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GEORGIA. 



GERMANY. 



Treasurer Hardeman, and Comptroller Wright, 

 by the selection of George N. Lester for Attorney- 

 General and Robert T. Nesbitt for Commissioner 

 of Agriculture. Attorney-General Anderson and 

 Commissioner Henderson were defeated for re- 

 nomination. The resolutions included the fol- 

 lowing : 



We point with pride to the fidelity and capacity 

 with which the affairs of State have been managed by 

 our distinguished Governor, John B. Gordon, and the 

 other State-house officers. We will heartily support 

 the nominees of this convention, and we call upon all 

 Democrats to support party nominations in the various 

 districts and counties of this State. 



The Republican State Executive Committee 

 deemed it unwise for the party to nominate a 

 State ticket, and at the election, on Oct. 1, the 

 Democratic ticket received the entire vote cast 

 Northen receiving 105,365 votes ; Cook, 103,695 ; 

 Hardeman, 102,911; Lester, 100,933; Wright, 102,- 

 621 ; Nesbitt, 96,406. Members of the Legislature 

 were chosen at the same time, 160 out of the en- 

 tire 219 in both Houses being Alliance men, and 

 almost all Democrats. An amendment to the 

 State Constitution, authorizing the Legislature 

 to pension widows of Confederate soldiers who 

 died in the service or from wounds incurred in 

 the service, was adopted by the people ; but ir- 

 regularities in procedure invalidated the result, 

 and will render another election necessary. 



At the November election ten Democratic 

 members of Congress were chosen, the vote being 

 as follows : First District, R. E. Lester (Dem.), 

 10,905, M. J. Doyle (Rep.), 3,127 ; Second District, 

 H. G. Turner (Dem.), 7,361, C. S. Matteson (Rep.), 

 948; Third District, Charles F. Crisp (Dem.), 

 8.038, P. C. Gibson (Rep.), 1,248 ; Fourth District, 

 Charles L. Moses (Dem.), 9,609 ; Walter H. John- 

 son (Rep.), 3,438 ; Fifth District, L. F. Living- 

 ston (Dem.), 8,688, Will Haight (Rep.), 3.608; 

 Sixth District, James H. Blount (Dem.), 2,860, 

 no opposition ; Seventh District, R. W. Everett 

 (Dem.), 10,031, W. H. Felton (Ind. Dem.), 8,460, 

 Z. B. Hargrove (Rep.), 638; Eighth District, 

 Thomas G. Lawson (Dem.). 3.405, no opposition ; 

 Ninth District, Thomas E. Winn (Dem.), 10,315, 

 Thaddeus Pickett (Ind. Dem.), 4,087, S. A. Dar- 

 nell (Rep.), 3,133; Tenth District, Thomas E. 

 Watson (Dem.), 5.456, A. E. Williams (Rep.), 597. 

 The only members of the present Congress re- 

 elected were Messrs. Lester, Turner, Crisp, and 

 Blount, the others being defeated for renomiria- 

 tion at the primaries by the infl uence of the Farm- 



Alliance. 



Legislative Session. The Legislature elect- 

 ed in October assembled for its first session at 

 Atlanta, on Nov. 5. Being controlled by mem- 

 bers of the Farmers' Alliance, it was watched 

 with unusual interest. One of its earliest duties 

 was the selection of a successor /to United States 

 Senator Brown, who had declined a re-election. 

 Gen. Gordon, the retiring Governor, was the 

 leading candidate, but he encountered the oppo- 

 sition of those who believed that a pronounced 

 champion of Alliance ideas should be chosen. 

 Several aspirants for the favor of the anti-Gor- 

 don members appeared, and a series of caucuses 

 became necessary, at the last of which, on Nov. 



13, Hon. Patrick Calhoun secured the anti-Gor- 

 don nomination ; but the other Alliance aspi- 

 rants, who went into the caucus, refused to be 

 bound by it, and carried the contest into the 

 Legislature. Gen. Gordon obtained a majority 

 in each House on the first ballot, on Nov. 18, and 

 was declared elected on the following day in 

 joint session, the vote being : Senate, Gordon 25, 

 T. M. Norwood 7, Calhoun 6, J. K. Hines 3, 

 N. J. Hammond 2 ; House, Gordon 97, Norwood 

 36, Calhoun 19, Hines 10. Hammond 7. A suc- 

 cessor to Associate -Justice Blandford, of the 

 Supreme Court, who declined a re-election, was 

 chosen at this session, Hon. Samuel Lumpkin 

 being the successful candidate. Judge Allen 

 Fort was chosen Railroad Commissioner to suc- 

 ceed Hon. Alexander S. Irwin. 



The legislation of the session includes an act 

 providing a method for settling the claims of 

 the outgoing lessees of the Western and Atlantic 

 Railroad against the State for betterments. 

 These claims are referred to a commission of 

 eight members appointed by the Governor with 

 the consent of the Senate, which is empowered 

 to hear both the lessees and the State, to pass 

 upon their respective claims, and to report their 

 findings to the Governor. Such findings shall 

 have no force or effect unless concurred in by 

 five members of the commission, and approved 

 by the Governor. The commission shall con- 

 clude its labors by June 1, 1891, and shall re- 

 ceive compensation from the State. It was pro- 

 vided that no action should be taken under the 

 act until the lessees should file with the Gov- 

 ernor an agreement to abide by the settlement 

 arrived at under its provisions. On Dec. 22 this 

 agreement was filed by the lessees, and the Gov- 

 ernor at once appointed the following commis- 

 sioners : J. C. C. Black, J. L. Warren, George 

 A. Mercer, N. J. Hammond, G. Gunby Jordan, 

 Walter B. Hill, Daniel G. Hughes, C. D. Mc- 

 Cutchen. In the regular appropriation bills 

 passed at this session the public schools were 

 liberally treated, but a disposition hostile to 

 higher education was manifested by an attempt 

 to withhold support from the branch colleges of 

 the State University. They obtained an Appropri- 

 ation for one year only through the persistency of 

 the Senate in their' behalf! The session ad- 

 journed on Dec. 22 until the following July, 

 having completed a large amount of legislation, 

 chiefly local and special. 



GERMANY, an empire in central Europe, es- 

 tablished in accordance with treaties concluded 

 in November, 1870. between the North German 

 Confederation and the Grand Duchies of Baden 

 and Hesse and Kingdoms of Bavaria and Wiir- 

 temberg, which were ratified on Jan. 29, 1871. 

 By vote of the Reichstag of the North German 

 Confederation and on the unanimous invitation 

 of the princes of the German states, Wilhelm I, 

 King of Prussia, became the first German Em- 

 peror, and on April 16, 1871, the Constitution of 

 the empire was promulgated by a decree that 

 went into force on May 4, 1871. The confeder- 

 ation of states forming the empire is invested 

 with sovereign imperial authority, which is ex- 

 ercised by the King of Prussia as hereditary 

 German Emperor, and the Bundesrath or Fed- 

 eral Council, representing the federated states, 

 in conjunction with the Reichstag or German 



