New-York tribune., 1907-01-10
Aew1lork DAILY Gribn,rs.
THURSDAY, JANUARY 10, 1907,
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

CONGRESS.-Senate: The bill limiting the
hours Of work of railroad employees was consid-
cred. and vote will be taken to-day; the
brownsville resolution went over. - House:
The provision in the Army Appropriation bill
abolishing the rank of lieutenant general was
stricken out On point of order, but is likely TO
be restored.
FOREIGN-GeneraI Pavloff, the Russian Mill
tary Procurator, shot and killed by ter
rorist in the garden of the military court build
ing at st. Petersburg the assassin was capt
ured. - Revolutionsts again warned Ad-
nairal Doubassoff that another attempt to kill
him would be made. == Mohammed Ali MerZa
formally acknowledged Shah by the
Grand Nfzier and royal princes at Teheran; a
dispatch from London said that Great Britain
and Russia had agreed to support the new ruler.
- The Newfoundland government intends to
press its contention in regard to the fisheries
question, and it is expected that both houses will
demand the abrogation Of the modus vivendi.
DOMESTIC-Secretary Root made an argu-
rnent before the Senate Foreign Relations Com
miItee for ratification of the treaty with Santo
Domingo, failure OF which may make special
session of the Senate necessary. - The coro-
ner's jury which investigated the railroad wreck
at Terra Gotta, d. c., held the trainmen for the
action of the grand jury. - j. c. Stubbs
traffic manager Of the Union Pacific and South
Pacific railways, and J. y. Hannaford. traffic
manager of the Great Northern, appearing be-
Chicago, maintained that railway monopoly was
a benefit, not detriment, to trade - The
State Court of Appeals held to be unconstitu-
tional last years amendment to the Stock Trans
fer Tax law. - The lists of Senate and AS
sernbly committees We're announced when the
Legislature reassembled at Albany. -
Charles +. Murphy. at Albany, officially COM
1nitted Tammany Hall and its representatives to
The recount bill. which he hopes will unseat
Mayor Mcclellan. At a meeting OF the
trustees Of public buildings at Albany, Ernest
w. Huffcut, the Governors legal adviser was
empowered to make investigation Of the con-
duct Of public buildings.
CTTY.-Stocks were firm at the close. -
TherS was quorum at the meeting OF the
board of directors of the Mutual Reserve. ana
no action could be taken President Burnham
and Vice-President Eldridge. - 1t was an
nounced that as result of the court decision
declaring unconstitutional the amendment to the
Stock Transfer Tax law, brokers would try 10
iy collected. - 1t developed that Senor
Suarez, the alleged Colombian emerald srnug-
gler, a friend of President Reyes; Sehor
Suarez said he bought the gems. - The
Mayor said he was favoraby impressed with
the Mcdonald subway bridge loop and that he
Newman of the New York Central advocated
elevated railroad in West street instead of
the subway proposed by Chief Engineer Rice of
the Rapid Transit Commission. = Attorney
General Jackson halted in his recount ac-
tion by injunction served upon him by the
has been confined in an insane asylum for sew
eral years, acted his counsel in effort
TO be liberated - President HaVemeyer OF
the Sugar Trust criticised the courts ruling in
sugar crop endangered by bankers refusing
70 lend planters money because OF the proposed
withdrawal of the United States - William
Igoe shot his child wife. who is not yet fourteen
years old. her brother and himself.
THE Observation-Disclosures for to-day:
Fair and colder. The temperature yesterday:
Highest, A degrees; lowest. ID