We reaffirm the national Democratic platform adopted at Chicago in 1892, and cordially indorse the administration of President Cleveland. We congratulate the people upon the revival of prosperity everywhere evident in our land, and we assert that the industrial depression with which we have been afflicted during the past three years is chargeable to the national legislation enacted by the Republican party. The purchase of silver to be stored in the Treasury and the enactment of unjust tariff laws to enrich a few favorites by the oppression of millions of consumers were the main causes of the paralyzation of our markets.

We denounce as maliciously false the statements of the Republican State platform that the government of New Jersey has been conducted by the Democratic party in a dishonest or extravagant manner. We favor the adoption of a constitutional amendinent that will render impossible any law for the legalization of gambling in any form.

We pledge the Democratic party to the enactment of laws that will secure to the people of New Jersey control of the potable waters of the State.

We condemn the action of the late Republican Legislature, which ridiculed every request made for legislation in the interest of organized labor and repealed acts passed by Democratic Legislatures for the protection of the wage workers of New Jersey. Alexander T. McGill was nominated for Gov

ernor.

At the election in November 5 candidates were voted for. In addition to those above named the People's party, by petition, nominated William B. Ellis, and the Socialist-Labor party, by petition, nominated Joseph B. Keim. The result was the success of the Republican party, the Republican candidate for Governor and the 7 Republican State Senators being elected. The vote for Governor was as follows: Griggs, Republican, 162,900; McGill, Democrat, 136,000; Ellis, Populist, 1,901; Wilbur, Prohibitionist, 6,661; Keim, Labor, 4,147. The total vote was 311,609; in 1892 it was 336,871. The Legislature in 1895 was composed of 18 Republicans in the Senate and 43 in the House, and 3 Democrats in the Senate and 17 in the House.

NEW MEXICO, a Territory of the United States, organized Sept. 9, 1850; area, 122,580 square miles. The population, according to each decennial census, was 61,547 in 1850; 93,516 in 1860; 91,871 in 1870; 119,565 in 1880; and 153,593 in 1890. Capital, Santa Fé.

Government.-The following were the Territorial officers during the year: Governor, William T. Thornton, Democrat; Secretary, Lorion Miller; Treasurer, S. Eldodt; Auditor, Marcelius Garcia; Adjutant General, G. W. Knable; Solicitor-General, J. P. Victory; Superintendent of Public Instruction, Amado Chavez: Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Thomas Smith; Associate Justices, N. C. Collier, N. B. Laughlin, G. D. Bantz, H. B. Hamilton; Clerk, George L. Wyllys.

Finances. The receipts for the last two quarters of the forty-fifth fiscal year were $168,795.30; the expenditures, $134,455.96. The receipts for the first two quarters of the fortysixth fiscal year to Sept. 1, 1895, were $100,580.44; the expenditures were $104,868.34. For appropriations made by the 31st Legislative Assembly the total sum of $21,758.29 was paid.

The Territorial indebtedness July 25, 1895, was: Capitol building bonds, 7 per cent., $200,000; Capitol contingent fund bonds, 6 per cent.,

$50,000; current expense bonds, 6 per cent., $150,000; provisional indebtedness bonds, 6 per cent., $200,000; Insane Asylum bonds, 6 per cent.. $25,000; casual deficit bonds, 5 per cent., $100,800; refunding bonds, 6 per cent., $101,000; Penitentiary refunding bonds, 6 per cent., $81,000; total bonded indebtedness, $907,800.

Valuation and Taxation.-From the Governor's report to June 25, 1895, the following figures are taken: Valuation of lands in 1894, $12,780,909.77; of houses and improvements, $5,969,048.16; of 63,623 horses, $1,263,613.65; of 3,724 mules, $140,732.88. Upon the foregoing property the rate of assessment for 1894 was as follows: For Territorial purposes, 6 mills on the dollar; for casual deficit bonds, interest, 0.25 mills; for Territorial institutions, 150 mill; total rate of 7.75 mills. To the above rate is

added one half of a mill on the assessed value

of cattle. The total assessed value of all kinds of property was $41,128,620.95; the exemptions of all kinds were $2.038,119.31; balance subject to taxation, $39,090,501.64. On this amount the arithmetical product of taxes for the forty-sixth fiscal year is: For Territorial purposes, $233,683.61; for casual deficit, bond interest, $10,288.98; for Territorial institutions, $58,435.28; for cattle indemnity, $2,227.69; total, $304,636.56. The receipts in the treasury during the first three quarters of the forty-fifth fiscal year amounted to $186,281.06.

