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withdrew from the editorial charge of the 

 Rochester newspaper which he had long con- 

 ducted, after the nomination had heen made at 

 Chicago, though he subsequently gave his ad- 

 hesion to the national ticket. 



A convention of the National Greenback- 

 Labor party was held in the city of New York 

 on the 80th of August, and nominated an elect- 

 oral ticket in the interest of Gen. B. F. But- 

 ler's candidacy for President. A Prohibition 

 ticket was also put in the field, pledged to the 

 support of John P. St. John. 



Result of the Election. The Independent revolt 

 against the candidacy of Mr. Elaine had con- 

 siderable strength in the State, especially in 

 the cities of New York and Brooklyn, where 

 committees engaged in an active canvass 

 against him. Mr. Cleveland received the for- 

 mal support of the Independent Republicans 

 so far as they were organized. While the 

 Tammany organization in New York city made 

 no secret of its dissatisfaction with Cleve- 

 land's nomination, it gave a formal pledge 

 of its support to the national ticket. It re- 

 fused, however, to unite with the other fac- 

 tions in any political demonstration, and made 

 its own nominations for local offices. The 

 canvass was very warmly contested, and the 

 result of the election was so close as to cause 

 anxiety for some days lest it should not be 

 clearly established by the returns. There were 

 charges on both sides of an intent to falsify 

 the result, and the count was very closely 

 watched. No grounds for any specific allega- 

 tion of fraud at the election or irregularity in 

 the counting, beyond those clerical errors for 

 the correction of which the law provided, were 

 discovered. The State Board of Canvassers met 

 at Albany on the 19th of November, and on the 

 21st the result of the vote for Presidential Elect- 

 ors was officially declared. The highest vote for 

 a Democratic elector was 563,154, for a Repub- 

 lican elector, 562,005 ; difference, 1,149. The 

 lowest vote for a Democratic elector was 563,- 

 048, for a Republican elector, 561,971 ; differ- 

 ence, 1,077. The difference between the high- 

 est Democratic and lowest Republican vote 

 was 1,183, and the difference between the 

 votes for the candidates at the head of the re- 

 spective tickets 1,047. The highest vote for 

 any candidate on the Prohibition ticket was 

 25,006, lowest, 24,948; for the name at the 

 head, 24,999; highest for the People's party 

 ticket, 17,004; lowest, 16,751; head, 16,955. 

 The total vote was 1,171,263. The total vote 

 for Judges of the Court of Appeals was 1,057,- 

 798 and 1,057,816, respectively, for the two 

 places to be filled. Andrews received 1,089,- 

 396, and Rapallo 1,089,414. Candidates of the 

 Prohibition and People's parties were voted 

 for ; the highest vote for the former being 

 23,150, and for the latter, 6,870. Of the thirty- 

 four representatives in Congress, Republicans 

 were chosen in seventeen and Democrats in sev- 

 enteen districts. In the Eleventh and Twenty- 

 eighth Districts there were no Republican can- 



didates. The State Senate remained unchanged 

 as elected in 1883 Republicans, 19; Democrats, 

 13. Of the Assemblymen chosen, 73 were Re- 

 publican and 55 Democratic. The constitutional 

 amendment restricting the power of cities of 

 100,000 inhabitants and more to incur indebt- 

 edness and levy taxes was ratified by a vote of 

 499,661 to 9,161, the total vote being 508,944, 

 and the majority in its favor 450,378. The fol- 

 lowing is the amendment : 



No county containing a city of over one hundred 

 thousand inhabitants, or any such city, shall "be al- 

 lowed to become indebted for any purpose or in any 

 manner to an amount which, including existing in- 

 debtedness, shall exceed ten per centum of the as- 

 sessed valuation of the real estate of such county or 

 city subject to taxation, as it appeared by the assess- 

 ment-rolls of said county or city; on the last assess- 

 ment for State or county taxes prior to the incurring 

 of such indebtedness ; and all indebtedness in excess 

 of such limitation, except such as may now exist, 

 shall be absolutely void, except as herein otherwise 

 provided. No such county or such city, whose pres- 

 ent indebtedness exceeds ten per centum of the as- 

 sessed valuation of its real estate, subject to taxation, 

 shall be allowed to become indebted in any further 

 amount until such indebtedness shall be reduced 

 within such limit. This section shall not be con- 

 strued to prevent the issuing of certificates of indebt- 

 edness, or revenue bonds issued in anticipation of the 

 collection of taxes, for amounts actually contained or 

 to be contained in the taxes for the year when such 

 certificates or revenue bonds are issued and payable 

 out of such taxes. Nor shall this section be construed 

 to prevent the issue of bonds to provide for the sup- 

 ply of water, but the term of the -bonds issued to pro- 

 vide for the supply of water shall not exceed twenty 

 years, and a sinking fund shall be created on the 

 issuing of the said oonds for their redemption by 

 raising annually a sum which will produce an amount 

 equal to the sum of the principal and interest of said 

 bonds at their maturity. The amount hereafter to be 

 raised by tax for county or city purposes, in any 

 county containing a city of over one hundred thou- 

 sand inhabitants^ or any such city of this State, in ad- 

 dition to providing for the principal and interest of 

 the existing debt, shall not, in the aggregate, exceed 

 in any one year two per centum of the assessed valu- 

 ation of the real and personal estate of such county 

 or city, to be ascertained as prescribed in this section 

 in respect to county or city debt. 



State Debt and Finances. Aside from the fund 

 to supply annuities for the Indians, the princi- 

 pal of which is $122,694.87, the only debt of 

 the State is that incurred on account of the 

 canals. The following statement shows its 

 condition for the fiscal year ending Septem- 

 ber 30 : 



Aggregate debt Sept. 80, 1SS3 $8,848.160 00 



Aggregate debt Sept. 80, 1884 8,339,KO 00 



Decrease of aggregate debt during year. . . $9,000 00 



Aggregate sinking fund Sept. 80, 1883 $2,495,553 06 



Aggregate sinking fund Sept. 80, 18S4 4,062,886 85 



Increase of sinking fund during year $1,567,288 79 



Net debt Sent. 80, 1SS3 ... ... $5,852,006 94 



Net debt Sept. 80, 1884 4,276,328 15 



Decrease of net debt during year $1,576,288 79 



The receipts and disbursements of the treas- 

 ury on account of the several State funds for 

 the year were as follow : 



