New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-06-04

best qualified for the grave and delicate re-
sponsibility of making wholesome laws Tor
all the people of tho State-deliberateiy
and with pre-oonsidered purpose frit-
tered away tho whole OF yesterday In
the boys play called "flibustering,"
with no earthly object in the whole OF it
beyond comprising a petty and contemplate
party triumph. And while they did it thou
sand more stood and looked OH like spectators
at dog fight, wasting their own time anu
turning the seriousness Of public business
into an empty farce. And at the cnd OF
all of it what is thercf Nothing Dut
embittered animosities and useless rage.
Each side has referred to the Judges
of the Superior Court series OF qles-
tons which the Court cannot take cognHance
of officially. Whatever answer they may make
is entirely void of force or effect except as these
representatives of the hostile partisan organi-
cations may agree to accept them. The ques-
lions do not come to the Court with the sane
ton Of any formal proceeding, and the decls-
ion, il any is made, must be entirely extra
judicial. It will bind no one; will have no
force except as anticipatOry of formal proceed
ings, if any should be had. The two men
TO whom the Governor and Council
have attempted to give seats in tho Senate.
contrary to the express provisions of the law,
did receive a plurality Of votes. In itself it is
not an outrage that these men should sit Tor
tho constituencies they claim to represent. In
many if not most of the States it is provided
That plurality of votes shall elect State
Senator'S They are elected by a plurality of
votes, just such as these men received, and
they hold their seats and take part in
legislation, and no one intimates that
any wrong is done by it or that it ought
to be otherwise.
But in New Hampshire, by a constitu-
tional provision, the wisdom or unwisdom
of which is not part of this dis
clsson, it is made necessary that Senator
should have a majority of all the votes cast,
and the two men whose seats are in dispute
did not, upon any reasonable construction OF
the law, have majority of the votes. Inc
Republicans, who oppose their admission, are
simply clinging to the spirit and the letter OF
the law. The Democrats by their Governor and
Council, who exceeded their powers, and by their
representatives in tho Legislature who uphold
the Governor and Council, have undertaken to
gain by very petty and contemplate quibbling
a mean advantage over their opponents. They
are in the wrong, and through the whole busi-
ness have shown their consciousness OF the
fact. Their great weakness is in the fact that
they fail to comprehend, in their eagerness to
secure small and insignificant advantage,
that they arc disclosing to all the
world the spirit and the purpose of the
organization of which they are part. There
is nothing that they can gain in New-Hamp-
shire that can in the smallest measure cOmpen-
safe for the disrepute into which they bring
the name of the party by engaging in this
pcttifogging business. The people of the whole
country are looking on at this quarrel.
And while they do not care the toss
of a copper which party has the majority in
the New Hampshire Senate, they do feel an
exceeding anxiety to know what sort of hands
they would fall into in case they should think
q change of parties necessary in the admins
tration of the General Government in 1875.