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That no attorney fees be adjudged in favor of the 

 creditor other than the costs now provided by the 

 statute. 



The total abolition of fish traps, fish weirs, and 

 fish wheels, and of all stationary gear in tide waters, 

 and effectual regulation of all salmon nets, gill nets, 

 and seine- nets. 



The abolition of the State Eailroad Commission, and 

 the enactment of a law fixing maximum freight and 

 passenger rates. 



The abolition of the National Guard, and of the 

 specific contract law, and retrenchment in expenses 

 of Government. 



Further, a system of inspecting and grading 

 of grains at the point of shipment was favored, 

 the last Legislature was condemned for lavish 

 appropriations, and the issuance of bonds by the 

 national Government was denounced. 



The ticket was : For Governor, Nathan Pierce ; 

 Secretary of State, Ira Wakefield ; Superintend- 

 ent of Public Instruction, T. C. Jory ; Attorney- 

 General, M. L. Olmstead ; State Printer, George 

 M. Orton; Judge of the Supreme Court, R. P. 

 Boise; Members of Congress, Charles Miller, 

 Joseph Waldrop. 



The convention of Prohibitionists was held in 

 Salem, April 4. The resolutions declared ad- 

 herence to the national platform of 1892, and 

 attributed the great evils in public affairs to the 

 corrupting influence of the liquor traffic, the 

 abolition of which is therefore of the first im- 

 portance. The ticket follows: For Governor, 

 James Kennedy; Secretary of State, D. F. 

 McKercher ; Treasurer, I. A. Richardson ; Jus- 

 tice of the Supreme Court, T. P. Hackleman ; 

 Attorney- General, C. J. Wright ; Superintendent 

 of Public Instruction, H. M. Harford; State 

 Printer, James H. McKibben ; Members of Con- 

 gress, J. D. Hurst and A. F. Miller. 



The Republicans met in State convention 

 April 11. The resolutions favored a protective 

 tariff and denounced the tariff legislation of 

 Congress; favored construction of the Nicara- 

 gua Canal ; demanded restriction of immigra- 

 tion, and economy in State administration; 

 commended the action of the Republican party 

 in reference to improvement of water ways ; and 

 declared that the use of all fishing gear except 

 the gill net should be forbidden. Following is 

 the resolution on the subject of money : 



We reaffirm the doctrine of the Republican party 

 in relation to money, as stated in its national platform 

 of 1892. We commend the efforts made by our Gov- 

 ernment hitherto to secure an international conference 

 to adopt such measures as will insure parity of value 

 between gold and silver throughout the world, and 

 call upon it to renew and continue such efforts. 



The ticket was: For Governor, William P. 

 Lord ; Secretary of State, H. R. Kincaid ; Treas- 

 urer, Philip Metschan ; Justice of the Supreme 



Court, C. E. Wolverton; Attorney-General, C. 

 M. Idleman : Superintendent of Public Instruc- 

 tion, G. M. Irwin ; State Printer, W. H. Leeds ; 

 Members of Congress, Binger Hermann, W. R 

 Ellis. 



The Democratic convention at Astoria, April 

 18, adopted a platform charging to the reckless 

 legislation of the Republican party the depres- 

 sion in business and stagnation of industry ; 

 favoring an income tax; favoring a consti- 

 tutional convention, and the including in a 

 new Constitution of the principle of initiative 

 and referendum ; expressing the faith that the 

 President will make good, as far as he can, all 

 the pledges made by the party platform of 1892 ; 

 commending the repeal of the Federal election 

 laws and the tariff legislation of Congress ; fa- 

 voring the construction of the Nicaragua Canal, 

 liberal pensions, and election of United States 

 Senators by direct vote of the people ; denouncing 

 the repeal of the mortgage tax law ; demanding 

 better protection of fish ; favored liberal appro- 

 priations for water-way improvements, restric- 

 tion of immigration, changes in the law regulat- 

 ing the adoption of schoolbooks, enactment of 

 laws protecting bank depositors, abolition of 

 railroad and other unnecessary commissions, 

 abolition of the fee system : condemning the 

 changes made by the last Legislature in the 

 ballot law; agreed with the decision of Judge 

 Caldwell in regard to the rights of labor ; de- 

 claring the last Legislature to have been extrava- 

 gant and reckless in appropriations; and said 

 further : 



We demand that all property shall be assessed at 

 its true cash value, and that there shall be deductions 

 only for indebtedness which has a corresponding tax- 

 able credit. We are opposed to all measures of dis- 

 crimination against silver, and demand free coinage 

 to supply the demands of business, and that all money 

 issued by the Government be made a legal tender for 

 all debts, both public and private. 



The nominations were : For Governor, William 

 Galloway : Secretary of State, Charles Nickell ; 

 Treasurer, Thomas L. Davidson ; Superintendent 

 of Public Instruction, D. V. S. Reid; State 

 Printer, John O'Brien ; Justice of the Supreme 

 Court, A. S. Bennett ; Attorney-General, W. H. 

 Holmes ; Members of Congress, J. K. Weather- 

 ford, James II. Raley. 



The election resulted in the choice of the Re- 

 publican candidates. The vote for Governor 

 was: For Lord, Republican, 41,139; for Pierce, 

 Populist, 26.123 ; for Galloway, Democrat, 17,865 ; 

 for Kennedy, Prohibition, 1,982; total, 87,265. 

 In 1892 the total vote for President was 78.491. 

 The Legislature for 1895 stands as follows: 

 Senate Republicans 19, Democrats 8, Populists 

 3 ; House Republicans 53, Populists 7. 



PARAGUAY, a republic in South America. 

 The Senate has 13 members and the Chamber of 

 Deputies 26. Every male citizen eighteen years 

 of age has the right to vote. The President is 

 elected for four years. Gen. Juan G. Gonzalez 

 was elected for the term ending Nov. 25. 1894. 



The area is about 98,000 square miles. The 



population has been reduced by war from 1,337,- 

 439 in 1857 to about 480,000. The imperfect 

 census of 1887 gave only 329,645. 



The receipts of the treasury in 1893 were 

 5,775,899 pesos, of which 1.097.420 pesos came from 

 sales and leases of land. 4,309,233 pesos from 

 customs, and 369,246 pesos from various taxes. 



