The legislatnre is busy giaoefully doing...

The legislatnre is busy giaoefully doing nothing. Governor Pingree seems to have bis hands full of Detroit fights. The coal tiust got a new lease of life this week. The responsibility of the weather bureau bas not yet been fised. Michigan has been a state for sixty years. The Argns bas watohed over its growth froro the beginning, having been started in territorial days. The Miohigan legislatura has declared that Cuba should be recognized as a free and independent nation. This migbt settle it, if their resolutions were not entirely ultra vires. The United States Senate will do well to approve the treaty of arbitration with England. Arbitration is ranch preferable to war and the nation must either arbítrate, fight or back down frona its position. If arbitration is a good thiug for individuáis, it is for nations. In spite of tbe hard times, the railroads of this country, as a whole, have not been falling behind in their earnings. In faot for the year ending June 30, 1896, the net earnings of the roads were some 127,000,000 moie than they were for the preceding year. Over $15,000,000 of this increase was made by tbe roads in the states of Illinois, Wisc insin, Iowa, Minnesota, that portion of the Dakotas and Missouri, east of the Missouri river and the upper península of Michigan