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influence of the saloon. The liquor traffic must obey 

 the law. \Ye favor legislation upon the principle 

 of local option, whereby the various communities 

 throughout the State may be as they deem best 

 either control or suppress the traffic In intoxicating 

 liquors. 



Democratic filibustering in the national House of 

 Representatives prevented the return to the treasury 

 of the State of Indiana the sum of $904,875.33, the 

 justice of which claim against the General Government 

 has been officially acknowledged and its repayment 

 provided for. Lik'e hostile Democratic action h;. 

 prevented the return to our State treasury of f 606,- 

 970.41 discount and interest on war-loan bonds, 

 rendered necessary to equip and maintain the volun- 

 teer soldiers who" went out under the first call for 

 troops in 1S'51. More than a million and a half of 

 dollars, justly due the State, are thus withheld in the 

 presence of an increasing Federal surplus and of a 

 practically bankrupt State treasury caused by the in- 

 competence of the Democratic State administration. 



There was also a Union Labor ticket in the 

 field, headed by John B. Milroy. The can- 

 vass was one of great interest and. excitement. 

 Strenuous efforts were made by the Republi- 

 cans to take the State from Democratic con- 

 trol, especially in view of the fact that the 

 presidential candidate of their party was from 

 Indiana. These efforts, aided by the popular- 

 ity of Gen. Harrison, were successful in secur- 

 ing the election of the entire State and Xa- 

 tional ticket. Gen. Harrison obtained 263,361 

 votes; Mr. Cleveland, 261,013; Mr. Fisk, 

 9,801; and Mr. Streeter about 2,700. For 

 Governor, Hovey obtained 263,194 votes; 

 Matson, 260,994; Hughes, 9,920; and Milroy, 

 2,7u2. The Republicans elected only three out 

 of thirteen Congressmen, a loss of four seats. 



IOWA, Stale Government. Tbe following were 

 the State officers during the year : Governor, 

 William Larrabee, Republican ; Lieutenant- 

 Governor, John A. T. Hull ; Secretary of State, 

 Frank D. Jackson : Auditor, James A. Lyons ; 

 Treasurer, Voltaire P. Twombley; Attorney- 

 General, A. J. Baker ; Superintendent of Pub- 

 lic Instruction, Henry Sabin ; Railroad Com- 

 missioners, Peter A. Dey, Lorenzo S. Coffin, 

 succeeded by ex-Lieutenant-Governor Frank 

 T. Campbell, and Spencer Smith ; Chief-Jus- 

 tice of the Supreme Court, William H. Seevers ; 

 Judges, James H. Roth rock, Joseph R. Reed, 

 Joseph M. Beck, and GifFord S. Robinson. 



Finanee:*. During the past fiscal year the 

 State debt has been gradually diminishing. 

 On June 30, 1887, the amount of outstanding 

 warrants was S455.!t87.30, which had been re- 

 duced on May 25 of this year to $324,772.60, 

 and was still further diminished before the end 

 of the year. A part of this debt, $245,435.19, 

 represents an indebtedness of the State to the 

 school fund. By the so-called Hutchison law 

 of the Legislature this year, the direct war- 

 tax, if refunded to the State by the General 

 Government, is to be applied, first to the pay- 

 ment of this debt to the school fund, the re- 

 mainder, if any, being added to the general 

 revenue. It is believed that this tax, if re- 

 funded, would be sufficient to wipe out the 

 entire State debt. The receipts of the treasury 



for the fiscal year 1888 largely exceeded the 

 expenditures. 



Legislathe Session. The Twenty-second Gen- 

 eral Assembly convened on January 9, and 

 was in session three months. United .*- 

 Senator James F. Wilson, who received the 

 Republican nomination, was re-electud for a 

 second term. The Democratic candidate was 

 T. J. Anderson, and the Labor candidate Dan- 

 iel Campbell. By far the most important 

 feature of the session was its legislation affect- 

 ing railroads, which is discussed below. A 

 new pharmacy law was passed which forbids 

 the sale of intoxicating liquor by any manu- 

 facturer or dealer other than a registered 

 pharmacist. It amends the former law so that 

 a person manufacturing lawfully in the State 

 may not sell to persons outside the State for 

 purposes other than medicinal. The act also 

 provides additional requirements to be ob- 

 served in order to obtain permits to sell liquors 

 for medicinal purposes, and imposes severer 

 penalties on pharmacists convicted of illegal 

 selling. Evasion of the prohibitory law is 

 thereby made more difficult and dangerous. 

 The so-called "trusts" are made unlawful by 

 the following act: 



SECTION 1. If any corporation organized under the 

 laws of this State or any other State or country for 

 transacting or conducting any kind of business in this 

 State, or anv partnership or individual shall create, 

 enter into, "become a member of or a party to any 

 pool, trust, agreement, combination, or confederation 

 with any other corporation, partnership, or individual 

 to regulate or fix the price of oil, lumber, coal, grain, 

 flour, provisions, or any other commodity or article 

 whatever ; or shall create, enter into, become a mem- 

 ber of or a party to any pool, agreement, combination, 

 or confederation to fix" or limitlhe amount or quantity 

 of any commodity or article to be manufactured, 

 milled', produced, or sold in this State, shall be deemed 

 guilty of a conspiracy to defraud, and be subject to 

 indictment and punishment as provided in the next 

 section. 



SEC. 2. Any person or corporation found guilty of 

 a violation of this act shall Be punished by a fine of 

 not less than one hundred dollars, nor to exceed five 

 thousand dollars, and stand committed until such fine 

 is paid. 



Another act provides for the levy of an 

 additional property tax of three tenths of a 

 mill, the proceeds of which shall be expended 

 for the relief and for the funeral expenses of 

 indigent soldiers and sailors and their families. 

 A "Soldier's Relief Commmission" is created 

 for each county, with power to award the 

 money raised under this act, and to distribute 

 it according to such award. The State was 

 redistricted for members of the Lower House, 

 one hundred representatives being apportioned 

 to ninety-four districts. A tax of half a mill 

 was levied for the years 1888 and 1889 to pro- 

 vide funds for paying the State debt. Among 

 the special appropriations were $17,000 for 

 improvements on the State Capitol; $5,000 

 for the site and foundation of a State soldiers' 

 monument ; $102,000 for furnishing and equip- 

 ment of the Hospital for the Insane at Cla- 

 rinda; $58,000 for additional lands, a new 



