Council Meeting Monday Evening

- i m What the council ought to do ifl to oompel all telegraph companies autering theoity.to use one set of polea, or put their wirea underground. We are pleased to know that the counoil will take steps to prevent boys loafing about the post-otlice building. It has become an unbearable uuisance and long since ought to have been abaled. There is better order at the Michigan Central depot sinco the company employed a speoial officer. The aini of the railroad officials is to brnefit the traveling public and maintian the respectability of the oity. And tliey propose to stand by policeman Porter in his eflbrts to oarry out their orders. Newsboys, another great source of annoyance, have also been bounced from the passenger house. We are pleased to see these nuieancoB abated, and the railroad company will have the thanks of all who are knowing to the abuses that existed nbout the depot for a long time. In fa et they beoame so great that it was necessary to take some aotion. The decisión of the United States supreme court declaring our state law imposing a tax of three hundred dollars upon the drummers of wholesale liquor houses outside of the state, will be a great in jury to the wholsale liquor men. Under our state law the Michigan liquor men were " protected," now there will be " free trade" among all the liquor men of the country and the small retail dealers ought to buy cheaper. So that the decisión, wh'ile it hurte the Michigan wholesale men, will help the'retailers, as nobody expects they will reduce the price of drinks at the bar. This decisión of the republican court has knocked "protectiou" in the head, to a certain extent, and individually increased the profits of the retail liquor dealers. This is a great country! Senator Kempf is quietly working his boom for congress. ( )f course, his chances of re-election to the seuate the coming f all are rather small, as tho present district, oomposed of the counties of Monroe and Washtenaw, will have -at least two thousund democratie majority. This congressional district is republican by a small majority, but party lines are gettingr rather loose, and there will be more wild voting the coming fall, espeoially m this county.than there has been in years. The fact that Waslitenaw has been utterly iRnored by Don Dickinson (of course, the admiuistraiiou is not responsible) in the distribution of federal patronage, has disgust ed many deinoorats and oorrespondingly elated many republicana. Of course, Dickinson is a very great man, but his "policy," as it is, has not tended to strengthen the democraoy of Washtenaw. - i The state presa pietty generally has been discussing the questioa of capital punishment durine the past mouth or two, and by a large majority favor its reestablishment. There is no doubt but that publio sentiment ia Michigan is rapidly changing upon this subject. The increase of the crime ot niurder among na is appalhug and, whether riffht or wrong, it is doubtful ïf the people will be satisfied until the ancient death pefnalty is restored. Of course, the life of the delibérate murdereris not worth pre-, sorving and can have no claim to preservation upon any ground - moral, polihcal or religious. On reiigious grounds, especially, the death penalty should be restored - not only because it is the almost universal testimony that the murderer becomes a docile Christiau just be f ore the drop f al Is, and why should we jeopardize his chances of enjoying forever the society of the saiuts in heaven by prolonging his miserable existence in this vain and carnal world ? Thk presideat squarely refusea to give the senate his reasons for removing federal officers. In this the president does exactly right. The Oxecutive, under the oonstitution is one of the three co-ordinate branches of the government, as independent in his sphere as the legislativo or judicial departments. The president haa just as much constitutional right to demand that tne senators or judges of the supreme court shall give him the reasons for their official action, as senators have tj demand of the president reasons for his official actiou. Grover Cleveland, f he does nothing else, will preserve the dignityand indepe'dence of the presidential office. The people will sustain him If the senate wants a fight it can have it. Senators have more to lose in such a conteet than the president. There is hardly a republican senator who has not more or less relatives or hangers on in federal offices, who might be and probably would be deoapitated at once in case the senate attempts to bulldoze the president. Cleveland and Andrew Johnson are not the same kind of men. Besides Oleveland would have the people with him and Johnson had not. ■ i ■ Stüdents in the high school have promised to inform the school authorities whenever any saloon keeper seJls them liquor in violation of the ordinunces and the state law. It will be dangerous and unsafe to sell to this class oi patrons hereafter. We believe thal nearly all of our saloon keepers intend to obey this law, and not sell to minors attending our publio schools. Of course, th,ey are liable to make mistakes, but i will be for their interest to be on their guard hereafter. Saloon krepers can not depend upon the reticence of young boys" The yarents of the childreu and the school board, insist upon their making a clean' breast of where they get their liquor, and the boys can not and will not refrain from givmg the information. Besides, the public are unauimous in the matter and the soonjr saloon keepers realize this fact the better it will be for their ïuterests. The business of selling liquor to micvs eau never be pi.'fituble in Ana Arbor. Our. saloon keepers are uot fo Is an-1, we-believe, do no; intenr), i? tl dp i, to the law in thi"! regaré ai i we bciiove there will he no more eomplaints of the kind hereaiter.