For Being Generous And Forbearing

and perniitting Mr. Hubbell to take a third term in Congress, Oen. B. M. Cutoheon has been appointed postniaster at Manistee. The annual meeting of the State Pioneer Sooiety is to be held iu the House of Representativos, at Lansing, on Wednesday, February 7, 1877, at 2 o'clock p. m. During the years 1875 and 1876 Gov. Bagley pardoned forty-two prisoners from the State Prison at JacKson, and seventeen prisoners from the House of Correction at Detroit. AFTER the fourth of Maroh next Boutwell will have abundant time to explore that "hole in the sky" which ho disoovered during the impeachment trial of Andrew Johnson. Henry Willis, of Battla Creek, of ship canal fumu, now haa another scheme : a State Industrial School for girls, in whioh we are inclined to wish him spoedy and abundant success. Vanderbilt willed $20,000 to Eev. Dr. Deerns, and in return Dr. Deerns, not satisfied with certit'ying to Vanderbilt's religious character, proposes to write his biography. It will, no doubt be reliable. The Detroit Post don't like the oonforence committee's bill providing for a count of the electoral vote. Of course it don't, for it dethrones his high ïnightiness, the President pro tempore o1 the Senate. The House refused to adjourn from Friday last to Honday evening or Tues day morning, though the Senute set the bad exaraple. It had a working quo rum on Saturday, but on Mondai failed to get a quorum in the forenoon Mk. Sawyer's bill relative to the ob Bervance of Sunday is a very innocen affuir,- proposing only to legalize al marriages heretofore or hereafter sol emnizud on the first day of the week We oan hardly think such legislation neoessary, however. The Deaf, Dumb, and Blind Institute at Flint is in hot water. Cause : tho suppreBsion by the trustees or actin commissioners of tho biennial raport o the late principal, Prof. Bangs. Logis lative investigation is looked for, - th " balm for every wound." - Hox. D. L. Crossmajt, of this State has been subpcenaed to appear forth with before the Congressional (House Cominittee on Privileges and Elections probably to teil the committee by wha authority he assumed to act, Decembe 6, as a Presidential Elector. And now the "Eclectios" want medical department in the University and a petition for the establishment o: such a department, or the withdrawal o: all support from the inedical depart ment and college_ ofhomeopathj'j ws and referred to the Uuiversity oom mittee. Tuis is the way the New York Su puts it : "Mr. Ferry, of Michigan, ap preciates the responsibility that ma; fall upon him as President of the Sen ate, but will not shirk, etc. Considering Mr. Ferry's calibre it would indeet be a sad thing if he should shirk." The Sun is sarcastic or nothing. Senator Morton says : "Very few Republioans resiJoct this bill (the compromise count bilí). It will be taken by the ltnpublicans, if taken at all, as a dose of oastor oil." All right, castor oil, and that in allopathic doses, is what Republicans of the Morton stripe have needed these many days. SENATOn Edmünds saya that the tribunal created by the compromiso bill will have all the powers and rights that Congress would have in deciding upon the regularity or logality of any doctoral vote; and Senator Conkling says that it is not only the right but the duty of Congress to go behind a fraudulent certifícate, or a certifícate that fraudulently reverses the verdict of the great body of electors in or of a State. Put that and that together. The Republicans in the Indiana Legislatura made haato to hold a caucus and telegraph to Senator Morton, approving the partisanship and cussedness which made him refuse his indorsement of the bill agreed upon by the conforenoe committces, - which fully convinoed him that he was wiser and more patriotic than his Senatorial colleagues, Messrs. Edmumls, Conkling, and Frelinghuysen. Butthen Morton 's brothor-in-law is postmaster at Indianapolis, and had both a personal and political interest in stiffeniug the backboue of the Senator. Utterly repudiating the claim that the President of th6 Senate has the right to determine what are and what are not the certificates in contest ed cases, count the electoral vote, and declare tho result, the Senators and Representativos being silent witnesses ; recognizing the fact that the 22nd joint rule, - a dangerous rule at the best, in giving to either House the power to object to and rulo out the vote of a State, - has boen practically abolished and oannot bo restored ; and believing it impossible that the Senate and House can unite upon a bill whioh upon its face and in explioit terms decides the disputed questions, we accept and approve the bill reported by the conference committees, "to provide for and regúlate the counting of votes for President and Vice-Vresident, and decisión of questions arising thereon, for the term commencing March 4, 1877." It is a bill eminently fair, eminently patriotic, guardisd in its provisions, unquestionably constitutional, and opens the way to a solution of the Presidential muddie in such a manner as will satisfy the fair-minded, thinking portion of the people. Boni Republicana and Demócrata who oppose the plan for r.ountiug the electoral vote reported by the conference corninittees, dweil upon the feature of ïnaking five Assoeiate Justices of tho Suprenie Court inumbers of the inixfid coinmission, aud base their atrongest objections upon that provisión. These objectors prate long and learnedly about its being a "politicttl question," and shed numerous tears over the prospectivo demoralization of the Suprouie