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To which the later convention added the 

 following: 



We believe that the will of the people is supreme 

 in making or amending the fuiidamental law of the 

 State, and that no convention should be called for 

 that purpose but by the authority of the people ; and 

 it is the sense of this body that the large majority of 

 votes cast for a convention at the special election held 

 the first Tuesday of November, 1887, is the proper 

 evidence of the will of the people in this matter, and 

 should be accepted by the General Assembly as full 

 authority for passing an act, at its next session, call- 

 ing a convention and providing^ for the election of 

 delegates thereto at as early a period as practicable. 



A Prohibition ticket was also in the field, 

 headed by Charles E. Register for Congress. 

 At the November election, Mr. Cleveland re- 

 ceived 16,414 votes; Gen. Harrison,12,973 ; Mr. 

 Fisk, 400. Congressman Penington was re- 

 elected by a majority equal to that for the 

 Demcratic electoral ticket ; but, while the 

 Democrats carried the State, their candidates 

 for the Legislature in Kent and Sussex Counties 

 were unexpectedly defeated. Two of the three 

 senators elected, and 14 of the 21 representa- 

 tives, were Republicans. This result gives the 

 Republicans a majority of 2 on joint ballot in 

 the next Legislature (Senate, 7 Democrats, 2 

 Republicans ; House, 7 Democrats, 14 Republi- 

 cans), and insures the election of a Republican 

 successor to United States Senator Eli Sauls- 

 bury. This overturn was the result of an at- 

 tempt to defeat the re-election of Senator 

 Saulsbury, made by certain members of his 

 own party. At the primaries in Kent and 

 elsewhere the anti-Saulsbury faction succeeded 

 in nominating candidates favorable to James L. 

 Wolcott, the leader of that faction ; and the 

 followers of Saulsbury retaliated at the polls 

 by voting for the Republican candidates. 



Elections. The Governor says, in his message 

 to the Legislature : 



The use of money at elections everywhere is alarm- 

 ingly on the ncrease. That use has in this State 

 become so great as to call forth a protest by all 

 who favor the purity of the ballot. The present law 

 upon the statute-book does not seem to meet the pres- 

 ent needs, and the enforcement of its provisions is 

 practically a dead letter. I deem it my duty to call 

 your attention to the wholesale bribery which has be- 

 come a main feature in elections, and" urge upon you 

 the necessity of prompt action in the matter. So un- 

 blushing has the practice become, that the votes of 

 men are openly bartered for and secured. I would 

 rt that you take into consideration the enact- 

 ment of a law governing the holding of all primary 

 elections in this" State. There is at present no statute 

 regulating the same, excepting one relating to the pri- 

 mary elections in New Castle County. 



Constitutional Convention. The Republican par- 

 ty.by its platform declarations of this year, com- 

 mitted itself to calling a constitutional conven- 

 tion, although at the election of last year the 

 vote in favor of such convention did not quite 

 reach the figures required for such an act by 

 the existing Constitution. In view of the suc- 

 cess of the Republicans in the election, the 

 Governor cautions the Legislature as follows : 



By an act passed at the last session of the General 

 Assembly, a special election was held on the day there- 



in specified. At that election the number of votes cast 

 for a convention is by many held under the provisions 

 of the Constitution to be insufficient to authorize you 

 to call the same, or make provisions for its callmg. 

 You will at the outset be confronted with the grave 

 question, whether or not you, as legislators, have au- 

 thority under the provisions of Article IX to call a con- 

 vention upon the oasis of the vote cast as aforesaid. 

 No rash measures should be resorted t'>. It is better 

 to make haste slowly in securing that which is deemed 

 necessary, and which the increase of population and 

 needs of the State may require, than it would be to 

 attempt to secure it by means seemingly at least revo- 

 lutionary. 



DENMARK, a constitutional monarchy in 

 Northern Europe. The King, Christian* IX, 

 born April 8, 1818, succeeded to the throne 

 Nov. 15, 1863. He is a member of the house 

 of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glucksburg, 

 and was appointed to the succession of the 

 crown of Denmark by the treaty of London of 

 May 8, 1852, and by the Danish law of succes- 

 sion of July 31, 1853. The Constitution of 

 Denmark is embodied in a charter, according 

 to which the executive power is vested in the 

 King and his ministers, and the right of making 

 and amending laws in the Rigsdag or Diet, 

 acting in conjunction with the King. The Rigs- 

 dag comprises the Landsthing and the Folke- 

 thing or House of Commons. The former con- 

 sists of 66 members, of whom 12 are appointed 

 for life by the Crown from among the actual 

 or former representatives of the kingdom, and 

 54 are elected indirectly by the people for a 

 term of eight years. The Folkething consists 

 of 102 members elected by universal suffrage 

 for a term of three years in the proportion of 

 one member for every 16,000 inhabitants. The 

 Landsthing, besides its legislative functions, 

 appoints from its midst every four years the 

 assistant judges of the Rigsret, who with the 

 ordinary members of the Hoiesteret, form the 

 highest appellate court, and can alone try par- 

 liamentary impeachments. 



The ministry or Statsraadet consists at pres- 

 ent of the following seven members: Jacob 

 Brcennum Scavenius Estrup, President of the 

 Council and Minister of Finance ; H. G. Inger- 

 slev, Minister of the Interior; J. M. V. Nelle- 

 mann, Minister of Justice and for Iceland ; 

 Otto Ditlev, Baron Rosenoern-Lehn, Minister 

 of Foreign Affairs ; Col. J. J. Bahnsen. Minis- 

 ter of War; Commander N. F. Ravn, Minister 

 of Marine ; J. F. Scavenius, Minister of Public 

 Education and Ecclesiastical Affairs. 



Area and Population. The area of Denmark 

 and its dependencies is 14,124 square miles, 

 and the estimated population on Jan. 1, 1886, 

 was 2,108,000. The increase in the population 

 has averaged 10*29 per cent, in the towns and 

 5*99 per cent, in the country districts during the 

 past fifteen years. The population of Copen- 

 hagen in 1886 was 285,700. The average emi- 

 gration for the ten years preceding 1887 was 

 nearly 6,000 per annum. Nearly all the emi- 

 grants settled in the United States. Between 

 1851 and 1878 about 20,000 Danes joined the 

 Mormon community in Utah. The conversions 



