Morning journal and courier., 1883-06-01

Butler Snubbed by Harvard-The Gov
ernor Thankful to the Overseers.
BOSTON, May 3l-The board of overseers
of Harvard college, by vote of eleven to
fifteen, to-day refused to confer the degree of
LII. D. on Governor Butler. The overseers
voted as follows: Yeas-President Elliot
and Treasurer Hooper, Stephen Salisbury,
James E. Cabot, Alexander Mckenzie, L. B.
Russell, Francis E. Parker, Congressman
Theodore Lyman, Morrill, Wyman, Charles
Francis Adams, jr., Leverett Saltonstall.
Nays-Francis M. Weld, Solomon Lincoln,
Charles r. Goldman, Richard M. Hodges,
John T. Morse Amos A. Lawrence, Edwin P.
Seaver, John Fisk, Henry Lee, John o. Sar-
gent; Robert M. Morse, Judge E. R. Hoar,
Henry P. Viedder, William G.. Russell,
Moorefeld Storey. Pairs-Robert D. Smith
(yes), James Freeman Clarke (no). The sub
stance of the objections offered during the four
hours was that the Governors character
was not consistent with the motto of the
university, 'sVeritas," that he had descended
too low to be recognized by any institution
of learning and that for Harvard to confer
the degree would be to insult the people of
the commonwealth by honoring her worst
enemy. All the overseers expressed the Bit
terest opposition to Butler politically.
In an interview Governor Butler said he
thanked the oyerseers for comforting SO great
personal and political favor upon him. The
insult was upon the majority which elected
him and not him. Already possessing the de-
gree from other colleges it would
have conferred nothing upon him. He
would have felt grateful had it been con-
ferred upon him lawyer, but not as
Governor for 1t would then have been
tribute to the Office and the people of the
commonwealth following out a custom with
out any regard to his attainments or fitness
for the degree, especially as he knew him
men who have received it during
the last twenty years who would
have read it and translated it without
the aid of a dictionary. He thought time
would set the matter right and that the action
of the college might result in its divorce
from the State and refusal longer to exempt
its property from taxation. The Globe will
say tomorrow editorially that the act viii
create a smile of deriEion throughout the
State, that it Is an insult to the ons hundred
and thirty-four Thousand voters who elected
Butler, an exhibition Of petty spite and win
help Butler more than anything which has
transpired for ten years past.
Nominations by Governor But 1er.
Boston, May 31.--The following nonina
tions were made by Governor Butler this
afternoon and confirmed by the council:
Reuben Noble, of Westfeld, member of the
board of health, lunacy and charity; E. G.
Carrigan, his law clerk, member of the State
board of education in place of Rev. Charles
B. Rice of Danvers; Hon. Carroll D. Wright,
chief of the bureau of labor and statistics
Procuress Gets Her Deserts.
BOSTON, May 31.-May Walcott, the clair
| voyant whose crimes have been reported in
these dispatches, was sentenced today to
eighteen months hard labor in the house Of
correction for keeping house of llfame.
The charges of abduction viii not be pressed
| for trial.
| Bangor ColOred VOtsrs-Dissattsffed With
the Republican Leaders:
| Boston, May 31.-A special to the Globe
from Bangor, Me-, says: SIT is authorita
lively announced that the colored men of
Maine viii hold convention in Portlan