Cheap Patriotism

-On Mondav the Senate of the Oongress of the United States passed or adopted a House concurrent resolution declaring that " the 22d day of the present montli shall be treated and deemed as a national holiday," etc, and the President forthwith approved the resolution and issued his proclamation for carrying it into effect. We cali this " cheap patriotism," because of the late hour at which it was passed. Had the resolution been adopted at un earlier day in the session, and had its terms been made to apply to future years instead of to the ona day just passed, - "the 22d day of the present montli," - we should have no fault to find. But takon for just what it was able to accomplish, - close a few Government offices within reach of Tuesday morning's dailiés, and leave all the rest of the world to work on in ignorance of the brief holiday privileges conferred upon them, we repeat it smells of cheap patriotismo L. H. FlTZHUGn, Doorkeeper of the House, has sen fit to reply in a " statistioal " card to the Eepublican charges that he has put none but ex-rebel aoldiers on gaard in his departmont. These are his figures : Number of new appointeeo, - 123 " served in Uoion Army, 35 " " " Confedérate Army, 10 " " " Mexican War, 2 " who took the iron-clad oath, 109) ,OQ " " " " modified " H " of colored appointees, H Those who took the iron-olad oath had been loyal and true to the Union, having given neither aid nor comfort to the enemy, as soldiers or civilians. Mr. Fitzhugh also states that the payroll of his predecessor numbered 153 employés for January, 1871, of whom, from the best information he can gain, official or otherwise, but 18 had beun Union soldiers. 123 against 153, and 35 against 18. And the changes continue to be rung on the " Confedérate House." NOT HAVINO the fate of Hendenon in remembrance, Col. Broadhead, in discussing the order revoking a previous order for an exchange of revenue officers, said : Tho order as sugestod originally - and the President hiniself claims the crodit of it - was iiilmiilüd, notto diacover fiauds already committeit, but to secure future benefits. It wat held that the disti Herios had gotten into such rut with the old supervisors that new ones would readily catcli thein napping. Tho colcnel repeated that the reasons given by President Grant aud Mr. Tutton wore not at all suflicient, as thoy araounted to really uo reasons at all. There were other and more powerful influencea brought to bear, and the exigeooiAS of the caso seemod to be such that the President stepped down trnni his high position to interiore with the duties of one of the departuient officera. The order was revoked, too, by telegraph, which of itself was a strange proceeding, and questionablft iu law. Tliis suspension was made the day after Joyce telegraphed Bahcock to " push thiugs " against the woukening euemy. Is it any wonder that the reporter for the Associated Press iaterjects right here : "Tliis portion of the speech created a profound sensatiou." As Hendorson was soarcely more personal or more severe, we maj soon expect to hear that Mr. Broadhead's head is rolling iuto the offal basket along side of that of his decapitated predecessor. If the President, recognizes for once the truth of the maxim, " Discretion is the better part of valor," hojaever, no never, will forgive this slur upon upon his favorito : " It had been said that Babcock was a victim. of miuplaced confidence. He was the innocent babe of Washington City. He - bom and reared in Vermont, eduoated at West Point, a man of large army experienoe, and finally an oocupant of a position, the duties of which were varied and important, and which requirod the disburseniont of $500,000 yearly - he the victim of "mÍ8placed confidence," and thon, what presumption for such an underljng as Broadhead, to warn the jury " not to be influenced by considerations of position, but if they found that corruption nestled in the White House to crush it out. " A FEW WEEKS ago we cited the Lansing i?epublicaií to a st&tutory provisiou giviug city councils authority to oxteiul the time for the collection and return of taxes. And now we are in want of a Httle light from the Repubhcan. Will it point us to the " laws of this State " which " require an animal publication of the proceedings of the supervisors f - Argus. Certainly. You will flnd the section we refer to on page 231 of the compiled laws of 1871, compiler's section 475. The lavr has been In forcé ever since 1851. Perhaps our phrase, "proceedings of the supervisors," was a little too broad, as sëction 475 ouïy covers a statement of the county receipts and expenditures, accounts claimed and allowed, with the name of each olaimant, and the treasurer's balancesheet or account curruiit in making his annual settlement. The practico of boards os supervisors has recently been to publish all their proceedings at the annual meeting, and it was natural to suppose that the law required it, supervisors are so very economical in regard to printer's bilis.- Hepublican. We know all about that section. A similar provisión ante-dates 1851, - soe revised statutes of 1846, chap. 14, title 3, sec. 21. We have published statements under it, made our bilis, and received pay at full statute prices, as long ago as 1848. But from a cotemporary who reads lectures to the presa on " the value of accuracy " we expeoted(?)aome other citation. The Republican is correct in in saying, " perhaps our phrase ' proceedings of the supervisors,' was a Hule too broad." More than a " little too broad," we should say. The cited aection does not require the publicatiou of "proceedings," and the publication of them, as practiced in many oounties, Joes not coinply with the requirements of the section. The law contemplates a clear, defínite, connected financial statement, coming under the eye of the tax-payer prominently in a single document, - advertisement is the proper word, - and not disconnected lots of figures scattered through a mass of verbiage and running through several issues of a newspaper. The present system of evasion has grown up because supervisors were anxious - legislators like - to see thoir own names in print as makers of motions, reports, etc- one class, while another class desire to make the legitiniate price of publishing the statement in one paper, pay for publishing the " proceedings " in two, three, or half a dozen papers. Speakixg of the utterances of the Indiana Republican State Convention, the Detroit Post mildly says : " The financial planks of the platform are not such as will prove acceptable to the Republicans of a number of the other States ; but they are better than the inflation folly which rules the Greenback and Democratio parties of that State." As the Democratio party of Indiana has not yet spoken how does the Post know what its financial plank will be. If it has " got shut " of the greenback wing as the make up and action of the late (ireenback Convention would indícate, it may make as great advancement as the Republicana have within two years. It will have to crawfish to make less. But the Post has no belief in the saying that " a rose by any othor name would smell as sweet," and so sees the color of gold in a Republican resolution that would smell of rag money if put forth by another body. Witness its heading (in the same paper under notice) the proceedings of a Connecticut gathering, "Rag-money Convention," its financial utterances, stripped of all verbiage, imperceptibly differing, and that not in principie, froin those of the Indiana Republicana. The Indiana Eepublican State Conveution was held on the 22. Hon. Godlove Ü. Orth, now Minister to Austria, was nominated for Governor, Col. R. S. Roberston for Lieut.-Governor, and a full State ticket. Candidates for Presidential Electora were also placed in nomination, and delega tes appointed to the National Convention. The platform coutains twenty-oue resolutions and a lengthy preamble, the whole being as long as a stump speech made on tho floor of Congress, and just about as intelligiblo. The mostnoticeable plank in the platform is the twelfth, which declares in favor of a repeal of "so much of the Rosumption act (of '75) as fixes the time for the resumption of specie payments," and against either contraction or expansión of the currency. The other flnancial planks are equally shaky, but hard-money Republicana in other States will excuse all hercsiea bccaaso sandwiched in with professions of " loilty " and laudation of Republioan patriotism.