A new tax law provides that after Jan. 1, 1895, "city councils and boards of trustees of incorporated towns shall have power and au thority to levy taxes upon the same classes of property, real, personal, and mixed, within the limits of such city or town, as are subject to taxation for territory and county purposes for city or town purposes,' provided that only 1 per cent. shall be levied or collected upon the value of said property as assessed by such city or town."

Education. The receipts during the school year, including balance due Dec. 1, 1894, were $118,771.20. Expenditures: Teachers' wages, $56,229.07; rent, fuel, etc., $10,055.23; schoolhouses and grounds, $6,935.75; on hand, $26,929.09; total, $115,820.94. The number of teachers was 403; and of schools 310, with an enrollment of 14,507 pupils. The School of Mines, which had been closed for a year, was reopened in September, with a fair attendance. The normal school at Silver City opened with about 100 students. The last Legislature appropriated $10,000 for enlarging its buildings, and the same amount for the normal school at Las Vegas, which has not yet been opened. For the enlargement of the Agricultural College, where 85 students were entered in September, $15,000 was voted, and for the Military Institute at Roswell a bond issue of $15,000 was authorized. During the year the United States Government assumed control of the Ramona Indian school for girls, at Santa Fé.

The Asylum for the Deaf, Dumb, and Blind had under instruction during the year 10 deaf and 9 blind pupils.

Charities. The 4 hospitals receiving Territorial aid are in good condition, and not hampered by lack of necessary funds. The number of patients received at the St. Vincent Hospital,

at Santa Fé, during the year ended March 4, 1895, was 131; the number treated was 158. The expenditures were $7,119.67, and the legislative appropriation was $6,000. To the Orphans' Home and Industrial School, for girls only, the expenses of which were $5,872, for the care of 67 pupils during the year $5,000 was appropriated.

For the enlargement of the Insane Asylum, which is very much crowded, an issue of bonds to the amount of $35,000 was authorized.

Penitentiary.-There remained in the Penitentiary June 30, 1895, 191 prisoners, 264 being the total number in confinement during the year, a daily average of 166. The cost of maintenance has been reduced from 43 cents a day to 38.84 cents.

Legislative Session.-The Legislature organized Jan. 3 and adjourned Feb. 28. About 60 bills passed the two houses, but several of them failed to reach the Governor in time. With the exception of the appropriation bills and one or two other measures, very few general laws were enacted. Among them are the following:

Regulating cattle brands.

Prohibiting the sale of tobacco or giving it, in any form, to persons under eighteen years of age. Amending chapter li of the laws of the twentyeighth Assembly, so that no property shall be sold under decree until ninety days after the date of such decree.

Repealing certain sections of the Compiled Laws, so that a married woman is not now compelled to live with her husband irrespective of his treatment of her.

Providing for the probating of foreign wills. Regulating the practice of medicine and establishing a board of health.

Authorizing the funding of outstanding indebted

ness.

Providing a bond issue of $75,000 for the erection of the Capitol at Santa Fé; and one of $15,000 for the New Mexico Institute, at Roswell. Establishing a weather and crop service for collection of crop statistics and climatological data.

