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ties can not by themselves agree, to the end that justice 

 may be guaranteed between labor and capital. 



The sympathies of the Republicans of Nebraska are 

 tendered to the people of Ireland and other portions of 

 Great Britain in their struggle for home-rule, and 

 they recognize in the contest for loyal freedom, waged 

 by rarnell and Gladstone, a manly battle for human 

 rights, against the assumptions of hereditary rulers 

 and monopolists of land. 



The regulation of interstate commerce by Congress 

 is necessary to prevent extortion and unjust discrimi- 

 nation by railroad and other transportation companies, 

 as supplementary to State regulation, and we declare 

 it to be the duty of the national Legislature to 

 promptly pass measures to remedy the evils of op- 

 pressive combinations and corporate irresponsibility 

 to State authority. 



The ownership of large bodies of land obtained by 

 aliens from the public domain, through evasions and 

 perversions of the homestead and pre-emption laws, 

 enacted for the benefit of industrious citizens of lim- 

 ited means, is a cause for apprehension, and legislation 

 is demanded that will prevent the monopoly of the 

 public domain by foreign or resident capitalists for 

 purposes of speculation. 



That the Republican party of Nebraska is in favor 

 of submitting the question of an amendment to the 

 State Constitution, prohibiting manufacture, sale, or 

 importation of spirituous, malt, or vinous liquors. 



The Democrats nominated the following per- 

 sons : For Governor, James E. North ; Lieu- 

 tenant-Governor, C. J. Bowlby ; Secretary of 

 State, Richard Thompson ; Auditor, Thomas 

 Ebinger ; Treasurer, T. J. Hale ; Superintend- 

 ent of Public Instruction, L. E. Cooley ; At- 

 torney-General, W. L. Green; Commissioner 

 of Public Lands and Buildings, T. W. Smith. 

 There was also a National ticket in the field. 

 On November 2 the Republican ticket was 

 elected. The vote for Governor was as fol- 

 lows : Republican, 75,956 ; Democratic, 52,- 

 656; Prohibition, 8,175; National, 1,422; scat- 

 tering, 30. Of the voters, 50,448 expressed a 

 preference for United States Senator, of whom 

 46,110 voted for Senator Charles H. Van 

 Wyck. Republicans were elected to Congress 

 from the Second and Third Districts arid a Dem- 

 ocrat from the First. The Legislature of 1887 

 consists of 25 Republicans and 8 Democrats in 

 the Senate, and 70 Republicans and 30 Demo- 

 crats in the House. An amendment to the 

 Constitution was adopted by a vote of 65,712 

 for, to 22,236 against. The amendment is to 

 section 4 of Article III of the Constitution, and 

 the section as amended reads as follows, to wit : 



SECTION 4. The term of office of members of the 

 Legislature shall be two years, and they shall each re- 

 ceive pay at the rate of five dollars per day during 

 their sitting, and ten cents for every mile thev shall 

 travel in going to and returning from the place of 

 meeting of the Legislature, on the most usual route : 

 Provided, Twwever, That they shall not receive pay for 

 more than sixty days at any one sitting, nor more than 

 one hundred days during their term ; that neither 

 members of the Legislature nor employe's shall re- 

 ceive any pay or perquisites other than their salary 

 and mileage. Each session, except special sessions, 

 shall be not less than sixty days ; after the expiration 

 of forty days of the session no bills nor joint resolu- 

 tions of the nature of bills shall be introduced, unless 

 the Governor shall by special message call the atten- 

 tion of the Legislature to the necessity of passing a 

 law on the subject-matter embraced in the message, 

 and the introduction of bills shall be restricted thereto. 



NETHERLANDS, a kingdom in Western Eu- 

 rope. The Parliament, called the States-Gen- 

 eral, consists of an upper house, elected by the 

 provinces, and a second chamber, elected by 

 ballot in the proportion of one representative 

 to 45,000 of the population. The King has the 

 power of veto, but it is never exercised. 



The reigning sovereign is William III. The 

 ministry is composed of the following mem- 

 bers: Minister of Foreign Affairs, A. P. van Kar- 

 nebeek; Minister of the Interior, J. Heems- 

 kerk Az ; Minister of Justice, Baron M. W. 

 du Tour van Bellinchave : Minister of Finance, 

 J. C. Bloem ; Minister of the Colonies, J. P. 

 Sprenger van Eyk ; Minister of the Waterstaat, 

 Commerce, and Industry, J. G. van den Bergh ; 

 Minister of War, Maj.-Gen. A. W. P. Weitzel ; 

 Minister of Marine, Capt. W. L. A. Gericke. 



Area and Population. The area of the king- 

 dom is 12,648 square miles. The population on 

 Dec. 31, 1885, was officially computed at 4,336,- 

 012, comprising 2,147,133 males and 2,188,879 

 females. The number of marriages in 1885 

 was 29,894; of births, 155,820; of deaths, 98,- 

 096 ; excess of births, 57,724. The number of 

 still-born was 7,792. The following cities con- 

 tained above 100,000 inhabitants on Dec. 31, 

 1885: Amsterdam, 372,325 ; Rotterdam, 173,- 

 884; the Hague, 138,696. 



The Army. The regular army stationed in 

 the Netherlands in 1885 consisted of 2,339 

 officers and 63,229 men. The infantry num- 

 bered 1,036 officers and 42,843 men; the cav- 

 alry, 143 officers and 3,987 men ; the artillery, 

 500 officers and 13,832 men; the engineers, 95 

 officers and 1.432 men. The active militia 

 numbered 38,188 men, and the sedentary mili- 

 tia 77,103 men. 



The military forces in the East Indies con- 

 sisted on Jan. 1, 1885, of 30,236 regular troops, 

 not including the officers, 1,391 in number^ and 

 9,348 militia and volunteers. The number of 

 Europeans in the regular army was 13,492. 



The Navy. The naval forces of the Nether- 

 lands consisted in July, 1886, of 23 armored 

 vessels, 98 steamers, and 25 school-ships and 

 other non-effective vessels. There are 6 tur- 

 ret-ships with rams, 7 monitor-rams, 5 other 

 monitors, 5 armor-clads for river-defense, 31 

 unarm ored corvettes, 31 gunboats, and 25 tor- 

 pedo-boats. 



Finances. The budget for 1886 places the 

 total revenue at 115,149,065 guilders, and the 

 expenditure at 130,943,648 guilders. The re- 

 ceipts from the land, personal, and license 

 taxes are 26,930,350 guilders; from excise 

 duties, 41,875,000 guilders ; from stamps, regis- 

 tration, and succession duties, 21,397,000 guild- 

 ers ; from customs, 4,962,000 guilders; from 

 posts, 5,450,000 guilders ; from domains, 2,- 

 440,000 guilders; from railroads, 1,950,000 

 guilders ; from other sources, 10,144,715 guild- 

 ers. The principal expenditures are the public 

 debt, which requires 34,989,299 guilders; the 

 army, for which 20,424,956 guilders are set 

 down ; the navy, 12,652,156 guilders ; the 



