New-York tribune., 1908-01-22
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

CONGRESS.-House: There was lively tilt
between. Representatives Randell Of Texas. ana
DslzeIl. of Pennsylvania. - Senate Con-
alteration of the criminal code revision bill was
continued; Senator Teller introduced a bill pro-
Yiding for the purchase Of 500, 900 in silver
for subsidiary coinage.
FOREIGN.-Mr. Lemieux announced to the
House at Ottawa the willingness Of Japan to
restrict closely the emigration Of natives 10 the
Dominion; all contract laborers are excluded
under the agreement - The congo reform
Association at meeting in London adopted
resolutions denouncing the proposed treaty of
transfer. and urging the government to take
prompt action - The Premier Diamond
Mining Company has announced curtailment
of 10000 carats a month in its production -
Many persons We're injured by the police in
Berlin. who used their sabres freely in dlspers-
ing parade Of unemployed men - The
claim of the French government against the
new Panama company and Colombia for s2,SOO,-
GOO has been compromised, the company paying
81 eOO.O0e Of which Colombia contributes
$500 000 - The Douua resumed its sessions
TO the naval programme is shown In all the
parties represented. - The town of Wazan
has proclaimed Mulai Hafig Sultan; El Araish
and its suburbs are reported in turmoil
DOMESTIC.-Rear Admiral Capps. chief of
construction defended the present plan Of build
flg battieships, but advocated changes in am
,unition hoists. Representative Clark, Of
lissouri, was applauded by both sides WHEEL he
1nnounced in the House that Bryan would be
the Democratic candidate for President -
1t was decided TO send the cruiser Des Moines
10 HRytian waters to protect American inter
declared his attitude toward the movement In
favor OF his nomination In letter to James S.
JehInaier, Of New York - TWO thousand
Poles at Ludlow, Mass, fought 20 retain their
priest who had been transferred to another
parish by the Roman Catholic Bishop. -
The Rhode Island State Legislature elected
George Peabody wetmore United States Sem
ator. - The annual report of Otto Kelsey,
State Superintendent of Insurance, TO the Legis-
lature was made public at Albany. - The
directors decided TO reopen the Pittsburg Stock
Exchange for business next Monday morning,
owing TO greatly improved industrial conditions.
CTTY-Stocks were weak. - Nine officers
OF the 18th Regiment handed in their resigna-
tions because OF opposition 10 Colonel Dyer, 1t
was said. - John Franklin Fort was In
sugurated as Governor OF New Jersey at Tren-
ton - Thieves entered the home of James
A Burden. jr, at Westbury, Long Island, and
ehot the caretaker. - Seventy-two Aldermen
voted for Timothy p. Sulivan's ordinance to
prevent women smoking in restaurants. -
1t became known that ex-Justice Thomas w.
Fitzgerald died at q hotel in Newark Sun
dsy. - milk wagon was blown up by
dynamite. making the third bomb explosion in
Manhattan within twenty-four hours. -
Silas W. Titus, the Jameco pumper, has sew
eral wells ia the route OF the Fourth avenue
subway tn Brooklyn, II was learned
THE Observation-Disclosures for to-day:
Local showers. The temperature yesterday:
Highest, "a degrees; lowest, 49,