IOWA. 



407 



ever It oo'-urs in that instrnmont, and by mb* 

 utitutinu' tin- wi.nl " persons " for "citizens of 



the I nited I seet:.,n 1 of Artiele III.; 



also l.y milling to seetion fi of Article II. 

 ;..\\in^ word-.: 



shall any person who has boon, or may li'-n- 

 -"ii against till! Uniti-d Slates 



,,r ill. li has absconded, or 



I'scona, for the purpose of avoiding 



riiition or driil't ordered by the nu- 



Mi.'.ri!'. tea SUtet or this State, be entitled 



: MI ( lector, or qualified to hold any 



umler tin' constitution ana laws of this Stair. 



: that tin- jtmvisionsof this section may be ef- 



. tin- Legislature may by law pre- 



.-.ilile oath, to be tuken under such limita- 



a< it may deem proper, by persons offering to 



qualify for office or to rote, to the eflect that they 



are not Mil>jict to the disabilities of this section. 



In :! ( Mi-danee with the constitutional provi- 



atncndments were referred to the 



next I.eiri-lattire, \vliic!i meets in January, 18G8. 



Should they he adopted by that body, they will 



L'o ti> the people for ratification at the October 



election in the same year. 



The comp lotion of the railroad system corn- 



ed some years ago in Iowa is very essen- 

 tial to tin- development of the resonrces of the 



. and during 18GG the work on the several 



<ie-tined to connect the East and the "We>t 

 was prosecuted with great energy. Council 

 RlutFs, on the Missouri River, opposite Omaha, 



iartinir-point of the Union Pacific road, 

 will probably be the terminus of no fewer than 

 four railroads, the Chicago and Northwestern, 

 pi and Missouri River (now the 

 ( 'hicaL'". Rock Island, and Pacific Railroad), 

 the Ilml'iULion and Missouri River, and the 

 Council JMufl'and St. Joseph, all of which will 



il'ly bo in running order in 18G8. The 

 first named traverse the State from east 

 to west; the last directly connects Council 

 BlutFs with the railroad system of Missouri. In 

 August the Des Moines Valley road, connect- 

 ing the capital of the State with Keokuk, on the 



ippi, was completed, and but a few miles 

 are now wanting to make a complete line of 

 railway between the Atlantic seaboard and 

 Western Nebraska. These roads have received, 

 in aid of their construction, valuable grants of 

 land from Congress, on condition that they 

 should be completed within a specified time. As 

 this was supposed to be difficult, if not impossi- 

 ble, a joint resolution was adopted by the Legis- 

 lature, at its last session, asking from Congress 

 an extension of time for completing the roads, 

 and permission for the Legislature to control the 

 land. The same Legislature also memoriali/ed 

 Congress in behalf of a land grant in aid of the 

 Iowa. Central Railroad, which is intended to 

 connect the railroad systems of Minnesota and 

 Missouri, and thus complete a great chain of 

 road-, extending from the lakes on the north to 

 the Gulf of Mexico, of which the northern ter- 

 minus will bo Superior City, and the southern 

 Galveston, Texas. 



From the records in the office of the Super- 

 intendent of Public Instruction it appears that 



at the close of 1806 the total number of penom 

 in Iowa, between the ages of five and t\\ 

 one, was 848,498; males, 180,197; females. 

 :;i;i; number of schools, 6,900; number of 

 teachers, males, 2,673 ; females, 6,670; average 

 weekly compensation for* males $8.40; tor 

 females, $5.94 ; average cost of tuition for each 

 pupil per week, 88 cents; aggregate amount 

 paid teachers, $1,006,623; value of school- 

 houses, $2,837,757; school-houses, 5,009, of 

 which 882 are brick, 1G3 stone, 3,766 frame, 

 and 698 log houses ; school-houses built during 

 the year, 874 ; increase over 1865, in attendance 

 at school, 24,234; increase in the number of 

 teachers, 523 ; increase in the amount paid 

 teachers, $149,897. The university of Iowa is 

 established at Iowa City, GO miles west of the 

 Mississippi River, and occupies the building 

 formerly used as the capitol of the Territory, 

 and of the State, until the removal of the capi- 

 tal to Des Moines, and which was erected by 

 the Federal Government, at a cost of $125,000. 

 The State has been liberal in its material 

 aid, and has added, at a large outlay, two addi- 

 tional structures. The institution is in a flour- 

 ishing condition, the average attendance dur- 

 ing the last year having been over eight hun- 

 dred, including the normal school. The plan of 

 educating the eexes together in a collegiate in- 

 stitution prevails here. Measures have been 

 taken to dispose of the remaining lands granted 

 to the State for the establishment of a State 

 Agricultural College, and the necessary build- 

 ings are to be completed by January 1, 1868, 

 They are erected on a farm of 648 acres, located 

 in Story County, for which the State gave 

 $10,000. The original amount of land granted 

 by the General Government for university pur- 

 poses was 240,000 acres. "When the grant is 

 converted into available funds, the annual in- 

 come will be about $30,000, which is to be an 

 enflowment fund, set apart for the sole pur- 

 pose of teaching. 



Iowa is now undergoing a geological survey 

 by C. A. "White, State Geologist, assisted by C. 

 Childs and Prof. Hinrichs, of the State Univer- 

 sity. They have commenced at the southwest 

 corner of the State, and are required to furnish 

 periodical reports of their labors to the public 

 press. Contrary to general expectation, no con- 

 siderable traces of petroleum have yet been dis- 

 covered, and Mr. "White is. of opinion that bor- 

 ing for it will prove a fruitless enterprise. 



The elections in Iowa in 1866 were for the 

 purpose of filling the offices of Secretary of 

 State, Auditor, Treasurer, Register of the Land 

 Office, Attorney-General, Reporter and Clerk 

 of the Supremo Court, and also of choosing o 

 delegation of six Congressmen to represent the 

 State in the Fortieth Congress. The Republicac 

 State Convention met at Des Moines on June 

 20th, and nominated the following candidates: 

 For Secretary of State, Colonel Edward Wright ; 

 State Treasurer, Major S. E. Rankin ; State 

 Auditor, J. A. Elliott; Register of the State 

 Land Office, Colonel C. C. Carpenter ; Attor- 



