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4. Kigid restriction of the governments, both 

 State and national, to the legitimate domain of DO- 

 litical power, by excluding therefrom all executive 

 and legislative intermeddling with the affairs of so- 

 ciety, whereby monopolies are fostered, privileged 

 classes aggrandized, and individual freedom unne- 

 cessarily and oppressively restrained. 



5. The right and duty of the State to protect its 

 citizens from extortion and unjust discrimination by 

 chartered monopolies. 



The following additional resolutions were 

 adopted : 



WTiereas, The Eepublican party has ignored the 

 just claims of our disabled soldiers, and violated its 

 pledges repeatedly made, whereby thousands of 

 these noble wards of the nation are compelled to 

 live upon the cold charity of the world : 



fiesolved, That we now demand that all the pen- 

 sions of our crippled soldiers shall be so increased 

 as to shield every one of them from daily want, 

 without compelling them to take refuge in a so-called 

 soldiers' home. 



Resolved^ That the present system of pension agen- 

 cies is vicious and detrimental to the interest of 

 those it is pretending to protect, and should be 

 thoroughly investigated by Congress. 



Mr. Charles Carroll was nominated for State 

 Treasurer, and Mr. Etter, of the Farmer's par- 

 ty, for Superintendent of Instruction. 



The election held early in November re- 

 sulted in the choice of Kidgway for Treasurer, 

 and Etter for Superintendent of Public Instruc- 

 tion. The vote was as follows : 



STATE TREASURER. 



Thomas 8. Rid^way (Republican) 162,974 



Charles Carroll (Opposition) 128,169 



David Gore (Independent Republican) 75,580 



James P. Simpson (Prohibitionist) 516 



Total 367,239 



Ridgway's plurality 34,805 



STATE SUPERINTENDENT OP PUBLIC INSTRUCTION. 



W. B. Powell (Republican) 166,984 



8. M. Etter (Independent Republican Opposition) 197,490 



Mrs. Potter (Prohibitionist) 681 



Mrs. Willing 21 



Total 365,176 



Etter's plurality 30,506 



It will be seen that the vote for State 

 Treasurer is over 2,000 greater than that for 

 Superintendent of Public Instruction. 



The election returns for 1872 were : For 

 President, Grant 241,944; Greeley, 184,938; 

 for Governor, Oglesby, 237,774; Koerner, 197,- 

 084. The Congressmen elected in 1874 were 

 as follows : 



District I. Barney G. Caulfleld Opposition. 



II. Carter H. Harrison 



III. C. B. Farwell Republican. 



IV. S. A. Hurlbut 



V. Horatio C. Burchard 



VI. Thomas J. Hepderson 



VIL Alexander Campbell Opposition. 



VIII. Greenbury L. Fort Republican. 



IX. Richard H. Whiting 



X. John C. Bagley Opposition. 



XL Scott Wike 



XIL William M. Springer 



XIII. Adlai E. Stevenson 



XIV. Joseph G. Cannon Republican. 



XV. John R, Eden Opposition. 



XVI. William A. J. Sparks . " 



XVII. William R. Morrison.., 



XVIII. William Hartsell " 



XIX. William B. Anderson........ Republican. 



The Legislature is classified as follows : 



The election of members of the House of 

 Kepresentatives was held under the cumula- 

 tive system of voting, which is a new feature 

 of the constitution of 1870, intended to secure 

 minority representation. It is provided in that 

 instrument that " in all elections of representa- 

 tives, as aforesaid, each qualified voter may 

 cast as many votes for one candidate as there 

 are representatives to be elected, or may dis- 

 tribute the same, or equal parts thereof, among 

 the candidates, as he shall see fit ; and the can- 

 didates highest in votes shall be elected." 



The total indebtedness of the State, Decem- 

 ber 1, 1874, was $1,730,972, being $329,178 

 less than on December 1, 1872. It is estimated 

 that the semi-annual receipts from the Illinois 

 Central Eailroad Company, which are set apart 

 by law for the payment of the public indebted- 

 ness, will be sufficient to meet the interest on 

 the State indebtedness, and to pay such in- 

 debtedness as fast as it becomes due, and, on 

 January 1, 1880, when all the outstanding ob- 

 ligations of the State shall have become pay- 

 able and be paid, there will be a surplus of that 

 Illinois Central Eailroad Fund of over $500,000. 

 It is believed that the bonded indebtedness of 

 the counties, townships, cities, and towns, con- 

 sisting of railroad bonds, war bonds, court- 

 house bonds, and bonds issued for other cor- 

 porate purposes, aggregate the enormous sum 

 of $35,000,000, compared to which the indebt- 

 edness of the State is a mere trifle. 



The estimates for appropriations are : 1875, 

 $2,920,500; 1876, $2,725,400; 1877, $2,129,- 

 700. 



The following tables give the aggregates of 

 the equalized assessment of property in the 

 State, for the years 1873 and 1874 : 



The assessment of personal property, lands, 

 and town and city lots, is by local assessors, in 

 counties, that of railroads and capital stock of 

 corporations by the State Board of Equalization. 



The following is a comparison of the assessed 

 values of the most important of the enumerated 

 items of personal property : 



