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Treasury to Congress, for appropriation for its 

 payment. 



The report of the Inspector of Mines shows 

 a marked reduction in the number of acci- 

 dents in mines, the continued application of a 

 more improved system of working and venti- 

 lation, and a growing feeling of harmony be- 

 tween the employers and employes in this 

 industry, which has for so long a time been 

 marked by bitter and prolonged contests, often 

 resulting in lawlessness. 



EDUCATION. The State School Commis- 

 sioner furnishes the following educational sta- 

 tistics of the State : Number of youth of 

 school age in the State in September, 1882, 

 1,081,321 ; number of youth of school age in 

 the State in September, 1881, 1,063,337; num- 

 ber of school- houses in township districts, 10,- 

 968; number of school-houses erected within 

 the year, 528 ; cost of school-houses within 

 the year, $1,123,688 ; estimated value of 

 school-houses, including grounds, $23,610,858; 

 number of teachers necessary to supply schools, 

 17,117; number of different teachers actually 

 employed. 24,135 ; average number of weeks 

 the schools were in session, 31 ; number of 

 pupils enrolled in the schools, 751,101 ; aver- 

 age number of pupils in daily attendance, 

 483,232; number of school-officers, 52,151; 

 total rece 

 tember 

 tures, $8,335,475.48. 



AGRICULTURE. The report of the State 

 Board of Agriculture, made up to December 

 1st, places the acreage of wheat sown at 2,741,- 

 560, and the yield at 38,506,370 bushels. The 

 yield of corn is placed at 87,386,260 bushels ; 

 oats, 16,732,154 bushels; potatoes, 6,131,725 

 bushels. 



LIVE-STOCK. According to the returns made 

 to the Auditor of State, the number and value 

 of the live-stock were as follow: Horses, 714,- 

 585, valued at $42,207,378 ; cattle, 1,518,755, 

 value $26,941,612; mules, 22,891, value $1,563, 



good citizens deplore the evils growing out of 

 temperate use of intoxicating liquors. Our jails, 



each branch. In his message Governor Foster 

 brought the temperance question before the 

 Legislature by this statement of the situa- 

 tion : 



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penitentiary, work-houses, reform schools, infirmaries, 

 insane asylums, and other institutions of like charac- 

 ter, are largely made necessary because of this evil. 

 The framers of the Constitution recognized this fact, 

 and empowered the General Assembly "to provide 

 against the evils resulting from the sale of intoxicat- 

 ing liquors." 



The subject has been discussed year after year, in 

 and out of the General Assembly, and laws have been 

 enacted which, if enforced, would largely mitigate the 

 evils ; but, for the want of a public sentiment suffi- 

 ciently strong to secure their enforcement, they are; 

 practically inoperative. Public opinion to-day is. di- 

 vided mainly into two classes as to the character of 

 further legislation upon the subject. One class insists 

 upon the prohibition of the manufacture and sale of 

 intoxicating and malt liquors, while the other pro- 

 poses a tax upon the traffic, coupled with restrictions 

 upon its sale, with severe penalties imposed for viola- 

 tions of the law. 



The Cleveland Convention, recognizing the fact that 

 both of the foregoing propositions are of doubtful con- 

 stitutionality, adopted the following as the views of 

 the convention and of the party it represented, for the 

 purpose of relieving the subject of this doubt, viz. : 



" Resolved, That the public interests require that the 

 General Assembly should submit to a vote of the peo- 

 ple such amendments to the Constitution of the State,. 



jeipts, including balance on hand Sep- relative to the manufacture, sale and use of intoxicat- 

 1, 1881, $12,236,357.63 ; total expendi- ^T* as sha11 leave ** wh le matter t0 Iegl8la ' 



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A*n 7 wv7 a/3. 1 A-To ooo n^nY source of all power, an opportunity to express tnem- 



452 ; sheep, 4,594,607, value $13,383,249 ; hogs, 8elve8j and th F us gi ^ e th ^ ^ re?t value of popular ap- 



This resolution was made the subject of earnest dis- 

 cussion prior to the last election,, and extraordinary 

 efforts were made to defeat the party that adopted it., 

 After the fullest discussion, the people sustained the 

 party by an unprecedented majority, and thus approve 

 the action of the convention. 



The duty of the General Assembly is thus marked 

 out by the people, viz M the submission of constitu 

 tional amendments to the people essentially embody- 

 ing the substance of the resolution. 



The propriety of submitting three amendments, one 

 favoring local option, another the prohibition of the 

 manufacture and sale, and a third the taxation of the 

 traffic with well-guarded restrictions, is earnestly rec- 

 ommended. This course will give the people, the 

 source of all power, an opportunity to express them- 



1,624,077, value $6,587,148. 



SOCIAL STATISTICS. The social statistics ot 

 the State, as reported to the Secretary of State, 

 show that during the year there were 30,528 

 marriages; 69,914 births; 34,173 deaths; 1,228 

 persons sent to insane asylums ; 18,266 paupers 

 supported in and out of the county infirmaries, 

 at a cost of $828,146.87; number of persons in 

 the benevolent institutions November 15, 1882, 

 178 blind, 431 deaf and dumb, 499 idiotic and 

 imbecile, 677 in soldiers' and sailors' orphans' 



proval to the successful proposition. 



The recommendation of the Governor was 

 not taken up in earnest until' March 8th, when, 

 after a hot debate, the House passed a joint 

 resolution providing that a proposition to amend 

 the Constitution of the State of Ohio be sub- 

 mitted to the electors of the State on the sec- 

 ond Tuesday of October, A. D. 1883, as follows : 



SECTION 1. A license to traffic in spirituous, vinous, 

 and malt liquors may be granted under such regula- 

 tions and limitations as shall be provided by law. At 

 the said election the electors desirin to vote in favor 



home ; number in penitentiary during the year, the said election the electors desiring to vote in Tavor 



1,767 ; in work-houses, 4,674 ; boys and girls in of the adoption of said amendment shall have placed 



_l*-__'- ._ j _ j__ A __,_, V.i'. . .!_' -, ^ Ofi upon their ballots "License to Traffic in Intoxicating 



* , ... Liquors, Yes," and those desiring to vote against the 



aost exciting ad ^ ptior ; of s ' a ia amendment shall have placed upon 



political question of the year was that of legus- their ballots "-License to Traffic in Intoxicating Li- 



reform and industrial schools, 1,426. 

 THE LIQUOR QUESTION. The most exciting 



lation affecting the traffic in intoxicating liquors. 

 The Legislature organized January 2d, with 22 

 Republicans and 11 Democrats in the Senate, 

 and 70 Republicans and 35 Democrats in the 

 House an exact two-thirds Republican vote in 

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quors, No " ; and if a majority of all the ballots cast at 

 said election shall contain the words "License to 

 Traffic in Intoxicating Liquors, Yes," the said amend- 

 ment shall be adopted, and shall constitute the sepa- 

 rate section to Article XV of the Constitution de- 

 scribed in section 18 of the schedule thereto, and the 



