A Bad Precedent

The legislatura l;i;-t Tuesday unaniwously passed a resolution wki&g l'ro-iiieiit ai - tield to appoint Hon. John .1. Hagley to a portfolio d his cabinct. Now we have no objection, in the least, toGov. Bagley's receiving any appointment which the president may choose to give liim, but we do protest against our legislaure eoercing - for it amounts to the same thing- the President in favor of any man. 1 1 is a wrong and foolish precedent to eatiMfah. In the first place President Gartiold undoubtedly küows enough to select his own cabinct. Ii' he doesn't, hc isn't fit to be president. And then again, what if every Icgislature in the union saw fit to act siniilarly for a favorite son ? As there are not sufficient cabinet portfolios to go around, giving one to each state, t can readily bc scen that some one would be sliglited. A president should be left free to cali around him any adviners he may i-hoose, and should Dot be over persuaded n any man's favor. We think Michigan is entitled to a position in the cabinet of the nest administration, and should be glad to see Mr. Bagley clled to the same, bat we are opposed to tint particular way of gtting at it. If the president shonld acknowledge Michigan's claim, and say to the republicans of this state, "agreeupon some one man, regardless of my personal preferenoes, and I will appoint him," then this action would have been right enough fat the rejmlil fans n the legislature. But the action does not come from the republicans alone, but from the legislature as a whole, in rci;ular session. Another thing, a president must have a cabinet in perfect harmony with himself, in order to have his administration successful, and so might not bc disposed to grant the favor spoken of, for a man antagonistic to his own views upon many important eubjecta might be agreed upon. We write this iu no spirit of antagooism to Gov. Bagley, but toexpress our views of the principie of a legislature of a state lobbying for the appointment of any man to offioe.