New-York tribune., 1905-02-10
Aesu'}1orEs Daily GribniIe
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1905.
TIE NEWS THIS MORNING.

CONGRESS.-Senate: The day was spent IN
consideration OF the Agricultural bill; there was
much criticism Of the practice oros or ronit
tees. House: The Townsend Esch Kan
road Rate bill was passed by a vote of 326 to
Ii, the votes in opposition being cast oy eieVen
Republicans and six Democrats.
FOREIGN-Further strike outbreaks oc-
Cured in Poland, troops wounding many per-
avoided at Locz. - Maxim Gorky the Rus-
sian novelist. is said TO be well and cheerful IN
his solitary confinement, and almost daily in
terrogated in regard TO the charge OF treason 10
he preferred against him. - The Russian
authorities believe there was a conspiracy TO
siay the Procurator General OF Finland and ac-
tive search will be made for the men associated
with the assassin. - A Russian estimate of
the japanese forces in the field places Field
Marshal Oyama's strength at 265,OOO men and
$50 guns, and the Russian force under General
Kuropatkin is placed at 10000 more
DOMESTIC-Attorney General Moody ap-
r1ointed ex-Attorney General JudsOn Harmon of
Cincinnati, and Frederick n. Judson, of st.
Louis, TO investigate the alleged granting OF re-
bates by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe
proceedings against the road If the charges are
sustained. The British steamer Inca. at
Norfolk. reported that the Newport was at an
chor OF Cape Henry waiting for tug: -
The Indictment against the manager of the lro-
Quois Theatre quashed in Chicago the
ground that Il did not show any omission Of
duty on his part. It was officially
nounoed at Albany from the Senate Committee
on Taxation that the stock tax measure, as
would be introduced at once: the committee ap-
pointed Senators PHommedieu and Aids to in
'vestigate the question Of five mills annual tax
on all new mortgages, half to go to the locality
and half 10 the State. -= The first Bedell bill
was introduced in the Assembly; ii authorizes
the abandonment and removal Of tracks from
certain streets in New-York city without the loss
Of franchise. but there is provision made for
relocation, as in the Elm-st. grab" bin of last
year. - bill forbidding elevated structures
IN Grand, Clinton, Delaney and Canal sts in
this city, was introduced at Albany by Assem-
blyman Friedel at the request of the East Side
Civic Club. - The so-caled Union Square
Courthouse bill passed the Senate at Albany
- J. Frederick Schenck OF New York died
at his summer home In Lenox. - The date
for the trial of Mrs. Chadwick was set for
March g.
CIrY.-Stocks generally lower. More
than fifty persons were injured in a crash on
elevated road at 3d-ave. and 149th-st. - An
agreement was reached on excise bill be-
tween Senator Raines and representatives Of
various societies that have conferred on the ex-
cise law. - The Rapid Transit Commission
ordered its counsel TO bring suit take the slot
machines out Of the subway. - Governor
Ooell said there enough power in city Off
cials 10 supply additional water here De-
Iectlves hoped 10 capture third wire tapper
who had the $4,000 obtained from Mr. Felix
THE Observation-Disclosures tIons FOR to-day.
Fair. The temperature yesterday: Highest "a
degrees; lowest, "a