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IOWA. 



following ticket: For Secretary of State, 

 Frank D. Jackson; Auditor, J. A. Lyons; 

 Treasurer, Y. P. Twombly; Attorney-General, 

 A. J. Baker; Supreme Court Clerk, G. B. 

 Pray; Supreme Court Reporter, E. C. Eber- 

 sole. The following are extracts from the 

 platform : 



We denounce the abuse of the elective privilege 

 which in the southern section of our country, and in 

 many cities of the North, continues to make elections 

 a mockery and delusion, and the fraud and suppres- 

 sion which continually defeat the popular will and 

 prevent fair and proper representation. And we 

 insist upon the right of every American citizen to 

 freely cast his ballot and to have the same honestly 

 counted and truly declared. 



The Eepublican party, standing for that principle 

 of equal citizenship to which is due the superiority 

 of this over all other nations, _ and recognizing the 

 necessity of protecting labor against the aggression of 

 capital, heartily indorses every legitimate effort of 

 organized labor to secure equal and exact justice be- 

 tween labor and capital. 



We demand protection for American labor against 

 competition with pauper labor abroad, and against 

 the product of convict and imported contract labor at 

 home. 



That the laws for the suppression of intemperance 

 were enacted as a part of the general legislation of our 

 State, in obedience to the will of the majority. That 

 we behold with alarm the continued efforts of the 

 Democratic party of Iowa to encourage resistance to 

 these laws, and to inflame the passions of the lawless 

 classes in regard to them, thereby menacing social 

 order and leading to the perpetration of murder and 

 other crimes and outrages. While fully recognizing 

 the right of the people to agitate for the repeal of these 

 or any other laws, which time may prove ineffectual 

 for the beneficent purposes of their enactment, we 

 insist that these and all other laws of this State shall 

 be faithfully and fearlessly enforced. 



On November 2 the Eepublican ticket was 

 elected, the majority for Secretary of State 

 being 14,712. Eight Republican and three 

 Democratic or Greenback Congressmen were 

 elected. 



Prohibition. The State Temperance Alliance 

 met in Des Moines on the 20th of January, 

 and on the following day a State Prohibition 

 Convention was held at the same place. The 

 convention adopted resolutions of mutual en- 

 couragement, embodying requests for legisla- 

 tive action. The report of the Secretary of 

 the Alliance contains, with other matter, the 

 following statistics : 



"Thirty county auditors' reports give the 

 number of permits granted, none. Forty- 

 seven auditors' reports give the number of 

 permits granted, 220. Average number grant- 

 ed, 5. Five greatest number of permits granted 

 respectively, 20, 10, 14, 13, and 9. Statistics 

 from seventy clerks of courts show injunc- 

 tion cases under the prohibitory law, 255 ; re- 

 sult of these cases, pending, 37; temporary 

 injunctions granted, 76 ; dismissed, 43 ; trans- 

 ferred to United States court, 93 ; number of 

 cases appealed from the justices' court to the 

 District Court, 547; number now pending, 

 110; acquitted, 21; found guilty, 8; pleaded 

 guilty, 86 ; dismissed, 12 ; convicted, 29 ; fail- 

 ures on account of disagreement of jury, 11 ; 



fined, 117. The fines ranged from $25 to 

 $900 (the latter was appealed to the Supreme 

 Court), and imprisonments from 22 days to 

 120 days." 



Colleges. The following statistics, gathered 

 from the various catalogues for 1885, exhibit 

 the attendance for Iowa colleges during that 

 year : Cornell College, 494 students, 20 teach- 

 ers; Iowa College, 323 and 18; Drake Univer- 

 sity, 282 and 13 ; Upper Iowa University, 279 

 and 8 ; Simpson College, 249 and 11 ; Western 

 College, 133 and 11; Tabor College, 233 and 

 16; Wesleyan University, 226 and 10; Coe 

 College, 202 and 13; Lenox College, 173 and 

 11; Parsons College, 166 and 14; Oskaloosa 

 College, 158 and 11 ; Penn College, 155 and 8. 



Insane. Relative to providing additional ac- 

 commodations for the insane, the following 

 statement was made : Number of insane in the 

 State by census of 1885 (not in hospital), 921 ; 

 in Mount Pleasant Hospital, 460 ; in Independ- 

 ence Hospital, 622; total, in State, 2,003. 

 March, 1886, number in Mount Pleasant, 625; 

 number in Independence, 716; number out of 

 asylums, 1,341 ; in private asylums, 183 ; total 

 in State, 2,865. 



Corporation Law. Chapter 76 of the Laws of 

 the Twenty-first General Assembly requires all 

 corporations doing business in Iowa to incor- 

 porate under the laws of the State. Several 

 cases of railroad employes, charged with the 

 violation of this act, were brought before the 

 Supreme Court of the State, which, on De- 

 cember 15, rendered a decision, of which the 

 following is the material portion : 



It is insisted by counsel for the petitioners that 

 said chapter 76 is unconstitutional and void, because 

 1. It " is repugnant to section 10, Article I of the 

 Constitution of the United States, and section 21, 

 Article I of the Constitution of Iowa, which provides 

 that no law shall be passed impairing the obligation 

 of contracts." 2. Said " statute is contrary to section 8 

 of Article 1 of the United States Constitution, which 

 provides that Congress shall have power to regulate 

 commerce with foreign nations and among the several 

 States." 3. Said " statute is repugnant to the four- 

 teenth amendment to the Constitution of the United 

 States, and therefore void.'^ 4. Said " statute is void 

 as an attempt to interfere with the jurisdiction of the 

 Federal courts, as established by the Constitution of 

 the United States and the acts of Congress." These 

 several propositions have been exhaustively argued 

 by counsel, and in relation thereto we desire to say that 

 their solution presents grave difficulties as to all the 

 propositions but one: this court is not the final arbi- 

 ter ; and therefore believingj as some of us do, that 

 it is doubtful what construction of the United States 

 Constitution and the acts of Congress should be 

 adopted, under the agreed statement of facts we feel 

 constrained to hold that the statute above mentioned 

 is not in conflict with the Constitution of the United 

 States or acts of Congress passed in pursuance there- 

 of, to the end that the questions presented may 

 be determined by the Supreme Court of the United 

 States. 



Capitol. The Capitol has heen completed, 

 and on June 30 the Capitol Commission was 

 dissolved. The work had been going on for 

 fifteen years, the first commission having been 

 created in 1870. The following is the financial 

 statement : 



