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13
Month
July
Year
1877
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ids has been closed up, and i'eusion Agent PoBt, at Detroit, paya off all the pousioners living in this State. The New York Sun, evidently with malico aforethought and with a view to the degradation of the President eays: " R. B. Hayes, LL. D., strikingly resembles S. Colfax, LL. !)., in many respects." By an atnendment to sec. 8,135 of the Compiled Laws the time for whioh boys under sixteen years of age can be sentonced to the reform school will expiro at eighteen yoars of age instead oi twonty-ono. The act will tako effocl August 22. And now Gen. Sherwood, of Toledo ex-inember of Congress, bas publicly in a Fourth of July oration, nominated Qen. Grant as the Republican candidato for President in 1880. And tho Blfssfield (Mich.) Eopublicans loudty applauded him. Tuis is the way the Burlington llawieye puts it : " Iowa didn't lowor her flag to the President, but she did haul it down a peg or two to the greenback howlers." That is, the Iowa Republicana love greenbacks more anc Hayes and his policy less. Gov. Croswell, in his Fourth of July oration at Jackson, indorsod the Southern policy of the President, - moderately, or rather put in a plea for a fair trial, He has wisely como to the conclusión that time is one of the factors in the problem of reconstruction or reconciliation, and that " noninterference is tho problem of the hour." It is said that ex-Goveauor Packard and ex-Marshal Pitkin are at the bottom of the returning board prosecution at New Orleans. Also that Packard threatens to " unload " certain tolegrams received from Zack Chandler, Senator Sherman, and McCormiok, then Secretary of the Republican National Committee, and that a general muss is expeoted, - and feared by leading Republicana. " When rogues fall out honest men get their dues." Dr. H. J. Alvord, once a niembor of the Legislature of this State from Lapeer County, for many years a resident of Detroit, but since 1853 most of the time a resident of Washington, and most of that time in government employ, died in Washington on the 7th inst. His remains were brought to Detroit for in terment. - Hon. E. A. Brush, of Detroit, died on the 1 1 tli inst., of heart disease, aged 77 years. nis wife, a niece of Mrs. Gen. Cass, and one son only survivo him. Mr. Brush was one of the heaviest real estaie owners in the city, inheriting tho well known " Brush farm " from his mother, who was a Miss Askin, of Sandwich. Two sons graduated in the University here in 1873, one of whom, Kliut H., died a few months ago ia California. For tweuty-five yoars he had boen a member of the Board of Water Commissioners and for many years its president, and had also held other important positions of trust. This is what John M. Francis, the distinguished editor of tho Troy (N. Y.) Times has to say touching the President's order retiring the office-holders from the management of political eaucuses and conventions : " In our judgment, the great objection to the President's order is its ïujustice, - the dictatorial marnier iu which it assumes to control the action of a class of citizens. The Prosideut's order, ïf respected, wiU prevent a largü class of our citizens, possessing, under the constitution and laws of the country, all the rights and privileges of citizeus uot convicted of crime, from exorcising their influeuce and judgment iu the matter of making noiniuations, - will preveut them from discharging what they may deern their most sacred obligatious. This, too, in regard to a class of citizens who havo been approved by the President as worthy of the coutidence and respect of their iellow-men. Can such au order be deemed otherwise than tyrannical." In view of the fact that Thomas, just appointed Collector of the port of Baltiniore, was and is chairmau of the Republican State Committee, and that Postmaster-Cieneral Key advises Postmaster Keyes, of Wis., that the "order" doe not prohibit the office-bolding members of tho Wisconsin committee (four out of fivo) calling a conveution and setting it running, the orfioo-holding politicians show unnecessary fright. Mr. Bowex, of the Independent, one of the oíd mutual admiration firm of Beecher, Bowen, and Tilton, was master of ceremonies of a Fourth of July celebration at Woodstock, the principal orators being Senator Blaine and exGov. Chambcrlain, of South Carolina, with Oliver Wendell Holmes and Mrs. Mary Clemmer as poets. Senator Blaine set up a scarocrow of Mexican annexation and belabored it right lustily, while ex-Gov. Chamberlain reviewed at length, and vigorously pitched into, the Southern policy of the President, denouncing it as " a great crime, a crime more wanton and unpardouable than the crime against Kansas, which aroused the sleeping conscience of the North, and gave its earliest victories to the Republican party. Thai orime was comtnitted by a President at the bidding of tho porty which olected him. This crime has been committed in dcfiance of the principies and plodges of the Republican party, and in defiance of the personal declarations of the President." Chamberlain overlookod the fact that the " Republican party " does not represent the majority of tho electora of the Union, and that the President never having been elected by Buch majority, or even by the Republican party, but by a " Returning Board " now under indictment for forgery and fraud, and that but little adherence to " principies and pledges, either party or personal," can be expected from him. James F. Joy and Elijali Smith, of Detroit, in the interest of tho firgt mortgage bondholders, bought the Detroit and Eel River railroad at auction ii t Logansport, Friday, for the matter of $750,000. Havixq failed to elect a Republican judge in the new Twenty-third judicia oircuittho orgatis havo taken the job o proving that the clcction was " labor lost." In proof of this view the Dotroi IVibune quotog the following provisión of the