KIloDE ISLAND. 



public ehools : H.07.1 at tending ('aiholic schools; 

 1. 1 ^ attending select schools ; and 10,01 1 noi at- 

 tending school. The attendance at the State 

 Norniid School for the year ending .Mine 20 was 

 in incn-aso of 3 over the, previous year. 

 On lie.-. :;i there were 55 pupils at the Agricult- 

 ural School at Kingston. 



Charities. At the State Insane Asylum 

 there were 515 inmates on Jan. 1, of whoiii 'J:;s 

 :ncn and '277 women. During the yeur, 178 

 pat icnts were admitted and 152 discharged, leav- 

 1 1 remaining on Dec. 81, of whom 252 were 

 men and 289 women. The State almshonsc con- 

 tained 0:!(! inmates on Jan. 1; 810 were admitted 

 durini; the year, and 311 were discharged. 



At the So'ckanosset School for Boys the whole 

 numlxT in school Dec. 81,1890, was 185; re- 

 ceived (hiring the year, 151; number discharged, 

 Hi I : total number in school Dec. 81, 1891, 175; 

 at the Oaklawn School for Girls there were 30 

 girls on Jan. 1. During the year there were re- 

 ceived ;56 pupils, and 80 were discharged. The 

 year has seen the completion and occupation 

 of the new almshouse, construction of a chapel 

 and hospital, and introduction of industrial 

 training at Sockanosset School for Boys. 



Prisons. At the State Prison there were 110 

 men and 2 women on Dec. 31, 1891, of whom 100 

 were white and 12 colored. The average num- 

 ber for the year was 1 12. The State Work-House 

 and House of Correction contained 215 men and 

 51 women on Jan. 1, 1891. There were com- 

 mitted during the year 441 men and 135 women ; 

 1-VJ men ana 131 women were discharged, and 

 there remained on Dec. 31 204 men and 55 

 women. At the Providence County Jail there 

 were committed during the year 1,995 men 

 and 05!) women : there were discharged 1,997 men 

 and 263 women ; and there were remaining 240 

 men and 15 women on Dec. 31. 



Soldiers' Home. The dedication of the 

 Soldiers' Home at Bristol was observed May 1 , 

 since which time the number of veteran soldiers 

 at the institution has steadily increased. The 

 whole number of inmates on Dec. 31 was 92. 



Militia. The military and naval force of 

 Rhode Island numbers 1,492 officers and men, of 

 whom 1,036 are in the brigade. Twenty- four 

 thousand dollars has been nominally the annual 

 appropriation, but the Assembly has been called 

 upon at the close of each year to make up a de- 

 ficiency of upward of $5,000. An important ad- 

 dition to the available force has been made the 

 past year in a company of naval militia organ- 

 ized in Bristol, numbering 57 officers and men. 



Savings Banks. In the savings banks and 

 institutions for savings the deposits on Nov. 17, 

 1891. were $66,276,157.44, again for the year of 

 93,556,665.87. The number of depositors was 

 i::ii.<>48, an increase of 4,996. 



Political. On March 10 a State Convention 

 of the Republican party met at Providence and 

 nominated the following ticket, to be voted for 

 at the State election in April : For Governor, 

 ex-Governor Herbert W. Ladd ; for Lieutenant- 

 Govcrnor, Lyman B. Goff ; for Secretary of State, 

 George H. Utter ; for Treasurer, Samuel Clark ; 

 for Attorney-General, Robert W. Burbank. A 

 resolution iii favor of the policy of reciprocity 

 inaugurated by Hon.. lames (!. Mlaine was passed, 

 but no distinct party platform was adopted. 



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I. ymaii II. (iolT, the taiididttte for Licutcnant- 

 (Jovcrnor, was later mentioned on th. ;.. kcl by 

 Henry A. St-arn-. 



On tin- .-a me. day the Prohibition Stut- 

 vcntion met nt I'rovidenei- and made tin f 

 ing nominations : For (Jov.-rnor. K.-v. John II. 

 Larry; for Lieutenant - (JoM-rnor, .!/-! 

 Brown; for Secretary of State, David < 

 gill ; for Treasurer, Louifl I 

 Attorney - General, ThomM II. I'cai.dy. The 



plat form contains, in addition to the ii>u'al ami- 

 saloon resolutions, the following: 



\\'e .It-elan; that ..ur present turitf in in.j.i 

 called "protection to Amer'u-an lu!>..r," ;.nd while we 

 believe that it is impo-Mblt- t (nuke this a great na- 

 tional issue, siit-h modifications nhould \n- made a* 

 will cheapen ne.-essitie- rather than luxuries, and 

 stimulate private enterprise instead of !' .sterling tru*u 

 and moiio])oli(-s. 



We vail esiieeially tor the . iiforeerncnt of lawB in 

 regard to the employment of child-laW in thin 



State. 



The Democratic State Convention met at 

 Providence on March 12, and re-nominated Gov. 

 Davis, Lieut.-Gov. Wardwell, Secretary of State 

 McGuinness, Treasurer Perry, and Attorney- 

 General Slocum. The following is a portion of 

 the platform : 



It [the Demoeratjc party] demands free raw mate- 

 rial for the manufacturing" industries of this State, and 

 lower taxes on the necessaries of life tor <>ur ;, 

 generally; and it denounces the policy l>y means of 

 \\hieli tin- Kasteru States are reduced to the position 

 of the fiscal feudatories of Pennsylvania and Ohio. 



The Democracy of Rhode Island does not advocate 

 the impossible theory of free trade, Imt it belicv. - in 

 a freer trade with all countries, exchange and barter 

 l>ein:_' the life of business. 



We are in favor of honest moncy.sullicientinquan- 

 titv to answer the needs of the people. 



We are in favor of elections by a plurality instead 

 of majority vote, a more uniform franchise tnan now 

 exists, freedom of judges from legislative control, ex- 

 cept in the ordinary case of impeachment, and addi- 

 tions to executive power ana responsibility. For 

 these and other needed reforms, a constitutional con- 

 vention is necessary, and \\e favor it for these r 



There was also a ticket in the field represent- 

 ing the Nationalist party. At the April election 

 there was no choice oy the people, no candidate 

 having a majority of all the votes cast. For 

 Governor, Davis received 00.0-1!) votes, Ladd 00,- 

 995, Larry 1,829, Burton, the Nationalist candi- 

 date, 384. The choice thereupon devolved upon 

 the General Assembly, which in May elected the 

 Republican candidates. Members of the Gen- 

 eral Assembly of 1891-'92 were voted for at the 

 same election, but several by-elections were 

 necessary before the full membership was deter- 

 mined. The result was in favor of the Republi- 

 cans, who elected 27 members of the Senate and 

 52 of the House. The Democrats elected 9 Sen- 

 ators and 20 members of the House. 



ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH. The most 

 striking characteristic of 1891 was the special 

 interest taken by the Church authorities, from 

 the Pope down, in the social question. Leo 

 XIII, by his great encyclical and his letters fore- 

 shadowing it, struck the keynote. ami the Catho- 

 lic congresses of France, Germany. Spain. Bel- 

 gium, and Kngland, tuned their deliberations 

 and their pronunciamientos in harmony. The 

 discussions of all these assemblies intimated the 



