New-York tribune., 1912-01-05
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

CONGRESS- S-Senate: Discussion or
the arbitration treaties with Great BTU
am and France began. -- House: a
bin authorizing Circuit judges TO SIT IN
Courts Of Appeals was passed.
FOREIGN.-Yuan Shih-kai practical
~ reopencd negotiations for peace III
letter to President Sun; WI Ilng-iaIs
answered the joint note OF the power : :
NJ biar,,C the Nanchus for failure OF
the shanghai conference; nShilnE may
ba resumed tomorrow: the capture OF
Ianchow bv the rebels was reported IN
London - The Russians hdneeu
more Fidais iu TaDriz, Persia, and mat
city still is under Russian control. 60
4 Rome dispatch said the question OF
renewal OF the Triple Alliance might
cause the German Secretary Of Foreign
Affairs to visit King Victor Emmanuel
-. \ mi-of1iCial statement made IN
Paris denied a story Of rupture De-
tween Mr. Taft and the French Amoas-
Sador and said NJ. Jusserand went 10
Panama at the Presidents request -
\ special cable dispatch from Lonuon
said that work on the whistler memorlal
was going on satisfactorily. - All the
Portuguese bishops proclaimed their IN
dependence Of the government; rloJs III
Lisbon attended the expulsion OF the
Patriarch Of that city. -- Efforts 10
settle the Manchester cotton Lockout
were unsuccessful and 100000 workers
are Still out.
DONIFSTIC.-A subcommittee Of the
House Committee on Ways and Means
agreed on a bill reducing iron and steel
duties bv from 80 10 A. per cent and
putting iron orc on the free list -
Bids for two butleships were opened at
the Navy Department the proposals be
ing within the $6,OO00OO limit OF cost
fixed by Congress. - Counsel IOr Ihe
government in the trial of the meat
packers at Chicago were disappointed at
the testimony OF w. y. Hiles as II was
expected h. would reveal important
secrets % the alleged trust; il was re-
pCrted that his testimony would be care
fully compared with his statements De
fore the grand jury. -- Colonei Johh
A. Calef, who fred the first shot at the
k-Asttle Of Gettysburg, died In St Louls
OF pneumonia. he was seVehtE-ohe:
= Governor Dix at Albany accepted
an invitation 10 visit Queens Borough at
II date 10 De fixed later. ---- The DIS
trict Attorney Il Suffolk County Mass.
instituted q search for Violet EdmandS
fidncee If the Rev. c. Y. I. Rcheson
charged With murder. -- The MasSa'
chusetts supreme Court decided that tAt
private letters Of the late Mary Baker -
Eddy could not be published FOR adNer-
Using purposes. - 1t was announced
at Ithaca, y. Y. that Jacob H. Schifi
had given Cornell University 100000
CITY.-Stocks were irregular. -
Charles II. Hydc'S motion for change
of Venue will ue argued to-day. -- i
was said that the officers Of the 9Th
~Reciment might be disciplined for sign
Ing a petition % Governor Dix i'm behalf
OF the a,rointmeut Of Colonel Morris as
chief Of ths coast artillery. - Henry
Garland, an eneraver, was beaten and
robbed IN mis- office in a Nassau street
building, tire thief escaping. -- E. r.
Thomas confessed Judgment in thirty
actions pending against him for $1,234,-
46l. brought by various financial insti-
tutions. The suffragette trial In
Brooklyn raOved one woman "to return
home 10 her neglected children -
The main problem not solved at the
Union Club conferences on subways ac-
cording 70 President McAneny, was the
method Of amortization, under which he
thought The Interborough would get be-
tween 100000 000 and $60,0000O0 to
which il wasn't entitled 60 Judge
Coke in the United States Court gave
the first decision interpreting the work
irg Of the new federal judiciary act
THE WEATHER indications for to-
day: Fair: cold wave The temperature
yesterday: Highest "a degrees; low
est n