Litchfield enquirer., 1875-12-16
The Message.

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 The Message.
 There can be no doubt that the annual message sent in by the President to Con- eress on Tuesday of Last week is an able Stats paper. On the whole it is satisfactory document. The portion that occasions most comment is unquestionsbly that which proposes constitutional amendment regarding education. While there is little in this proposition itseff that should call for criticism. the time of making it certainly lends it a somewhat suspicious importance. In few months conventions will meet for the nomination of q president, and this constitutional proposition. if acted upon, will in all probability become leading feature in the coming campaign. If Pres. Grant were politician we should certainly con- sider this pretty loud bid for 6 third nomination. The remarkable declaration of Bishop Haven at Methodist preachers' meeting in Boston shows quick apprecia- ton of the importance of the educational question. by certain ultra Protestants, and willingness to make Grant their standard bearer in that issue. Still the motives that guide ordinary men, or ordinary poll iticians. do not necessarily guide the &C., tions of Gen. Grant. We shall not believe that he has any expectation of a second renominatIon without further evidence. Still less do we believe that any adminis- tration. if united, could force such nom- ination on an unwilling party.
 The taxation of church property is a measure of the necessity of which the President gives conclusive evidence. Still the subject is one that pertains to state, and not to national legislation, under the Constitution.
 We found the portion of the message giving the facts bearing npon the Cuban recognition too long for republication, but eral appreciation. The Cuban republic has not yet entitled itself to recognition even by friendly foreign nations.
 The resumption policy of the President is frank and iudicious. A statute making all sums due on contracts made after Jan- uaEy l. 1877, payable in gold, would bring about specie resumption long before the time set for that event in last winters act of Congress.
 Probably the queerest legislative body now in existence is the French assembly. It does the work of an ordinary legisla- ture and also of what we Americans would term a Constitutional Convention. Its make up is as remarkable as its duties. It is composed of a minority of Republicans. 6 bare majority of Royalists, divided into fLegitimists and Orleanists. and a small number of Bonapartists These factions combine in all sorts of queer ways. Last summer, the Orleanists, ,or Right Centre combined with the Republicans or Cleft" for the formation of Republican consti- tuition. such as it is. On reassembling this fall the Right" or Legitimists joined with the Right Centre in voting down tine Left. Recently. however, on the election of Senators for the coming legislature, the Republicans or Left, combined with the Legitimists or extreme Right. and divided the nominations between them, leaving out the Right Centre entirely, even Min. ister Buffet among them. This is the more important because the remaining half of the Senate to be chosen by the municipalities will be mainly republican also. and if the Republicans succeed in the coming elections, they will control both legislative houses. and compel the resignation of the present antl-republican Ministry.
 pair of important political letters ap- pear in the State papers of Monday. Mir. Lynde Harrison. chairman of our State Central Committee, writes Mfr. J. L. Greene. our last springs candidate for governor, enquiring if the reports that he will decline renomination are true. He thinks Mir. G. could have a renomination If he desires 1t, but remarks that the Lou lsiana business IS now settled ,and that the new campaign must be fought out on new issues, such as the currency and sectarian schools. Mir. Greene replies justifying his hundred guns. and approving the the non-sectarian and hard money policy of the president, but positively declining a renomination.
 The simple fact IS that Mir. Greene's hundred gun salute was a much more im- Pusive than wise proceeding, and the practical endorsement of it by last years Republican Convention a mistake. Mir. Harrison evidently means that the Repub- hcan party shall ''put its best foot fore most, next spring.
 A Michigan man recently sat upon a eoroner's jury which brought in verdict of religious insanity in the case of moth. CT ~ho had killed a child. On going home he found that his own wife had shockingly mutilated their two children, a boy of 14 and girl of three. attempting to kill them with pair of shears. The boy had fought 90 stoutly as to save their lives.
 A lawyer calls our attention to the fact that under existing Jaw a motion for a committee to take the disclosure" of Q party under oath affords more effective TO. lief than that proposed to the State Bar Association and favored in our last. The