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NETHERLANDS. 



severest terms. After the convention it was dis- 

 covered that the candidate for justice of the 

 Supreme Court was ineligible to that office, and 

 the name of Mrs. Ada M. Bittenbender was sub- 

 stituted on the ticket. 



On Aug. 18 the State convention of the In- 

 dependent or Farmers' Alliance party met at 

 Hastings and nominated the following ticket: 

 For justice of the Supreme Court, Joseph W 

 Edgerton ; for regents of the State University, 

 A. d'Allemand and E. A. Hadley. A long plat- 

 form was adopted, which demands that the Leg- 

 islature shall enact a freight-rate law establish- 

 ing rates as low as those in force in Iowa ; that 

 corporations enjoying public franchises shall as- 

 sume public burdens and be liable in damages 

 for injuries of their employes sustained while 

 on duty; that laws be enacted prohibiting alien 

 ownership of land and discouraging land specu- 

 lation ; and that all lands held by railroads and 

 other corporations, and not actually needed, be 

 reclaimed and held for actual settlers. It also 

 denounces Gov. Boyd's veto of the maximum 

 freight bill as an outrage perpetrated in the in- 

 terest of railroads; expresses sympathy with 

 wage earners who are seeking to enforce the 

 eight-hour law; declares in favor of a service 

 pension bill, a bill equalizing soldiers' bounties, 

 and a bill pensioning prisoners of war ; pledges 

 the support of a party to the Soldiers' and Sail- 

 ors' Home; denounces the system of convict 

 labor as maintained in the State by the Repub- 

 lican party; and asks Congress to' provide for 

 the establishment of postal savings banks. A 

 resolution was adopted favoring the exclusion 

 from the schools of United States histories 

 which do not include the fireside history of the 

 country, and another favoring the appointment 

 of a State board of arbitration, with power to 

 enforce its findings. 



On Sept. 17 the Democratic State Convention 

 met at Grand Island and nominated Jefferson H. 

 Broady for justice of the Supreme Court, and 

 two candidates for regents of the State Uni- 

 versity. The platform adopted condemns the 

 McKinley bill and the reciprocity ideas of the 

 National Administration, favors a tariff for rev- 

 enue only, congratulates the people on the de- 

 feat of the Prohibition amendment, denounces 

 the ousting of James E. Boyd from the gover- 

 norship, arraigns the Republican State Board of 

 Transportation for failing to reduce freight 

 rates, favors protection of labor, liberal pensions, 

 the election of railroad commissioners by the 

 people, and the passage of a law governing 

 freight charges, and contains the following reso- 

 lutions : 



We condemn the giving of subsidies and bounties 

 of every kind as a perversion of the taxing power. 

 We are in favor of the election of United States Sen- 

 ators by direct vote of the people. We denounce all 

 trusts, pools, and combines, and we favor such action, 

 State and national, as will forfeit to the public all 

 franchises and property owned or used by corpora- 

 tions or other concerns to form trusts in manufactures, 

 trade, or commerce, to the injury and spoliation of 

 the people, and also to insure the punishment crim- 

 inally of individuals conspiring against the public 

 welfare. 



We favor the free coinage of silver, and that it 

 may be made a full and legal tender for all debts, 

 private or public, and denounce as unjust and dis- 



honest the provision of the law recently enacted al- 

 lowing parties to stipulate against payment in silver 

 and silver certificates, thus setting up one standard 

 for the rich and another for the poor. 



The Republican State Convention was held at 

 Lincoln on Sept. 24. It resulted in the nomina- 

 tion of A. M. Post for justice of the Supreme 

 Court, over four other candidates, one of whom 

 was Chief -Justice Amasa Cobb, who sought a 

 renomination. For regents of the State Uni- 

 versity, H. P. Shiimway and C. H. Marple were 

 nominated. The platform commends the Na- 

 tional Administration, approves of reciprocity 

 and the protective tariff, and favors an addi- 

 tional World's Fair appropriation by the next 

 Legislature. These resolutions also appear : 



We approve of the silver-coinage act of the present 

 Administration, by which the entire product of the 

 silver mines of the United States is added to the cur- 

 rency of the people, but we denounce the Democratic 

 doctrine of the free and unlimited coinage of silver as 

 a financial policy liable to precipitate the people of 

 every city and every State in the Union in a pro- 

 longed and disastrous depression, and delay the re- 

 vival of business enterprise and prosperity so ardently 

 desired, and now so apparently near. 



We are heartily in favor of the general provisions of 

 the interstate commerce act, and we demand the regula- 

 tion of all railroad and transportation lines in such a 

 manner as to insure fair and reasonable rates to the 

 producers and consumers of the country. We favor 

 such legislation as will prevent all illegal combina- 

 tions and unjust exactions by aggregated capital and 

 corporate powers. We insist upon the suppression of 

 all trusts, combines, and schemes designed to artifi- 

 cially increase the price of the necessaries of life. 



Early in the canvass the Democratic ticket 

 was withdrawn, and the contest narrowed down 

 to one between the friends and enemies of the 

 Farmers' Alliance and its doctrines. At the 

 November election the Republican candidate for 

 Justice of the Supreme Court was elected by a 

 vote of 76,447 to 72,311 for Edgerton, Independ- 

 ent, and 7,322 for Bittenbender, Prohibitionist. 

 For regents of the State University, Marple, 

 the Republican candidate, and Hadley, Inde- 

 pent. were elected. 



NETHERLANDS, a constitutional monarchy 

 in western Europe. The legislative body, called 

 the States-General, consists of a First Chamber 

 of 50 members, elected by the provincial states, 

 and a Second Chamber containing 100 Deputies, 

 elected by male citizens twenty-three years old, 

 who pay 10 guilders of land taxes, or a personal- 

 property tax beyond the limit of partial exemp- 

 tion, or who are lodgers under the law. About 

 one man in three has a vote. The whole of the 

 Second Chamber retires at the end of the four 

 years' period. In the Upper Chamber one third 

 of the members are replaced every three years. 

 New bills can only be originated by the Govern- 

 ment or by members of the Second Chamber. 

 Amendments to the Constitution must be passed 

 by both Chambers, which are thereupon dis- 

 solved, and the amendments are submitted for 

 confirmation to newly elected Chambers, requir- 

 ing a two-thirds vote. The reigning sovereign 

 is Wilhelmina Helena Pauline, born Aug. 81, 

 1880, daughter of the late King Willem III and 

 his second wife, Princess Emma of Waldeck, 

 who acts as Regent during thj minority of the 

 infant Queen. The ministry in the beginning 

 of 1891 was composed of the following mem- 



