ware proposed TO the Unions that the tactlons
,rnfte and elect one Regular and one Union Re-
publican to the United States Senate, only
etipulatirg that the Union man should not be
Addicks himself. - The report OF the state
Board Of Railway Commissioners In relation 10
the congestion Of passenger trafhc on New
York City street lines was MADE PUBIC
CITY-Stocks were weak and lower. -
Commissioner Livingston ordered Cunningham
& Kearns to begin Monday the work OF pre-
pairing Elm-st. for use. - The west Siue
C.f+izens' Committee requested Attorney Cen
eral Cunneen TO proceed against the Manhattan
Railway Company, to compel ii to do its duty
nv the peonle. - 1t was learned that 1or
some time after its completion the Williams
burg bridge would have no adequate Manhattan
approach. - To save the life OF oeWlidereo
child the driver Of a St. Vincent Hospital ambu-
lance drove into an elevated road pillar; the
driver and the doctor were rendered unconscious.
s. A succession Of accidents to an express
engine on the Ninth-ave. elevated line caused
6 block in of the rush hours; the foot Oh
e passenger standing on the platform OF a motor
train Was crushed. Police Commissioner
Greene appointed Captain Elbert o. Smith in
spector, and Sergeant w H Hodgfns and Ser
Feant Edward Gallagher, of Brooklyn captains
THE WEATHER.-Indications for to-day:
Partly cloudy and colder The temperature yes
terday: Highest, % degrees; lowest, Al