Court of Private Land Claims.-In this court there were tried between Aug. 13, 1894, and June 26, 1895, 37 suits, involving the ownership of 15,731,818 acres, the grant of 589,096 acres being confirmed. A claim for 10,000,000 acres in Arizona and 2,000,000 acres in New Mexicoknown as the Peralta-Reavis grant-was brought before the New Mexico court and proved to be fraudulent. A rectangular tract was involved measuring 75 miles from north to south and 225 miles from east to west, and containing, in Arizona, the State capital, Phoenix, and the towns of Florence, Maricopa, Clifton, and others,

and supporting a population of more than 40,000 people. On March 27, 1883, James Addison Reavis filed in Arizona a petition setting forth that, by purchase from the heirs of the original grantee, he had become the owner of a tract in New Spain granted by Ferdinand VI of Spain to Miguel de Peralta de la Cordoba in 1748, located in 1758; the grant and location being confirmed by Carlos III. Upon this showing, sustained by pretended original documents from the Government archives of the city of Mexico, duly attested transcripts of the record in the city of Guadalajara, etc., Reavis petitioned the Surveyor General to recommend the confirmation of the alleged grant to him by the United States. After thorough investigation the prayer of the petitioner was denied, forgery and fraud being asserted. But while the claim was pending, on Sept. 2, 1887, Reavis filed an amended claim to the property under the title of his alleged wife, Doña Sofia Loreto Micaela de Peralta Reavis, née Maso y Silva de Peralta de Cordoba, alleged granddaughter of the original Miguel de Peralta de la Cordoba, and signed himself thereto as James Addison Peralta Reavis. This claim called for a still larger tract, and the suggesport were used to strengthen and perfect it. tions of the Surveyor General in his adverse reThe pretended grant claim was filed for confirmation in the United States Court of Private Land Claims in Santa Fé, Feb. 18, 1893. Matthew G. Reynolds began the investigation on the part of the Government; experts were sent on investigating missions to Mexico and Spain and to California, and even judges of the court went to California, to Mexico, and to Spain to take testimony, with the final result of proving, in 1895, that the whole structure was a forgery; that no Miguel de Peralta ever existed, that no such grant as alleged was ever made, and that the wife of Reavis was really the daughter of one John Treadway and a Digger-Indian squaw.

Supreme Court Decisions.-A decision of this court given in October ends the suit of the Bent heirs against the Maxwell Land Grant Company, involving the title to a twelfth interest in the Maxwell grant, a case that has been before the courts for thirty-five years. The decision was a complete victory for the Maxwell Company.

The Capitol.-In 1884 the Territory issued $200,000 of bonds at 7 per cent., and in 1887 $50,000 at 6 per cent., to erect and furnish a Capitol building. In 1892, soon after its completion, it was burned; but figures given by the Capitol Custodian Committee show that the value of the uninjured portion of the building is not less than $45,000. The last Legislature authorized the issue of bonds to the amount of $75,000 at 5 per cent. to restore the building, and work was at once begun.

Irrigation. The fourth annual Irrigation Congress met at Albuquerque, Sept. 16, delegates from Kansas, Nebraska, Texas, Colorado, California, Arizona, Utah, Oklahoma, and New Mexico, as well as Mexico and Canada, being present. It was asserted that the reclaiming of arid lands made additional legislation necessary, and the control by the General Government of the various irrigating systems was strongly advocated. Following is an account, under date

of Aug. 16, 1895, of what has been accomplished within a year in the Bluewater valley, Valencia County, through irrigation:

The Bluewater valley was nine months ago an arid, dry, sandy, and wind-swept waste. On Aug. 24, 1894, we placed our first scraperful of earth upon our proposed dam, since which time we have constructed a dam 150 feet base, 260 feet long, and 42 feet high. Capacity, 6,000 acre-feet of water. Wasteway cut through the solid rock mountain at south end of dam 170 feet long, 100 feet mouth, 30 feet throat, 20 feet width, with perpendicular fall of 6 feet at throat, and 4 feet fall from there to lower end. We have constructed 31 miles of canals and laterals -20 feet wide, 1 foot deep; 12 feet wide, 2 feet deep; and 8 feet wide, 3 feet deep, much of the work being done around rocky points and stony hillsides. Have cleared and plowed 2,600 acres sage-brush land, and have planted 2,000 acres. We have magnificent stands of grain in all our fields. Sugar and mangel beets have proved a great success.

