Morning journal and courier., 1886-04-30
LEGIsLAToRs, REUNION.
The General Programme for the Gran
 Reunion May 6th.

The General Programme for the Grand Reunion May 5th. All the arrangements have been completed for the general legislative reunion at Hart ford on Wednesday of next week. Special excursion rates (half fare) have been arranged on all the railroads of the State, and special trains, if required, will be run on the princi- pal roads, leaving Hartford after the exer- cises. The general reception will take place at 10:30 am. The literary exercises in the hall of the house will begin at pm. Ad- dresses will be made by Gov. Harrison, Hon. Henry c. Robinson, Hon. A. E. Burr, Lieut. Gov. Cooke and Speaker Tibbitts. There will also be miscellaneous addresses, followed by a military review on the Capitol grounds. The general programme for the day is as fol- lows:
 10:30 a. m.-General reception of ex-State off. cias, Senators and Representatives in the Capitol 11:00 a. m-Legisative reunionsaSenate of 1Ss6 in the Senate chamber House Of 1856 n the hall of the House; other legislatures in the assigned com mittee rooms.
 INTERMIssIoN.
 1;ao p; m.-His Excellency Henry B. Harrison and eIGoyern9Fs, ye in carriages will be escorted ernor's Horse and Foot Guards.
 goo p m-Literary exercises in the hall of the 1. Assemblage called to order by ex- Governor H. B.
 Bigelow of New Haven chairman of the g. Prayer-Rev. E. P. Parker, D. D., of Hartford
 chaplain of the Senate.
 g. Address of Welcome. .:...................... His Excellency Henry B. Harrison Hon Henry c. Robinson, of Hartford 5. Address-'The Capitol and Grounds ........... Hon. Alfred F. Burr of Hartfor1 ex.chair- G. Address~''The Senate ''.: ....................
 LieutenantGovernor Lorrin A. Cooke Hon. Jno. A. Tibbitts, Speaker of the House Senators and Representatives present. [Note-The eldest and next oldest officials
 nor; Charles J; McG9rdy, Lyme, 1847;s; A. H. J; E; Ro5srtsen, New Haven, isa7-s; J. isats. P c
 B cae Mddfeto%n 1s55 Wdmah a DanbbuEy, D,nb 1887 Comptroer Abiiah Catlin,
 don 1855 dssG dsares J. NsE Sccurag HGg Lyme 1s82; Charles T. HilIyer, Hartford, town (now of New York cityj. 1897. Repre-
 sss Gyme s Charles T. Hillyer, Hartford, 1s!s.l 4;3o p m.-Military review on Capitol grounds. Professor Hamilton Smith, of Hobart col lege observatory, Geneva, N. Y., writes that his father, Anson Smith, aged 92, of | Circleville, O., expects to attend the reun- ion. He represented New London in 1883.
  sented Stafford in 1s37-8, is ss years old, and will try to get to Hartford on the 9th. E. A. Cornwall, of Cheshire, House 831 g. l 3 and '73-5, and Senate 1888, who is 83 years old, writes: "Unavoidables only will hinder l me from being present"
 The number of New Haven gentlemen en- titled to attend the general legislative reun- ion in Hartford on May 5, by virtue of hay l ing served the State in an executive or legis- lative capacity or having been an officer of the General Assembly, is 55. John B. Rob- I ertson, who leads the list, was in the House 1 in 1S40.
 There are now living fortysix remembers of the Connecticut legislature from New Hartford and ifty-tw from Barkhamsted. Dr. Benadam Kasson, now of Collinsville, who represented New Hartford in 1856, an- tedates all the others from that section. Representative A. B. Palmer, of Williman- tic, has fully recovered from his late ill., ness. He is member of the reception com mittee,