"a Good Name Is Better Than Great

riohes:"buta roturuing board is bettor lii.m either. ' THE old saying, "au y body can talk but it takes votes to eleot " is no Ion gor of any account. A returning boarc is botter than votes. TlIE Kapublican State Couvention has been called to meet at Lansing on the 7tli of March, giving the " Legisla tive Ring" tho inside track astwo year ago. Charles C. Wright, of Murquette has been appointed State Commissione of Mineral Statistics, under a law en acted at the present sessicn of the Leg islature. The Board of Comniissioners of th State Houso of Correction at Ionia askei an appropriation of $150,000 for the completion of the buildings. The cotn mittee recouiniend $153,000. -m-4- i Y -i i ii The Logislature has passed a bil changing the name of Mrs. Agnes B Frye and ohildren, of Ludiugton, to Stevens. Better save legsslative time and leave the work of name-chauging to the judges of probate. Not a single meraber of the tripar tite tribunal believed that the Tilden electors did not rece've more votes in Florida than did the Hayes electors, bu that certificate of the Governor, " found ed upon the doterinination of the can vassing board," was to sacred a fraud to justify going behind it. It may be well enough to make Jus tice Bradley the target of all the joke or curses aimed at the tripartito tribu nal for the short-comings of that body but it is the baldest kind of nonsense to hold him more responsible than eithe of his föllow commissioners who concu with him. Bradley has but one vote and that in no sense a casting vote Pitch it to 'eui all alikc. Senator Cameron, a gay widowe of 78 years, has been sinashing th heart of a treasury clerk, a widow forty and fair; and not only. smashing he poor, sitnplo, confiding heart, bu breachiug his promise to marry her wherefor the aforesaid widow come into court and claims damages in th aum of 50,000. Mrs. Oliver is th lady's name. The Senator deuies th ïinpeachmeut, and hints at black-mail. In the great speech of Senator Conk ling on the Electoral Compromise bil he distinctly asserted the right and th duty of Congress to go behind the (Jov ernor's cortificato and unearth frauds, i: any were chargod or known, and pre scnted soveral forcible illustrations in defense of bis position. Yet this saín Senator Conkling votod to sustain th decisión of the Commission in the Flori da case, which asserted tho sacrednes and finality of tho Governor's certificat based on the false aud frauduleut eer titicate of a canvassing boaid. Die Senator Conkling run a f uil line of ace up his 8leove when ho made his speech It has very much that look. TlïE Detroit J'ost questious the oon stitutionality of the proposed law dis qualifying pool-sellers on elections from voting. It thinks that no person hav ing the constitutional qualificatious caí be disfranchised, " no mattor wha may be his offense." And yet we havo a law which essentially disfránchise hundreds of voters at every olection simply for forgettiug or neglecting to register their names. We apprehonc that section G of article seven, " Laws may be pasaed to preserve tho purity o elections, and guard against the abuses of the electivo franchise" is broac enough to cover the legislation in question, or legislation disfranchisiug for crime. Whether the proposed legislation is desirable or wise is another question. Tiib Detroit 2'nin constitutes a cabiuíít for Tilden " in case he gets one vote in Oregon." But suppose Hayes is declared elected by the votes he didn'l get in Florida or Louisiana, honestly or legally, how would this do : Secretary o) State, W. E. Chandler; of the Treasury, Thos. J. Anderson ; of the Navy, M. L. Stearns ; of the Interior, T. G. Casanave; Postmaster-Genera), Samuel B. McLin ; Attorney General, Louis M. Kenner ; and for Justice of the Supreme Court, vice Davis to resign, the pure man and tried statesman, J. Madison Wells ? Zack Chaudler can be sent to Russia or Turkey, and Senator Edmunds, - well, we don't know what position would sufficiently reward hiin for the shrewdness with which he engineered the Electoral Commission bill through coramittee and Senate, under the false pretense of openiug the way to a quasi judicial determination, and a fair and honest settlement of disputed questions, both of law and fact. The Electoral Commission, politically constituted of eight Eepublicans and seven Democrats (though fivoof the members, the Assooiate Justices of the Supreme Court, no business to have any politics or know any party), had such a fear of the facts that it decided it could not go bohind the frauduleut determination of the Florida canvassers, and eo the vote of Florida is recorded for Hayes when all the woald, the members of the Commission included, know that the Tilden aud not the Hayes olectors were elected. In the light of this statement read the declaration of licpresentative Hurlbut, before the Commission, on Tuesday, in discuasing the Louiuiana case : " This Couimission is not sittiug, nor can it sit as a judicial tribunal to try whioh of the two gentlemen nauied for Prosideut have actuully been electod." Then what on earth was the Commission sitting for ? Why, to make