Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-01-11

Culc tliC dit,too iJoolDiC stItSLtcd'iCC VI
members of the committee.
TIE Republican state Senat, will rot
allow itself to be outst;ippcd by the Dem
ocratic House in the lace for reform, and
it's Judiciary committee has resolved to cut
Oft some of the superiluous offices. II
this be agreed upon, and the election OF
their incumbents be postponed, the Re-
publican slate will have to be made over,
us names lor all the places had already
been written upon it.
WE hasten to commcnd the vigorous
manner in which tho new management OF
the Harrisburg Telegraph ranges Itself on
the side Of political reform. The out,
spokenncss of the editorial opinions which
we print from it is refreshing. Such a
Republican scourge of roosters, as the
1elegr0ph promises to be, has been needed
and ought to be welcomed at Harris
burg.
,
of Pittsburgh, one OF tho secretaries OF
the independent Republican state com
mittea " has been appointed deputy sec
rotary of the commonwealth by Governor.
elect P.ittison.' This is nos likely. Mr.
S.cngcr will most probably appoint his
own deputy and he will likely be Jeifcr
sonian Democrat who remembers what
state ticket lie voted in 1882.
The House at Harrisburg has resolved
to inquire whether tie Record cannot bg
abridged and made readable and fresh
The COMMITTEES or tins hubjtc. will &is.
cover that the "jos:nal" which is
printed at the close Of every session re
cords n,&S!y al! Of t!la proceedings that is
worth recording. The Record should
either be merged il this or e'sa be made a
daily rcro-t of the actual proceedings, tc
ba delivered every morning. As it is now il
is neither fish, flesi. nor fowl and can vel
be spared from tbs Legislative bill Of fare
OUR magnificent attorney general of tx
United States, who disburses his co.tin
gent fund as reckless!y as 81 old time
chief clerk at Harrisburg, is exhibited by
the report elsewhere printed as indulsing 9
his sanlptu0us tastes at the public expense
to degree not tolerable ia this era o
strict official accountability. The pub!ca
ticn, too, o! the counsel fees paid out il,
the Star Route cases has aroused & spirit
inquiry, and i'll The House, yesterday
Mills, Of Texas, offered resolution, which
WAS referred, asking the attorney genera
what persons he has employed as attor-
neys and i'll other ways in the prosecution
of the Star Route cases, what are The
terms Of the contract with each. what is
paid to each, and what is the probable
amount Of the entire cost of the prosecu-
ton now pending and such as lie con:om
plates instituting.''
THE annual meeting Of the State Edi.
torial association will be held in Senate
committee room, No. 6, capital building
Harrisburg, on Wednesday, January Il
(day after governors inauguration), at 1C
o'clock a. m The election Of officers, ap
pointment Of committees, arrangement:
for summer excursion and other routine
business usually engage the attention @:
this meeting. This year it will be in
vested with special interest ; there will be
. 1orn ott
dcuuiiess he taken to effect a closer union
Of the country editors with the Journalists
club OF Philadelphia, an association Just
formed, which takes il nearly all the work
ing newspaper men of Philadelphia. Mr..
II. T. Keenan,, of the Press, is president
of the Philadelphia club w. U. Heusel IS
president Of the state association, and II.
S. Meuamin is the experienced and irde-
fatigable SECRETARY.
AFTER the Democratic House caucus
committee at Harrisburg had resolved
yesterday to cut down the employees, the
sub committee deputed to fill the re.
naming Offices agreed upon the following
nominees Message clerk, J. c. Ammer-
man, Montour; assistant sergeant. at. arms,
John Murphy, Montgomery assistant
sergeant at arms, c. NJ. Hoover, Vcnango;
assistant doorkeepccs, James J. Elliot,
Batter, and James Z. Lawrence, Bucks :;
assistant messenger, Frank p. Kilacky,
Philadelphia assistant postmaster, James
J. Monaghan, Philadelphia door
keeper of rotunda, John O.. Glaberty,
E.ie; posters ard folders, Frank X.
StGtier, Berks; Frank Hendricks,
Schuylki!l NJ. Dougherty, Eucl<s N. J.
O'Brien, Lyccming, aid James Lippman,
Westmoreland. These selections excite