NEW YORK, a Middle State, one of the original thirteen, ratified the Constitution July 26, 1788; area, 49,170 square miles. The population, according to each decennial census, was 340,120 in 1790; 589,051 in 1800; 959,049 in 1810; 1,372,111 in 1820: 1,918,608 in 1830; 2,428,921 in 1840; 3,097,394 in 1850; 3,880,735 in 1860; 4,382,759 in 1870; 5,082,871 in 1880; and 5,997,853 in 1890. According to a State census taken in 1892, the population was 6,513,344. Capital, Albany.

Government.-The following were the State officers during the year: Governor, Levi P. Morton, Republican; Lieutenant Governor, Charles T. Saxton; Secretary of State, John Palmer; Comptroller, James A. Roberts; Treasurer, Addison B. Colvin; Attorney-General, Theodore E. Hancock; State Engineer and Surveyor, Campbell W. Adams; Superintendent of Public Instruction, James F. Crooker, who was succeeded on April 6 by Charles R. Skinner; Superintendent of Insurance, James F. Pierce; Superintendent of Banking Department, Charles M. Preston; Superintendent of State Prisons, Austin Lathrop Superintendent of Public Works, George W. Aldridge; Commissioner of Statistics of Labor, Thomas J. Dowling; Railroad Commissioners, Michael Rickard, S. A. Beardsley, and Alfred C. Chapin; Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals, Charles Andrews; Associate Judges, Albert Haight, John C. Gray, Rufus W. Peckham (who resigned in December to become an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, and was succeeded, Dec. 31, by Irving G. Vaun), Denis O'Brien, Francis M. Finch, Edward T. Bartlett, Robert Earl.

Finances. The balance in the treasury on Oct. 1, 1895, was $811,762.98, as compared with $1,548,286.57 Sept. 30, 1894. The receipts were $19,630,121.83, as compared with $18,537,948.03 in 1894. The expenditures were $20,366,646.42, as compared with $20,183,011.13 in 1894. There was a balance at the beginning of the year of $1,548,286.57. The actual receipts of the year were $736,524.59 less than the expenditures, but a balance on hand was available for paying the State's debts. In October, 1893, the beginning of the fiscal year preceding, there was a balance of $3,183,349.67. This year's balance was only $811,762.98, so that the working funds of the State are less than they have been for several years. This is due to the falling off in the col

lateral-inheritance tax, the abolition of the poolselling tax, and increased expenditures for the insane.

The Comptroller reports that the receipts from the corporations for 1895 were as follow: Insurance companies on premiums, $132,588.04; inportation companies on earnings, $403,992.54; surance companies on capital, $15,061.45; transtelephone and telegraph companies on earnings, $30,460.26; transportation companies on capital, $615,457.63; telephone and telegraph companies on capital, $34,865.31; gas, electric, and miscellaneous corporations, $589,243.65; foreign banks, $34,306.47; total, $1,855,975.35.

There was collected in 1895 $1,367.90 from foreign corporations as license fees, making the total amount received from corporations $1,857,343.25, an increase of $211,464.37 over 1894. The Comptroller's department collected $95,980.54 from the racing societies of the State, which was distributed among agricultural societies. Since this sum was distributed $16,546.57 has been collected, making the total $112,527.11. The State tax rate is 3.24 mills. Last year it was 2:18. The tax is to be distributed as follows: For schools, 0.94 mill; for canals, 0.36 mill; for general purposes, 0-94 mill: for State care of insane, 1 mill. This tax of 3-24 mills on the present valuation, $4,292,082,167, will yield $13,906,346.23, distributed as follows: General tax, $4,034,557.24; schools, $4,034,557.24; canals, $1,545,149.58; State care of insane, $4,292,082.17; total, $13,906,346.23. The amount received from the corporation and organization tax for the year ending Sept. 30, 1895, was $2.115,807.85.

