The Free Press has received a coramunica...

The Free Press has received a coramunication from "A Died In the Wool American." Poor fellow should have been sheared before this hot weather. Yesterday the house amid scènes of the greatest enthusiasm rejected the senate amendments to the Wilson bill without división and sent the bill back to conference with.instructions to the house conferees to stand firra in opposition to the senate amendments. The bill admitting Utah to statehood received the signature of the president, Monday. Now when the people of the territory comply with the conditions of the enabling act she will take her place in the sisterhood of states, and another star will be added to the constellation which bedecks the banner of the republic. The letter of Judge Cooley, which appears elsewhere in this issue, endorsing in strong language the course of President Cleveland in enforcing the United States statutes and suppressing lawlessness in the strike troubles, coming as it does from one of the highest constitutional authorities in the republic, is deserving of more than passing notice. In what the learned jurist says he unqaestionably voices the sentiments of every thoughtful and patriotic American citizen. The Rich heelers at Jackson were confident that by and with the influence of the prison gang they would send a solid delegation to Grand Rapids tor his excellency. They had counted their chickens before they were hatched, however. At the primaries Wednesday night the Pingreeites carried off sixty of the one hundred and fourteen delegates, and this in spite of the biggest fight the prison crowd could put up. This will insure Pingree six delegates to the state convention from the city to five for Rich. Let the good fight go on. Attorney-General Ellis has filed an opinión, affecting the salades of judges of probate. It is to the effect that an increase of population as determined by the census, entitles the judge of probate of each county having such increase to a raise of salary from the date of taking the census - June i. As the attorney-general is thought by some to be a thoroughly competent authority on the raise of salaries, there is a unanimous concurrence among judges whose compensation would be bettered, in the attorney-general's opinión. The repubHcan who cannot see that Pingree will cut a figure in the coming state convention, is as blind as a snake in dog days. Pingree has knocked a great many potato bugs off his vines during the past few days. He may not capture the state convention, but the Rich forces will have something more to do than fight flies and listen to panegyrics on the matchlessness of the Farmer from Elba. It is written: "Riches take unto themselves wings and fly away. " This may happen at the state convention. Watch the career of H. S. P. The republican faithful have bottled up their howl about democratie discord and are devoting their full energies to an effort to keep the disgruntled and snarling factions of their own party from flying off at a tangent and becoming so separated as to prevent the laws of gravitation from operating. It is exceedingly doubtful whether they can ever be brought togetherin state convention unless they be corraled by the military. Even then the harmony that would prevail would probably be comparable only to the highlander's dream of heaven, - a small room containing sixteen pipers, each piper playing a different tune. Charges were made and reiterated during the strike to the effect that railroad managers were not fairly trying to deliver the mails and traffic, but that they were conspiring to delay the same with the view of getting the government to interfere in their interest. These charges should be investigated, and if proven true, the plotters should bei dealt with in accordance with the statutes provided in such cases. They have had important privileges conferred upon them with the expectation that they will faithfully perform certain duties as common carriers. They should be held, therefore, to strict accountability in the performance of these obligations and any violation of law on their part should be dealt with even more severely than in the case of of the individual citizen. The charges should be investigated and justice meted out to all alike. The conferees on the tariff bill have failed utterly to adjust their differences and have reported accordingly to their respective houses. Whileit is to be regretted that there is to be further delay and possibly no tariff bill at all, it is not to be wondered at that they failed to agree. The senate bill is so largely undemocratic and false to the peoples' express commands and the pledges of the party that it was not to be expected that the direct representatives of the people would accept it without very material change. On the other hand, the senators, representing nothing but the purses of members and being responsible to nobody but themselves, were hardly to be expected to surrender their own personal advantages growing out of their bill in order that the people might be benefitted or relieved from onerous protective robbery.