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inmates was 7,81 1. The following statement 

 shows the average number of inmates of each 

 institution and the average gross per capita 

 cost, the net per capita cost being about 10 per 

 cent, less in each case : 



Northern Hospital for the Insane : Inmates, 

 1,095-22: cost per capita, $140.86. 



Kastern Hospital : Inmates, 2,018-33 ; cost, $152.97. 



Central Hospital : Inmates, 1,198-05 ; cost, $141.87. 



Southern Hospital : Inmates, 847'55 ; cost, $138.49. 



Asylum for Insane Criminals : Inmates, 112*79 ; 

 cost, $227.95. 



Institution for Deaf and Dumb: Inmates, 351'51 ; 

 cost, 304.07. 



Institution for Blind : Inmates, 167*48 ; cost, $302.11. 



Asylum for Feeble-Minded: Inmates, 546'45; cost, 



Soldiers' Orphans' Home: Inmates, 373-86; cost, 

 $123.38. 



Charitable Eye and Ear Infirmary : Inmates, 112-26 ; 

 cost, $205.66. 



Soldiers' and Sailors' Home: Inmates, 987'83 ; cost, 

 $128.99. 



Militia. The State militia is composed of 

 7 regiments, containing in all 78 companies. 

 There are 437 commissioned officers, 767 non- 

 commissioned officers, and 3.573 privates, mak- 

 ing a total of 4,777 men. By reason of the 

 strikes in the mining region and on the railroads, 

 the services of the militia were required during 

 the year to an extent altogether unusual. The 

 cost to the State for these services amounted to 

 $244,457.87, a sum largely in excess of the ap- 

 propriations for military purposes. 



Railroads. The report of the Railroad Com- 

 missioners for 1893 shows the railroad mileage 

 of the State to be 15,057 miles, an increase of 

 :!80 miles over that of 1892. The total gross in- 

 come of all railroad companies operating in the 

 State was $115,088,165 for the year, and the 

 total net income $32.081.205. The net income 

 of 49 roads was $35,753.986, and the net deficit 

 of 30 roads was $3,672,781. Twenty-one operat- 

 ing and 5 leased or subsidiary lines were for- 

 tunate enough to pay dividends during the 

 year. These dividends aggregated $28,712,961, 

 or $3,385,445 more than in 1892. 



The total number of employees in Illinois for 

 the year was 71,884, and their' aggregate annual 

 salary was $47,519,037.27. 



Illinois and Michigan Canal. For the year 

 ending Nov. 30, 1893, the financial statement is 

 as follows : Balance on Nov. 30, 1892, $82,454.- 

 51 ; receipts for the year (including $2,076.26 

 for lockage on Illinois river), $60,219.71 ; dis- 

 bursements, $66,574.07; balance on Nov. 30, 

 1893, $76,127.15. The receipts from tolls were 

 $11,000 less than ever in the history of the canal ; 

 and while the expenses were $6,365.02 less than 

 in 1892, the canal has not been self-sustaining. 



Mining Statistics. The report of the State 

 Bureau of Statistics presents the following fig- 

 ures respecting mining in the State for the year 

 ending July 1, 1893: 



Number of counties in which coal has been mined, 

 56 ; mines and openings of all kinds, 788 ; tons of 

 coal mined, 19.949,564;' acres worked out (estimated), 

 3,109-07; employees of all kinds, 35,390 ; miners, 26,- 

 145 ; boys over fourteen years of age under ground, 

 854 ; average number of days of active operations, 

 snipping mines, 229-4; aggregate home value of total 

 product, $17,827,595. There has been a marked de- 

 crease in the number of mining places during the 



past four years. In 1890 there were 936, the largest 

 number ever reported. The report shows a decrease 

 of 148 since then, but the output is the largest ever 

 reported. Machine mining is on the increase. The 

 machine output for the year was 4,729,749, an increase 

 of 836,460 tons over the previous year. 



Judicial Decisions. In April, the State Su- 

 preme Court rendered a decision in the case of 

 the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad 

 vs. Jones, in which the act of 1873 authorizing 

 the Railroad Commission to fix freight rates was 

 held to be constitutional. The objections of the 

 railroad company to the act and the decision of 

 the court thereon are set forth in the following 

 synopsis of the opinion rendered: 



(1) We are not convinced that it is our duty to hold 

 said act of 1873 void for uncertainty. (2) We are of 

 the opinion that the act is not unconstitutional, be- 

 cause of the fact that section 8 authorizes the com- 

 missioners to fix for each of the railroads in the State 

 a schedule of reasonable maximum rates, which is 

 objected to as an attempted delegation of legislative 

 power. (3) The provision of the statute making the 

 schedule of the commission prima facie evidence that 

 the rates therein fixed are reasonable maximum rates 

 of charges was sustained as constitutional, and not as 

 depriving carriers of their property without due pro- 

 cess of law, or as infringing upon the right of trial by 

 jury. (4) The statute is not void as a whole, even 

 though it may have been held unconstitutional as to 

 interstate shipments. (5) The State has the right to 

 confer power upon the Eailroad and Warehouse Com- 

 missioners to make a schedule of reasonable maximum 

 rates, and in so doing it does not impair the obligation 

 of the contract between the State and the corporation. 



In June, the same court rendered an opinion 

 in two cases brought for the purpose of testing 

 the constitutionality of the apportionment acts 

 of 1883 and 1893. In one of these cases Fletch- 

 er vs. Tuttle it was attempted to restrain the 

 county clerk from issuing notices of election for 

 members of the General Assembly under the ap- 

 portionment act of 1893. The other case was 

 brought by one Blair against W. H. Hinrichsen, 

 Secretary of State, praying an injunction to re- 

 strain that officer from certifying to county 

 clerks the names of legislative candidates under 

 the apportionment acts either of 1893 or 1883. 

 The former suit was instituted at the instigation 

 of the Republican State Central Committee, and 

 the latter ostensibly by the Populists, but, in 

 fact, by the Democrats. The two cases, on reach- 

 ing the Supreme Court, were consolidated, and 

 were treated by that tribunal practically as one. 

 All the judges except Judge Shope, who did not 

 sit at the hearing on account of the near ap- 

 proach of the expiration of his term, concurred in 

 the decision. The gist of it is contained in the 

 following passage : 



The question is, whether the assertion and protec- 

 tion of political rights, as judicial power is appor- 

 tioned in this State between courts of law and courts 

 of chancery, are a proper matter of chancery jurisdic- 

 tion. We would not be understood as holding that 

 political rights are not a matter of judicial solicitude 

 and protection, and that the appropriate judicial tri- 

 bunal will not in proper cases give them prompt and 

 efficient protection ; but we think they do not come 

 within the proper cognizance of courts of equity. 



It is elementary law that the subject of the jurisdic- 

 tion of a court of chancery is civil property. The 

 court has no jurisdiction in matters merely criminal 

 or merely immoral, which do not affect any right of 

 property'. Nor do matters of a political character come 



