New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-03-25
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
TOPICS IN THREE CITIES.
BOSTON.
TWO SPECIMENS OF BUTLERIsM-LEGIs-
LATIVE TOPICS-DRAMATIC-L


IBr TELEGRAPH TO THE rRIBUSE.I
BOsToN, March 24.-Governor Buffers third veto,
sent in on Monday, has not attracted so much at
tention as the rejection of his nominee,
Pympton, for Insurance Commissioner Veto
No. was fired off at inofenslve little bill ex-
tending the time for the organization of an obscure
land improvement company III q hard-scrabble sub
urb. The Governor took the occasion to anImad-
vert the oppressiveness of land corporations in
general, and to discourse in an enter
tanning, after-dinner way upon entail,
dover and "mortmain (the dead handl," but
with his usual naccuracy the lawyers have since
pointed out. The veto seems to have been composed
in some idle quarter of hour between Boston aud
Washington and New-YOrk. in order to keep up
show of vigilance for the rights of the people.
State Senator Bruce, who has been Oh such terms
with Butler that the charge that he was the Butler
candidate for President of the Senate found ere
depce declared to interviewer that this vefo is
the most ridiculous thing ever heard of-the veriest
clap-trap." Instead Of keeping land out of the
hands of mechanics the purpose of the vetoed bill
TO render available for cheap homes q tract
now worthless that railroad company has the
use of it for nothing-aud therein may possibly be
found the prompting of this Incomprehensible veto
The Governor on Thursday excused himself IN the
of private engagement" and went to meet the
Executive Council on the matter Of the nomination
OF mis- henchman, PlymptOn, for Insurance Com
missioner. The Council voted almost unanimously
against him. and the Governor remarked that there
being now no nomination for the office before them
he would name Noah A. Plympton. This insstance
on rejected nominee, however, is not without pre-
cedent in the annals of the Governors Council and
the Governors have usually had their way But
this is d check on Butlerism that will doubtless DO
maintained.
The city water supply question has developed in
two directions the past week. The removal of the
present Board by the Mayor with the substitution
for it oil an unsaarIed commission Is removed.
Meanwhile the towns of Framingham, Natick, Ash
land and their ueghborhood are up in arms In pub
lie meetings protesting against legislation intended
TO prevent their factories and dwellings draining
into BostOn's drinking water.
A movement to increase the license fees of liquor
dealers has been iDaugurated this week by the
Citizens Law and Order League in hearing before
the Police Commissioners The of the raising
of the fee to 81 900 in naha is the impulse to this
move The present fee in this city is 1925 for the
majority of rum shops 1t is argued that doubling
the fee would reduce the number and baad the
hcense-payers against Illicit selling
The elevated railroad proect-the novel and un-
tried one-legged plan invented by one Meigs,
young proteg6 of Butler-has passed the lower
house of the Legislature by a strong majority in
spite of the opposition of the entire city press and
public Ii is expected that this obbied success viii
be checked in the Senate.
The injunction against the attempt last month to
give Gonnod's Redemption" with an orchestration
made up from the piano-forte arrangement has
been followed by the serving of legal notice on tie
ideal Opera Company here this week that the
principle of the courts decision equally forbds the
performance of Gilbert and Sulhvan's operas with
out the composers full score. Mr.. DOyly Carte,
as the agent Of Gilbert and Sullivan, proposes
compromise b1t the Ideal management stiffiy an
nounces that 1t will not change its published pro-
gramme.
The frightful murder of a mother of family at
her doorway in Watertown Sunday night is still o
comple,e mystery. The theory that the horrible
deed which was accomplished in the most brutal
manner by hammering IN her skull with jagged
stone was melted By her worthless husband,
broken Snowman and bartender. to secure the
IS 900 insurance on her life, is still uppelmost
Anew form of lecture has been started this week.
Il is called the Emergency course Medical
men and other experts to give practical instruc-
ton, illustrated on living models, for restoring
those near death from wounds poisoning,
drowning. burning and so forth. Tue course at the
Lowell Institute this week and next Is by Mr. Put
nam. the curator of the Peabody Museum and ex-
olorer of the Indian moundsiu the West on Ameri-
can archaeology. The best attended entertainments
of late WAS tle testimonial benefit TO Bostons emil
nent "slug ger John l.. Sullivan. Over $4,000
persons were present, including large part OF
Harvard University.