Elected: Tilden And Hendricks

Counted in : Hayes and Wheeler. The nambs the Conimission's elect are nuw kuown by : Returning Board Hayos and Willing Acoomplice Wheoler. Gen. McArthur, of Chicago, is the latest defaulting postmaster. He bas made way with $56,000 of the people's iiKiney, but the (ioverumcnt in alleged to be a secured oreditor. TUE Kalauiazoo Gautte (Democratio; says : " Judge Cooley is oue of the best Judges that has set upon the Supreme beneh of Michigan, and we hope he will bo re-elected without opposition." The Methodist ministors of New Vork City show no oventock of good sense or Christian spirit in their Monday meetings. They shonld either bridle their tongues or lock the doors and plug up the key-holes. And a piaster uiight be well placed ovor Bro. Buckley's mouth. Vkey naturally the Detroit Post don't like the pending House bill providing for the temporary tilliug of the office of President in oertain emergencias. If it should only be passed into a law it would break certain Bapublican slates: and that's what's the matter with it. The Coinmi8sion wrestled with South Carolina on Tuesday, and by a unanimous vote decided that the rote of the State should not be counted for Tilden. It was given to Hayes by the usual vote of 8 to 7. The Democratie members held that there was no legal election in the State. In the Senate, on Monday, Senator Burleigh's resolution amending the Constitution by inoreasing the salaries of Cirouit Judges from $1,500 to $2,500, was defeated by a vote of 21 to 11, the requisito two-thirds not voting yea. The Senate, in following the ezauiple of the people, is " penny wise and pound foolish." Three more candidatos for Begents have been added to the Bepublican list. The Kalamazoo Telegraph enters Dr. L. C. Chapin, of the " big village," brother of Hbv. L. D. Chapin, formerly of this city ; and the Allegan Journal names Gen. B. F. Pritchard, of Allegan, and L. J. Bates, the poet-editor of the Detroit Post. Cron'in" was not elected in Oregon and the seven Democratio members of the Electoral Commission so voted, - uotwithstanding the certifícate of Gov. Grover. The Republioan electoral oandidates were not elocted in Louisiana, and the Bepublican members of the Electoral Commission knew it, yet they refused to look not behind but at the certifícate of a fraudulent returning board. Which were the partisans ? Mr. Scales, of North Carolina, made a little speech in the House on Monday, and quoted the following stanza to show his appreciation of J. Madison Wells and his ooileagues of the Louigiaua Beturning Board : The River Rhine, as is well kuown, Doth wash the City of Cologne ; But teil me wliat, ye owers divine, Shall thenceforth wash the ICi ver Rhine. 1 1 - - 1 1 The House had a warm time over South Carolina on Wednesday, but finally met the Senate in joint convention and the vote was counted for Hayes. Teonessee and Texas were counted for Tilden. When Vermont was called objection was made, the houses separated, and the House immediately took a recesa until 10 o'clock a. m., yesterday. It is probable that Wisconsin was reached yesterday, and that the count will be concluded to-day. We reoret to see that the Committco on Ways and Means of the House has reported against Mr. Ireland's bill repealing the act of 1875, which requires every officer receiving or disbursing public moneys to keep the same separate and apart froui his own moneys, etc. The terms of the law are well enough for officers furnished with offices, safes, &o., but they are altnost impossible to be obeyed by the mass of town treasurers and minor officers. Honest officers and good bail will better protect the publio than a requirement to keep the funds in a separate stocking or tin box, or under a separate stone in the cellar. Legislation in direction of the bill of '75 is running to seed. The State Board of Centennial Commissioners aak the Legislature for an appropriation of $12,245, of which suin $8,595 are wanted to meet actual deficieucies in expenses incurred. The balance is to pay Mi. Noble, Secretary of the Commissioners, $2,000 ; Mr. Jacokes, who hud charge of the lCducational ExhiHt, $1,500; and Mr. Bradyt in charge of the Mineral Exhibit, $450. A question or two arises : Have Messrs. Noble, Jacokes, and Brady had their expenses paid already '{ Do the above suins include their expenses, or are they in addition and for services alone ? If the latter a little paring down might well be done befor passing the bill. The original appropriation placed at the disposal of the Commissioners was $7,000. The Dejiocratic members of the Legislature held a cauous on Monday evening last, and after protracted discussion adoptcd the following resolutian : Resolved, That haviuj? consented to the formatiou ot the electoral commissiou we counsel subinission to lts dooisious, but regarding lts action as violating every principie upon which it was cstabilshed we advise that uo turther couutenance be given it by participatiug in the further action or decisión. Which reminds us of the oareful hunter, who, being uncertain of his game, "shot to hit it if a deer and miss itif a calf." Well, it was better than advising filibustering or wah ! The Demócrata in Congress, and the mass of the Deinocracy out of it, having assented to the law should accept the result. Quarreling among themselves over the spilt milk will not better thiogs. A NOT yery oreditable pieoe of legislation was perpetrated at Lansing on Saturday last. The House Committeo on Local Taxation reported back "A bilí (No. 599) to extead the time to oolleot the State and county taxes of the tifth ward in the city of Detroit," with a