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TENNESSEE. 



Col. Kiinzli, to Bellinzona with extraordinary 

 powers, and on the following morning 1,473 

 troops were dispatched from Bern. The revolu- 

 tionists paid no attention to a proclamation or- 

 dering the release of the imprisoned officials, the 

 dissolution of the Provisional Government, and 

 the transfer of all authority to the Federal Com- 

 missioner. The Liberals asserted that in 1881 

 the election districts had been arranged in a 

 way to give t he Ultramontanes a majority in 

 spite of their own numerical equality or superi- 

 ority, and they insisted that a popular vote 

 should be taken on Sept. 21 on the question of 

 returning to the old electoral divisions. Troops 

 were sent to other parts of the canton to prevent 

 a Conservative counter-revolution, while Col. 

 Kiinzli, instead of forcibly deposing the Provis- 

 ional Government, entered into negotiations with 

 the Radical leaders, and effected a compromise 

 in accordance with which the functions of gov- 

 ernment should be transferred to his hands and 

 conducted with the advice of representatives of 

 both parties until a general election could be 

 held on the question of revision. On Sept. 14 

 the Provisional Government retired. The Con- 

 servatives, who were about to march upon Bel- 

 linzona when the Federal troops arrived, were 

 incensed because Col. Kiinzli, who called into 

 his council the Liberal Deputies Censi and Ga- 

 buzzi and the Conservative Deputies Galli and 

 Soldati, forbade Conservative gatherings, and 



they attempted to rise at Tesserete and Locarno, 

 and more troops were sent into the canton to 

 maintain order. Conservatives who seized the 

 Gordola bridge and other armed bands of both 

 parties were dispersed. President Respini of the 

 late Government and his associates made a for- 

 mal demand to be restored, and on Sept. 18 they 

 were allowed to take possession of the offices, 

 though Col. Kiinzli retained his extraordinary 

 powers. He called a committee of conciliation 

 to consist of 9 from each party, but only 3 of 

 the Conservatives attended. On Oct. 5 a popu- 

 lar vote on the revision question resulted in fa- 

 vor of the Liberals. On Oct. 16 a conciliation 

 conference was opened at Bern with President 

 Ruchonnet in the chair. The killing of Rossi, 

 who fell by a rifle ball, was traced to a man 

 named Castioni, who went to England, where he 

 had resided for many years. The Federal Gov- 

 ernment asked for his extradition and the Solic- 

 itor-General of the English Government, who 

 argued the case for the Federal Council sug- 

 gested that he was actuated by revenge, his 

 brother having been killed by Conservatives in a 

 recent political disturbance. ' The English judges 

 decided that noprima facie case showing private 

 motives was made out' and denied the extradi- 

 tion on the ground that the killing of Rossi was 

 a political offense, in that it occurred in the midst 

 of a revolutionary rising amounting to insurrec- 

 tion and civil war. 



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TENNESSEE, a Southern State, admitted to 

 the Union June 1, 1796; area, 42,050 square 

 miles. The population, according to each de- 

 cennial census since admission, was: 105,602 in 

 1800; 261,727 in 1810; 422,771 in 1820; 681,904 

 in 1830; 829,210 in 1840: 1,002,717 in 1850; 

 1,109,801 in 1860 ; 1,258,520 in 1870 ; 1,542,359 

 in 1880; 1,767,518 in 1890. Capital, Nashville. 



Government. The following were the State 

 officers during the year: Governor, Robert L. 

 Taylor, Democrat; Secretary of State, Charles 

 A. Miller ; Treasurer and Insurance Commis- 

 sioner, M. F. House; Comptroller, J. W. Allen; 

 Attorney-General, G. W. Pickle ; Superintend- 

 ent of Public Instruction, Frank M. Smith ; 

 Commissioner of Agriculture, Statistics, and 

 Mines, B. M. Hord ; Chief Justice of the Su- 

 preme Court, Peter Turney ; Associate Justices, 

 W. C. Caldwell, B. L. Snodgrass, II. H. Lurton, 

 and W. C. Folkes, who died on May 17, and was 

 succeeded by W. D. Beard until the August elec- 

 tion, when Benjamin J. Lea was chosen by the 

 people to fill the vacancy. 



Finances. The funded State debt on Dec. 

 20, the end of the fiscal year, amounted to $14,- 

 110,900. There also remained outstanding an 

 unfunded balance of the old debt amounting to 

 $2,239,000, which the holders have hitherto re- 

 fused to exchange for funding bonds, making 

 the total permanent indebtedness $16,349,900. 

 To meet the interest accruing thereon, the State 

 has been obliged for several years to procure 

 temporary loans, of which the amount outstand- 

 ing on Dec. 20 was $459,797.10. This year, for 

 the first time, the ordinary revenues were more 



than sufficient to support the State government 

 and to meet the entire interest charge. For the 

 two years ending Dec. 20, the regular receipts 

 exceeded those of the preceding biennial period 

 by $416,508.73. 



The total valuation of taxable property for 

 1890 was $347,508,105, an increase of about 

 $25,000,000 over the valuation of 1889. The 

 rate of taxation for State purposes is 30 cents, 

 and for education 15 cents on each $100. 



County Debts. The total debt of Tennessee 

 counties in 1890 was $2,237,659, a decrease of 

 $822,886 in ten years. Of this total, all except; 

 $170,868 is a bonded debt. Half of the counties 

 have no debt. 



Legislative Sessions. On Feb. 11 Gov. Tay- 

 lor issued a proclamation calling a special session 

 of the Legislature to meet at Nashville on Feb. 

 24. The ballot-reform law of 1889 was re-enacted 

 at this session, with such additions and altera- 

 tions as were necessary to cure obvious defects. 

 Its provisions are now applicable to all counties 

 having 70,000 inhabitants or over, and to all 

 cities having 9,000 inhabitants or over, accord- 

 ing to any Federal census, and not merely ac- 

 cording to the census of 1880. Any person who 

 does not obtain a place on the official ballot, but 

 who desires to be a candidate, may have tickets 

 printed bearing his name, which may be dis- 

 tributed to voters at the polling places for use 

 by them as a guide in writing the name of the 

 candidate on the official ballot. The registra- 

 tion law of 1889 was also re-enacted with amend- 

 ments necessary to bring it into harmony with 

 the ballot-reform act. Its provisions are now 



