New-York tribune., 1912-02-21
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

NGRESS.--President Taft sent In
message transmitting drastic employ
efs'IiabiIty bill and urging its adoption.
- Senate: The Stephenson election
case was considered. - House: All
amendments 10 the bill revising the
chemical schedule of the tariff were re-
iected. and the bill will be passed to-day
- FOREIGN. - Premier Asquith and
some of his Cabinet colleagues asked
representatives of coal owners and MN
Crs to confer with him tomorrow Win
q view to finding a means OF aNertlhS
the threatened strike. -== The BrlusE
government obtained majority oil 20
in the House of Commons on motloh
to censure its non n-fulfilment OF pledges
regarding the reconstruction OF the
.lIcuse OF. Lords. - Advices from
.dexIco indicated that disaffection was
still widespread but that the SITUATION
had improved somewhat in the last few
DAYS. - General Ii Yuen- -heng was
elected President of the Chlnese
republic. - Professor Albert Herteb
the German painter, died in Berlin.
DOMESTIC.-The Senate adjourned
abruptly Just as Governor DIX sent III
mis- appointments of two Public Service
Commissioners and Tax Commissioner
George NJ Palmer, the new Democratic
state chairman, failed to call on the
Governor, and the two seeming anronts
caused much gossip i'm Albany. -
Charles s. Mellen told the Public Service
Commission in Albany he would prefer
10 give the Ontario g. Western 10 the
= NeNy York Central rather than TO sell IL
70 a competing line. -= Clifford Pm
chot warned the legislators in Albany
that present logging methods endan-
rered the state forests. =- bill was
f,, 70
q year and TO charge aviators a " IL
cense fee yearly = Two trainsmen
we're killed in rear end collision in the
IIoosac Tunnel: burning freight cars
blocked the east portal - lnolct-
ments for alleged rebating were returned
by the federal grand jury at Chlcago:
- An increase i'm the number or
commitments for drunkenness was re-
ported by the State Commission OF PTS
ons. =- FirecraCkers, not bombs, were
the subject of a resolution introduced as
a "ioke" at the Rochester convention OF
ironWorkers according to F. NJ. Ryan,
the president. -= The Lawrence mn
officials declined to treat with the Cen
tral Labor Union committee OF strikers.
== f. A. Becker was arrested near
Piedmont. w Va, charged with robbing
a Baltimore & Ohio express.
CITY.--Stocks were dull at small price
changes. 80 Both Attorney General
Carmody and Commissioner Hand went
IN Albany after the hearing in the
Brandt case, and the result of their con-
ferences with Governor Dix was expect
ed to be a pardon for the former servant
of Mortimer L. Schiff to-day before JUS
tice Gerard announces his decision In
the habeas corpus proceeding. - The
cdore Roosevelt left this city for Column
bus, Ohio. to speak before the Ohio Con-
stitutional Convention to-day. == The
Bankers Trust Company is soon to abb
sorb the Manhattan Trust Company, in
creasing its capital stock to $lOOOO,OOO,
the largest capitalization Of any trust
company in the United States. -
Miss Anna c. Tyler. of the New York
Public Library, said in an address TO
the Council of Jewish Women that the
children of the city read two thirds of
the books taken from the various Ii
braries OF the city. - The book COM
mittee of the Methodist Episcopal
Church formulated plans for the future
control of the Methodist Book Concerns,
and found that the Christian Advocates"
were not gaining circulation. - The
butter and egg investigation produced
legal controversy as to whether the Mer-
camille Exchange was entitled to be rep
resented by counsel
THE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. for to-
day: Rain or snow. The temperature
yesterday: Highest 4S degrees; low
est, 35.