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ments exclusive of dividends were $146,877,777. 

 The amount paid in dividends was $6.183,023, 

 divided among 4 companies as follows: Bur- 

 lington, $3,820,221; Rock Island, $1,846,232; 

 Chicago Great Western. $379,080 ; and the Kan- 

 sas City, Fort Scott, and Memphis, $137,490. 



Agricultural. According to the report of 

 the State Board of Agriculture, the yield of 

 winter and spring wheat for 1893 was 24,827,- 

 523 bushels, valued at $10,954,110; the yield of 

 corn was 118,624,639 bushels, valued at $32,621,- 

 762 ; and of oats, 28,194,717 bushels, valued at 

 $6,488,342. Animals to the value of $42,774,- 

 761 were slaughtered or sold for slaughter during 

 the year. The number and value of animals on 

 the farms as ascertained during the year were 

 as follow : Horses. 860,186, value $44,729,672 ; 

 mules. 88,585, value $5,492.270; milch cows, 

 567,353, value $11,347,060; other cattle, 1.505,- 

 273, value $25,589,641 ; sheep, 224,952; value 

 $562,380; swine, 1,406,086, value $10,545,645. 



Farmers' Alliance. Early in February the 

 National Farmers' Alliance held its annual ses- 

 sions at Topeka. Representatives of the order 

 were present from nearly every State, and ad- 

 dresses were made upon agricultural and polit- 

 ical topics. The following resolutions were 

 adopted as representing the sentiment of the 

 order on political subjects : 



I. We demand a national currency, safe, sound, and 

 flexible, issued by the General Government only, a 

 full legal tender for all debts, public and private ; and 

 that, without the use of banking corporations, a just, 

 equitable, and efficient means of distribution direct 

 to the people, at a tax not to exceed 2 per cent., be 

 provided, as set forth in our sub-treasury plan, or 

 some better system ; also by payments in discharge 

 of its obligations for public improvements. 



a. We demand the free and unlimited coinage of 

 silver and gold at the present legal ratio of 16 to 1. 



b. We demand that the amount of circulating me- 

 dium be speedily increased to at least $50 per capita. 



c~. We demand a graduated income tax. 



d. We demand tuat our national legislation shall 

 be so framed in the future as not to build up one in- 

 dustry at 'the expense of another. 



e. We believe that the money of the country should 

 be kept as much as possible in the hands of the peo- 

 ple; and hence we demand that all national and 

 State revenues shall be limited to the necessary ex- 

 penses of the Government, economically and honestly 

 administered. 



./. We demand that postal savings banks be estab- 

 lished by the Government, for the safe deposit of the 

 earnings of the people and to facilitate exchange. 



II. The land, including all the natural resources of 

 wealth, is the heritage of all the people, and should 

 not be monopolized for speculative purposes, and 

 alien ownership of land should- be prohibited. All 

 land now held by railroads and other corporations in 

 excess of their actual needs, and all lands now owned 

 by aliens, should be reclaimed by the Government 

 and held for actual settlers only. 



III. Transportation being a means of exchange and 

 a public necessity, the Government should own and 

 operate the railroads in the interest of the people. 

 The telegraph and telephone, like the post-office sys- 

 tem, being a necessity for transmission of intelli- 

 gence, should be owned and operated by the Govern- 

 ment in the interest of the people. 



The Governor and Mrs. Lease. On Dec. 



28, 1893, Gov. Lewelling issued an order remov- 

 ing Mrs. Mary E. Lease from her office as a 

 member of the State Board of Charities, to which 

 he had appointed her earlier in the year. No 



reason for the removal was given by the Gov- 

 ernor, nor was she accorded a hearing prior to 

 the order. She accordingly determined to test 

 the question in the courts, whether the Governor 

 possessed unlimited power of removal without 

 cause shown, and for this purpose brought suit 

 in the State Supreme Court in January. This 

 suit was decided, on Feb. 14, in her favor. The 

 court in its opinion says : 



The Constitution ordains that the trustees of the 

 benevolent institutions shall be appointed by the 

 Governor, by and with the advice and consent of 

 the Senate, but does not declare the term or tenure 

 of office of the trustee. Section 2, Article XV, of 

 the Constitution ordains : " The tenure of any office 

 not herein provided for may be declared by law ; 

 when not so declared, such office shall be held dur- 

 ing the pleasure of the authority making the ap- 

 pointment." Section 2, chapter cxxx, Session Laws of 

 1876, declares that the term or tenure of office of tin- 

 trustees, after 1879, shall be three years. The obvious 

 meaning of section 2 of Article XV of the Constitu- 

 tion is that in those offices, the term or tenure of 

 which is not flxed by law, the incumbent may be re- 

 moved at the pleasure of the appointing power; but 

 where the term or tenure is declared by law, then 

 the officer shall hold for the full term. 



Political. State officers, members of the 

 General Assembly, and members of Congress 

 were to be chosen at the November election. 

 The first ticket for State officers in the field was 

 nominated -by the Republicans in convention at 

 Topeka on June 6. It contained the following 

 names : For Governor, Edmund N. Morrill ; for 

 Lieutenant-Governor, James A. Trout man ; for 

 Secretary of State, W. C. Edwards ; for Auditor, 

 George E. Cole ; for Treasurer, Otis L. Atherton ; 

 for Attorney-General, F. B. Dawes; for Super- 

 intendent of Public Instruction, Edwin Stanley ; 

 for Justice of the Supreme Court, W. A. John- 

 ston ; for Congressman at Large, Richard W. 

 Blue. The platform adopted contained the fol- 

 lowing : 



We adhere to the Republican doctrine of protec- 

 tion, and believe that tariif laws should protect the 

 products of the farm as well as of the factory. 



The American people favor bimetallism, and the 

 Republican party demands the use of both gold and 

 silver as standard money, with such restrictions and 

 under such provisions, to be determined by legisla- 

 tion, as will secure the maintenance of the parity of 

 values of the two metals; and that the purchasing 

 and debt-paying power of the dollar, whether of gold, 

 silver, or paper, shall be at all times equal. The in- 

 terests of the producers of the country, its far HUTS 

 and its workingmen, demand that the mints be opened 

 to the coinage of silver of the mines of the united 

 States, and that Congress should enact a law levying 

 a tax upon importations of foreign silver sufficient to 

 fullv protect trie products of our own mines. 



We favor national and State legislation for the en- 

 couragement of irrigation. 



On June 12 the Prohibitionists met in State 

 convention at Olathe, and nominated the fol- 

 lowing candidates: For Governor, I. 0. Picker- 

 ing; for Lieutenant-Governor, II. F. Douthart: 

 for Secretary of State, J. N. Howard ; for Audi- 

 tor, J. P. Perkins ; for Treasurer, James Murray ; 

 for Attorney-General. M. V. B. Bennett; for 

 Superintendent of Public Instruction. Mrs. A 

 Allison ; for Justice of the Supreme Court, J. It. 

 Silver; for Congressman at Large, Frank Hoi- 

 singer. 



On the same day the representatives of the 



