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IOWA. 



ott, Robert W. McBride ; Appellate Judges, A. 

 G. Gavins. C. S. Baker, James B. Black, Henry 

 C. Fox, Edgar C. Crumpacker. 



The State Single-Tax League met in June, 

 and adopted resolutions as follow : 



The increase of land value prevents the increase of 

 labor value, absorbing the increase of wages to labor 

 and protit to capital ; destroys markets ; creates idle- 

 ness, poverty, and vice. Therefore, to restore wages 

 and establish uninterrupted prosperity, we demand 

 the abolition of all taxes except a single tax on land 

 values. 



We are opposed to banks of issue. 



We are opposed to the giving away of franchises. 



It was decided to send delegates to the World's 

 Congress of Single- Taxers, to be held in Chicago 

 during the World's Pair. A committee was ap- 

 pointed to confer with the State convention of 

 the People's party in regard to the land plank 

 of their platform. 



At the November election the total vote for 

 first presidential electors was 554,013, of which 

 262.740 were for Cleveland, 255,615 for Harrison, 

 13,050 for Bid well, and 22,208 for Weaver ; Cleve- 

 land's plurality, 7,125. Republican congressmen 

 were elected in the Sixth and Ninth Districts, 

 and Democratic in the other eleven. The entire 

 State Democratic ticket was successful. Claude 

 Matthews, candidate for Governor, received the 

 largest plurality, 6,976. His total vote was 260,- 

 601 ; that of Chase, the Republican candidate, 

 253,625 ; that of Wirth, Prohibition, was 12,960 ; 

 and that of Templeton, People's party, 22,017. 



The General Assembly will be divided as fol- 

 lows : Senate Democrats 35, Republicans 15 ; 

 House Democrats 63, Republicans 37. 



INDUSTRIAL LEGION, an organization 

 formed in Memphis, Tenn., Nov. 20, 1892, by 

 leaders of the People's party, who were also act- 

 ive in the Farmers' Alliance. The object of the 

 legion is to carry out politically the measures 

 embodied in the declaration of principles of the 

 Omaha platform of the People's party, together 

 with free speech, a free ballot, and a fair count. 

 The legion is divided into three classes : The 

 first, of male members over twenty-one years of 

 age, known as the senior class ; the second, or 

 junior class, of male members under twenty-one 

 and over fourteen years of age, who shall be edu- 

 cated and trained to become voters of the Peo- 

 ple's party ; and the third class, known as the 

 Woman's Aid Corps, intended as an auxiliary to 

 the senior class. The legion is modeled after the 

 Grand Army of the Republic. It partakes of 

 the nature of a secret organization, while the 

 meetings may be secret or open, at the option of 

 the members. 



IOWA, a Western State, admitted to the 

 Union Dec. 28, 1846 ; area, 56,025 square miles. 

 The population, according to each decennial cen- 

 sus since admission, was 192,214 in 1850 ; 674,913 

 in 1860; 1,194,020 in 1870; 1,624,615 in 1880; 

 and 1,911,896 in 1890. Capital, Des Moines. 



Government. The following were the State 

 officers during the year : Governor, Horace Boies, 

 Democrat ; Lieutenant-Governor, S. L. Bestow ; 

 Secretary of State, W. M. McFarland ; Attorney- 

 General, John Y. Stone : Auditor, James A. Ly- 

 ons ; Treasurer, Byron A. Beeson ; Superintend- 

 ent of Public Instruction, J. B. Knoepfler; 

 Commissioner of Labor Statistics, J. R. Sover- 



eign; Railroad Commissioners, Spencer Smith, 

 John W. Luke, Peter A. Dey; Chief Justice of 

 the Supreme Court, Gifford S. Robinson ; Asso- 

 ciate Justices, Charles T. Granger, Josiah Given, 

 James H. Rothrock, L. G. Kenne. 



Appropriations. The General Assembly 

 made the following appropriations: f 7,000 for 

 the College for the Blind ; $55,100 for the Hos- 

 pital for the Insane at Clarinda ; $15,750 for that 

 at Independence; $20,500 for that at Mount 

 Pleasant ; $20,300 for the Industrial Home for 

 the Blind at Knoxville ; $7,150 for the girls' de- 

 partment of the Industrial School, and $25,900 

 for that of the boys; $16,000 for the Iowa 

 School for the Deaf;" $26,600 to the Institution 

 for the Feeble-minded ; $23,700 for the Normal 

 School ; $19.400 for the Penitentiary at Ana- 

 mosa; $16,950 for that at Fort Madison; $6,530 

 for the Soldiers' Home, at Marshalltown ; $12,500 

 for the Soldiers' Orphans' Home, at Davenport ; 

 $78,000 for the State University, at Iowa City ; 

 $125,000 to the Columbian Exposition. 



Education. The following statistics give the 

 number of inmates admitted to the Industrial 

 School : 

 Whole number of boys committed to the school since its 



opening. Sept 21, 1863, to June 80. 1891 1.655 



Number discharged and otherwise released 1,254 



Number remaining in school, June 80, 1891 401 



Whole number of girls received since opening of school 482 



Number discharged or otherwise released 814 



Number remaining in institution, June 80, 1891 117 



In January, 1892, the new additions to the 

 building having been completed, eligible blind 

 people were admitted. 



Taxation. A tax commission having been 

 created by the last Legislature to prepare a more 

 equitable plan of taxation, the State executive, 

 on July 28, appointed its members. At the meet- 

 ing held in August it was resolved that no more 

 than two members of the same political party, 

 nor any member of the Twenty-fourth General 

 Assembly, should be a member of the commis- 

 sion. The work, begun in August, 1892, should 

 be finished and filed with the Secretary of State 

 by July 1, 1893. 



Valuations. The assessed valuation of real 

 estate, and personal property in Iowa for 1890 

 amounted to $525,862,858, that for 1880 having 

 been $398,671,251. The assessed valuation per 

 capita was $274, that for 1880 having been 

 $245.39. 



The Columbian Exposition. The General 

 Assembly having appropriated but $125,000 of 

 the $339,000 asked for, a complete reorganization 

 of the plans by the committee was deemed neces- 

 sary. It was decided that no new State build- 

 ing should be erected, but that a remodeling of 

 the "Shelter" should be undertaken, a 1-story 

 structure already existing in Jackson Park, and 

 offered to the Iowa commission. 



Agriculture. The fortieth annual conven- 

 tion of the State Agricultural Society met at 

 Des Moines in January, 1892, 112 delegates being 

 present. According to an estimate submitted, 

 the grand total value of Iowa products of farm, 

 pasture, and dairy is $464,219,308, or over $230 

 for every man, woman, and child in the State 

 an average of $1,100 per family. The number 

 of farms in the State being placed at 200,000, 

 this means that the average farmer raised $2,200 

 worth of products in 1891. 



