New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-06-10
N,pN,s FROM THREE CITIES.
BOSTON.
uoyERaoR AND DX-GoyERNoRs-THE HOO
SAC TUNNEL.
,ryrELseRApu TO THE rRrBuSE.l


,ryrELgGRAPH TO THE TRrBUEE1
posroS june 9.-Butler has had variegated
s,veliuess this week. He appeared in the Anci emit
and Honorable Artillery parade in full major gen.
srars Uniform and chapeau. and everybody agreed
n was better worth half dollar than the circus
He has coolIy called on the Legislature to appoint
a committee to sit ali summer TO receive charges
against State officials and institutions when no
NAV want to bring up from time to time. inis
proposition after being laughed at even IN HIS CIV"
Office where nobody believes he has anything 10 m
yestigate has fallen perfectly flat and dead alreauy
forgotten and not week old. Think OF the dinerel'
affect such communication coming no9
any other Governor would nave hau'
He has had petty triumph o'o
yettv niece of pettisogging unfortunateiy seV Oh
foot nv the eaderless Republicans OF the Legnl@
+ure concerning his absence from the state III 'no
time a veto message was sent ln-the court ulan-
;raouslv deciding that all the painfully
evidence as to bis absence was lmmaterlal. he na'
M ,de use of this decision to crack public JOKE
announcing that by virtue of it he would take a
tr1p ON his yacht, instead of which he had san
down the harbor with the Collector. Most delight
fnl of all for himself he has had Ex-Governor Rlce
ON the stand. Governor Rice. having retained the
Marches at Tewksbury after legislative lnVesti-
eating committee lin 1879 had reported that tne
scandals charged by the then chairman Oh
the State Board of Directors, were proved, ana
having reorganized' the chairman. out OF tue
BOARD of Health for showing them up, was
compelled TO have all this worned out OF him by
cross-examination and held up before his eyes and
the public in ptiless fashion. 1t was the respeeta
bic Rces Nemesis.
That palmer ex Governor, honest Thomas Talbot,
A., che other hand has found himself in a position
10 rebuke Buffers light and insulting tone and con-
duet toward officials at the almshouses and IN the
employ of the Board of Charities whom the
Governor has kept out OF their pay
through his search for political capital at
Tewksbury. 1t Low appears that the bill Tor APP
populations for Tewksbury, which Butler has al
lowed 10 become law under protest, has been lost,
and another ono must run the gauntlet OF the DEM
oeraIc minority at this late hour Of the session.
This is the second troublesome document that has
thus been conveniently made away with IN the Ex-
ecutive Chamber
Speaking of Talbot he and Judge Devius are the
two from whom the candidate TO beat Butler VIII
be selected next fall Devins would make some
thing of a hurrah with the aid of the q. A. X. TAI
bot Is handicapped by his ultratsnperance assoca-
tions. having approved the landlords liability
legislation. The cry of the Republican organs
has been so shrll and savage against the indepen-
dent movement started by Charles Francis Adams.
IT, Theodore Lyman. Leyerett Saltonstali aud their
like that nobody seems 10 want to be known to
have been concerned in it. Nevertheless some
sagacious Republicans think that john Quincy
Adams, though for many years the standing Demo
cratic candidate for Governor. would be the strong
est nomination the Republican Convention could
aDpIove
TIE filing of the Office of Boston Superintendent
of Streets has been a grotesque political scandal,
the Butterflies having changed the men
twice in eight weeks to get one
to do their bidding. Now that it has
settled down into a quarrel between Democrats
between Jim Flynn, president of the Council,
and Buffers factotum Media Witt is said that
social scandal involving the domestic relations of
very high Official impends, the scandal being
threatened by way of Matchmaking
The connection between this and railway topics
ray not be obvious. bat il is there Butler has
scheme in the Legislature for the capture OF the
Hoosac Tunnel under the pretence of securing Bos-
ton her coveted through line To the lakes. But
there is no guarantee III the bill that the new eorpo
ratlon will do more than monopoilze The tunnel for
It's own benefit alone.