VENEZUELA. 



VERMONT. 



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In restoring to a religious organization in Utah its 

 personal property, which was confiscated under the 

 provisions ot law, with the prospect of the further 

 restoration of the real estate also escheated. 



In the appointments which have been made of ac- 

 tual residents of the Territory to public office, many 

 of them native to the soil of Utah, a policy altogether 

 different from that of Eepublican administrations. 



In throwing open to settlement the Uintah and Un- 

 compahgre reservations. 



The resolutions also favored woman suffrage. 

 Joseph L. Rawlins was nominated to succeed 

 himself in Congress, and Thomas Griffin, Israel 

 Evans, and Peter Greaves, Sr., for commissioners 

 to locate university lands. 



The canvassing board appointed by the Utah 

 commission found a plurality of 1,818 for F. J. 

 Cannon, candidate of the Republicans for mem- 

 ber of Congress, and about the same for the Re- 

 publican candidates for commissioners to locate 



university lands. But. by comparisons of the 

 books, lists, and tally sheets, discrepancies and 

 irregularities were found in some returns. The 

 commission therefore ordered the ballot boxes 

 to be sent in for .examination, and some of them 

 were opened and the votes recounted. Writs 

 prohibiting them from opening the boxes were 

 served upon them, and they were ordered to ap- 

 pear in court and show. cause why the writ of 

 prohibition should not be made perpetual. The 

 cases had not come up in the court for hearing at 

 the close of the year, having been adjourned to 

 Jan. 3. The results of the election were there- 

 fore still in doubt. Judge Bartch decided, Jan. 

 11, in the case before him that the commission 

 could not go to the ballot boxes, but had the 

 power to appoint county canvassers to do so. 

 An appeal was taken to the Supreme Court of 

 the Territory. 



VENEZUELA, a feudal republic in South 

 America. The Senate has 27 members, 3 from 

 each State ; the Chamber of Representatives has 

 63 members, elected by direct suffrage, and serv- 

 ing, like the Senators, four years. The Presi- 

 dent and the Federal Council are elected for 

 four years. Gen. Joaquin Crespo was proclaimed 

 President on March 10, 1892, and was re-elected 

 for the term ending March 5, 1898. The Coun- 

 cil of Ministers was composed in 1894 as follows : 

 Minister of the Interior, J. Ramon Nunez; Min- 

 ister of Foreign Affairs, P. Ezequial Rojas; 

 Minister of War and Marine, Gen. Ramon Guer- 

 ra ; Minister of the Treasury, Fabricio Conde ; 

 Minister of Public Instruction. Dr. Luis Ezpe- 

 losin ; Minister of Fomento, Gen. Augusto Lu- 

 towsky; Minister of Public Works, David Leon. 



The area of Venezuela is 593,943 square miles. 

 The population in 1891 was 2.323,527, of whom 

 1,137,139 were males and 1,186,388 were females. 



The budget for the financial year 1894-95 

 makes the total receipts 37,120,000 bolivars or 

 francs, of which 25.000,000 bolivars corne from 

 customs, 6,000,000 bolivars from internal reve- 

 nue, and 6,120.000 bolivars from a tax on in- 

 comes. The expenditures are made to balance 

 the revenue, the chief items being 9,771,488 bol- 

 ivars for the Interior Department, 6,600,000 bol- 

 ivars for the public debt, 5,534.255 bolivars for 

 the army and navy, 4,539,566 bolivars for finan- 

 cial administration. 3,394,080 bolivars for public 

 works, and 3,232.514 bolivars for instruction. 



The public debt on Jan. 1, 1894, amounted to 

 114,778,961 bolivars, of which 72,125,415 boli- 

 vars were foreign loans paying 3 per cent., 39.- 

 236,874 bolivars the consolidated internal debt 

 paying 5 per cent, and 3,416,672 bolivars tem- 

 porary loans at 1 per cent, a month. On July 

 16, 1894, a new internal debt of 20,009,089 bol- 

 ivars was contracted, at 6 per cent. 



Commerce and Communications. The 

 value of the export trade in 1892-'93 was 86.420,- 

 615 bolivars. The largest exports were : Coffee, 

 67,296,000 bolivars; cacao, 8.584,000 bolivars; 

 gold, 4,169,000 bolivars: hides, 3,732.000 boli- 

 vars; animals, 970,000 bolivars. 



The railroads have a total length of 287 miles ; 

 there are 1,240 miles projected. There are 3.833 

 miles of telegraph lines belonging to the Govern- 

 ment. The number of dispatches in 1893 was 

 206,921. The expenses were 1,054.163 bolivars. 



Political Disaffection. The enemies of 

 President Crespo started a revolutionary move- 

 ment in Los Andes and Bermtidez early in 1894, 

 which was suppressed and the arms intended for 

 the insurgents were captured. The followers of 

 Andueza Palacia strove to form an alliance with 

 the Colombian revolutionary party. The acute 

 phase of the boundary dispute with Great Britain 

 rallied public sentiment to the support of the Gov- 

 ernment. The Senate resolved in favor of break- 

 ing off all commercial relations with Great Brit- 

 ain and Trinidad. 



In October Venezuelan troops occupied a part 

 of the district of Uruan on the farther side of 

 the Cayuni river, which was already occupied by 

 British colonial police and administered by a 

 British magistrate, who withdrew after the Ven- 

 ezuelan authorities had promised that the Brit- 

 ish miners would not be disturbed in their rights 

 or operations. Crespo was absent from his post 

 on account of illness, and when he resumed con- 

 trol, in December, he promised economies, and 

 invited exiles to return. Many political prison- 

 ers were released. 



VERMONT, a New England State, admitted 

 to the Union March 4, 1791 ; area, 9,565 square 

 miles. The population, according to each decen- 

 nial census since admission, was 154,465 in 1800; 

 217,895 in 1810; 235.966 in 1820; 280,652 in 

 1830; 291.948 in 1840; 314.120 in 1850; 315,098 

 in 1860; 350,551 in 1870; 332.286 in 1880; and 

 332.422 in 1890. Capital, Montpelier. 



Government. The following were the State 

 officers during the year: Governor, Levi K. Ful- 

 ler, Republican, succeeded on Sept. 4 by Urban 

 A. Woodbury, Republican ; Lieutenant-Govern- 

 or, F. S. Stfanahan, succeeded on Sept. 4 by 

 Zophar M. Mansur ; Secretary of State and In- 

 surance Commissioner, Chauncey W. Brownell, 

 Jr. ; Treasurer. Henry F. Field ; Auditor, Frank- 

 lin D. Hale ; Superintendent of Education, Mason 



