New-York tribune., 1909-05-14
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

CONGRESS Senate: The Finance Commit
tees recommendation that duty Of 25 cents
son be placed on iron ore was adopted By a vote
of 81 10 "a. -- House: The Philippine tarlH
bill was considered
FOREIGN-The French Chamber Of Deputies
Sv s54 TO 80 voted confidence in the government
sn its treatment of the striking state employeS.
and unless an unforeseen change takes place ne
movement will almost certainly fail - The
Turko- Bulgarian protocol settling all claims
srising through the proclamation Of Bulgaria
independence. - In the German Reichstas
S5e American copyright law was referred 10 as
s'a caricature of complexities and obscurities
- After exciting meeting Of Reichstas
committee the National Liberals and the Raol-
Gals withdrew and the governments bloc IS
regarded as !rretrieYably broken == Prince
Shirnszu gave a garden party in Toxic in honor
.,f Pear Admiral Giles r Harber commander uf
the third division of the United States Pacihc
squadron. and Rear Admiral Sir Hedworth
SQUADRON - Great forest fires are raging in
the vicinity Of Vera Cruz. Mexico, and hun
rseo OF the Generate Transatlantique Line. went
ashore near HaVre. == The Allan Line steam
ship Tunisian was reported by wireless to Cape
Race in the ice; she viii put into St John =
y. F, for examination
MESTIC-Attorney General Wickersham
decided that neither Rear Admiral Barton nor
Rear Admiral Capps is chief Of the bureau OF
steam engineering in the Navy Department and
declared the post vacant == Governor
Hughes at Albany signed the bill OF Assembly
man c. H Whitney giving jurisdiction u
boards Of supervisors 70 establish and maintain
county hospitals for the care OF persons suffer-
sng from tuberculosis. and the NeWcOmb meas
ure permitting New York City to establish hos
pitals for the treatment of contagious or in
sectious diseases including tuberculosis. ==
Because Of the failure of the Legislature to
5srovide funds for future elinlinations of steam
railroad highway grade crossings the Public
Service Commissioe- Cd District has written to to
ali applicants for such eliminatiOns that II will
be unable 10 proceed because Of lack OF FUNDS
for that purpose. - Governor Hughes at
Albany announced the appointments Of Peter
Eemper, jr OF Newark, and the Rev. DR.. Henry
r stebbins. of Rochester, as members Of the
board Of mana gers OF the State Custodial Asy-
l1rn for Feeble Minded Women at Newark.
CTTY-Stocks as a rule were higher. ==
Five persons were drowned within the city's
limits - The Booth liner Maranhense went
fifteen miles out Of her course to bring medical
aid 10 injured seaman on board a schooner
s- The Widowed Mothers Fund Committee
effected a permanent organization. Ex-
president Roosevelt declared in .sTbe outlook"
that Toistoys principles, if logically carried out
would lead To the extinction Of the human race.
r= Controller Metz said that he would intro
duce resolution before the Board Of Estimate
10 prevent subway building unless the property
owners agreed TO give up their rights TO dam
ages except for actual injury TO property. ==
The funeral Of Heinrich CDnried held at
the Metropolitan Opera House = Park
Commissioner Kennedy said that twenty thou
sand trees in Forest Park had been killed by
an incurable fungus. = H w Herbert was
appointed city magistrate by Mayor McCle1
Ian, IL Ill the unexpiTed term OF the late Mag
iStrate Walsh. == The Mayor vetoed the
Newcom5 bill providing that the new court
house be DulI IN lily nan PARK ! ne
Yale & ToWne Manufacturing Company de-
eiSed not to fight the English decision depriv-
snz il of it's patent. Anson McCOOk Beard
a LAWYER witness in the Sulzbacher trial was
sxarned by the Court against giving other than
categorical answers 10 questions == Jewish
charity workers collected 10000 for their In
stitution for Improving the Instruction Of Deaf
Nutes. putting the charity on a sound financial
basis.
THE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. for to-day:
Cloudy. The temperature yesterday: Highest
rs degrees; lowest. 81.