In Refusing To Pass The Postage Bill

bcfore the holiday recesa, ovor which tho Republicana are trying to make capital, the Democratie majority of the House ineant only ft protest against hasty legislation. It was that which raised the d - 1 in the last Congress. That Whippkr, elected a Circuit, Judge by the Legislature of South Carolina, once resided in this county, and wasn't considered a " first class nigger' either, intellectually or morally. He has acquired his legal knowledge, if he has any, since he migrated Sonth. Guess Gov. Chamberlain is right in refusing to commission him. Our New York exchanges report A. S. Williams, of Miohigan, a member of the Special Centennial Committee, while the Detroit dailies, all our western exchanges (and the Arotjs outside), have it Williams of North Carolina. Now there is no Williams in the North Carolina delegation, but an A. S. Wallaoe. Is Wallace or Williams the m&n ? Special dipatches to Detroit papers lead us to believe Gen. Williams drew the centennial prize. Hon. James Birney, of Bay City, has been appointed Minister Resident at the Hague (Netherlands), vice Hon. C. T. Gorham, of Marshall, resigned, and Col. Stockbridge (on the war path for Governor), declined. Possessed of a little unnecessary familypride andniOre jealousy of rivals than makes one coinfortable, Mr. Birney is a genial gentleman, though not a popular politician. He has been an alderman of his city, a member of the State Senate, Lieut.Governor, Circuit Judge (had ungratified Congressional aspirations), and better still an editor, service in which several positions ought to hare qualified him to well represent his country abroad. The Republican ink-slingers, wriring from Washington to the journals they are supposed to be paid by, in consideration of furnishing reliable information and intelligent opinions, don't like the manner in which Speaker Kerr aaw fit to construct the House commitees. He didn't place the Republican favorites at the heads of the several committees, that is the Demoorats whom the Republican wire-pullers lobbied and clamored for. These Re publican soribblers grumble, not because of any injustice to the Republican minority, but because the Democratie members have been niisplaced. It is really too bad that this should be " thusly." But then, the very fact that Republicans are dissatisfied is evidence that the work has been well done. The Senaie nas not yet definitely or permanently decided the vexed question of the presidenoy of that body. Several days before adjourning for the holidaya the subject was referred, on motion of Senator Edmund.s, to the Cotnmittee on Privileges and Eleations, and on Monday Mr. Edwards, evidently seeing force in the claims against Mr. Ferry, offered the following resolution, which was adopted by a strict party vote : Resolved, That Thomas W. Ferry, Senator from the State of Michigan, be President oí the Senate until January 7, 1876, aud antil a fresh appointment shall be made. This appointment or action placed Mr. Ferry legitimately in the chair of the Senate, a seat which we believe he had illegally, or, to say the least, irregularly, occupied since the opening of the session. We hold that a tempoiajy officer, presiding when a body adjourns sine die, ceases at that moment to be even a temporary presiding officer, and that a new election is necessary whenerer the body meets in a new session. A strict construction of parliamentary law, regardless of loose precedents, must lead to this conclusión. The Sun declares itself to be the " Greenback paper." We want to know whether we are for it, or against it. So will it please juatto lay down its platform in definite, tangible terms. At one point we stick our stake : we are for no sort of paper money that is not worth its face in gold and silver, at the will of the hoider. And when we have that kind of a paper currency, it does not much maiter, what source it comes from. -Ypsilanti Sentinel. That's it exactly. Our grudge against greenbacks is not alone because of their paternity, but because made a legal tender (without constitutional warrant) they have been continuously discriminated against and depreciated by their maker, and are in fact a legal fraud. No paper money not convertible into gold and silver at its par or face value, and at the option of the hoider instead of the maker, is our ultimatum, and Democratie legislators will not be true to the party traditions or to the demands of coinmon sense, equity, justice, and the great constituency they represent - if they do not so legis!ate as to bring greenbacks to a gold standard. This they cannot do by any further and illegal issues of promises to pay, - when, how, and in what 'i If the Lansing Ilepublican had not been specially desirous of finding fault with the work of Speaker Korr in appointing the committees of the House it would not have said of the Michigan gan members " that three of them, Willard, Conger, and Bradley, are not appointed on any committee." Mr. Bradley is on one committee, and Mossrs. Conger and Willard each oa two committees. The Michigau members are placed as follows, taking the districts they represent in their order A. S. Williams - Military Affairs, and Specia Centennial Committee. Waldron - Appropriations. Willard- District of Columbia, and Coinage Weights and Measures. Potter - Mines and Mining, and Coinage Weignts and Measures, W. B. Williams- Public Buildings and Grounds, aud Expenditures in Trcasury De partment. Durand - Commerce. Couger - War Claims, and Patents. Bradley - Claims. Hubbell - Banking and Currency. In this distribution the Michigan Re publicans have certainly nothing t complain of. In fact, as a better rep resentative of the finaucial views of tb. State, Potter should have had the plac on the Committee on Banking and Cur rency, and Hubbell kept his old plac on Mines and Mining.