Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-06-08

question was raised whether it has such
power. 1t is concluded that the power
exists because it is q necessary in
cident to its session !; but the appropria.
tion must be only for the necessary cost
of the session and there will be good
ground for denying that ten dollars per
day per member for ten days adjourn
ment is such a necessary expenditure.
IT seems to be generally agreed that
Hendricks failed to catch on until after the
train had passed.
MASSACHUSETTS, will not have the aboli-
ton of the suffrage poll tax. The people
upon whom it is a burden are too apt to
vote for Butler.
BISMARCK booms bravely since its selec.
tion as the capital of Dakota. Very prop
erly the erection of q state house and a
penitentiary will be begun simultaneously.
CHINA is getting ready for war in earu-
est and France may find that it has walked
up tho wrong customer. The elephant is
not nearly SO nimble creature as the flea,
but his football is much more impressive.
THE Legislature very properly took the
view of it that Gov. Pattison and Lieut.
Gov. Black would bs handsomer at the
close of their terms and struck out, for the
present, tho appropriations for painting
their portraits.
HARRY WHITES faction of the Indiana
county Republicans harmonized party
differences so elfectually at the late pri
mary elections out there as to not permit
Independents to vote, and so "Order
reigns in Warsaw"
THE Ledger thinks there is somethiny
more than a coincidence in the general use
OF the term twenty-five years" in the
comparison for good of this Legislature
with others. That there is. 1t has just
been about that time since the Dsmpc
controlled both Houses.
JOHN SHERMAN, had he taken the noml
nation for governor iu Ohio, and carried
the state, could have commanded tho Rs-
publican nomination for president next
year. His stubborn refusal shows that
ho either doomed thu c)ntest this year or
next hopeless.
The Committee of One Hundred an
nounces that 1--WE important reform meas
ures which it originated or endorsed aud
which failed to pass previous Republican
Legislatures have become laws by the
grace of Democratic House and Senate
which was controlled against the regular
Republicans.
EPHRAIM is joined to his idols Tho
introduction of resolution at the Ameri
can Medical society yesterday looking TO
a revision of the code of ethics created as
much sensation as would have followed a
proposition to dissect package of dyua
mite and was as quickly tabled. The
ethical medical faculty feel quite sure
that their ethics need no mending.
AN oyerzealous Catholic priest, up iu
Ansonii, Conn, has quite Overreached
himself and excited ~ much indignation
among his people aud his superiors as
among Plotestants, by SO urgently recon
mcnding the services of young Catholic
Physician to his people as to deny religious
rites and visitations to any Of his members
who do not employ him. There is such
thing as too much advertising aue in the
wrong way.
lT has been found that owing to the
system of separate bids for supplies for
some thirty seven different municipal de-
partments in Philadelphia, tho widest
difference prevails in the prices pail, some
branches of tho city government paying
~ per cent. more than others for the
same articles, and the looss system in.
volvins probable loss of 5000, 600 psr
year. Controller Page is looking it up aud
will turn over new leaf.
The Charlie Ross mysteries ara not all
unexplained. There was little Eddie
Larkin, two aud a half years old, who dis.
from Susquehanna, Pa, last
November. His absence created intense
excitement and rewards stimulated detec
tive search for him, all in vain. A few
days ago his bleached and buzzard picked
bones were found within a mile of his
home and scarcely outside the borough
limits, though it seems almost beyond |
belief that q child of his age would alone |
aud of its own will, wander away after |
night far into the woods, climbing a
steep hill and not less than half dozen |
ences to get to the spot where the re-
mains were discovered.
THE New York Tribune having issued a
circular appealing for patronage on the
ground that it is a friend Of American in
lustry while the Times is for free trade.
he latter skins it completely by showing
hat the Times is news papsr and the
Tribune is not Finally, it says: "The
Times is incomplete. The editors grand
mother not being member of the staff. it
las no department of knitting and GRO
heting. If you knit your own drawers
nd stockings the Times won't do for you.
you must take the Tribune. which main.
a11 11nunoI A..