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sold at good prices, or were doing work of 

 State improvement about the penitentiary. 

 Much work for the State for improvements 

 about the penitentiary has been done by the 

 convicts, which does not show in cash against 

 the subsistence account. 



High License, The Supreme Court during the 

 year affirmed the judgment of the lower court 

 in the case of Timm vs. Harrison, Mayor of 

 Chicago. This was a case brought by Timm on 

 behalf of the Illinois State Liquor- Dealers' As- 

 sociation against Mayor Harrison to compel 

 him to issue to the complainant a $103 saloon 

 license, under a city ordinance passed prior to 

 the time when the Harper law went into effect 

 July 1, 1883. The license was refused by 

 Mayor Harrison, on the ground that the "Har- 

 per " law required the payment of $500 for a li- 

 cense to sell spirituous liquors within the State. 

 Tiinm's bill set up the unconstitutionality of 

 the law. The decision rendered was against 

 the liquor-men, and pronounced the " Harper" 

 law constitutional. 



Military Affairs. On Sept. 30, 1884, the Illi- 

 nois National Guard was shown by official re- 

 ports to number 4,939 officers and men. It 

 is "well organized into nine regiments of in- 

 fantry, one regiment of cavalry, three batter- 

 ies of artillery, and one detached company 

 (colored) of infantry. 



The Corn-Crop. The area of the corn-crop of 

 1884 was 6,894,819 acres, which is less than 

 that of any preceding year since 1873. The 

 average yield for the State is 33 bushels an 

 acre, which exceeds the yield since 1872, ex- 

 cepting the crops of 1875 and 1879. The ag- 

 gregate corn-crop for the State for 1884 is 

 207,556,662 bushels, and exceeds the corn-crops 

 of the three preceding years by 20,000,000 to 

 30,000,000 bushels. The average price in first 

 hand is reported to be 29 cents a bushel. The 

 price for corn has not ruled so low in the 

 State since 1860, except in 1861, 1862, 1872, 

 1877, and 1878. 



Political. The Eepublican State Convention 

 met in Peoria April 16, chose delegates to the 

 National Convention of the party, and nomi- 

 nated candidates for Presidential Electors and 

 State officers. The following were the nomi- 

 nees : For Governor, Richard J. Oglesby ; for 

 Lieutenant - Governor, John C. Smith ; for 

 Secretary of State, Henry D. Dement ; for 

 Auditor, Charles P. Swigert; for Treasurer, 

 Jacob Gross ; for Attorney - General, George 

 Hunt. 



The Prohibition State Convention met in 

 Bloomington June 19, and nominated J. B. 

 Hobbs for Governor ; Dr. Ferryman was nomi- 

 nated for Lieutenant-Governor; Hale John- 

 son, for State Attorney ; Uriah Copp, for 

 Treasurer; A. B. Irwin, for Auditor; C. W. 

 Enos, for Secretary of State. 



The Joint State Convention of the Green- 

 backers and Anti-Monopolists met in Bloom- 

 ington August 27, and the following ticket 

 was nominated : Governor, Jesse Harper ; Lieu- 



tenant-Governor, A. C. Vandewater ; Secretary 

 of State, H. B. Baldwin ; Auditor, E. F. Reeves; 

 Attorney - General, John M. Gwinn ; State 

 Treasurer, B. W. Goodhue. 



The Democratic nominees were : For Gov- 

 ernor, Carter Harrison ; for Lieutenant-Gov- 

 ernor, Henry Seiter; for Secretary of State, 

 Michael J. Dougherty; for Treasurer, Albert 

 Orendorff ; for Auditor, Walter E. Carlin ; 

 for Attorney-General, Robert B. McKinlay. 

 The vote on November 4 was as follows: Re- 

 publican Presidential Electors, 337,469 ; Demo- 

 cratic, 312,351; Greenback, 10,776; Prohibi- 

 tion, 12,074. The Republican nominees for 

 State offices were all elected, by pluralities 

 ranging from 14,599 to 24,806. 



The appropriation for completing the State- 

 House was approved by the people, and a 

 constitutional amendment authorizing the Gov- 

 ernor to veto one or more items or sections 

 of a bill, and approve the residue, was rati- 

 fied. 



The Legislature of 1885 consists of 26 Re- 

 publicans and 25 Democrats in the Senate, and 

 76 Republicans and 77 Democrats in the House 

 a tie on joint ballot, though some of the 

 members are of independent proclivities. Ex- 

 tensive election frauds were brought to light 

 in Chicago, especially in the Sixth Senatorial 

 district, where an attempt was made to count 

 out the Republican and count in the Demo- 

 cratic candidate, but without ultimate success. 

 Ten Republicans and ten Democratic Congress- 

 men were elected. 



The Governor discusses the election laws, 

 with special reference to the frauds just men- 

 tioned, and says: "I have no doubt what- 

 ever that it is not only the plain command of 

 the law, by implication at least, that canvass- 

 ing boards shall only canvass returns known 

 to be true returns, and shall reject returns 

 known to be false and forged, but that every 

 sense of right and justice commands them to 

 do it. Neither have I the slightest doubt that 

 the power is vested by the Constitution and 

 laws of the State in the Governor to refuse to 

 issue certificates of election to persons shown 

 to have been elected on returns known and 

 universally admitted to be false and forged, 

 and not the expression of the will of the peo- 

 ple; nor of his power to issue certificates of 

 election to the person shown to be elected by 

 true returns, if such true and legal returns 

 were once made out, and their contents can 

 be unquestionably ascertained, even if canvass- 

 ing boards do, in violation of law, canvass the 

 false returns, and thus attempt to show one 

 elected who was not." 



Chicago. The total number of white persons 

 in the city, as shown by the census taken by 

 the Board of Education, on the 1st day of June, 

 was 616,323, of which number 209,631 were 

 German, 143,000 American, and 114,005 Irish. 

 The total representation of the white nations 

 that make up the population of Chicago was 

 as follows: 



