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NORTH CAROLINA. 



NORTH DAKOTA. 



were nominated, and the following declarations, 

 among others, were adopted : 



We demand of our General Assembly at its next 

 session to pass a bill reducing the legal rate of inter- 

 est to 6 per cent. 



We demand of our General Assembly at its next 

 session the passage of a secret ballot law, with a pro- 

 vision in said law that will secure to voters who can 

 not read an opportunity to vote. 



We demand of the General Assembly of North 

 Carolina to force, as far as is in its power, all railroad 

 property and interests that are now escaping^ taxa- 

 tion, in whole or in part, to pay its full and equal 

 share of taxes for support of the Government of North 

 Carolina, as the property of farmers, laborers, and 

 other citizens are now taxed. 



On Sept. 7 a Republican State convention at 

 Raleigh placed in the field a fourth ticket for 

 State officers, containing the following names : 

 David M. Furches, for Governor; James M. 

 Moody for Lieutenant-Governor; Rufus Amis 

 for Secretary of State; Henry C. Dockery for 

 Treasurer ; Hiram L. Grant for Auditor ; T. R. 

 Purnell for Attorney-General ; Edward 0. Per- 

 issho for Superintendent of Public Instruction ; 

 and W. S. Ball for Justice of the Supreme 

 Court. 



The platform contained the following : 



"We denounce the arbitrary system of county gov- 

 ernment as subversive of the rights of the people. 



We denounce the election laws now in force in 

 North Carolina, enacted to prevent fair elections, and 

 so framed as to allow the minority to rule by fraud 

 and trickery and oppress the people. 



We denounce the fraudulent pretenses of the Demo- 

 crats in claiming an economical administration of the 

 State finances, while year after year an increased and 

 fictitious valuation has been placed upon property as 

 a basis of taxation, so that within a few years the 

 burdens of the people have been nearly doubled to 

 meet the extravagant expenditures of the State Gov- 

 ernment. 



We denounce the Democrats for placing convict 

 labor in competition with free labor. 



We favor an increase of the national circulating 

 medium in this country and the establishment of 

 postal savings banks for the purpose of securing a 

 better distribution of money. 



At the November election the following vote 

 was cast for presidential electors : Democratic, 

 132.951; Republican, 100,746; People's party, 

 44,732 ; Prohibition, 2,636. For Governor, Carr 

 received 135,519 votes ; Furches, 94,684 ; Exum, 

 47,840 ; Templeton, 2,457. All the other Demo- 

 cratic candidates on the State ticket were elected 

 by about the same vote as that cast for Gov- 

 ernor. Members of the General Assembly of 

 1893 were chosen as follow: Senate Demo- 

 crats 47, People's party 3 ; House Democrats 

 93, Republicans 16, People's party 1.1. The 

 Democrats elected their candidates for Congress 

 in 8 of the 9 congressional districts, the Repub- 

 licans being successful in the 5th District. 



A proposed amendment to the State Constitu- 

 tion providing for the election of solicitors in 

 the same manner as judges of the Superior 

 Court was defeated by a vote of 120,476 in its 

 favor and 135,968 against it. 



NORTH DAKOTA, a Northwestern State, 

 admitted to the Union Nov. 3, 1889 ; area, 70,- 

 795 square miles; population, according to the 

 census of 1890, 182,719. Capital, Bismarck. 



Government. The following were the State 

 officers during the year : Governor, Andrew H. 



Burke, Republican ; Lieutenant-Governor, Roger 

 Allin; Secretary of State, John Flittie; Treasurer, 

 L. E. Booker ; Auditor, John P. Bray, who re- 

 signed in September and was succeeded by A. 

 Currie, Jr. ; Attorney-General, C. A. M. Spencer ; 

 Commissioner of Agriculture and Labor, H. T. 

 Helgeson ; Commissioner of Insurance, A. L. 

 Carey ; Superintendent of Public Instruction, 

 John Ogden ; Railroad Commissioners, George 

 W. Harmon, George H. Walsh, Andrew Slotton ; 

 Justices of the Supreme Court, Guy C. H. Corliss, 

 Alfred Wallin, J. M. Bartholomew. 



Finances. On Nov. 1, 1891, the balance in the 

 State Treasury was $104,791.51 ; the receipts for 

 the year ensuing were $2,234.981.36, and the ex- 

 penditures $1,941,203.27, leaving a balance of 

 $398,569.60 on Oct. 31, 1892. Included in the 

 receipts were $504,536.12 from sale and lease 

 of school lands, $764,323.19 from State taxes 

 levied, $440,153.30 from the 2-mill tax and 

 the poll tax, $171,460.75 from the gross-earn- 

 ings tax on railroads, $106,000 from sale of re- 

 funding bonds, and $80,000 from sale of fund- 

 ing warrants. The largest items of expenditure 

 were as follow : Apportionment of school funds, 

 $607,070.28; school-fund investments, $239,- 

 750.09 ; gross-earnings tax apportioned to coun- 

 ties, $78,476; funding warrants, $80,000; in- 

 terest on State debt, $72,847.60; expenses of 

 Legislature, $58,882.80 ; State University, $58.- 

 343.29 ; State Penitentiary, $54,945.47 ; Hospital 

 for the Insane, $157,433.64 ; School for the Deaf, 

 $23,020.26; Agricultural College, $56,324.90; 

 salaries of State officers, $120,893.62; State 

 militia, $21,923.86; public printing, $28,687.19. 



Valuations. For 1892, the assessed valuation 

 of real property in the State was $60,776,516, of 

 which the valuation of city and town lots and 

 improvements was $9,686,575, and of other lands 

 and improvements $51.089,941. The number of 

 acres of land assessed was 13,786,412, valued at 

 $48,527,869. In the assessment of personal 

 property were included 155,491 horses, valued at 

 $7,280,973; 269,607 cattle, valued at $3,342,328 ; 

 and 317,647 sheep, valued at $560,085. 



The rate of State taxation for 1892 was 3-5 

 mills for general purposes, and '5 mill for in- 

 terest on the State debt. 



Legislative Session. On May 11 Gov. Burke 

 issued his proclamation calling the Legislature 

 together in extra session on June 1 following. 

 It had been discovered that there were no pro- 

 visions of law for the election of presidential 

 electors, or for canvassing the votes for such 

 electors, or for canvassing the votes for State 

 officers. Moreover, public sentiment in the 

 State appeared to be in favor of an increase of 

 the State appropriation for the World's Fair. 

 The proclamation therefore mentioned these as 

 matters requiring immediate action. The session 

 lasted only three days and resulted in the pas- 

 sage of a bill appropriating an additional sum of 

 $12,500 for the fair, making $37,500 in all, and 

 in the enactment of the following laws : 



Providing for the election of presidential electors, 

 State, district, and county officers, and the manner of 

 calling and giving notice of the same. 



For the final determination of contests concerning 

 the election of presidential electors. 



Fixing the compensation and mileage of presi- 

 dential electors. 



