New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-08-05
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

CONGRESS.-Sen A combinatio
OF insurgents and Democrats directed
the Committee on Finance 10 report
back the House cotton bill not later
than August 10. - House: The House
voted TO take up the report of the COM
n1ittee which investigated the Day for-
trait mystery of the State Department
but adjourned with the debate unnn-
ished.
FOREIGN.-An agreement involving
considerable trading of colonial posses
sions was arrived at in principle between
France and Germany in settlement ot
the Morocco dispute; the German press
fcrcely assailed the Kaiser calling him
a supporter of the Anglo-French policy.
- Lord Morley published list or
seventy-six peers who had promised 10
vote for the veto bill; the Tory eX-
tremsts were believed TO number sixty
seven. Ex-President Simon OF
Hayti boarded Dutch steamer bound
FOR Jamaica: as he left the harbor OF
Port-au- Prince the three Haytian war
ships saluted. - General Flrmin
sailed from Porto Rico for Cape Haytien,
expecting to become President OF the
Haytian Republic. - Clashes between
troops and populace occurred IN Lisbon
end the ministers of the republic were
hooted.
DOMESTIC was filed by ne
United States government in the Fed
eral Circuit Court at Columbus, OHIO,
against six railroads and three coal
mining concerns, charging a combination
i'm restraint Of trade, and asking that
the combination be enjoined from cone
tinuine business. = Ten cars, carry
ing the ocean-tO-ocean automobile party
reached san Francisco on the way TO
Los Angeles. Cal, from Atlantic city.
- George y. McCabe, solicitor for
the Department of Agriculture, was on
the stand in the investigation of the
Wiley charges at Washington --
Charles A White continued his testi-
mony in the Lorimer hearing at Wash
ington. = Admiral Togo arrived IN
Washington. -= Heavy rains were re-
ported from various sections OF the coun-
try: i'm many sections the storms Ola
considerable damage 10 property ana
growing crops. &C. There was furry
on the New Orleans cotton market; the
highest quotations were 80 TO 40 points
over those of Thursday; the lowest, ii
to - under Thursdays.
CITY.-Stocks were weak - Ad-
niral Togo exchanged visits win Mayor
Gavnor. and received the cheers Of the
crowds wherever he appeared told the
reporters he loved peace, and then lett
New York for Washington. -- Charles
NJ. Schwab gave J. p. Morgan the idea
for the steel Corporation, he told the
investigating committee = T.. l..
Jackson, jr.. organizer Of the wire pool,
was fined $4,000, after United states
Wise had denounced him IN
Eourt and asked that he be sent 10 1au'
. nd other men indicted for PARTICIPATION
in the pool pleaded nolo contendere, and
paid their fines including II /. sat
terlee. -= Engineers announced plans
for new terminal OF the BrooklNn
Bridge .- German boy, VINO
crossed the ocean in the first cabin OF the
Kaiser Wilhelm II as a stoWaWaN uin-
ing IN the main saloon. was only dis
covered when the immigration ofhcors
boarded tho ship. -=- q. c. Bates. an
amateur aviator was slightly hurt ana
his machine wrecked in ffty-foot t3ll
= Nassau Boulevard Long Island -
The police arrested thirty-one negroes
on the upper West Side on charges Of
Cisorderly conduct
THE WEATHER-Indica for TO-
day: Showers The temperature yesttr-
cay: Highest. - degrees; lowest, 80.