U.S. LEGISLATION

Southland Times, Issue 18064, 6 February 1903, Page 3

U.S. LEGISLATION

CUBA AS A NAVAL BASE INFLUENZA RAMPANT SOMETHING TO HIDE FRENOH GENERAL DEGRADED OLOSED THE RECORD THE FERMENT IN MACEDONIA (United Press Association.— By Electric Telegraph— Copyright. ) LONDON, Feb 4. . The Russian Minister of Finance has been instructed to rearrange customs duties for the East. ~~ The Committee of the U.S. Senate reported favourably on the Panama Canal Bill, and also adopted Senator Elkins' Bill providing for the application of the Anti-Trust law to railways. America is pressing Cuba for four coaling stations. Cuba is willing to allow two—Bahia Honda and Guan- . tanacna. Eighteen thousand cases of influenza have been reported at Basle in erland.The Chinese Government has assumed control of the telegraphs to prevent foreigners penetrating official secrets. General Fournier, commanding the French army corps at Clerenaont Ferrand, indirectly manifested sentiments against the Government. For this he has been censured, reducedto the command of an infantry division, and placed on half pay of th c latter rank. Macaresco, formerly connected with the: office of Romanian Minister of Finance, and latterly vice director of. the Bank of Agriculture, who was about to be arrested in connection 'with frauds of four per cent stocks, committed suicide by jumping before a train. The delay in the application of AustrO-Russian reforms in Macedonia is increasing the danger of a wide insurrection in the spring, involving Bulgaria and Servia Already sanguinary conflicts between Turkish troops and Bulgarian bands are frequent.