Wealth of the State.-The total amount of property in the State in 1894, as assessed by the local assessors, was $4,433,776,127. It was divided as follows: Real estate, $3,841,582,748; personal property, $592,193,379. Of the per sonal property so assessed, $111,693,960 was corporate property not subject to taxation locally for State purposes. The amount of property, both real and personal, subject to taxation locally for all purposes was $4,292,082,167. The total increase in the taxable property locally for all purposes was $92,200,109, divided as follows: Real, $79,903,364; personal, $12,296,745.

Legislative Session.-The one hundred and eighteenth regular session of the Legislature began on Jan. 2, 1895, and continued until May 16. As elected, the Senate consisted of 18 Republicans. 13 Democrats, and 1 Independent Democrat; and the Assembly of 105 Republic ans and 23 Democrats. The organization be ing in the hands of the Republicans, Edmund O'Connor was chosen President pro tem. of the Senate and Hamilton Fish, Jr., Speaker of the Assembly. During the session 1,045 bills were signed, the largest number in any one year in the history of the State.

On the last day of the session a special Senate committee, appointed to investigate the bribery charges against Senators Coggeshall, Robertson, and Raines, in connection with the passage of the New York City Firemen's Salary bill, and in connection with an amendment increasing the salary of the officers of the New York City Fire Department, submitted a report exonerating the Senators mentioned. Also at the close of the session Assemblyman Vacheron was called be

fore the Court of Oyer and Terminer and pleaded not guilty to the indictment for bribery in connection with the legislative bill regulating the cutting of ice on Hudson river.

Among the most important measures adopted are the following:

Concerning New York city: A bill giving the mayor power of removal; abolishing the police justices and creating a bench of city magistrates; creating a tenement-house commission's bill; providing for the separation of the Bureau of Charities and Correction; four tenement-house reform bills; a bill for the consolidation of the Astor, Lenox, and Tilden libraries; establishing a great zoological garden; a rapid-transit bill; providing for two additional assistant district attorneys in New York city at $7,500 a year each.

Requiring the display of the United States flag on every schoolhouse.

Providing for a broader study of the nature and effects of alcoholic drinks and other narcotics in connection with physiology and hygiene in the public schools.

To protect colored citizens in their civil and legal rights. The bill provides that all persons within the jurisdiction of this State shall be entitled to the full and equal accommodations, advantages, facilities, and privileges of inns, restaurants, hotels, eating houses, bath houses, barber shops, theaters, music halls, public conveyances on land and water, and all other places of public accommodation or amusement, subject only to the conditions and limitations established by law and applicable alike to all citizens.

Authorizing the city of Brooklyn to make yearly provision for celebration of Washington's birthday. Amending the Rochester charter and to extend the city boundaries.

Making appropriations for continuing the work of erecting monuments and memorial structures in honor of New York troops engaged in the military operations around Chattanooga in 1863.

Appropriating $3,000 for a monument to Gen. Nicholas Herkimer in Danube, Herkimer County. Providing a commission to prepare and submit to the next Legislature general city laws relating to cities of fewer than 50,000 inhabitants.

Appropriating $75,000 for the erection at the Geneseo State Normal School of a new building for the scientific department.

Amending the law providing for incorporation of associations for lending money on personal property in counties of over 300,000 inhabitants.

Imposing a tax of 1 mill on each dollar of real and personal property for the State care of the insane for the year beginning Oct. 1. 1895.

Prohibiting barbering on Sunday, except in New York and Saratoga, where barbers may keep open

until 1 P. M.

Providing for the issue by the city of Brooklyn of bonds to be known as "consolidated stock of the city of Brooklyn," payable in gold or currency. Allowing the American Geographical Society of New York to take and hold real and personal property to the amount of $1,000,000.

Providing for the issue of mileage books by road corporations at not exceeding 2 cents a maile by every road over 100 miles long. The law applies only to roads authorized by law to charge a maximum fare of more than 2 cents a mile, and not more than

3 cents.

Submitting to the people the question of appropriating $9,000,000 to enlarge the Erie Canal.

