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b, mill capacity to entitle them to State t'overn- 

 int-Mt. iiinl we uiHiHt thut they should not longer In- 

 deprived of this sacred ri^lit tfimranteed to Uu-m l>\ 



ii.-titutioii aii<l the treaty with Mevieo. 



\\Ytavorthe un<|iialitied protection <!' all honest 



lalior and capital through tin- menus of loeal jfovi-rn- 



ment, and condemn all efforts or attempta to control 



urn-, or the relations of the one to the other, 1>\ 



menus of any armed body of men imported into thu 



Territory through private sources, under the name t' 



1'inkertons, or however else designated, believintr it 



to In- on- American, and subversive of tiie rights of 



the people. 



The second Democratic convention met at 

 Santa Fe on Sept. 10, and renominated Delegate 

 Joseph as the party candidate for Congress. A 

 pint form was adopted which demands the ad- 

 mission of New Mexico as a State. It favors 

 thi- repeal of that portion of the public-school 

 law providing for the payment of poll taxes, and 

 declares that it enables unscrupulous politicians 

 to desti'oy the fundamental principle of the 

 elective system. It declares for a reduction in 

 the existing fee system, demands a law provid- 

 ing for a new Territorial board of equalization, 

 and favors the reconstruction of the financial 

 system of the Territory. It says : " We favor the 

 restoration of silver to its place as a money met- 

 al, and demand its free and unlimited coinage at 

 a ratio of 16 grains of silver to 1 of gold." 



At the November election the Democrats car- 

 ried the Territory by a slight majority. For 

 Delegate, Joseph received 15,799 votes, and Ca- 

 tron 15.220. The Legislature elected at the 

 same time will be divided politically as follows: 

 Council Democrats 5, Republicans 7 ; House 

 Democrats 15, Republicans 8, Independent Re- 

 publican 1. 



NEW YORK, a Middle State, one of the 

 original thirteen, ratified the Constitution July 

 26, 1788; area, 49,170 square miles. The popula- 

 tion, according to each national decennial cen- 

 sus, was 340.120 in 1790; 589,051 in 1800; 

 959.049 in 1810: 1.372,111 in 1820; 1,918,608 

 in 1830; 2.428.921 in 1840; 3,097,394 in 1850; 

 8,880,735 in 1860; 4.382,759 in 1870; 5,082,871 

 in 1880 ; and 5,997.853 in 1890. Capital, Albany. 



Government. The following were the State 

 < 'fillers during the year: Governor, Roswell P. 

 Flower ; Lieutenant-Governor, William F. Shee- 

 hau : Secretary of State, Frank Rice: Comp- 

 troller, Frank Campbell; Treasurer, Elliot Dan- 

 forth ; Attorney-General, Simon W. Rosendale : 

 State Engineer* and Surveyor, Martin Schem-k ; 

 Superintendent of Public Instruction, Jann > F. 

 Crooker; Superintendent of Prisons, Austin 

 Lathrop; Superintendent of Insurance, James 

 F. Pierce ; Superintendent of Public Works, Ed- 

 ward llatinan; Commissioner of Statistics of 

 Labor, Charles F. Peck: Railroad Commission- 

 ers. Michael Rickard. S. A. Beardsley, and Al- 

 fred C. Cliapin ; Chief Judge of the Court of Ap- 

 peals, Robert Earl; Associate Judges, Charles 

 Andrews, John C. Gray, Rufus W. Peckham, 

 Denis O'Brien, Francis M. Finch, and Isaac 11. 

 Maynard. 



Finances. The important officers in the 

 management of the State funds are the Treas- 

 urer, Elliot Danforth (salary, $ 5,000). and the 

 Comptroller, Frank Campbell (salary, $6,000). 



The financial condition of the State is shown 

 as follows : Cash in treasury to credit of general 



fund. Oct. 1. 1891, $5,23 1,270.46; receipts from 

 all sources during the fiscal year ending >-ji. 

 :;n. is;r,>. $i;.r,.-,:i.'.i:u6; total, $11,785,268.62. 

 Payments from general fund during fiscal veur 

 ending Sept. :;<>. 1 *!!.>, $10,083,776.60; balance 

 in treasury, Oct. I, 1892, $1,701,487.02. Besides 

 which there is a fund balance of $1,746,4-) 1.7'J. 

 distributed as follows: United States deposit 

 fund. $45,397.11; Collegiate land scrip fund. 

 $91,072.60; military record fund, $19,496.36; 

 free -school fund. $378,400.82; canal fund. 

 $1.161,341.31; common-school fund, $47,5:',(i.(C. : 

 literature fund, $3,161.97; Woman's Monument 

 fund, $42 ; thus making a total balance of 

 $2,447,928.74. Hence there is practically no 

 State debt. The outstanding obligations are al- 

 ready provided for. They consist of $150.000 

 balance of canal debt, which matures in October, 

 1893, and for the liquidation of which there i. 

 now sufficient money in the canal fund, and of 

 $300,000 Niagara reservation bonds, the last <f 

 which do not mature until 1895, buf all of which 

 can be paid at any time from surplus moneys 

 now in the treasury, with the proper legislative 

 authority. According to the Comptroller, the 

 receipts from all sources during the year ending 

 Sept. 30 were $15,221.796, and the payments 

 during the year were $19,323.494. 



The principal sources of indirect revenue were 

 from the inheritance tax and the franchise and 

 organization taxes on corporations. The former 

 yielded $1,786,218.47, as compared with $890,- 

 267.54 for 1891. This increase is owing to the 

 act passed by the Legislature, which placed in 

 the Comptroller's hands $25,000 for examining 

 records of surrogates' offices for the collection of 

 delinquent taxes. The increase from the fran- 

 chise and organization tax on corporations 

 reached $1,696,960.99, or $161,085.88 in excess 

 of those received in 1891. 



The Comptroller in his annual report suggests 

 that the Inheritance Tax law be so amended 

 that the rate be fixed at 1 per cent, upon estates 

 over $10,000 and up to $100,000; 2 per cent, on 

 all sums over $100,000 up to $500,000; 8 per 

 cent, upon sums in excess of $500,000 up to 

 $1,000,000; and 5 per cent, upon all sums in 

 excess of $1,000,000. By adopting such a scale 

 of rates the great accumulations of personal 

 wealth would be required to contribute once 

 in a generation in a substantial way to the ex- 

 penses of the Government, and would be most 

 satisfactory to the great body of taxpayers of 

 the State. 



The State tax for the year ending Oct. 1. 1893, 

 will be 1-98 mill on each dollar of valuation .f 

 real and personal property, distributed as fol- 

 lows: Canal tax, '24 mill: free-school fund, 1 

 mill; and general fund, -72 mill. Appropria- 

 tions were made by the Legislature for general 

 purposes of $8,059.644. There was raised for 

 free-school purposes $8,934.700, and for canal 

 purposes $141,500. The total raised by State 

 taxation was $12,185,844. 



Wealth of the State. The State assessors 

 are William H. Wood, Henry D. Bnwster, and 

 John A. Mason, each of whom receives a salary 

 of $2,500. Their annual re{K>rt presented to 

 the Senate shows that the total assessed value of 

 real and personal property in the State as made 

 by the local assessors in 1801 was $8,779,894,- 