substituto therefor, recommended that the substituto be conourred in, and that the bilí (or substituto) do pass. The House, being in au accorumf dating mooil, conourred in adopting the substituto, suspended tho rules, and passed the bilí, - yeas, 65; nays, 0. Theu the title was changed to read "A bilí to uitend the time for the collootiou of taxes iu the towuship of Grosse Point in the oounty of Wayne," and the bill uut to the Senate and immediately passed by that body. If uniinportant bilis may be passed in this way, iu violation of the Constitution, more important ones may. Gov. Croswell might well interpone his veto in such cases, - and can not well avüid doing so unless ignorant of what the Houte journal show. - Another legislativo fraud was perpetrated on Tuesday, - the House again being the instigator, on which day "A bill to legalize the tax roll of the township-of Duplain, in the county of Clinton, for the year 1876," was given a new body, passed, and then the title changed to "A bill to extend the time for the collection of taxes in the township of Springwells, in Wayne county, for 1876." And legislators have sworn to support the Constitution. In the cases named this violation of a plain constitutional provisión is without auy possible necessity (there could be no excuse for it,) because the laws of the State give township boards the right and power to extend the time for collection of taxes That they neglected to do so in time is no excnse for riding rough-shod over Constitution and oaths. SKNATOK CONKUNQ ventured a short speeoh upon the decisión of the Eleotoral CoininiBsioii in the Oregon case, in which he said, " Oregon meant to ap" poiut Kepublican Presidential Elec" tors. The people of Oregon, by a " plain, undenied majority, liouestly " and intentionally voted for the Re" publican electora." And again, " 1 " believe Oregon's votes should speak, " as those who had the right and power " to utter the voice of that State meant " they should speak. My vote here will "express this judgment. All beyond " that I disclaim." Brave words ! But then, why was not Senator Conkling as brave and outspoken when Florida wan before the Senate ? Why did he vote to stifle the "voice" of Florida? Why was he adsent from his seat when Louisiana was oounted for Huyes, by order oi the Commiseion ? He could not stand up in his seat and say, " I believe Louisiana's votes should speak, as those who had the right and power to utter the voice of that State meant they shoulc speak " (for Samuel J. Tilden), and then vote to confirm the decisión of the Commission and give eight votes to Hayes, which the " voice " of the people never " meant " to give him, and never dic givo him, and so he snoakod away frota the Senate Chamber and allowed the fraud to be oonsutninated without hÍ9 protest. And that is the measure o: Conkling. Amono the numerous bilis introduced into one or the other branch of the Legislature pertaiuing to the University or some of ita departinents, is one to transfer the School of Mines to the Upper Península. Au exclusive mining school, no matter where established, would prove a very expensive affair. There must be buildings, numerous professors (for the gradúate of a school of mines must study more than one branch), laboratorios, apparatus, &c. Can the State afford to duplicate buildings, professorships, laboratories, and apparatus 'i And if it can would a small and exclusive school, established at a small miuiag town, furnish any attraotions to students? The experience of the educational world is that the more departuients and facilities can be combined in, at, and around one institution the moro special schools therein will thrive and prosper, and the greater will be the success of each. The Legislature may experiment too much with an institution whioh is the pride of the State. In view of the prospectivo inauguration of Hayes and Wheelor our Republican friends are advised to make a note of the following prophetic words from the pen of Secretary Fish to Gen. Dix : " If either candidato be placed in pow" er with a reasonable, well-grounded " doubt as to his rights to be there, his " will be no enviable position, and the "days of his party's supreraacy will be " numbered with those of his own oc"cupaucy of a position thus acquired." The fact,l known to all men, that Florida and Louisiana both voted for Tilden but have both been counted for Hayes through fraud to which the Electoral Commission made itself a party by making it its own, makes that " reasonable " and well grounded dcubt " so pluiu that the way-fariug man, though ever so big a fooi or blind a partisan cannot err in his verdict. Fish didn't measure his words that time. DiscüSSINO the proposed re-nomination of Judge Cooley, of this city, by the coming Kepublican State Convention, the Chicago Times says : "Judge Cooley has reached an eminonce in jurisprudence as great as that of any living American, and is an ornament to a nation, which, young as it is, has produoed jurists as profound and as learned as those of Eugland iu any period, and upon whose personal character has appeared no blemish of weakness or stain of corruption." Also : " Khoulil Mr. Hayes become President, as seems probable, he could scarcely do an act which would more generally reconcile people of all parties to his elevation to the Presidency than by calling Judge Cooley, or, at least, some one nearly as fit, to Judge Davis's vacated place in the judiciary of the United States, which is now in dire need of a proper replenishment." The Supreme Court needs a little new lite and vigor, a little of Jndge Cooley's industrious, oonscientioua woiking habita.