The Two New Senators From The New

State of Colorado were admitted to their seata on Monday. Mr. Ghaftee drew the term eudiug March 4, 1879, and his colleague, Mr. Tiller, the term ending Mareh 4, 1877. Mr. Potter, of the Kalainazoo district, considera himself " outside of any healthy political organization," aud so he voted for Ilon. Wm. E. Morrison for Speaker, on Monday, instead of for either of the caucus party candidates. Senator Inoalls went for that torn and tattered document knowu as the Constitution on Monday. His resolution proposed a convention to be held in Columbus, Ohio, in May next. Revisión, radical revisión, is what Ingalls wants. Would a new Conatitution be obeyed and respected any better than the old one ? - that is by the political asBOoiates of Ingalls. TnE LATE Republican candidates for county ofñcers in this county now see what a mistaku they have perinitted to be made. They should havo got an order frorn headquarters to have the county eanvassers throw out the returns from Bridgewater, Frnedoin, Lodi, Manchester, and Northfield, and then they would have been elected just as easy. It was scarcely necessary for the President to teil the people in his LAST annual message that " it was in y fortune or misfortune to be called to the office of Chief Executivo without any previous politioal training," - they had alroady tound that out to their sorrow and regret. And another fact had also been disclosed, that he had no previvious knowledge of constitutional and civil law, and bas acquired none of any benefit either to himsulf or the poople during his eight year's reign as " Chief Executive." A 8TRAY item says that Secretary Chandler becoming convinced that habitual smoking works an injury to the business of his department " has issued an order prohibiting smoking by employés during office hours." Now let Secretary Chandler be conviuced that drinking out of office hours is a crime to the public business, issue an order to his employés prohibiting it, and set the exaruplo himself. That would be an act worthy the head of " the party of great moral ideas." The Lansing MepuUican has seen our little item in refereuce to " bull-dozing ' in the Sixth Congressional district, and calis for a " bilí of particulars." Why, man, isn't it enough that the district gave a Democratie majority two years ago and a large Kepublican majority in November. On just such political changes in parishes, counties, and States, and without other evidence, our Republican friends predicated " bull-dozing " all through the Southern States. " What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander." Does our cotemporary see the point 'i Carl SchüRZ and some of his St. Louis sympathizers propose that Cougress immediately adopt a constitutionauiendment delegating the job of canvassing the vots of the States for President and Vice-President to the Supreme Court. They think that it would be ratified by the States in time for the canva83 of the votes of the electoral colleges which met and voted on Wednesday. The plan would certaiuly be a safer one than the present, in which there is to be a contest or conflict between the acting President of the Senate and a joint meeting of the two Houses of a Congress, - a joint meeting without prescribed rules or even the traditionary rights of a joint convention. " COUNTED out " : this time it is Bro" Willard, of the Battle Creek Journal. We mistake, - the Hon. George Willard, menber of the House from the Third Congressional district. This is how he was fixed by his colloague, the Hon. O. D. Conger, party censor or chairman of the Republican " Returning Board." Spoaker Randall having appointed Mr. Willard as a member of the committee orflered to investígate the recent South Carolina election, in place of Mr. Hale, first nained bnt reported not in the city, " Mr. Conger suggested, sarcastically [sarkasnm is Congei'B best holt], that the Speaker should appoint a Republicau to fill the vacancy ; " and to the Speaker's interrogatory, " Isn't Mr. Willard a Republiuan ?" Mr. Conger omphatioally responded "No SIR I" Whoreupon " Mr. Willard asked to be excused." Don't you see it is just as easy to " oount out " an honest, conservativo (by spells) Republioan, as for a Louisiana Returning Board to dispose of an 8,000 Democratie majority. It was Topsy who said, " 1 speek I was n't made, I growed." And after reading the disavowals of President Grant and the explanations - exceedingly unsatisfactory explana tion - of Gen. Ruger, we are led to the conclusión that that infamous order, under which United States soldiers invaded the South Carolina State House, stood eaoh side of the door of RepresenUtive hall, and enabled Chamberlain's tooi Dennis to keep the Edgefiold and Laurens members from entering, was not " made " or given, but only " growed." It is singular, however, that the Louisiana accident, or mistake, or inisapprehen8ion of 1875 should be so exactly repeated in South Carolina in 1876. With a military President accustomed to give military orders, and supposed to know how to give thom, it is indeed strange that the subordínate officers - the corporal at New Orluans aud the corporal at Columbia, or other subordínate - should have committed the blunders so identical. Like Topsy these two criminal blunders " growed," and " growed " on the sume buah, - aud that buah is fast growiug to be a treö, a tree which prouiises to bear the fruit of military supremaoy and civil subjection. Ian't it time to lay the ax at its root while yet a sapling? certain Ilopublicans not journalists, talk vory flippantly abüut the Deraocrats of South Carolina asking the Suprerae Court of that State for au ortier requiring the cauvaasers