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WISCONSIN. 



619.23; disbursements, $47,183.24; cash bal- 

 ance at the close of the year, $11,090.44. The 

 expenses for the next fiscal year are estimated 

 at $42,825, of which the prisoners' earnings are 

 not expected to pay more than three fourths. 



The whole number of children cared for in 

 the Soldiers' Orphans' Home since March 81, 

 1866, when it was adopted by the State, has 

 been 683, and the total cost to the State has 

 been $342,300. 



At the Northern Hospital for the Insane, 757 

 patients have received treatment, of whom 65 

 were discharged recovered and 68 improved. 

 The daily average of patients was 553. The 

 total expenditures were $132,452.62, of which 

 $21,985.56 were for additions, repairs, and im- 

 provements, leaving as current expenses the 

 sum of $110,467.06, or at the rate of $200 for 

 each patient. The current expenses for the 

 next hospital year are estimated at $122,991.96. 



The Wisconsin State Hospital for the Insane 

 has given treatment to 607 patients during the 

 year, and reports 37 discharged cured and 35 

 discharged improved. The average number 

 under treatment was 425, and the total expen- 

 ditures were $135,555.82, of which $30,951.83 

 were for additions, repairs, and improvements, 

 by which the capacity of the hospital has been 

 increased to accommodate 180 additional pa- 

 tients. The current expenses were $104,603.99, 

 an average of $246.12 for each patient. The 

 current expenses for the next hospital year are 

 estimated at $121,550. 



At the Institution for the Education of the 

 Blind, 90 pupils were in attendance, the aver- 

 age expense per scholar being $207.26. 



At the Institution for the Education of the 

 Deaf and Dumb, 187 names were upon the 

 register at the close of the fiscal year. The 

 total disbursements were $30,318. The articu- 

 late system of teaching was introduced with 

 very satisfactory results. The main building 

 of the institution was totally consumed by fire 

 on September 16th. 



There were completed 89.90 miles of new 

 railroad in Wisconsin during the year, making 

 the aggregate number of miles in operation 

 2,923, inclusive of 107 miles of narrow-gauge 

 track. The total number of miles of road oper- 

 ated by the companies reporting to the Com- 

 missioner is 4,765. The cost of these roads and 

 their equipments, as represented by capital 

 stock and outstanding bonds, is $205,185,806.- 

 88, and the net earnings are reported at $12,- 

 691,006.90, being an average of 6.2 per cent, 

 on the assumed cost. The total number of pas- 

 sengers carried on all the lines was 5,336,688, 

 and the freight carried amounted to 7,997,399 

 tons. The number of personal casualties in 

 Wisconsin was 133, as against 196 the previous 

 year. On the entire lines of these roads, in all 

 the States, there were 284 casualties. Two 

 passengers were killed, neither of them in this 

 State, and eight injured. 



The condition of the trust funds and of the 

 public lands, as revealed in a review of all the 



books by the Commissioners of Public Lands, 

 is as follows: The number of acres of land 

 held by the State September 30, 1878, was re- 

 ported at 1,538,825-07. The increase by for- 

 feiture during the year was 24,051.88 ; the in- 

 crease by error in former reports, 27,550-50 ; 

 the increase from school-land indemnity, 87,- 

 089 - 09 ; making the total number of acres 

 1,627,516-54. The decrease by sales during the 

 year was 52,827'21 ; leaving 1,574,689-33 acres 

 held by the State, September 30, 1879. The 

 productive trust fund was $4,166,866, an in- 

 crease over the amount in 1878 of $67,204. 

 The income of the trust funds was $353,241, 

 which is $26,561 more than that of the pre- 

 ceding year. 



The National party held their Convention 

 at Watertown on July 15th. Keuben May of 

 Yernon County was made temporary and per- 

 manent President. The following candidates 

 for State officers were nominated : For Gov- 

 ernor, Keuben May ; for Lieutenant-Governor, 

 W. L. Utley ; for Secretary of State, George W. 

 Lee ; for Treasurer, Peter A. Griffiths ; for At- 

 torney-General, George B. Goodwin; for Super- 

 intendent of Public Instruction, W. H. Searles. 

 The following resolutions were adopted : 



Whereas, A money despotism has grown up which 

 controls the law-making power of our country, dic- 

 tates judicial decisions, wields an undue influence over 

 the Executive of the nation, hi consideration of laws 

 passed for the benefit of the people, thus enabling the 

 money power to carry on its schemes of public plun- 

 der, under and from which colossal fortunes have been 

 gathered in the hands of the ambitious and unscru- 

 pulous men whose interests are at war with the inter- 

 ests of the people, hostile to popular government, and 

 deaf to the demands of honest toil ; therefore, we, the 

 representatives of the Union Greenback-Labor party 

 of Wisconsin, adopt the following' as our platform of 

 principles : 



Resolved, That we demand the immediate calling in 

 and payment of all United States bonds in full legal- 

 tender money of the United States, gold and silver 

 coin now in the Treasury for redemption purposes, 

 and beyond such metal money in greenback full legal- 

 tender money, to be created, issued, and protected as 

 full legal-tender money of the United States ; and 

 that the United States Government never issue anoth- 

 er bond of any kind or class. 



Resolved, That we demand the abolition of the na- 

 tional banking system, and the prohibition of all 

 banks of issue, either State or national. 



Resolved, That the issue of greenback money bo 

 limited in value to the sum required to meet the just 

 obligations of the Government, less the sum of coin 

 money in the Treasury for resumption purposes. 



Resolved, That we demand unlimited coinage of 

 gold and silver as legal-tender money of the United 

 States. 



Resolved, That the rate of interest on money should 

 not exceed the rate of profit derived from the produc- 

 tive industries of the country, and should be fixed by 

 national law. 



Resolved, That we denounce and condemn the efforts 

 of both the old parties to create a solid North or a solid 

 South, thereby sectionalizing the country, arraying 

 one section against the other ; that we know no North, 

 no South, no East, no West ; that we demand the gov- 

 ernment of our country be so administered as to secure 

 equal rights to all our people, be they high or low, rich 

 or poor, black or white. 



Resolved, That convict-labor in our penal institu- 

 tions be so arranged by law as not to interfere with free 



