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Prison... At the close uf tin- year there 



IM.-I- in tlir Siiili- Penitentiary at 



Madi-oii. mid ~?:5 in tlir penitentiary at Ana- 



()f tin- Fort Madi-on convict-, Mori wen- 



employed !> contractors, who pay tin- Slate fur 



tin-in labor prices ranging from 45 to 50 cents a 



I'ln- convicts at Anamosa an- constructing 



tin- pri-on building-. 



At the Industrial School on June 30 there were 

 -MM hoxsaml ii7girls. The department for boyi 

 i- at Kldora, ami that for girls at Mitdiellville. 



.M ilitia. At the close of t In- year thp National 

 (iuanl numbered 2,466 officers and enlisted men. 

 organi/ed into six infantry regiments of eight 

 companies each. They are well equipped and 

 ready for active duty. 



Railroads. On June 80 there were 83 rail- 

 roads in operation in the State, with a mileage 

 of ,\ l in miles. For the year ending on that day 

 tin- n u in her of passengers carried was 6,669,65$), 

 and the number of tons of freight, 19,709,150. 

 The total earnings were $43.102,399, an increase 

 over 1890 of $1,808,970. The number of em- 

 ployes was 27,580, or 296 fewer than in 1890. 



The injunction case which was brought against 

 the Railroad Commissioners by the Burlington, 

 Cedar Kapids. and Northern Railroad Company 

 for the purpose of testing the validity or the 

 "joint-rate law. and which was pending in the 

 State Supreme Court at the beginning of the 

 year, was decided on Feb. 9 in favor 01 the de- 

 fendants. The objections to the constitutionali- 

 ty of the law were all overruled by the majority 

 of the court, and its provisions were declared 

 valid. The regulation by the State of joint 

 through rates was declared not to be obnoxious 

 to any constitutional provision, either of the 

 State or of the United States. From this con- 

 clusion two of the five judges dissented. No 

 progress was made during the year in the suits 

 brought by the commissioners against various 

 railroad companies to enforce the joint rates es- 

 tablished under the provisions of the above-men- 

 tioned law. 



Banks. In the biennial term ending June 30, 

 1891, the number of savings banks increased from 

 50 to 83. and their deposits from $13,125,058.88 

 to $20,821,495.07, while the number of State 

 banks increased from 80 to 122, and their de- 

 posits from $7,271,515.22 to $12,960.211.60. 



Coal. Almost half of the State is underlaid 

 with coal. It is produced in 26 counties, and is 

 of a quality generally well adapted for steam and 

 heating. No cannel or gas coal is found in the 

 State. The quantity produced during the cen- 

 sus year ending June 30, 1880, from 25 counties 

 was 1,461,116 short tons, valued at $2,507,453 at 

 the mines. The wages paid aggregated $1,554,- 

 696, and the average number of persons employed 

 was 5,024. The total product of all grades dur- 

 ing the calendar year 1889 was 4,061,704 short 

 tons, valued at $5,392,220. The average number 

 of persons employed during the year was 9,198, 

 and the amount of wages paid $2,903.291. 



Political. On June 10 the Prohibitionists 

 met in State convention at Des Moines and nomi- 

 nated the following ticket for State officers : For 

 Governor. Isaac F. Gibson; for Lieutenant-Gov- 

 ernor, J. G. Little ; for Justice of the Supreme 

 Court, Daniel B. Turney ; for Superintendent of 

 Public Instruction, Mrs. M. H. Dunham ; for 



Railroad Commissioner. C. T. Hart. U< f"n- the 

 election, candidates Dunham and Hart were suc- 

 ceeded on the ticket by Mrs. K. (i. ('line and H. 

 V. Uraper, respectively. A platform wax adopt- 

 ed favoring strict prohibition, free and unlimited 

 coinage of silver, the Australian ballot reform, a 

 State constabulary to enforce prohibition, and 

 the immediate abolition of the whole I'niied 

 States internal-revenue .system. 



The Democratic State convention met at Ot - 

 tnmwa on June 24, renominated Gov. Horace 

 Boies, and selected the following persons a his 

 associates on the party ticket : For Lieutenant- 

 Governor, Samuel L. Bestow; for Justice of the 

 Supreme Court, L. G. Kinne; for Superintend- 

 ent of Public Instruction, J. P. Knoepfler ; for 

 I .'ail road Commissioner. Peter A. Dey. The plat- 

 form favors the Australian ballot system, de- 

 nounces trusts and the importation o'f contract 

 labor, urges the election of United States Sena- 

 tors by direct vote of the people, declares in favor 

 of liberal pension laws, denounces the Mt-Kinlcy 

 bill and the appropriations of the last Congress. 

 opposes the non-residential ownership of lands 

 and foreign syndicate ownership of American in- 

 dustries, and demands the restoration of unearned 

 railroad grants. 



The following are also a part of the platform : 



We demand the repeal of the prohibitory liquor 

 law, and in the interests of true temperance we fnv>r 

 the passing of a carefully guarded license-tax law 

 which shall provide for the issuance of licensealn 

 towns, townships, and municipal corporations, and 

 which shall provide that for each license an an- 

 nual tax of $600 be paid into the county treasury and 

 such further tax as the town, township, or municipal 

 corporation shall provide, the proceeds thereof to go 

 to the use of such municipalities. 



We reaffirm our adherence to the doctrine of the 

 control and regulation of railroads as now enacted 

 into a law. 



We reiterate our demands of one year ago for the 

 free coinage of silver, and that it be made full legal 

 tender for all debts, public and private. 



On July 1 the Republican Convention met at 

 Cedar Rapids, and made the following nomina- 

 tions : For Governor, Hiram C. Wheeler ; for 

 Lieutenant-Governor, George Van Houten ; for 

 Justice of the Supreme Court, Silas M. Weaver ; 

 for Superintendent of Public Instruction, Henry 

 Sabin (renominated) ; for Railroad Commission- 

 er, Frank T. Campbell (renominated). The plat- 

 form praises the last Congress for the redemp- 

 tion 01 its pledges as to the revision of the tariff 

 in the interest of home industry and for its work 

 in behalf of liberal pensions for soldiers, approves 

 the coinage act, commends the policy looking to 

 reciprocal trade, declares that tlie party may be 

 trusted to promote a plan of reform, Australian 

 or otherwise, tending to protect the purity of the 

 ballot, commends the law intending to protect 

 our country from the immigration of paupers 

 and criminals from foreign lands, declares in 

 favor of equal taxation, favors the passage of the 

 Conger lard bill, and favors a liberal appropria- 

 tion for the World's Fair. 



On the leading question at issue in the canvass 

 the following declarations were made : 



In the interests ot' true temperance, and under tho 

 laws of Iowa, enacted by the representatives of BOV- 

 ereiirn people, the saloon was made an outlaw in this 

 State. We charge that the outlaw has had tho pat- 



