UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 



749 



Auditor of State four years, beginning in .January 

 of even-numbered years; for judges of the Supreme 

 Court six years, beginning in February. All are 

 elected in November. The Legislature meets bi- 

 ennially in January; there is no limit to the 

 length of the session. 



Finances. The balance in the treasury to the 

 credit of the general revenue fund at the beginning 

 of the fiscal year Nov. 16, 1900, was $1,151,217.48. 

 The total receipts of this fund during the year 

 ending Nov. 15, 1901, amounted to $5,272,177.97. 

 The amount paid from the revenue fund durino- 

 the fiscal year was $5,196,370.99. During this 

 fiscal year the sum of $291,961.03 in excess of the 

 previous year was actually paid for expenses of 

 the State Government, owing largely to improve- 

 ments on the Capitol grounds and buildings, 

 monuments for the Shiloh battle-field, salaries of 

 the Decennial Board of Equalization, expenses of 

 the commissioners at the Pan-American Exposi- 

 tion at Buffalo, and expenses of the topographic 

 survey. 



The total receipts of the sinking-fund during 

 the year, including the balance from the preceding 

 year, were $771,033.63. The total disbursements 

 during the year were $566,716.72, including a 

 payment upon the funded debt of $250,000. The 

 funded debt will be totally extinguished by the 

 payment on July 1, 1903. 



The receipts of the State common-school fund 

 during the fiscal year ending Nov. 15, 1901, in- 

 cluding the balance, were $1,914,359.41. This was 

 all expended for the purposes of the fund except 

 $138,591.51 remaining in the treasury at the end 

 of the year. The amount received to the credit 

 of the University fund from taxes was $364,330.27, 

 and the balance on hand at the beginning of the 

 year was $84,220.56. During the year payments 

 were made to the Ohio State University, Miami 

 University, Wilberforce University, and Ohio 

 University, at Athens, aggregating $334,200.17. 

 The total cost of the Government during the year, 

 including general expenses, State debt and inter- 

 est, common schools and universities, was $7,873,- 

 615.78. 



State Institutions. The State educational, 

 benevolent, and penal institutions include the 

 Ohio State University, at Columbus; Ohio Uni- 

 versity, at Athens; Miami University, at Oxford; 

 combined normal and industrial department of 

 Wilberforce University; Ohio Institution for the 

 Blind, at Columbus ; Ohio Institution for the Edu- 

 cation of the Deaf and Dumb, at Columbus; Ohio 

 Institution for the Education of Feeble-Minded 

 Youth, at Columbus; Girls' Industrial Home, at 

 Rathbone; Ohio Soldiers' and Sailors' Home, at 

 Sandusky; Ohio Soldiers' and Sailors' Home, at 

 Xenia; Boys' Industrial School, near Lancaster; 

 Athens State Hospital ; Cleveland State Hospital ; 

 Columbus State Hospital; Dayton State Hos- 

 pital ; Longview Hospital, at Carthage ; Massillon 

 State Hospital; Ohio Hospital for Epileptics, at 

 Gallipolis; Toledo State Hospital; Ohio Peniten- 

 tiary, at Columbus; Ohio State Refonnatory, at 

 Mansfield. Omitting the 4 universities for these 

 institutions, the State expended in 1901 $3,251,- 

 319.96, of which $2,492,366.64 were for current or 

 ordinary expenses and the remainder for new 

 buildings or permanent improvements. The daily 

 average of inmates of these 17 institutions was 

 15,885, an increase over the previous year of 824, 

 and the number of employees was 2,267, or 1 

 employee for each 7 inmates. The average cost 

 per capita of all ordinary expenses and food was 

 $158.42, but there was a wide range from $114 

 per capita in the State Hospital at Athens to 

 $237.68 in the State Reformatory, at Mansfield. 



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 Railroads. The n-poi 

 missioner shows that, at the 

 year there were in the Slat. 

 track, a gain of 24.75 miles. Th,. -i<| 

 in this total for 3,881.0!), an incn-.i 

 The taxes paid by the railroad companie 

 gated $2,642,400.79 ($354.47 per mile of tr.T," 

 against $2,556,946.04 ($343.07 per mile) the v ,r 

 before. There were 66,249 railroad servant; at 

 work in Ohio last year. Of these, 176 were killed 

 at their work and 5,589 (1 in every 12) were hurt. 

 Passengers, 7 killed, 304 hurt; highway travelers, 

 82 killed, 160 hurt; "trespassers" (tramps, fool- 

 hardy boys, etc.), 342 killed, 394 hurt. 



There are 68 electric roads in operation, and 

 96 new companies (aggregate capital stock, $24,- 

 361,000) were incorporated last year. The trolley 

 companies report their gross earnings last vear 

 as $13,582,851, which is $2,281,479 more than in 

 the preceding year. 



Convict Labor. By authority of the General 

 Assembly, Gov. Nash appointed a commission of 

 4 citizens to investigate in regard to the employ- 

 ment of prison labor in the penal and reformatory 

 institutions of the State. On Nov. 15, 1901, the 

 commission submitted its report. It gave as the 

 judgment of the commission that all convicts 

 should be employed a reasonable number of hours 

 each day, and in productive labor, " for without 

 this there can be no health, no discipline, and no 

 progress toward reformation." They further said 

 that "idleness in prisons is dangerous, in that it 

 gives free reign to the passions and is destructive 

 of moral influence." 



The Legislature. There was no adjourned 

 session of the General Assembly in 1901. 



Political. The Republican State Convention 

 was held in Columbus, June 25, and the follow- 

 ing ticket was nominated: For Governor, George 

 K. Nash; Lieutenant-Governor, Carl L. Nippert; 

 Judge of Supreme Court, James L. Price; Attor- 

 ney-General, John M. Sheets; Clerk of Supreme 

 Court, Lawson E. Emerson; Treasurer of State, 

 I. B. Cameron; Member of Board of Public Works, 

 W. G. Johnson. The platform adopted recapitu- 

 lates and approves the acts of the Republican 

 party, and then proceeds: 



" We reaffirm all declarations heretofore made 

 by the Republican party in favor of reciprocity, 

 and urge the making of such additional treaties, 

 based on the protective principle, as will further 

 extend our commerce. 



"We favor the further strengthening of our 

 navy, and such legislation as will restore our 

 merchant marine to preeminence upon the sea. 



" We urge the speedy construction of an Amer- 

 ican ship-canal through the American isthmus as 

 an imperative public need. 



" We recognize the right of both labor and 

 capital to combine, when such combinations are 

 wisely administered for the general good, but 

 combinations which create monopolies to control 

 prices or limit production are an evil which must 

 be met by effective legislation, vigorously en- 

 forced. 



"The near expiration by limitation ot the C 

 nese exclusion act calls for a renewal of the 

 wise provisions by which the unrestricted immi- 

 gration of Chinese into this country has been 

 prevented. 



