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MISSOURI. 



The normal schools are at Kirks ville, War- 

 rensburg, Cape Girardeau, and Jefferson City 

 the last, Lincoln Institute, is for the educa- 

 tion of colored teachers. All are supported at 

 the expense of the State. The students all pay 

 an " incidental fee," except in the normal de- 

 partment of Lincoln Institute, where they are 

 admitted free. 



Lunatic Asylums. Both the Fulton and St. Jo- 

 seph asylums are now overcrowded. Each of 

 them has 100 more patients than it can prop- 

 erly care for. In addition to this there are 

 about 2,500 insane in the State outside of asy- 

 lums, confined in jails and poor-houses, or not 

 cared for at all. The capacity of the several 

 asylums is as follows : St. Louis, 300 ; Fulton, 

 450; St. Joseph, 250; total, 1,000. They are 

 attended as follows: St. Louis, 900; Fulton, 

 550; St. Joseph, 270 ; total 1,720. 



Deaf and Dumb Asylum. In the Deaf and Dumb 

 Institution at Fulton, 284 pupils have been 

 taught within the past two years. There are 

 208 now in attendance. The building has been 

 greatly enlarged and improved. 



School for the Blind. The economy of the 

 management is shown by the fact that an un- 

 expended balance of $11,218.44 remains of the 

 amount appropriated by the last General As- 

 sembly. An appropriation of $52,000 is asked 

 for the years ISSS-'SG as follows : 



For maintenance $36,000 



For pay of officers, employes, etc 16,000 



This is $5,000 less than the sum appropri- 

 ated for the last two years. During the years 

 1883-'84, 147 pupils were in attendance, which 

 is an increase of 34 over the years 1881-'82. 



Institutions recommended. The Governor rec- 

 ommends the establishment of an Inebriate 

 Asylum and a Reform-School. He also rec- 

 ommends legislation relative to insane crimi- 

 nals. 



Temperance. The Governor suggests that the 

 "Downing" law should either be repealed or 

 so amended as to make it applicable in its pro- 

 visions to every part of the State alike. This 

 law has been, in part, made inoperative in the 

 city of St. Louis, by the presumed existence 

 and operation of the act of 1857, so declared 

 by a court, and the authorities of that city ac- 

 quiesced in the ruling. He thinks the Down- 

 ing law has already accomplished much good, 

 and can be made much more effective with 

 certain amendments. In 1880 there were 3,042 

 licensed dram shops, 127 wine and beer saloons, 

 and 90 drug- stores retailing liquor under the 

 then existing license. The State license, to- 

 gether with the ad-valorem tax on the liquor 

 sold by the saloons, amounted to $157,916, and 

 county license and tax to $296,970, a total of 

 $458,896. The tippling - houses increased in 

 number in the State between 1880 and the 

 time this law became operative. This law has 

 reduced the number of dram-shops within the 

 first year of its operation from 3,601 to 3,150, 

 a decrease of 457, or 12 per cent., and has re- 

 duced the number of places of strong drink 



from 3,469 to 2,115, over one third. There 

 has been an increase of 903 wine and beer 

 saloons under this law. "While the revenues 

 of the counties have been largely increased un- 

 der this law, those of the cities, towns, and 

 State have been much reduced. The county 

 revenue from saloon licenses has been increased 

 from $358,000 to $1,164,000, an increase of 

 $806,000 within the first year. The State rev- 

 enue from that source has been diminished 

 $85,041.06 within the first year. Heretofore 

 the county courts have exacted the minimum 

 license, $550, from those seeking the privilege 

 of trade. The maximum price is $1,200. 



Judicial. The Governor says: "Since the 

 creation of the Supreme Court Commission by 

 the last General Assembly, it has done excel- 

 lent work, fulfilling the expectations of the 

 court and the friends of the respective com- 

 missioners. The Supreme Court is still much 

 behind in its work, and I think the commission 

 should be continued for two years more. By 

 the adoption of the last constitutional amend- 

 ment, the St. Louis and Kansas City Courts of 

 Appeals have jurisdiction in all cases of misde- 

 meanor." 



Political. Two Democratic State Conventions 

 were held, one in St. Louis on the 24th of June 

 for the choice of delegates to the National Con- 

 vention of the party, and the other in Jetferson 

 City on the 12th of August to nominate candi- 

 dates for State officers and Presidential Elect- 

 ors. The following is the State ticket nomi- 

 nated : For Governor, John S. Marmaduke ; 

 Lieutenant-Governor, A. P. Morehouse; Sec- 

 retary, Michael K. McGrath ; Treasurer, James 

 M. Siebert ; Auditor, John Walker ; Attorney- 

 General, D. G. Boone ; Land-Register, Robert 

 McCulloch ; Railroad Commissioner, W. G. 

 Downing; Supreme Court Judge, F. M. Black. 



The Republicans and Greenbackers formed 

 fusion tickets. Their nominees for State offi- 

 cers were the following : For Governor, Nicho- 

 las Ford; Lieutenant-Governor, H. M. Stark- 

 loff ; Secretary of State, Paul J. Dixon ; State 

 Treasurer, J. C. Thompson ; Auditor, Jacob 

 Sands ; Attorney-General, David Murphy ; Su- 

 preme Judge, David Wagner; Register of Lands, 

 G. Bond; Railroad Commissioner, J. Bates. 



There was also a Prohibition ticket in the 

 field. The vote for Presidential Electors on the 

 4th of November was as follows ; Democratic, 

 235,988 ; Republican, 202,929 ; Prohibition, 

 2,153. For Governor, the vote was: Demo- 

 cratic, 218,885 ; Fusion, 207,939 ; Prohibition, 

 10,426. The entire Democratic State ticket 

 was elected. Republican Congressmen were 

 chosen in the Fifth and Thirteenth Districts, and 

 Democrats in the other twelve. 



The Legislature of 1885 consists of 25 Demo- 

 crats and 9 opposition in the Senate, and 99 

 Democrats and 41 opposition in the House. 

 The constitutional amendment relating to the 

 judiciary was adopted by a vote of 148,730 to 

 144,174. The one relating to taxation was de- 

 feated by a vote of 148,762 to 128,296. 



