New-York tribune., 1909-04-04
SUNDAY, APRIL 4. 1909
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

CONGRESS-The Senate was not in session
- House: Debate On the tar1n Dill coh-
tinled
FoREIcN.-A mass meeting of French gov.
eminent employees and civil servants was nelC
st Paris and, after riotous session eJecteu me
conservative faction and voted 1glit 70 oui s
aud fusion with the General Confederauon Oh
Workmen - The Tribunes correspondent IN
Iondon saws that there are indications of q COM
rrouise In the ministry on Mr.. Iloyd-GeorSes 3
b,dret PROPOSALS and that a businesslike meas,
ure probably will defer general election until
1a1n or 1911 - The naval alarm In England
IS subsiding. and saner view Is taken OF atsL
FRENCH senate which is to consider the income
tax bill is strongly opposed to the measure -
TIce-AduiraI Pascual Cervera, who commanded
the Spanish feet in the battle of Santiago, dled
et Puerto Real - The heats-Shelfey Me
-yoorial House was opened in the Piazza dt Spag-
ma in Rome: King Victor Emmanuel. the Amer
scan and British ambassadors Mrs. E A Mac
Dowen and Arthur Severn were among those
who attended the ceremony. - EK-PresloenL
Roosevelt is expected in Naples early to-nor-
row: the slortness OF his stay there has made
necessary the curtatlment of the entertainment
programme.
DONESTIC-The President and the Vice
President defeated General Edwards and Cap
tain Butt AT golf on the Chevy Chase links -
An effort has been begun in Washington TO
have the government recall SIS. goo, 600 distrib-
lted among the states about three-Quarters OF q
century ago. - Important appointments and
changes in police were decided upon al g meet
ing Of the trustees Of Cornell University, at
o. Ithaca - The scout cruisers Chester, Biz
1ninghaTh and Salem left Newport R l. on a
four days coal test - speaker James W
-WadsNorth Of the state Assembly expressed the
belief ,at Albany that the bill ernbodylng Gov
ernor Hughes'S recommendation TO give the
Public Service commissions jurisdiction over
telegraph and telephone companies, would pass
the Assembly, fire IN Fort Worth, Tex,
killed six persons and caused a property loss
estimated st over $4,000. coo. - The brief Of
the Attorney General OF New Hampshire in the
case of the Boston & Maine Ralroaa 1, alleging sa{
state, was forwarded TO the Supreme Court at
Concord, y. H.
CITY-Stocks were strong. - Lewis Nixon
announced his advocacy Of a protective tariff in
opposition 10 the stand taken by his party. -
Former tobacco dealers here who had settled
with their creditors for so cents on the dollar
piaved an April Fool Joke" by paving in full
The Rev. DR. John P. Peters addressed a
letter 70 the cleTgymen of the city favoring the
bill of the Committee Of Fourteen for open sa-
looms on Sunday. - Ex-Attorney General
Bonaparte suggested the application of Civil
Service principles TO the selection of legislators
and possibly TO judges - It was announced
that only Princeton men would take part in the
dinner fo- Mayor Mcclellan, but politicians
scented In II q boom for the Democratic nomi-
nation FOR Governor. - II was said that the
franchise which the Public Service Commission
would grant 20 the Hudson & Manhattan Rail-
road Company for the Grand Central Station ex-
tension would provide for purchase by the city
tn twenty-five years - Two more boys were
run down by automobiles - 1t was an
.acunced by the Police Department that the
funeral Of Lieutenant Petrogino would be the
most elaborate ever held by the department.
g. Wall Street expected q mild report from
the Hughes investigating committee. - Dep
utyC Commissioner CozieT. Of the Bureau OF Water
Supply, Gas and Electricity, said that Brooklyn
was in danger OF losing half of its water supply.
g. II was announced that eight candidates
for the ministry would be ordained at the New
York East Conference Of the Methodist Episco-
pal Church - Two burglars were caught at
tempting 10 enter the apartment Of a policeman
tn Brooklyn
THE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. for to-day:
Cloudy. The temperature yesterday: Highest,
as degrees; lowest A.