New-York tribune., 1911-02-01
THE NEWS rms NORNING.

CONGRESS- SS.-Senate: The river and
larbor bill. carrying about $3G,DDD.rp.
was passed. ---=- House: A resolution
ia favor Of holding the Panama Canal
exhibition If 1918 in San Francisco was
adopted.
FOREIGN.-Advices from Preside
say that the federal forces Of General
Luquc and Colonel DOrante are besieged
10y the insurgents =--- Police, aided
by German cruisers. slormed the cliffs
in Penape, Caroline Islands, and quelled
Inc revolt -= President Alfaro and
the Presdent-elect of Ecuador an
hCunced that popular sentiment would
cause them 10 oppose the lease Of the
Galapagos Islands 70 the United States.
.= Andrew Carnegie, a dispatch from
London says. has given 81 100000 to his
IhilgnthrOpic establishment at Dunferm-
line -=--- -Four hundred persons, ac-
Cording 10 a dispatch from Manila, We're
Killed by the cruptiOns and tidal wave
hear Mount Taal - The German
Crown Prince, owing to fear of the
plague, will return from the East after
his visit 90 Calcutta. =--= Il. T. Faux
Ier has announced the successful close
# his mission regarding the funding Of
the Biberian debt; D. +. Howard has
been nominated as successor TO Presi-
dent Barclay. -=-- The second Parlla-
ment of King George assembled; Mr..
1owther was reelected Speaker.
DOMESTIC.-Pre Taft appoint
cd Colonel William z. Biddle comman-
dant OF the marine corps, with the rank
of major general. --- The twelfth bal
lot taken by the Legislature in Albany
in an attempt To elect a United States
Senator showed practically no change i'm
che situation, the deadlock continuing.
-- According To the report of the
state Commission IN LunaCy, submitted
10 the Legislature in Albany, the mum
her of insane in this state on September
so. 1910. was 32.65S. -= Assembiyman II
McCue introduced at Albany the first
ot eight bills amending the excise law
u provides for the repeal Of the section
which requires holders Of liquor licenses
20 give bonds. =- W. :. Kenyon re-
Ceived siXty-siX votes, ten fewer than
The number required 10 elect in the Iowa
Senatorial deadlock --- A dispatch
from Washington stated that the new
Pullman tariff schedule which went into
effect at midnight, reduces the prices of
upper sleeping berths 20 per cent
CITY.-Stocks closed higher - Jo-
seph 6. Robin was declared sane by a
jury despite the opinion Of five alienists
who pronounced him hopelessly mad.
G-= A New Jersey judge upheld the
constitutionality OF the employers la
biity act in direct conflict with the
principles laid down in a decision Of
Judge, now Governor, Baldwin, of Con-
necticut, which led 10 his controversy
with Theodore Roosevelt =-=- Shippers
and exporters. who testified at a hear
ing Of the Interstate Commerce Commits
sion. said that the high rates for rail
fTeights caused loss Of business at
nearly every American seaport --==
suit was brought by stockholders of the
American Sugar Refining Company
against the National company. with the
purpose OF ousting the Havemeyer in
terests. -- Charley Boston. the al
legged Chinese opium dealer. was held in
$500 bail, which was quickly furnished
THE WEATHER.-Indicat for to-
day: Rain or snow and warmer The
temperature yesterday: Highest, % de-
2rees; lowest. is