Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-10-14


determine matters now always disputed
and to arrange matters always neglected
must and will he adopted at the first re-
curing opportunity.
Now that they have the presidency of
the Senate the Republicans seem to be
at loss to know what to do with it.
There is growing suspicion among
them that they have hooked a bigger
fish than they can land.
HARRISBURG has -and-a-Half "
street, the name of which is to be changed
to Garfield.
"FoR once" tho INTELLIGENCER and
Harrisburg Telegraph are unanimous-iu
preferring Bayard to Davis for president
of the Senate.
FIELD MARSHALL Tom COOPER must
have countermanded his orders. The Er-
aminer devotcs seven-eighths of its edi-
torials to Wolfe.
GRAIN GAMBLERS shodld take warning
from the deliverances of the Chicago court.
Reform was necessary-for the protection
of Eastern innocents.
PEOPLE who g see snakes may he
greatly relieved by an article which VIC re
print to day, from sober observer, who
discOurses of their harmlcssncss.
TIE College Student for October is an
other excellent number of this remarkably
good college journal, which compares
favorably With any of its class. One fea-
ture Of the current number is Rev. DR..
Gerhart's memorial sermon on the late
president.
WE look to see the Philadelphia Press s
outburst ofhot indignation at tho prem
ium OH assassination ~ offered by the
elevation of David Davis to tho presidcn-
tial succession. Ills party is very snail ;
there would be first class mission, Or .
revenue collectorship, for nearly every one
Of them, and the temptation to draw suck
prizes in the "lottery Of assassination" is
so utterly irresistible that the Press must
donounce those who have put in the way
of weak humanity.
On the other hand it is the talk in
Washington that the purpose in electing
David Davis president pro tenn. of the
Senate was to protect the life of President
Arthur. Mr.. Davis is such an uncertain
quantity and belonging to no party it was
argued in the Republican caucus that no
one would ever desire him to be president,
while it is known that the Republican
senator's were greatly concerned lest Dir.
Bayard should be called upon to act as
president, if for only year. The idea of
floating Arthur with such heavy life
prescryer as David Davis's three hundred
weight is quite conceit
THEY had quito a nice little time Of it
in the Senate yesterday over Davis's dis
placement Of BayarI. The president pro.
ten. with characteristic dignity reiraiued
from voting, and when his name was call
ed, said -: IL propose to withhold my
vote. have never obtained Office by my
vote, and l never shall retain it by my
vote Davis was escorted to the chair
by Bayard and Anthony, the respective
Democrat and Republican candidates for
the same office and, upon taking it, nc
disclaimcd allparty obligations and begged
indulgence for possible parliamentary
shortcomings. Edmunds capped the cli-
max by proposing and having passed
" the thanks of the Senate to the Hon.
Thomas F. Bayard for the dignity and
impartiality with which he has presided
over this body during the short period
that he has done so.''
MIR. PARNELL has been arrested as :.
"suspect under. the first clause of the
coercion act passed in February last, and
continuing in force from that time until
the 3oth OF September, 1882, which per-
mits such arrest and detention, at the di-
rection of the lord lieutenant without
bail, mainprize or discharge. for any
person reasonably suspected of being
guilty as principal Or accessory Of high
treason, treason-felony, or reasonable
practices, wherever committed, or of any
crime punishable by law committed in
prescribed district, being an act of violence
or intimidation, or the melting to an act
of violence or intimidation, and tend
ing to interfere with or disturb
the maintenance of law and orler.''
The arrest of Parnell was accomplished
by the government officers at the Kings
bridge railway station, Ireland. The asita-
tor at the time was on the train going to
the county Kildare convention, where he
had been advertised to deliver an address
on the land act, and where an immense
concourse of the Irish eople was to lie
assembled to receive him. 1t was well
known that the character of the speech to
be delivered by Mr.. Parnell would be vio-
lent in the highest degree, and his party
managers had made every effort to have
assembled at the convention an audience
that would be in perfect sympathy with
his utterances. It was because of the fear
of the results that the government was az
pealed to by the loyalists to apply the
coercion act. Mr.. Parnell's place of con-
finement is the county Jail of Dublin. and
is situated just west of the suburbs of Kill
mainhan, from which it derives its name,