New-York tribune., 1906-05-26
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SATURDAY, MAY 26, 1905.
THE NEWS THIS MORyING.

NGRESS-Senate: a rider was attached 10
the Agricultural Appropriation bill providing for
more careful inspection of meats intended for
interstate trade and that bill, together with the
Philippine Coinage bin and several less i'm
portant measures, was passed: the level
Canal bill made the unfinished business.
House The Senate amendments to the
Railroad Rate bill disagreed to and the
bin sent to conference, after excited debate.
in which Mr.. Hepburn declared that charges
made against him false; over two hundred
pension bills were passed.
FOREIGN.-ReVolutonar activity IS increas-
ing in Russia and there are signs of a general
strike 10 show the popular displeasure at the
governments attitude toward the agrarian and
general amnesty questions. == Premier Cor
emykin viii read the Imperial reply TO the de-
mands Of parliament to-day; a forecast OF the
speech shows few concessions. - Princess
Ena Of Battenberg arrived Madrid and was
escorted 10 the Pardo Palace; great crowds gave
the future Queen warm welcomes. = David
Lloyd George, president Of the Board of Trade,
hinted that the Liberal government might soon
take action 10 check the veto powers OF the
House Of Lords. -= The Mutual Reserve Life
Insurance Company has closed all its offices in
Great Britain. = Thousands of grocers pro-
testing against cooperative societies. caused a
disturbance before the House of Parliament at
Vienna; many persons were injured before the
police dispersed the crowd. == Mail adVlceS
from China tell Of earthquakes in the North
which caused heavy loss of life. and of serious
risngs in Manchuria and Ho-Nan.
DOMESTIC.-At the STANDARD Oil inquiry be-
fore the Interstate Commerce Commission at
Cleveland an eX-Standard oil Company emplOye
testified that he had been hired TO drive COM
petitors out of business in Northern Ohio. -=
1t was announced at Philadelphia that A. J.
Cassatt, president Of the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company, had sailed for home from Cherbony;
testimony before the Interstate Commerce Com
mission tended to show that coal stock was held
by Samuel Rea and Ef1ngham B. Morris =
George l. Thomas, Of New York City, and
/. b. Taggart, his clerk were found guilty of
conspiring 10 obtain freight rebates by the
Federal Court. sitting in Kansas City. =
The Grand Jury Of the United States Circuit
Court, which has been investigating the alleged
fertilizer trust at Nashville, returned indict-
ments against about eighty fertilizer manufact-
urers
CITY.-StOcks were strong. == The Appel
late Division Of the Supreme Court handed down
q decision declaring there ground for
criminal prosecution of George W. Perkins in
connection with the New York Life Insurance
Company's contribution 10 the Republican Ma
tiOnal Committee =- The contracts for build
ing the terminal of the Pennsylvania Railroad
and the station Of the McAdOo tunnels at Cort-
landt street, for S25,G00O00 and $100O0000 re-
spectively were awarded to the George A. Fuller
Company. subsidiary to the United States Realty
and Improvement Company = Well in
formed quarters in Wall Street did not take
seriously the rumor Of the projected formation
Of a S1,000000.000 corporation to take over the
coal lands Of the anthracite carrying companies.
THE Observation-Disclosures for to-day:
Showers and thundersuOrms. The temperature
yesterday: Highest, 81 degrees; lowest, 81.