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MASSACHUSETTS. 



which appoint these officers ; complete publicity at 

 every stage of registration and election procedure, and 

 glass ballot-boxes; and the Republican party of 'Mary- 

 land, speaking for itself and its nominees, pledges it 

 and them to secure all the essentials of a fair election 

 by using its and their best efforts to have the next 

 General Assembly, before it considers other legislative 

 business, enact the Reform League Election Law. 



The Prohibitionists nominated Summerfield 

 Baldwin for Governor, Thomas E. Wright for 

 Comptroller, and James Pollard for Attorney- 

 General. At the election on November 8 the 

 Democratic ticket was elected, but the proposi- 

 tion for a constitutional convention failed of 

 adoption. The vote for Governor was : Jack- 

 son, 99,038 ; Brooks, 86,622 ; Baldwin, 4,416. 

 The Democratic plurality was somewhat re- 

 duced from former years owing to the defec- 

 tion of a considerable faction of that party 

 which was opposed to the alleged dictation of 

 Senator Gorman. The official returns of the 

 convention vote were as follow: For the 

 convention, 72,464 ; against it, 105,735 ; blank 

 votes, 8,908. A majority of the total vote 

 being necessary, the convention was defeated 

 by 42,179 votes. The State Senate will con- 

 sist of 22 Democrats and 4 Republicans; the 

 House, of 71 Democrats and 20 Republicans. 



Baltimore! The election for mayor and mem- 

 bers of the City Council took place on October 

 28, and resulted in the success of the Demo- 

 cratic ticket. Gen. F. C. Latrobe, Democrat, 

 received 34,827 votes ; David L. Bartlett, Re- 

 publican, 30,332 votes; scattering, 110;La- 

 trobe's majority, 4,3b5. The City Council 

 stands 12 Democrats and 8 Republicans in the 

 first branch and 7 Democrats and 3 Republi- 

 cans in the second branch. The following 

 statement exhibits the financial condition of the 

 city at the close of the year : Amount ot 

 funded and guaranteed debt, $36,369,176 ; total 

 income-producing securities held by the city, 

 $28,661,448 ; net liability, $7,707,727; increase 

 of total debt during the year, $1,413,886; in- 

 crease of net debt, $1,878,852 ; the expenses of 

 the city government for 1886 were $4,643,077; 

 for 1887, $4,541,357; valuation in 1886, $256,- 

 240,655; in 1887, $265,559,952. During the 

 year a number of precinct officers and clerks 

 charged with falsifying election returns at the 

 municipal election in October, 1886, were put 

 on trial, and after considerable delay the con- 

 viction of about half of them was secured in 

 June. 



MASSACHUSETTS. State Government. The fol- 

 lowing were the State officers during the year: 

 Governor, Oliver Ames, Republican; Lieuten- 

 ant Governor, John Q. A. Brackett ; Secretary 

 of State, Henry B. Peirce ; Auditor, Charles R. 

 Ladd; Treasurer, Alanson W. Beard; Attor- 

 ney - General, Edgar J. Sherman ; Railroad 

 Commissioners, Thomas Russell (succeeded by 

 George G. Crocker), Edward W. Kinsley, anil 

 Everett A. Stevens ; Chief-Justice of the Su- 

 preme Court, Marcus Morton ; Associate-Jus- 

 tices, Walbridge A. Field, Charles Devens, Will- 

 iam Allen, Charles Allen, Oliver W. Holmes, 



Jr., and William S. Gardner, succeeded by 

 Marcus P. Knowlton. In September Attorney- 

 General Sherman resigned his office, having 

 been appointed by Governor Ames to the va- 

 cancy on the bench of the Superior Court 

 caused by the promotion of Judge Knowlton. 

 Andrew J. Waterman was appointed Attorney- 

 General for the remainder of the term. 



Legislative Session. The first duty of the ses- 

 sion was to choose a successor to Henry L. 

 Dawes as United States Senator. A Repub- 

 lican conference failed to agree upon a candi- 

 date, and the party entered the contest dividing 

 its support between three aspirants, Senator 

 Dawes, Congressman John D. Long, and ex- 

 Governor George D. Robinson. .The Demo- 

 cratic candidate was Congressman Patrick A. 

 Collins. The first joint ballot, as originally 

 cast, gave Collins 92 votes, Dawes 76, Long 

 53, and Robinson 53. Before its announce- 

 ment, however, the Democrats, realizing the 

 impossibility of electing their own candidate, 

 determined to decide the Republican quarrel 

 by changing their votes to Senator Dawes. He 

 was therefore re-elected, receiving 181 votes, 

 to 57 for Robinson, 26 for Long, and 11 for 

 Collins. The legislation of the session con- 

 sisted of 452 acts and 107 resolutions. A large 

 majority of these were special or local meas- 

 ures. Among the important general laws are 

 those securing additional protection and secu- 

 rity to employ6s, abolishing contract labor in 

 prisons, the law exempting veterans from the 

 operation of the civil service act, and the 

 amendments to the Sunday law. The soldiers' 

 exemption act provides that all honorably dis- 

 charged soldiers and sailors who served in the 

 civil war shall be preferred in appointment for 

 office, without having passed an examination. 

 It is substantially the same measure vetoed by 

 Governor Robinson at the previous session. 



The Sunday law relieves certain kinds of 

 business from the interdict that the statutes, 

 according to a recent interpretation of the 

 court, place upon all who keep open shop on 

 Sunday. It provides that the law shall not be 

 construed to prohibit " the manufacture and 

 distribution of steam, gas, or electricity for il- 

 luminating purposes, heat, or motive power, 

 nor the distribution of water for n're or domes- 

 tic purposes, nor the use of the telegraph or 

 telephone, nor the retail of drugs and medi- 

 cines, nor articles ordered by the prescription 

 of a physician, nor mechanical appliances used 

 by physicians and surgeons, nor the letting of 

 horses and carriages, nor the letting of yachts 

 and boats, nor the running of steam ferry- 

 boats on established routes, or street-railway 

 cars, nor the preparation, printing, and pub- 

 lishing of newspapers, nor the sale and de- 

 livery of newspnpers, nor the retail sale and 

 delivery of milk, nor the transportation of 

 milk, nor the making of butter and cheese, 

 nor the keeping open of public bath-houses, 

 nor the making or selling by bakers of bread 

 or other food before ten o'clock in the morning 