Constitution, sec. 20 of article VI: " The first elecion of judges of the Ciroui Court shall bo held ou the first Mouday o April, 1851, aud every sixth year thereafter Whenevor an additioual circuit is created pro visión shall be made to hold the subsequen eiections of such additional judges at the regu lar eïection herein provided." Coininenting on the " muddled " lan guage of the section, and tho " ambigu ous " ineaning of the olause in Itulics, - which anibiguiiy does not appear when theother provisions of the artiole aro con sidered- the Tribune concludes that ' the act authorizing the pleet ion of thu 2.. inst. was unconstitutional and the vot ing on that day was void." Our cotem porary further adds : " The Attornoy General of the State takes the viuw o the case we have just stated, and doe not regard the late special eïection o any legal forcé." Tu get at the meaning of that worc " subsoquent " will the Tribune and At torney-General turn back and read seo tian G of article VI, which próvidos for a división of tho State into eight circuits, and for the eleotion of eigh judges tohold for six years, and in conneotion with such section the one iinmediately following : Sec. 7. The Legislatura raay alter the lim lts of circuits or iucrease the nuiuber of the sarue. No alteration or iucreaso ahall have the effect to remora a judge from otlicc. Iu evory additioual circuit establUhed, the judgo shall be elected by the electora of such circuit, aud his term of office shall continue as provided ia this Coustitution for judges of the Circuit Court. Here is the direct authority given the Legislatura to créate additioual circuits and to order the electiou of additiona judges by the electors of such circuits whose terins shall continue not for six yoars from their first eïection, but rtntil the expiration of the turma of office of the judges already in service. The first term bf a new or " additional ' judge may be a full term or a shorter term, according to the time the circuit is " established " and the first judge theroof elected. Long or short it musí termiuato at the same time with the terms of the judges of the other circuits ; and then the " subsequent eleotion of such additional judges" must bo hold at the regular judicial eïection as fixed in the iirst clause of section 20. If the Constitution did not intend & fitst or prior eïection in a new circuit, its makers certainly would not have used the words " subsequent eiections." When will Attornoy-Generala and editors learn to examine a constitutioual question in its full breadth before volunteering opinious which oan ouly expose their ignorance ? JUSTICE may be lame and halt as well as blind, but delay in measuring out punishment is no indicatiou that forgetfulness is also one of her attributes. And at the last a ray of promise cornos up from the South that the men who stole the electoral vote of Louisiana, who foisted a fraudulent President upon a defrauded nation, are to be called to account for their crimes, and not before any 8 to 7 tribunal, constituted to cover up and acquit, but in a court sworn to execute the law let the blow fall where it will. In the Superior Court of New Orleans, on Thursday, July 5, the District Attorney filed an information against J. Madison Wells, T. C. Anderson, Louis M. Kenner, and G. Cassanave, "charging thein, under section 833 of the revised statutea, with utteriug and publishing as true certain altered, false, forged, and counterfeited eloctiou returns from the Parish of Vernou, at the eïection of November [ast, by adding 158 votes to each of the Hayes electors, and deducting 395 votes from each of the Tilden electors." Other informatioas are to be filed based upon the altered and fraudulent re;urns from other parishes. Wells and Henner surrendored themsolves to the sheriff and gave bail, and it was given out that Anderson and Cassanave would "ollow their example. If the trial is pushed it can scarcely fail to result in the convictiou of the members of this infamous returning board, and such oonviction will legally brand President Hayes as a usurper : what he is already understood to be by well-informed peoale throughout the world. And what a spectacle will be hold up to the gaze of history : a President, the highest officer in the land, enjoying the emolumenta and honors of an office without legal ;itlo, and the men who gave him his mere shadow of title languishing in prison. That is tho picture tho world 8 more than likely to look upon. - It is rumored that Messrs. Wells, Anderson & Co. have appealed to the President for aid ; but that officer is powerless to help them. He is without urisdiction, and as well might reach out his hand to interfere with the administration of justice in Miohigan as in Liouisiana, - to arrest proceedinga in the Circuit Court of Waahtenaw County as in the Superior Criminal Court of New Ürlean8. Mr. Hayes can pour out his sympathy, - may, perhaps, oontribute of lis salary to employ counsel, - but that s all. How fur such aid will go we shall see. The New York Tribune saya : " Clerk Adams haa made out a sweetly elastic Democratie majority that is suro to be 11, and may be 18. Mr. Adams is a coordínate branch of the Government, and we roally could n't get along without him.'' And for being a " co-ordinato branch " Clerk Adams is indebted ;o a Republican Congress. Did n't the Itopublicana enact tho law under which ülerk Adama will mako up his roll, or t he roll of the House, to enable a Repubican clerk to keep the House Republican just as long aa possible ? "Sauce :or tho gooso ia sauce for thu gander," Mr. Tribune, and don't pelt Clerk Adams 'or honestly oboying a Republican law. [t is asking too much of poor human naturo to ask him to be more generoua ;o the Republicana than th law they made for him to exocute, and which io is sworn to execute. - i i i -i ■ The product of Michigan salt during he uiouth of June, aa shown by the State Salt Inspector, was 200,775

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