Ypsilanti, The Tramp's Paradise

How to dispose of a class ot men wno liavo by a career of shiftlessnesa, pt-eferring idleness to work whpn work wns ntt.iinable, transforming themselves inU, tmveling vagabouds, preying upon Ilie public, living uy.on its bonnty, HtciUing rides upon pöblio highway, fyKhtening women and chiMren, hns ti.cn a study of more than one legislative body. In Rome looalitiea the pas■sge of stringent laws, cotupeliing these Tgrants to labor in some cnpscity, has .,v..rt to rid such comniuritifS of their j,.f8cnce. Whcre others have failed to yrovide penalties thoy bave been overrid.ten with them. The northern portion of the state remóte from thoroughfres and not but littlo if any, troubled by these people com pared to southern Michigan, through its representativos defeated a bilí at the last session of the logislature desigued to do something to protect that part of the state where trnnips most docongregate. The Michigan Central is their i'avorite route east nd west, and therefcre cities and villages along its line have been and now ro plagued with their presènce. Within the past year Ypsilanti has bccome a. favorito locality for tramps. To-day a gang would present thernselvtis be furnished lodgings and mcals, depart, aud iu a fow days thereafter again apply for the same. Not only the identictl persons, but fresh arrivals offered tliat aomehow liad learned how bountifully they were provided for at this their "favorite place. Expenses to the county were rapidly accuuiulating. Koinebody was uiaking a good thing. Jacob Martin, proprietor of a lock-up was erecting a handsome bilí for tax payers to meet. Supt. D. B. Green was profiting by a temporary sojouru of these vagabonds. To show our readera what the expense to the county has been the past uionth we re-produce bilis audited at a meeting of county superintendeuts on Tuesday : Jucob Martin, fooa amUock-p, - - $400.25 I) B Oreen, Kupt, Poor, drawiag ordera, - tO.OO Mr. Schutts, Supervisor, do . do - =477 93 Supt. Duffy introduced a resolution, ■wbioh was flnally cariied, although lúa colleague Green amended by auother reduoing price from 50 to 40 cents per day, providing that on and after Feb. '5 no more tramps shall be fed at the county's expense. Thus it appears Mr. Martin who has lodged and fed 800 trampa during the past month, will soon go out of busineBS for which tax payers will rejoice.notwithstanding Mr. (ireeu's effort to keep it going at a reduced prioe of 10 ceuts per head. It might not be amiss to state in thia connection that Supt. Duffy's bill l'or six weeVs past for care of tranaient poQr has been f13,25. Oocasionally our attention is oalled to the hypoorisy and sham reform of Hayes' adruinistration, which set out ■with so roany promises. Executive order number one relating to civil service reform, famous at one time nas beeii treated so disrespectfully in the house of its nupposed friends that none are so poor as to do it revereuce. Chauncey T Filley is member of the national rcpublican committee froiu Missouri, and a1 the coniuieicenent of Hayos' trution, posttnaster of St. Louis. Mr. Sohurz opposed his re-appoiutment on the ground that he wa3u't a good nough civil service reforiner. Entertining great respect tor the fainous order, he observes with pain that his brother offioe holders of MisRouri do not observe its letter and spirit. He sits down and writee to Washington asking wbich oflicers and for whoui the rule may be violated. Filley is waiting for a response Senators long ago learned uot to look too r.tpBRlv into thp ■ ,:" yhich their ieüow-nieinbers were eleoted. It is Bafe to say that a very large uiajority of th8 body wero elevated to' high posilion by means of bribery of ono kind and another. Bribery is not always eonfined to the paying of money tor votes, but promÍ8es of place to parties of the second part or their friun.ls, form lndncetaeuts oiten adopted togain votes. There is no reasoa to doubt senator Iugtills of Kansas was electod by the most corrupt mothods, yet an iuvestigation comuaittee, conceding the above to be true, aro unable to trace corruption to Ingalls, and will theretbre not report in favor of expulsión. Ingalls knew enough to employ the right persons to do the corrupting. Shrawd candidatos do not do suuh work. AU the census supervisors named by the president for Ohio woro reiocted by the senato, ai'ter earnest aud argumenton, who asserted the law intouded thert should be no partisanship in the selection of men to perforen this duty. 'We have thought the innjorily of this body, in whose power confirination or rejection of appointmentsis vested, was too clover altogether with the exeoutive bcfore the Ohio senators enterert their objections. ïhis patronage is out of tbe regular order, and no one will suffer if the two branches of government get at loggerheads over supervisors of tbe census- unles8 it be those anxious rcpubliean candidates wbo fear tbe democratio senate. Utterly regardless of geographical linea tbe NewsJias undertaken the great task of seouring the political state eonTentions at Detroit. It would be very agreeable of course to Detroit landlords and Detroit delegates but it is very probable uine delegates will not be willing to sacrifico time and expense togo to the 8outb-east corner of the state, tbat the tenth delégate may be pleased, or that hotels niay enjoy atemporaryboom "Our Diocese" Í8 nunibered with the dead. Detroit is strewn with wreoks of ambitioua newspaper gentry who bolieve themselves bom to be public educatora. Though the papors are dead, the fools are not, for others will cotne along and try their hand. Congressman Speur of the Atlanta, (Ja. district in ust be a very exeuiplary man, 9 republicana would suy, for a democrat. Araong the few regi mental bands in the ervice, one is located at Atlanta, and is n the hubit of playiag on Sunday. Spear, believing thia to be adesecration f the Lord's day, introduces a, bilí into oongreM to prohibit pUying on that dy. Gen. Sherman dislikes suchintereroncewith bis music and writes to Spear that if he prefses bis bilí, he will remove the garrison from Atlanta. Tho citizeiiB tlieruof fearing Sherman will carry into excution bis threat aie beseeching Spoar to go no further, wbile Spear will cali the general of the army to account for tbreatening to use his power to influenoe logislation. The General has put bis foot in it. Was there ever suoh n exhibition of ingratitude toward an executive as is manifested by one hundrel thousand office holders, none of whoin, high or low, atteuipt to manufacture a boom tor theirchief? Hayesis not only despised by the uien who run tho party, but bis cabinet Buffer on aeconnt of association with the adininistration.- Shermin is thus water-logged in his auibition; Evarts is so seriously damaged that he is out of tho race altogether. Hayes' assertion tbat he would not accept the chair if there was a shadow of doubt as to his title may have some thing to do with the almost universal disropute he and his administration has acquired since March 4, 1877.