Amending the foreign corporation tax law, which will add at least $100,000 annually to the income of

the State.

A blanket-ballot bill.

The constitutional requirement that all bills affecting cities must be approved by the mayors

and common councils, caused a large amount of unnecessary legislation. At the close of the session there was sent to the various mayors of cities 272 bills. Of these, 68 went to the city of New York, 74 to Brooklyn, 11 to Buffalo, 29 to the cities of the second class, and 90 to the cities of the third class. Of these, 170 were approved, 19 were rejected, and 83 remained in the hands of the city authorities.

The appropriation was $4,300,000 higher than in 1894. Of this, $500,000 was left from 1894.

Among the State commissions created by act of Legislature, are the following: The most imporconsisting of 8 persons, 1 residing in each juditant one, the Capitol Commission excepted, is that cial district, who shall constitute a State Commission of Prisons. This commission is to visit all penal institutions for sane convicts and institutions used for witnesses or debtors, to aid ministration. in securing just, humane, and economic ad

Another commission, composed of 5 persons, has for its object an investigation in relation to the organization and government of the Legislature, the introduction and progression of bills, and generally in relation to legislative business and methods.

For the proper maintenance and efficiency of the military and naval forces of the State within 1895, a commission was named of 3 citizens as a board of examiners to test improved arms.

Another commission consisted of 3 members of the bar, who are to examine the Code of Procedure of the State and the codes of procedure and practice acts in force in other States and countries, and the rules of court.

A commission was named to formulate legislation for government of cities of the second class.

Also a commission to prepare general city laws relating to cities of the third class.

The State Board of Health was empowered to appoint 2 of its members a commission to carry out the law relating to tuberculosis in cattle.

Banking. During 1895 the depositors' organization of the Commercial Bank of Brooklyn preferred charges against Superintendent Charles M. Preston, alleging that he was incompetent and that the banking department has been conducted for years in the interest of speculators. Similar charges were filed with Gov. Flower, and were dismissed by him, Dec. 13, 1895, and after examination Gov. Morton issued an order dismissing the charges.

The annual statements of the 27 New York

city and Brooklyn trust companies filed with the State Superintendent of Banking, shows in the aggregate Resources, $373,901,353; profits, $15,652,863; dividends, $3,770,000.

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tions with capital stocks formed during 1895 Corporations.-There were 1,423 corporawhich paid taxes amounting to $258,464.60.

The telephone, railroad, and land companies to a large extent made up the great total of the formed during the calendar year paid taxes in corporations for 1895. The 1,423 corporations the aggregate of $492,445.05, on aggregate capitalizations of $393,956,000. The combined capital of 1894 (calendar year) was $106,390,400. The business of 1895 shows that more than 60 new railroad companies were incorporated, and

that 27 of the new corporations have each a capital of $1,000,000 or over.

Law. An important case was decided in the State's favor by the United States Supreme Court, that against the United States, involving the sum of $131,188 for enrolling, subsisting, clothing, etc., of troops furnished in the war of the rebellion. In the Court of Appeals, of the cases with a pecuniary interest and principle involved, the most important was that of the People ex rel. Roberts, as State Comptroller, against Fitch, as Comptroller of New York city. By the court's decision the defendant will pay over to the State $714,568, with interest, as its share of the tax of 1893 levied for the care of the State's insane. The number of cases in which the State is party on appeal pending in the Court of Appeals is 24 against 31 a year ago. Insurance. The aggregate receipts of New York State companies in 1894 were $161,714, 963; other States' companies, $94,909,514; making the gross receipts $256,624,477. The net excess of receipts over disbursements for 1894 was $78,761,144. The total premium receipts for 1894 were $205,132,043.86. The disbursements were $177,863,333, of which $116,054,725 was paid to policyholders, while the cost of management, including dividends to stockholders, was $618,08,608.

There was an increase in the number of policies of 102,219, and of insurance $147,880,810. At the close of 1894 the companies doing business in the State had 1,780,307 policies in force, insuring $4,657,583,046.