pretense of decidiug how Florida and Louisiaua voted, but really to register and oonflrm the fraudulont decrees of their canvassing and returning boards, - sugar-cout and make them more palatable. That is it. The State Ghange hasmemorializei the Legislatura in favor of further leg islation "with rfiference to takiug o usurious interest, either directly or in direotly, by penalty or forfeiture of in terest, or otherwiso, as will more effect ually correct the ovil." One of th resolutions aocorapanying tlie memo rial, or constituting a part of it, says " That in the opinión of th8 Grang seven per cent. is as high an interes as the agriculturists of this State can safely pay." Now, as a borrower, w strike hands with the Grange in desir ing a low rate of interest - five or si per cent. would suit us bett.er than sev en. As a consumer, too, we shoulc profit by buying our provisions at auto war prices, so suppose we ask the Legis lature to fix the maximum prioo of bul ter at 15 cents a pound, of eggs at 1 cents a dozen, of potatoes at 25 cent a bushei, of wood at $1.00 a cord (w have received the four articles on sub scripiion at 12 1-2 cents, 6 cents, 1 cents, and 75 cents), with a correspond ing scale for grains, vegetablos, anc fruits of all kinds. How would suc legislation suit the average Granger Is money an exceptional article that it price may be definitely regulated b; law ? The law may well establish rate in the absence of special contrac or agreeinent, - is it wiso to do more As a large number of the agriculturisi are money leuders wo trust that w shall not be suspected of antagonism t the best interests of the agricultura classes. There is no conflict of interest between the producing and consumin cla6ses, between the farmer and th tradesman. Both aim to sell in th dearest and buy in the cheapest iuarke - paying the inarket valuo for produc when they buy, and getting the marke value of goods, wares, and rnerchandis when and where they "sell. Money i iike any article, - when or where i active and great demand it will coin mand a high rate of interest ; when o where it is abundant or over-supplied in terest will be low. That is the way th interest question looks to us ; thoug monoy has the advantage of heavy anc bulky articles, it is more easily movec long distances, and is generally in de mand at all scasons and in all section though not always alike or at Iike rate of interest. Legislation cannot estab lish a perfect aud enduring equilibriuu either in deuiaud, supply, or value. On Saturday last the Electoral Com niission reported its decisión in th Florida case. It was immediately con curred in by the Senate ; the House die not consider it until Monduy, and the voted to non-concur. Both bodies divi ded, as did the Coinraission, by a part; vote. The Commipsion based its decis ion on the finality of the deterimnatio of the board of cauvassors, and the reas ons filed were shrewdly drawn, evident ly with a view of covering the Louisia na and Oregon {cases. Tho couut pro ceeded in joint conveution, Monday ai ternoon, and wheu Louisiana was reach ed, the conflicting returns and accom panying papers were sent to tho Com mission. The case was opened for th Demócrata on Tuesday, by Senator Mc Donald, who was followed on tho sam 8ide by Mr. Jonks. Messrs. Hurlbu and Howe presented the case for th llepublicans. Hon. Matt. Carpente opened, as attorney for the Louisian Democratie electors, Tuesday evening aud concluded Wednesday, making sledge-hammer argument. When h closed, the Commission, despite it ruling in the Florida case, granted fou hours in which to discuss the aduiissi bility of evidence, and Messrs. Trum buil, Stoughton, and Shollabargor, pro ceeded to discuss that question until ad journraent. This re-opening of a onc decided question, seeined to give the Re publicans the shakes. The legislators seem to be after the University. Mr. Welker, of Branch, has introduced a bilí repealing the law requiring an annual tax levy of l-20th of a mili in aid of tbe institution ; and Mr. Winchell, of Allegan, a bilí to abolish the oíd medical department, the homeopathie college, and the dental school. These gentlemen evidently would disagree with President Fairfiold, of the Uuiver8ity of Nebranka, who said in a recent address to the Legislature, - in which he had made many allusions to the University of Michigan, its history and progresa, with a numbor of most favorable comparisons botween it and othur universities aud colleges, - " Were Michigan offered a bonus of ten " million dollars to blot out her Univer" sity, and leave nothing in its stead, "she would bo insane to accept it. For " her minos of iron and copper, her pine " forests and her aalt springs coinbined, " have not contributed a quarter part as 'much to her renown as her Universi' ty." And whoii the Legislature shall aegin to lop off the departments of the [Juiversity of Michigan, it will enter ;he wedge of its complete destruction. - President Fairfield says that the average cost por student is : at Harvard, 5233 50; at Yale, $120 75; at Brown, 529140; at Columbia, $1GS ; at Am herst, $168 ; at Cornell, $2(58 ; at the University of Michigan, $99 75.