New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-05-23
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

CJTY.-Stocks were weak at the open
ing. but strong at the close. - Mayor
Gaynor defended the General Sessions
iudees from attacks growing out OF RE-
ouent liberation Of criminals, saying the
technicalities of the appeal courts iorceu
the trial judges TO shape their rulings 10
save themselves from Teversals -
Charles w. Morse. pardoned by President
Taft because of i'll health, returned from
Europe apparently as we'll as when ar
rested, four years ago. -- PresluSHI
Mitchell opposed the dual subway pan
reported by McAneny, on the grouhus
that the city would lose $3.50, 100000. ana
that il was contrary TO the poIlcles APP
troved by popular vote, but II seemed
probable that the Estimate Board Woulo
adopt the report tomorrow. =-- COM
missioner Lederle. who has begun the
inspection of sites for campers, estimates
that twelve thousand New Workers VIII
try tent life this summer. - nun
dreds Of boys and girls from the East
Side assembled at Thomas JEFFERSON
Park and began the season as Farmers
under the direction of the international
School Farm Garden League. -= Colo
mel John Jacob Astor's will was admitted
10 probate. none of the interested persons
offering any objection. - Argulns
against the transfer of the Rutland Rail-
road TO the New Haven, Samuel Cntef-
myer said the upstate Public service
Commission was being used as pilno
by the railroads to manipulate their a.
fairs. - Two receivers were appoint
ed for the Improved Property Holding
Company, of New York, in friendly
suit TO protect an extensive equity. the
assets being s14.9o0,00O and liabilities
S12.100,000.
DOMESTIC.-Presid Taft issued
statement declaring he already had thirty
more delegates than necessary to control
the Republican National Convention, thus
making his nomination certain. -
Roth Taft and Roosevelt leaders claim
the six delegates large from ONO, ana
the question will not be settled until the
state convention meets; fairly com
plete count gave Roosevelt 80 and Mr..
Taft 10 delegates from the Congress
districts. - Representative Dies. or
Texas. made a remarkable speech In the
House: he arraigned the leaders OF his
own party and Colonel Roosevelt. ==
w. p. poland. chief accuser of Judge
Archibald, of the Commerce Court. told
the House judiciary Committee MS
charges were inspired by the memory
of his child, now dead; he accused the
Judge of being used by the railroads.
- 4 provision in the army appro-
priation bill adopted by the conferrees
of the House and Senate makes General
Wood ineligible for duty as chief OF stan.
A Washington dispatch stated that
the Senate made an effort for vote at
an early date on the steel bill prepare
tory to adjournment. -- a dispatch
from New Orleans stated that several
hundred thousand dollars more would be
required TO care for the tens of thou
sands made homeless by the Mississippi
River foods the refugee camps were
reported TO be in good sanitary condi-
ton -- The body of Clarence V. 7.
Richeson, after funeral services at Bos-
ton. was shipped back to his old home
in Virginia for burial. == After being
idle under an order Of suspension for
forty-f four working days, the 10000
miners OF the anthracite fields resumed
operations.
FOREIGN.-Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst
and Mr.. and Mrs. Pethick Lawrence were
found guilty Of conspiracy and melting
their followers TO malicious damage TO
property, and were sentenced to nine
months Imprisonment at the Old Bailey
Sessions, London. = Captain ROald
Amundsen announced at MontevideO his
intention to start from San Francisco In
March or April. 1918. OH an expedition
TO the North Pole. -- The final session
Of the ReiChstag was "A most stormy
one: Georg Lcdebour. the Social Demo-
crat leader. attacked the Emperor for his
recent threat in regard to Alsace-Lor-
raine, and the Imperial Chancellor re-
piled. -= The third. fourth and fifth
officers Of the Titanic finished their tes-
timony before the court Of inquiry OF
the Board Of Trade at London. 60
Count Nicolai Dmitrijevitch Won der
Osten- SacHen, Russian Ambassador 10
Germany. died at Monte Carlo. -
About eighty thousand persons were
waiting outside the chapel at Copen-
hagen when the doors closed on the pub
lie lying I'm state Of King Frederick VIII.
THE Observation-Disclosures for to-
day: Fair. The temperature yesterday:
Highest, 81 degrees; lowest, 81.