Court to grow out of its being coustituted "mi element in the settlement of politioal disputes." Wu beg to say first, that the question to be settled is rather a judioial than a political one ; that wholly political bef ore election it is now one of fact and law. The politician has had bis day and the jurist must come to the front. It is, perhaps, iuipossible for the jurors or referees - Senators, Representatives, or Assooiate Justices - to divest themselves entirely of political views andprejudices, yot it is their duty to ignore their own political notiong and desires, and base their decisión in the case of any contested electoral vote on the law governing elections and roturns. This wonld be the duty of that mighty man, the President of the Sonate (real or pro tempore), it would be the duty of Senate or House following established precedents, it will be the duty of the joint board of commissioners created by the compromise bill. It is no more a political act or usurpation than is the decisión of the United States or a State Supreme Court, nullifying the will of Congress or Legialature and holding a regularly enacted law unconstitutional, - an act which may bristle all over with politics; or than is the repeated aotion of State Supreme Courts in hearing and deciding contested election cnses. Except in the absence of the necessary preliminary legislation we can see no reason why the election of a President inight not be oontested in the Supreme Court of the United States, the samo as the eluction of a Governor can be and has been contested in a State court. It is the law the courts administer nut inake, it is the legal not the political questions they deturmine. This " political" bugbear comes from men who care more for political suocess than fur justice and equity. It should havo no weight with those who desire an equitable and judicial determination of all disputed pointe. In saying last week ; " The bilis (of Senate and House) would onable publishers to English such phrases as this, "Mr. A. J. Sawyer, previous notioe naving been givon and leave granted, introduced House bill No. 29, entitled a bilí to ainend subdivisión No. 17 of section No. 477 of the compiled laws of 1877," we desigued no refluction upon Mr. Sawyer's use of the "King's English." Notice, language, and title were orthodox and parliaroentary. What we rueaut was, using Mr. Sawyor's bilí as a sample that the "Journal" published and spread broadcast by order of the Legislature, gavo the reader no clue to proposed logislation, that the set "phrtvse" or bill title was Greek or Latin rather thau English to the editorial mind, - unless jufarmator „eílapaj jd, to state the legislation proposed by the bill used as a sample : It is to prohibit boards of supervisors to audit and allow any bilis not presentad within three days after the opening of any regular session. The evil Bought to be cured, long sessions of the board of supervisors, under the protonso of wuiting tor bilis, is a patent one ; yet the supervisors are not requirod to reniain in session an hour for bilis, but may adjourn sine die as soon as their other business is completed. If the bill of Mr. Sawyer shall be passed into a law it muy, however, work rank injustice to a class of clainiants who get their orders for work or complete their ordírs during a session of the board, and after the first three days. Besides, it niight be questionable whother biils could, under Mr. Sawyer's bill, be received and audited at the adjourned sossions which in many of the coun ties are held anually in December or January, - an adjourned session being but a continuation of a "regular" session. " If MENTION is uiade in your paper of the enelosed petition, a copy of which has been sont to eaoh postniaster in the country, you will confer a favor by sending a copy of the same to me," etc., is the rcquest that conifs with a petition praying Congress to provide by legislature for the purchaso by the Government of all the telegraph linea in the country, with a view to cheap telegaphy and "the sanctity of private correspondence." The "montion" we shall uiake of tho petition and the scheine i uvolved in it, is to disapprove and oondemn. We no in ore favor giving tho telagraph linea of the country to the inanipnlation and control of the Postoffice department or any other dopartment of the Government, than we do the giving of some Government dopartment the control of the journalism of the country or any other branch of buainos8. We have no inolination in the direction of further centralizaron, and our injunction to Congresa is to keep ïands off the great business enterprises f the country. ïelegraphing cannot 'e made as cheup here, if self-sustainng, as in Eugland or any otlior small, ensely populated country, and chyap elography nieans that the mass of peole who do not use the telegraph must be ;axed to accouiplish that end. We will orward a "marked" copy as requosted. TlIE Govoriitnent Las been boat in te suit against the Centennial Board of Tinance, and so none of that $ 1,500,000 oan will find ita way back into tbe reaBury vaults. ïho loss to the troasry will be a gain to the stockholders, who will got back a small percentage of their Bubscriptions, - the principal uot " dividonds." The kumber of failures reported in Michigan for 1876 is 576, with liabilities aggregating $9,730,852. The number, the per cent., and the liabilitiea aro grealer than in eithor of the States of Indiana, lowa, Missouri, or Wisconsin. The bad showing is attributeil to the general prostration of tho iron, luiuber, and salt interesta of the State.