The Legislature Resumed Work Again

on Tuesday, with both housos iiearly full. Maddox pro ves to be the maggotin the Louisiana Keturning Board's pot of ointment. The Detroit Post thinks it of no possible importance tbat a Presidential eleotor be a citizen. As what the Post thinks is of no possible importance argument is unnecessary. Corliss oouldn't be a Presidential lector, booause he was a Centennial Commissiouer, and his Eepublioan friends propose to compénsate hini by making him Governor of Rhode Island. " Get eioiit up and get " : that is what the President said to revenue officer Maddox, - just because he " told on" the Louisiana Keturning Board. Guess he'll keep his mouth shut next time. Senator Robertson, of South Carolina, Republican, made an able speech on the 9'2th uit., in favor of a resolution recognizing Hampton as thp legally elected and inaugurated Governor óf the Palmetto State. It was a clean and ooncise statement of the law and faots in the case. Speakin'g of the accussion of Judge Davis to the United States Senate, the New York Tribune says : " There is no reason why he should not make a reoord worthy of his ambition, certainly none why so able a lawyer should not be a marked improvement upon his unlawyerlike predecessor." Give the Tribune credit for one spasm of sense. Col. J. F. Pickett, proposed " by authority," to sell Louisiana to Tilden for a million dollars, to be divided between Wells and his conferes. But neither Hewitt nor John Morrissey took the bait, and Morrissey says there was a time when the decisión of the Returning Board " could have had been in favor of Tilden for money, and that, too, without approaching anywhere near the suin mentioned by Col. Pickett." The President has told a gossipy interviewer that there is to be a breaking up of politioal parties and a reorganization on new issues. In the South an effort will be made to divide the negro vote, eto. The President is evidently about done with the Republicans. Out of office and under no obligation to follow ita fortunes into "defeat he will " stand from under." That is the meaning of his oracular utterances. The Republicano are exceedingly happy over the eleetion of Judgn Davis to the Senate in place of Logan. They teil U3 that he ha8 nerer been a Democrat, that he would n't and did n't vote for Tilden, that his son (very important) worked and voted for Hayes, and that he scouts the idea of any commission, tribunal or court going bebind the "■?, wi guiciauia. duul ttuluu uinj ut) taken with several grains of allowance. - i i - ] 1 1 ■ Repúblicas journalists are an nngrateful Bet. Witness the New York Tribune's 8tab at the Louisiana Returning Board : " When the present com" plications are settled, we hope the peo" ple of Louisiana will see, what has " long been plain to the rest of the Ua" ion, that they are not safe until they "rid themselves of the Returning Board. " It has always been the blackest blot " on the administration of their unfor" túnate State. Perhaps they will now " realize that it is also their greatest " danger." And this is the ieward of Wells, Anderson & Co. for their atteinpts to elect Hayes and Wheeler by throwing out over 10,000 votes for Tilden and Hendrioks. What uext? One Judge Carpenter, of South Carolina, from whose oourt a writ of habeas corpus, was issued to discharge a prisoner who had been pardoned by Governor Chainberlain, has reached the conclusión that neither Chatnberlain nor Hampton has been been legally declared elected and regularly inaugurated, but that Chainberlain is governor, holding over for his successor to be duly elected and qualified. Judge Mackey, another South Carolina judge, has also heard application for a writ of habeos corpus in behalf of a prisoner pardoned by Governor Hampton, and has held Hampton legally elscted and installed and his pardon good. Both cases have been appealed to the Supreme Court. It was John Morrissey who told Co). Picfcett that it was not safe to buy the Louisiana Returning Board, and that it would take too much money to keep them, or something to that effect. Which reminds us of a story that used to be told at the expense of our good nutured old fellow citizen, Judge Kingsley. Being rallied about some of his political supporters nntil he lost his balance, report made the judge say: " D n the Irish, you have to buy 'em to get 'em, pay 'eta to keep 'em, and then they aint worth a d -n." It is only fair to say, however, that Judge EL. always exclaimed, " well, well, you put that on pretty thick." Will Morrissey enter the same protest ? It was Returning Board Wells who wrote a letter to Senator West, dated Nov 21, forwarding it by J. H. Maddox, an offioer of the Interna! Revenue Bureau, and from whioh we quote: " Let me, niy esteemed sir, warn you of " the danger. Millions have been sent " here and will be used in the interest of " Tilden, and unless some counter " movoment is made it will be impossi" ble for me or any other individual to " arrest its productivo resulte." As Wells, Anderson, and their two colored associates- all Republioans- held the the game in their own hands, what was "oounter rnovemeut " suggested? Did they want to be paid more than millions to obey the law, do their duty, purify the returns, and declare the State for Hayes and Wheeler ? It has i that look. ,