The co-operative organizations received $47 786,347 from members last year, against $42,937,992 the preceding year. The claims paid by them last year aggregated $38,921,664, against $35,191,664 the preceding year.

Claims.-The annual report of the Board of Claims for 1895 shows that since its creation in 1883 it has heard and decided 2,382 claims against the State, claiming in the aggregate $5,397,070, exclusive of interest, and has awarded thereon $1,316,328. This number of decisions is exclusive of those made from 1884 to 1891 in appeals from the Board of Canal Appraisers to the Canal Board, 273 of which, in May, 1884, were transferred to the board by chapter cccxxix of the Laws of 1884.

Education.-The biennial school census, taken during 1895 in all of the cities and villages of the State exceeding 10,000 in population, revealed the necessities for additional school facilities. In it occurred the one hundredth anniversary of the inauguration of the free-school system in the United States, under the administration of Gov. George Clinton. The first act, chapter lxxv, Laws of 1795, provided that the sum of £20,000 should be annually appropriated for the term of five years, "for the purpose of encouraging and maintaining schools in the several cities and towns in this State."

The number of public-school buildings in 1894 was 11,121, a decrease of 49, caused by consolidation of districts. The amount expended for schoolhouses was $4,139,295.87, of which the cities expended $2,916,950.21 and the country $1,222,345.66. The total number of persons of school age was 1,932,295, of whom the cities claim 1,208,855 and the country 723,440. The to

tal increase in school population during the year was 39,937. The total attendance at schoolcities, 589,363; country, 535,635; increase, 41,770. The total number of teachers, 32,929, of whom 5,096 were men and 27,833 were women. The total amount of teachers' salaries was: Cities, $7,264,613.25, an increase of $117,920.20; and in country districts, $4,788,404.01, an increase of $52,002.12.

Tuberculosis.-The State Commission on Tuberculosis in Cattle made its first annual report to the Legislature in January, 1895. During the year and a half following the passage of the Tuberculosis act 22,000 cattle were examined and 800 were slaughtered. The Commission on Tuberculosis in Cattle was constituted May 31, 1894, to inquire further into the existence of the disease. This commission has carefully studied, by a system of special inspection, the prevalence, distribution, mode of infection, and general behavior of tuberculosis in cattle, confining part of its work to a given area, which was thought to be comparatively free from general infection from other sources. In this district 947 animals were examined and 66 were condemned.

Prisons. In the year ended Sept. 30, 1894, the prison population had increased to 3,624.

The deficiency for care and maintenance was $111,195 less than in 1893. More money was earned by the prisoners, and less was spent for maintenance. The expenditures for 1894 were less than those of 1893 by $38,894.

The earnings of the prisoners show an increase of $72,300 after deducting two items, namely, for fire loss in Auburn prison, $27,897, and bills receivable canceled by act of the Legislature on account of the fire of 1893, amounting to $14,845. The expenditures for the care and maintenance of the three State prisons and their earnings are shown as follow:

952; compensation paid convicts, $7,670; deficiency, Sing Sing-Expenditures, $150,814: industry, $68,

$94,532.

Auburn-Expenditures, $157,264; earnings, $77,363; loss by fire, $27,897; account due and canceled by Legislature, $14,845; compensation paid convicts, $6.239; deficiency, $128,883.

Clinton-Expenditures, $157,191; earnings, $17,858; compensation paid convicts, $3,323; deficiency, $142,656.

There were 104 prisoners in the women's prison.

A State Commission of Prisons made at the close of 1895 its first annual report. It shows that the unfair competition caused by contracting out the labor cheaply has disturbed the market, injured some industries, and driven others out entirely. The manufacturing on State account for sale in the open market worked even more disastrously, for the reason that the cry against prison-made goods forced the State to sell below the prices that other manufacturers could afford, and thus had the same effect in disturbing the market, while the large expense of commissions and expenses of sales agents made it even more expensive to the State. The commission called for estimates from all public institutions of the supplies purchased by them of such articles as can be manufactured in the prisons, and finds that it is practicable to have