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11. A grateful people can never forget the services 

 of her soldiers, aud it is due to them that liberality 

 and generosity should be exercised in matters of 

 back-pay, bounties, and pensions. 



12. That since the purity and permanency of free 

 institutions of government depend upon the univer- 

 sal diffusion of knowledge and virtue among the peo- 

 ple, the Republican party of Minnesota reaffirms its 

 convictions that it is the duty of the State, not only 

 to maintain the integrity of the common-school sys- 

 tem, but to do all that is needful so to increase its 

 efficiency as to secure the blessings of a wise and 

 generous education to any child within its borders. 



The election was held on the 2d of Novem- 

 ber, and resulted in the success of the Repub- 

 lican ticket, the vote being as follows : 



FOB GOVERNOE. 



Total Vote. Majorities. 

 Pillsbury ................................. 46,175 10,802 



Buell .................................... 85,373 ...... 



Humiston ............................... 1,669 



FOB LIEUTENANT-GOVEBNOB. 



Wakefield ................................ 43.874 9,784 



Durant .................................. 3<090 ...... 



Tuttle .................................. . 2,205 



FOB 8EOBETABY OF STATE. 



Irgens ................................... 44,840 10,851 



Bierman ................................. 83.969 ...... 



Stevens .................................. 1,521 



FOB RAILBOAD COMMIS8IONEB. 



Marshall ................................. 45,044 9,866 



Bonniwell ................................ 35,178 ...... 



Greeley .................................. 1,544 



FOB STATE ATJDITOB. 



Whitcomb ............................... 45,831 9,837 



Kahilly ................................... 89,994 ...... 



Hutchinson ............................. 1,41)3 



4,835 



FOB STATE TBEA8UBEB. 



Pfaender .......................... ....... 41,743 



Scheffer ................................. 36,908 



Dyke ................................... 2,005 



Brown, H. D ............................. 1,544 



Scattering ................................ 9T 



FOB ATTOBNEY-GENERAL. 



Wilson ................................... 45,091 10,403 



Jones ................................... 84,683 



McCarthy ................................ 2,749 



FOB CHIEF-JUSTICE. 



Gilflllan .................................. 47,010 



Emmett ............................... 



FOB CLERK OF BUPBEME COTTRT. 



Nichols 46,682 11,398 



McLeod 85,284 



Jewell 1,564 



Hough 703 



FOB JUDGE EIGHTH DISTRICT. 



Baxter 



Macdonald 

 Brown . . . 



4,102 



849 



At the same time four amendments to the 

 constitution were submitted to the people ; 

 three were ratified and one rejected. The 

 latter was intended to extend to the stock- 

 holders of other corporations the privilege of 

 exemption from personal liability, which by a 

 previous amendment had been granted to the 

 stockholders of manufacturing and mechanical 

 corporations. O wing to erroneous phraseology 

 the new amendment was made virtually to re- 

 peal the one last referred to, and to except 

 manufacturing corporations from the exemp- 

 tion intended, simply to be extended to others. 

 This error is said to have caused the defeat of 



the amendment. The other amendments are: 

 That which empowers the Legislature to in- 

 crease the number of judges in any judicial 

 district ; that which provides that any woman 

 of twenty-one years of age and upward may 

 vote at any election for school-officers, or on 

 any measure relating to schools, and may be 

 eligible to any office pertaining to the manage- 

 ment of schools ; and that which requires the 

 Legislature to provide for the investment of 

 the principal of the school-fund, in bonds of 

 the United States, or of the State of Minne- 

 sota of a date subsequent to 1860, or of any 

 other State, as the Legislature may direct. The 

 constitution has hitherto contained no provi- 

 sion in regard to the investment of the school- 

 funds further than the general requirement that 

 the principal should forever remain inviolate. 



The present State government is as follows: 

 Governor, J. S. Pillsbury ; Lieutenant-Gov- 

 ernor, J. B. Wakefield ; Secretary of State, J. 

 S. Irgens ; State Treasurer, William Pfaender ; 

 State Auditor, O. P. Whitcomb ; Attorney- 

 General, George P. Wilson; Railroad Com- 

 missioner, W. R. Marshall ; Insurance Com- 

 missioner, A. R. McGill; Superintendent of 

 Public Instruction, Dr. Burt. All of the above 

 are Republicans. 



The Legislature is classified as follows : 



The State is represented in Congress by 

 Senators William Windom, whose term expires 

 March 3, 1877, and Samuel J. R. McMillan, 

 whose term will expire March 3, 1881 ; and 

 by Representatives Mark H. Dunnell, Horace 

 B. Strait, and William S. King. All of these 

 are Republicans. 



Mr. McMillan was elected in February, 

 1875, after a protracted contest in the Legis- 

 lature. He was born near Pittsburg, Pa., was 

 graduated at Du Quesne College in that city, 

 in 1849, and was admitted to the bar in 1851. 

 In the summer of 1852 he emigrated to Minne- 

 sota, and settled in Still water, where he com- 

 menced the practice of his profession with 

 much success. In 1857 he was elected Judge 

 of the District Court of the First District, and 

 after the admission of the State (May 11, 1858) 

 took his seat on that bench. He served in that 

 position almost one full term, and on July 1, 

 1864, was appointed by Governor Miller as one 

 of the Judges of the Supreme Court, vice 

 Flandrau, who had removed from the State. 

 In the fall of the same year he was elected 

 Supreme Judge for a term of seven years. In 

 the fall of 1871 he was reflected for another 

 term. In April, 1874, Chief- Justice Ripley 

 having resigned, Judge McMillan was appoint- 

 ed in his place until the election last fall, when 

 he was elected to that position, his opponent 

 being Judge Wilkins, of St. Paul. He removed 



