MICHIGAN. 



Rttolol, That tho railroad and industrial interest* 

 our State should be identical and reciprocal, and 

 ' we hare a right to such legislation as will bo- 

 TMBonable aud uniform rate* of freight. 



A new party, christened tho " Nationnl Re- 

 form Party," was organized at Lansing, August 

 I'-tli. A nominating convention was huld at 

 ii on tho 9th of September, and a ticket 

 ii'iminaUMl which was partially adopted by the 

 orats, the next day. Tho candidates not 

 adopted and not withdrawn received a vote 

 ng 1V..IH L',287 to 7,090. The platform put 

 forth by this party was: 



hat it will bo impossible to secure such 

 reforms of administration and changes of policy us 

 will restore tho honesty and economy of tho early 

 days of tho republic through either of tho political 

 heretofore trusted with power; tired of shuf- 

 :iuancial experiments and false standards of 

 value ; and deeming the encroachments of Federal 

 authority upon the powers for a long time exercised 

 exclusively by the States prejudicial to our liberties, 

 we will perfect our organization as a National Re- 

 form party, and present candidates upon the follow- 

 ing platform : 



1. Reduction of the number and diminution of 

 the power of offices under the national Government. 



2. A reduction of salaries paid, to such an extent 

 that no fund for political purposes can be raised by 

 assessments upon office-holders, and that no office 

 shall be sought on account of its emoluments. 



8. Political opinion should be neither a reason for 

 mi appointment to office nor a ground for removal 

 tiu-ivt'roin | but frequent changes should be made to 

 secure purity of administration. 



4. A prohibition of recommendations or solici- 



- tor office by any Senator or Representative in 

 -~. and the election of all local and Federal 

 office-holders by the people. 



5. A speedy return to hard money as the only 

 standard of value. 



6. All banking, State or national, should be made 

 free. 



7. A tariff for revenue and an equitable system of 

 taxation, which shall cause all classes of property and 

 every species of capital to bear its just proportion 

 of the burdens of the Government. 



The school statistics for the year, compiled 

 from official reports in the office of the Super- 

 intendent of Public Instruction, are as follows: 

 Number of townships reporting, 955 ; of dis- 

 tricts, 5,571 ; new districts organized, 118. 

 Number of children between the ages of five 

 and twenty years, 486,694; between the ages 

 of eight and fourteen, 186,714; number that at- 

 tended school during the year, 827,506. Num- 

 ber of private or select schools, 166; pupils 

 attending same, 5,845. Number of volumes in 

 district libraries, 120,577; increase for year, 

 10,315 ; paid for books, $12,962. Number of 

 volumes in township libraries, 49,872; increase 

 for year, 4,521; paid for books, $5,576.68. Voted 

 for libraries at spring election, $1,449.05 ; 

 linos and penalties received from county treas- 

 urers for libraries, $18,393.41. Stone school- 

 houses, 81 ; brick, 682 ; frame, 4,890 ; log, 549 ; 

 furnishing seats for 407,072 pupils. Value of 

 school-houses and lots, $8,912,698. Graded 

 schools, 827. Visits by county superintend- 

 ents, 7,288; by directors, 14,927. Number of 

 meetings held by school inspectors, 1,783 ; paid 

 (or due) inspectors for services for fiscal year 



ending September 7th, $0,776.42. Qualified 

 teachers employed males, 8,166; female*, 9,- 

 120. Aggregate months taught by males, 14,- 

 061 ; by females, 43,578. Wageo paid teach- 

 ers males, $737,471; females, $1,179,540.11. 

 Average wages per month males, $5,240 ; fe- 

 males, $2,701. School-moneys on hand at be- 

 ginning of fiscal year, $576,006.08. Receipt* 

 for year : from two-mill tax, $466,086.05 ; from 

 primary school-fund, $205,480.14; from tuition 

 of non-resident scholars, $87,811.26; from dis- 

 trict taxes for all purposes, $2,893,604.73 ; from 

 all other sources, $410,288.18. Total resources 

 for year, $4,107,588.78. Expenditures for year : 

 paid teachers, $1,905,863.71 ; paid for build- 

 ings and repairs, $536,307.28; on bonded in- 

 debtedness, $384,954.41; for all other pur- 

 poses, $600,901.48. Total expenditures, $8,- 

 423,922.45. Amount on hand at close of fiscal 

 year, $688,661.83. Bonded debts of districts, 

 $1,734,890.29 ; other indebtedness, $116,873.90; 

 total, $1,850,764.19. 



The number of students attending the State 

 Normal School in 1874, 550. Salaries paid in- 

 structors, $19,205; other expenditures, $7,- 

 113.71 : total, $26,318.71. Receipts : from the 

 State Treasury, $25,000 ; tuition, $1,942 ; other 

 sources, $1,412.40 ; total, $28,354.40. The to- 

 tal amount of the Normal School (endowment 

 or trust) fund held by the State is $69,303.54, 

 at 7 per cent. 



Number of students in tho Agricultural Col- 

 lege, 121 ; graduated during the year, 21. The 

 permanent fund of the college is now $212,- 

 986.16, of which $107,879.14 is held in trust 

 by the State, and $105,107.02 is due for lands 

 sold, both amounts drawing 7 per cent, inter- 

 est from the State. September 30, 1874, the 

 unsold lands of the college were 169,793.56 

 acres. The college has received and expended 

 since its foundation to September 80, 1874: 

 from State appropriations, $418,977.18; from 

 State for interest on lands sold, $36,664.84; 

 from sales of lands donated by State, $37,166.- 

 43 : total, $492,808.45. Value of personal prop- 

 erty and real estate belonging to college, $209,- 

 038. Running expenses for eighteen years, 

 $283,770.46, or an average annual expenditure 

 of a fraction over $15,765. Whole number of 

 graduates of college, 85. Salaries paid profess- 

 ors and instructors in 1874, exclusive of house- 

 rent, $14,850; to gardeners, foremen, and la- 

 borers, $6,000, exclusive of board. 



Number of students in the university, 1,183. 

 Degrees conferred Bachelor of Laws, 126 

 (two females); Doctor of Medicine, 71 (nine 

 females) ; Bachelor of Arts, 85 (four females) ; 

 Bachelor of Philosophy, 18 (two females) ; Bach- 

 elor of Science, 13 (one female) ; Civil Engineer, 

 13 ; Pharmaceutical Chemist, 20 (two females) ; 

 Master of Science, 2; Master of Arts, 20 (one 

 female). Amount of university fund, $542,- 

 768.24. Value of buildings and other proper- 

 ty, $457,500. 



In May of this year a census of the State was 

 taken, as required by the constitution. A tab- 



