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companies. The balance in the treasury on January i, 1911 was 8^,829,546; receipts for 

 the calendar year, 7,598,067; disbursements, $7,388,902; and -balance on January I, 19112, 

 $2,038,712. The state debt was $284,000 capitol building bonds and $4,398,839 school 

 fund certificates. 



Education. For public schools the legislature appropriated one-third of the ordinary 

 revenue paid into the treasury for the fiscalyears July I, igio-June 30, 1912"; and for higher 

 education for 1911 and 1912, $2,352,975. Pupils living more than half a mile from a public 

 school are to be carried to school free if the board of directors in the district'approves. Boards 

 in cities with more than 75,000 inhabitants and less than 500,000 (that is St. Joseph and Kan- 

 sas City) may erect public libraries, art galleries, museums and auditoriums, even though 

 these are not used strictly for school purposes. School districts may issue bonds to erect 

 library buildings. The requirements for teachers' certificates were raised in 1911. Jn 

 October 1912 the General Education Board gave $75,000 to Central College at Lafayette. 

 In 1912 the total population of school age was 958,623; the total enrollment 696,893; the 

 average daily attendance 488,619; the average length of the school term 155.4 days; total 

 school revenue, $17,101,000, and expenditures, $14,200,000 



The percentage of illiteracy in 1910 of population 10 years and over was 4.3 (6.4 in 1900), 

 Penal and Charitable Institutions The labour of convicts, by a law of 1911, is not 

 to be let, farmed or sold; convicts are allowed to work in the binding twine plant and in 

 manufacturing for state institutions supplies, which are not to be purchased elsewhere if it 

 is possible for convict labour to supply them. A law of 1911 allows counties with a popula- 

 tion of 250,000 to 500,000 (Jackson county, including Kansas City, was the only one in this 

 class) which have a juvenile court, to appropriate not more than $12,000 a year for the support 

 of mothers (of children under 14), who are widows or whose husbands are prisoners and who 

 would otherwise have to work away from their children. Cities of 500,000 or more (St. Louis 

 only in' 1910) may create a board of children's guardians to manage public institutions of 

 the city for delinquent, dependent or defective children. Juvenile courts for children under 

 17 were established in counties with a population of 50,000 or more. Tuberculosis hospitals 

 are to be established in special districts called "Tuberculosis Hospital Districts." In June, 

 1911, two tuberculosis hospitals (for men and for women) were opened at the State Hospital 

 at Nevada; in June, 1912, one was opened at Fulton. Buchanan county voted for a hospital 

 in November, 1912; and in the same month in Kansas City, in accordance with an appropria- 

 tion of $50,000 made in 1911, a site was chosen for a city hospital. 



History. The legislature, being strongly Democratic, chose (Jan. 18, 1911) the 

 nominee of the Democratic primaries (over David R. Francis), James A. Reed (b. 1861 ; 

 Reform Democratic mayor of Kansas City 1900-04) as United States senator to succeed 

 William Warner (b. 1840; Republican; representative in Congress 1885-89), whose 

 term expired Mrrch 4, ion. Herbert Spencer Hadley (b. 1872), Republican, governor 

 in 1909-13, was at one time suggested as a " compromise " Republican candidate for 

 the presidency. 1 In the National Republican convention 2 he was considered the ablest 

 and fairest of the speakers for Roosevelt, but eventually he refused to join the new 

 Progressive party, definitely announced himself for Taft (Oct. 3, 1912), and, after the 

 death of Sherman, was the choice of most of the Republican National committeemen to 

 succeed him on the Taft ticket for vice-president. In the contest for governor the 

 Republicans in the state nominated John C. McKinley, lieutenant-governor in 1905-09, 

 whose suggestion in the party platform to use convict labour in printing school books 

 roused the opposition of labour unions and publishers; but he was defeated by Elliott 

 W. Major (b. 1864), Democrat, attorney-general of the state in 1909-13. Major re- 

 ceived more votes than McKinley (Rep.) and A. D. Nortoni (Prog.) together, while 

 McKinley received about twice as many votes as Nortoni (Major, 337,019; McKinley, 

 217,819; Nortoni, 109,146). The entire Democratic state ticket was elected, :an un- 

 usual thing in the state, where Hadley had some Democratic administrative officers and 

 a Democratic majority in the legislature and Folk was the only Democrat on the state 

 ticket elected in 1904. The next legislature will be composed of 25 Democrats and 9 

 Republicans in the senate and 113 Democrats, 28 Republicans and i Progressive in the 

 house. There were no Progressive candidates for Congress and the delegation of 16 

 will have 14 Democrats and 2 Republicans (in 62nd Congress, 3 Republicans, 3 all from 



1 Hadley's predecessor as governor, Joseph Wingate Folk (b. 1869), Democrat, was 

 considered a possible Democratic candidate, but withdrew (Feb. io, 1912) in favour of 

 another Missourian, Champ Clark. 



* Eight delegates for Roosevelt were seated by the National Convention after contests. 



J One of these, Thcron E. Catlin, was unseated (August I2th) by a partisan vote of the 