to count and decline the voto as rotumed, getting what they asked for, not being satisfied, and praying an order for corrections. These men aud journaliste shonld drive slow. The Demoorats did not ask just that, and did not get what they asked. What the Demócrata petitioned for was an order rostraining the State Board of Canvassers froin assuming the judicial powers preposterously claimed for them ; from going behind oounty and precinct returns and deciding that elections had been fraudulently conducted, or that tbere had been intiiuidation, and, so deciding, throwing out tho votes of precinots or counties at will. The Demócrata got an order for the board to act ministerially: that is to figure up the face of the returns and report to the court. The board did naither, - it rejected tho returns from two counties, where it olaiined fraud and intimidation in conducting the election, and held to the " face of the returns " in other counties, in face of proof that the county returns were fraudulent and did not correspond with the original precinct returns from which they were compiled. The Demócrata then asked that the board be required, not to act judicially in their favor, not to go behind the ballot boxes to which thoy had originally objected, but that they be ordered to correct the fraudulent county returns by tho correct precinct returns, claiming suoh clerical corrections made Wade Hampton would be elected and at least a portion of the Democratie electora, fiut pending the final action of the court the board rejected two counties, refused oertificates to the membera of the Logislature shown by tho returns therefrom to be elected, and adjourned sine die. It was for this the uieuibers were conimitted for contempt. To illustrate : Supposo that the board of oounty oanvaaaera of Washtenaw county, or aome of its oommittees or clerks, had by mistako or design made the returns to the Sbcretary of State, and which go before our State Board of Canvassers, differ materially from the original township returns, would it not be competent for the Supreine Court of this state to make auch order as would coinpel the board to go back to the original returna and undo the innocent or iutentional wrong, or must interested candidates and the court wait until the wrong had been consummated and theu resort to a writ of quo warranto to undo it 'i That is the South Carolina case. That eminent parliamentarian " Jimmy Stoue," of the Port Huron Times, has convinced the Detroit Tribane that it was wroug in conceding that the " Ramp " House in South Carolina, consisting of 59 members, lacked a quorum. " Jimmy " holds that the board of canvassers having refused certificates of electiou to the Bdgefield aDd Laurens members the body of the House was legally reduced from 124 members, its coustitutional number, to 116, and that the number necessary to constitute a quorum was' correspondingly reduced. Suppose that the sume omnipotent board of rtitivassers had certified to the election of but two members, how many would have coustituted a quorum of such a House? and what a harmonious Legislature South Carolina might have had ! Besidus, the referenoe of the Times to the Thirty-seventh Congress settles nothing. That was the Congress of 1861 '6.'i, the Congress which ussumed that certain States which couldn't accede and couldn't be permitted to secede, had really, somehow or other, got out of the Union, aud the momberehip of the Senate and House was correspondingly reduced. The precedent is one basod on arbitrary or military law rather than parliamentary law. It is trua, as the Times quoles, that the Constitution says : " A majority of each House ahall constitute a quorum to do business ; " and it is equally true that the same Constitution says : " The Senate o'f the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each Stato," equivalent at this time (" counting in " Colorado; to saying it shall consist of 76 members. The membership of the House is an equally definite number, though fixed by an aot of apportionmeut. The language of our State Constitutian is the same, and yet neither the Times nor the Tribune would concede that the votes of Ie68 than 17 Senators or ól Iieprosentatives (" a majority of all the membera olect ") could pass a bilí into a law, because a inember or two had died or rosigned, or even beoause some canvassing or returning board had created ono or more vacancies by refuoing to certify to the election of eithor candidate voted for. This method of reducing quorums is not only a violation of commou sense but it ia a precedent dangerous in the extreme. TlIE Detroit Tribune has a spasm, and this ia it : A Democratie Senator in the Indiana State Legislature has died, redufiiug the Democratie majority in that body to one uutil the vacaucy is filled. Now the Tribune assumes, - the Tribune never acruples to assuine anything it desiroR - that tho district is now Kepublican and will elect a liepublican successor to the dead Democrat, and therefore scolds Gov. Hendricka for fixing tho date of the special election five daya after the Legislttture couvenea instead of before that date. It aasumes, further, thut the election of a Ropublicun (who may not be elected) would tie the Senate, and prevent treaaonable legislation, not exactly, but compel a división of the official spoils. It does n't takemuch provocation to give the Tribune a spasm. Senator Skaron, of Nevada, and one of the ownera of that rotten borough, contradicts the rumor that he proposes to resign the seat be makes no effort to fill. Kusigu, of course uot, don't be rake in $5,000 a year for doing nothing, and that suni isn't to be sueezad at, even by a San Francisco (excuse us, Nevada) banker.