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nicipal corporations were given the power to 

 "restrain and prohibit" places where intoxi- 

 cating liquor is sold at retail. A number of 

 cases under this law were taken to the Supreme 

 Court, which, in a series of decisions, sustained 

 the law in every feature. Several municipali- 

 ties passed prohibition ordinances. 



The Elections. The amendment to the Consti- 

 tution having gone into effect, the elections 

 were held in November instead of in October 

 as formerly. Four tickets were in the field. 

 The result was as follows, the successful can- 

 didate in each case being Republican, the next 

 Democratic, the third in size of vote Prohibi- 

 tion, and the smallest vote Greenback : 



SECRETARY OF STATE. 



Robinson 341,095 I McBride 329,314 



Smith 28,982 | Bonsall 2,010 



JUDGE OF SUPREME COURT. 



Williams 343.T39 Follett 326.227 



Stewart 29,321 Johnson 2,275 



CLERK OF SUPREME COURT. 



Hester. . . . . 344,517 I Criiikshank 325,046 



May 29,455 I Watras 2,627 



STATE COMMISSIONER OF COMMON SCHOOLS. 



Tappan 344,244 I Brown 325,943 



Hagood 29,166 | Curtis 2,268 



MEMBER BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS. 



Hahn 344.557 Ludwi? 325.143 



Teachout 29,391 Graham 2,256 



OJTTARIO, PROVINCE OF. Finances. The rev- 

 enue for 1885 amounted to $3,005,920.71, and 

 the expenditure to $3,046,112.83. Among the 

 principal items of revenue were: The Domin- 

 ion subsidy, $1,196,872.80; interest on capi- 

 tal held and debts due by the Dominion to the 

 province of Ontario, $279,111.10; interest on 

 investments, $50,284.86 ; crown-lands, $736,- 

 864.95; Education Department, $38,749.72; 

 law-stamps, $66,988.02; licenses, $162,330.07; 

 public institutions, $99,112.62. The principal 

 items of expenditure included : Civil govern- 

 ment, $184,254.70; legislation, $125,762.04; 

 administration of justice, $354,923.35 ; edu- 

 cation, $533.564,46 ; maintenance of public 

 institutions, $613,570.89; immigration, $19,- 

 088.11; agriculture and arts, $159,576.45; 

 hospitals and charities, $96,421.28; repairs and 

 maintenance of public buildings, $62,601.54; 

 public buildings, $155,720.29 ; public works, 

 $38,690.80; colonization roads, $121,435.32; 

 charges on crown-lands, $96,573.08; railway 

 fund, $250,808.01. The assets of the province 

 are $7,135,000.31 ; liabilities, $368,910.02. 



Commerce. The exports for the fiscal year 

 ending June 30, 1885, amounted to $25,849,- 

 756 ; or, including the amount estimated short 

 returned at inland ports and exported to the 

 United States, $28,434,731. The amount re- 

 turned for the United States is $20,992,134, and 

 for Great Britain, $4,634,283. The principal 

 articles of export were: Agricultural products, 

 $8,209,880; animals and their produce, $7,866,- 

 978 ; produce of the forest, $7,371,028 ; man- 

 ufactures, $1,176.796. 



The imports in the same period entered for 

 consumption amounted to $39,285,143 ; the 



principal importing countries being the United 

 States, $22,374,036, and Great Britain, $14,- 

 325,530. Of the above total, goods to the 

 value of $10,318,687 were imported duty-free. 

 The duties levied on the remaining $28,966,- 

 456 of imports amounted to $6,534,174.38. 



Politics. The principal issue in Ontario poli- 

 tics during 1886 was the educational question. 

 The Education Department is under control of 

 a raember of the Provincial Cabinet, and the 

 Conservatives advocated a return to the old 

 system of having a non-political Superintendent 

 of Education. Among the reasons urged for 

 the change, the one that excited most discus- 

 sion was the charge that the Education Depart- 

 ment was being every year brought more un- 

 der the influence of Archbishop Lynch, head 

 of the Roman Catholic Church in that province. 

 The Conservatives alleged that the archbishop 

 had for years exerted all his influence in favor 

 of the Liberals in provincial election contests, 

 and that, to compensate him for his services, 

 changes had been made in the education laws. 

 They said that, although the Roman Catholics 

 had separate schools of their own, and were 

 not obliged to contribute to the support of the 

 public schools, the archbishop was consulted 

 in the selection of text-books for the public 

 schools, and that at his demaid Sir Walter 

 Scott's " Marmion " and Collier's " History of 

 England " were banished from the schools ; 

 that the Bible had been removed from the pub- 

 lic schools and replaced by a book of scriptural 

 selections approved by Archbishop Lynch; 

 that, although Roman Catholics had the same 

 voting privileges as Protestants in the election 

 of high-school boards, the law also provided 

 that the Roman Catholic Church should have 

 a special representative on each high- school 

 board; that Protestant landlords with Roman 

 Catholic tenants were obliged to pay taxes to 

 support Roman Catholic schools, while Roman 

 Catholic landlords with Protestant tenants 

 were not obliged to pay taxes to the public 

 schools ; and that, instead of asking each Ro- 

 man Catholic whether he preferred to support 

 public or separate schools, assessors were 

 obliged by law to assume that every Roman 

 Catholic was a supporter of separate schools; 

 so that, in order to send his children to the 

 public schools, a Roman Catholic must make a 

 formal appeal. In reply to these charges, the 

 Liberals said that, as a number of Roman 

 Catholics were attending the high-schools, it 

 was necessary to have some regard for their 

 feelings, and the changes were made with a 

 view to encouraging higher education among 

 the Roman Catholics, who being in a minority, 

 could not elect co-religionists to the high-school 

 boards; that the book of Scripture selections 

 used in the public schools had been submitted 

 to leading ministers of all the Protestant de- 

 nominations, as well as to the Roman Catholic 

 archbishop, and had been approved by all, the 

 only change made by Archbishop Lynch being 

 an alteration of "which" to "who" in the 



