Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-06-04


A PARTY of Independents, civil service
reformers and blue-blooded Democrats
have already started an anti Butler move
ment in Massachusetts, in anticipation OF
Buffers candidacy for reelection. Il
would be just like the pious object of thei1
hate to stick to bis inaugural and disap
point them by not standing forseelection
The Harrisburg Patriot reports that in
the night session of the Senate on Friday
Senator Reyburn. the president pro tenn
pore, on discovering that the Senate was
without a quorum, deliberately ruled thai
the call for the yeas and nays was void
because the senators on whose demand il
was ordered declined to vote He ther
directed the clerk of the Senate to destroy
the record of the vote, which the Latter
proceeded to do by tearing the list of yea.
and nays into tiny bits.
CONTRARY to general expectations
Thomas B. Searight has beaten VIM. H
Playford by decided majority in thu
contest for the nomination for Judge il
Fayette county, notwithstanding Sea
rights alleged unpopularity, and the fact
that he was friendly to Dukes, while Play
ford was the counsel against him. Neither
is very heavy judicial timber, but s'Fy -at''
county has ways of its own. Besides, un-
less Fayette is erected into a separate
judicial district, Greene may yet claim
this nomination.
The commencement season is full upon
us. Franklin s. Marshal's annual week
of festivity will begin with the baccalau
reate sermon on Sunday, June II. Hon.
Jere s. Hess will be the alumni orator this
year. and Prof. Owens, of La Fayette col
lege, will make the address before the
literary societies. Dickinson will have its
commencement one week later and the
exercises there will be of special interest
because they will celebrate the centennial
of the institution. Rev. DR.. Crooks will
be the centennial orator and Gen. Horatio
c. King the poet. La Fayette will hold
its commencement the same week as
Dickinson and Chas. Emory Smith, of the
Press, will deliver the commencement ad-
dress.
The symposium in the New York
Tribune Of yesterday consisted of contrihu
tions from number Of leading men on the
subject of the proposed union of New
York and Brooklyn in one municipality
which has been mooted since tho compile
tion Of the bridge. Mayor Edison talks
clearly and strongly, in business -like
way, for union. Mr.. Kelly is against it,
and whenever John Kelly speaks he speaks
with no uncertain sound. Ex Mayor
Grace is as earnest as Mr.. Kelly in his
opposition to union. Mr.. Beecher holds
that Brooklyn would suffer seriously. o.
B. Potter, sees only injury to both COM
munities in union. William Dowd thinks
that the benefits to be- derived from con-
solidation are so great that early agitation
of the question should be begun. Fred
erick 8. Winston believes that whilo New
York would benefit by a union, Brooklyn
would gain much more. 8. B. Chittenden
is heartily in favor Of union. General
Slocum leans toward a sort of confedera.
ton Of the two cities. Ex Judge Tracy
favors union 30 far as certain features
of municipal government are concerned.
D. Willis James has no doubt that the
two cities will be one within . quarter Of
q century.