The Detroit Tribune Quotes The Argus

paragraph touohing its coininents on tho recent decisión of the Supremo Court of Texas and its binding eifect, and claims that " the Argus is not just in this matter, as it will probably confess after a littlo renection." We have reflected, but not to reach the suggested conclusión. We have not forgotten the bold andnianly defense made by the Tribune of the decisión on the soldiers' voting law, neither can we forgot that sinco tho decisión against the railroad aid law it bas persistly sought for some means of practically nullifying and revorsing that decisión ; that its columns have been the vehicle of censorious and unjust critiuism of thü judges who made it; and ihat it bas continually predicted, with the assurance bom of hope, that the Supreme Court of tho United States would override the decisión of our Supreme Court and compel payment of bonds issued under a law held unconstitutional, bonds illegal and worthlessnot through any mere irregularity, but from lack of authority vested in local officers to issue and put upon the market. It is true that the Tribune has advocated a constitutional amendment to compel the whole people of a town or city to pay bonds illegally issued despite the active protest of a portion of thetax-payers, and by the expressed consent of a majority in scarcely a single instance. The point we made, and the only point we sought to make, was : that if the Supreme Court of the United States could disregard a solenin decisión of the Supreme Court of Michigan and sei.d its officers into our State to compel taxation for the payment of obligations unlawfully contracted and bonds illegally issued, - our Supreme Court being the admitted arbiter, - without a word of remonstranco from the Tribune, büt in response to its desires, we could not see why it should hasten to pronounce tho decisión of the Supreme Court of Texas final, and in language which, if it had aught in it save froth and "foam, conceded the absoluto right of State laws and State constructions, and to deny the right or power oL review or reversal to any other branch of the Government. And tho sentence we quoted from the Trilrune meant just this if anything, and to say that a decisión of the United States Supreme Court, sustaining the validity of the bonds, " would not be in any proper sense, ' a reversal of the Michigan decisión'" ig equivalent to saying that black is white or at least that black is not black. If the l'ribune sinceroly regrets that "in the Texas matter anything has occurred to obstruct the efforfe to carry out the unquestioned will of tho people," why should it hope for a decisión of the Supremo Court of the United States reversing not only the decisión of our Supreme Court but " tho unquestioned will of the pooplo " of the State, expressed afc the ballot box, and clearly and overwhelmingly against making illegal bonds legal as well as against the principie of railroad aid by local taxation 'i PiiEsiDEXT Gkant's "third" turned up on Monday ; that is to say, on Monday last he noininated the Hon. Morrison K. Waite, of Toledo, Ohio, present President of the Ohio Constitutional Convention and late one of the associates of Caleb Cusiiujg as counsel for the Unitod Statas beforo the arbitrators at Geneva, to be Chief-Justice. The selection was so much better than the public had come to look for or expect, that there was a general feeling of relief. The Senate acted upon the nomination on Wednesday, confirming Mr. Waite by a unanimous vote of the Senators present, Senator Tiiubmají, of Ohio speaking in coinplimentary terras of him as a man and a lawyer. We think that a better selection might have been mado by some other President, that is of a lawyer more widoly kuown, and whose more varied practico had familiarized him botter with all departments of law. But then Granï had the choice and the country should bo thankful for his " third.' M. Waite has been always a liopublican, and yet not a bitter partisan. He has also long been a railroad lawyer, and yet it is not eharged that ho is sold body and soul to corporations. And so, after Williams wo are thankful for Waite. In another column we give a brief sketch of the new Chief-Justice, copiod from tho Toledo Commercial. Unless Lansing advices of the Ülst inst. wore at fault Gov, Bagley yesterday is8ued a proclamation convening the Legislature in extra session on Tuesday, March 3d, to consider, wo supposo, the work of the Constitutional Commission. Tñis decisión inakes it nocessary to order special elections in the Eighth, Nintb, and Twen ty-fouith Senatorial districts.Mr. Emerson of the first named having accepted a judgoship in Utah ; Mr. StodDARD, of the second named having died ; and Mr. Wheeler baving removed from bis district. There are also two vacancies in the House, one in Shiawassee and tho the other in Geneseo, Benjamin Walkïii, of the former, and Levi Walker, of thu latter, having died. We have not the slightest idea that tho Legislature will ratify as a whole the Coustitution as revised by the Comiuission ; neither do we think that it sbould do so. Many of the proposed changes are excollont and should be submitted to and adopted by the people ; several of them the peoplo would and should rejectif submittod to them separately; and othera not objectionable will secure tho rejection of the whole instrument if not submitted separately. Besides, the Commission sary restrictions upon which oinitted some things - say certain necesthe Legislature ought to incorpórate, if it would secure a vote of the peoplo in favor of the Constitution. We shall have something to say more specific horeafter. A prominent McKeesport inerchant ost his coupon tickes for ,the ConïellBville railroad nearly a year ago. Last week ho found it in his Holy Bible. tle has thought it necessary to pubiish a card in the newspapers stating that "it wusn't in his other Bible." Poreign papers say that the steamer Jeeonane was enteaing the port of Bastía, n Corsica, when by a false turn of the ïelm she was driven against the sea wall or wharf, and sank so rapidly that nineeen persons wero drowned, including ;he oaptain and chief ongineer.