New-York tribune., 1907-12-16
TIE NEWS THIS MORNING.

NOTWITHSTANDING: Afr. Tillman attacked
the administration on the financial question and
Mr. Culberson introduced resolution calllng
for information as to Treasury relief measures
House: The membership of the Commit
tee on Appropriations was announced by the
speaker - Both houses voted to take the
holiday recess from December Il uhu JAN
uary 6.
FoREIGN.-The steamer President Grant ac-
cording to a wireless dispatch by way OF 1dpe
Pace has heeu DELAYED by rough weather ana
Secretary Taft may not reach New York until
Saturday. - In an allocution delivered al d
secret consistory in which he created four new
cardinals the Pope issued another warning 10
the rnodernists - warrant was issued IN
London for the arrest of Robert g Caldwell the
discredited New York witness in the Druce case
The poIice of Finland arrested a NUMBER
Of terrorists who attempting secretly 10
cross the frontier into Russia; documents touiIu
on the prisoners revealed plot against premier
StoIvpir. Mulai Haflg, the Moroccan sui
tar of the South, was defeated In hattle ps tue
Sraghua tribe and forced to retreat TO Morocco
r;.C nowager Queen Garcia of SaXony
died In Dresden Several Deputies were
seriously hurt in a fight in the Austrian Cham,
f,er Of Deputies between Christian Socialists and
Futhenians-
DOMESTIC-The fleet Of sixteen hattleships
left Hampton Roads for the cruise 10 the Ia
cifc Coast =-- James ]. Hill. testifying be-
fore the Interstate Commerce Commission. said
the railroads of the Northwest had been maui
nE lumber at a loss -= The Italian Embassy
81 washington has taken measures to inVesti-
gate the recent killing of Italians In Louisiana
- Sixty miners reported killed in an
explosion in the YOlande coal mine. at 1oianOe.
Miss Controller Ridgely. in his annual
report. made public Washington recon-
rnended the establishment by the government
of 2 central bank of issue and reserve. -
Governor Hughes at Albany denied that he was
siispieased with the Public Service Commission
in the list District - The votes cast at the
last election officially canvassed by the
State Board of CanvaSsers at Albany. -
BENJAMIN Hadlev. an eccentric millionaire died
at Somerville. Mass.
CTTY-Stocks irregular at small nnai
changes - Justice Green baum vacated the
injunction preventing Mayor Mcclellan from
calling a meeting of the Board of Aldermen
70 elect q successor 10 Borough President
Ahearn. - Elastic currency was che theme
or the annual meeting of the National Civic
Federation The Charity Organiza ton So
ciety made a sweeping criticism Of the medical
administration of the city's hospitals. - The
trial of A H. Smith, vice president of the New
York Central, taken up with technical tes-
tinneny speed limits around curves.
-Four hundred Scow trfInnerS went on strike for
more pay. - It said that Miss Grace
W Lawrence. the young English heiress whose
lover was arrested Sunday at the pier would
be deported - Senator Page said that
Hughes delegation would be opposed by Par
- clew to the slayer of Rorner in
the Park Avenue Hotel found in PhiladeI-
phia, II was thouEtt.
THE WEATHER-Indications for to-day:
Fair The temperature yesterday: Highest 40
degrees; lowest, tss3.