Dakin Expelled

The trial and expelling of M. II. Dakin from tbe House of Repreíentatives at Lansing will have a salutary effect on tbe iiHMiibtrs. Kumors at every session are rife that there :re memben whose votes can bepurchasedand sometimes, perliaps, With foundation. In one of the committee rooms w as the rifa: "If you don't sraoke, we do." It was intended, of course, simply as a joke, but at the sanie time it was an iniliscretion, since they sliould avoid even the nppearauce ot being bribed. Dakin was tliere "lor levenue only,'' like nuiny anothcr democrat In jiolitica. So bis unblushing acceptance ol money has cust a stain upon himself, his friends, his party, his state, and U])on his fellow inembcrs in tlie House, wliich wil] not soon cease to be thought of. Therefore his iunUlnneut will have a good effeit all around.