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WISCONSIN. 



WOMAN SUFFRAGE. 



Education. The Superintendent of Public 

 Instruction reports that during the past four 

 years the receipts for common schools have been 

 $13,257,934.58; disbursements, $9,809,374.85; 

 receipts for normal schools. $477,110.11; dis- 

 bursements, $395.321.85 ; university receipts, 

 $873.850.09; disbursements, $744,301.36. The 

 appropriations for normal schools amounted to 

 $207,500. Over $400,000 was expended for build- 

 ings, grounds, and equipments for the State Uni- 

 versity, and $200,000 for the same purpose for 

 the normal schools. The direct war tax refunded 

 by the General Government to the State was 

 distributed to the various school funds. The 

 amount of tax levied for school purposes in 1894 

 was $2,774,317.49. 



Charitable and Penal Institutions. From 

 the general fund there was paid during 1894 for 

 the expenses of the State Hospital for Insane, 

 $94,403.65 ; Northern Hospital for Insane, $121,- 

 086.52 ; Wisconsin School for Deaf, $39,938.43 ; 

 Wisconsin School for Blind, $25,523.45 ; Indus- 

 trial School for Boys, $54,458.97; State Prison. 

 $28,829.34 ; State Public School, $37,538.12. 



The following statement exhibits the balance 

 due on the direct appropriations made to the 

 above-named institutions for 1893 and 1894, the 

 payments therefrom, including the amounts set 

 apart for the salaries and expenses of the State 

 Board of Control, and the balances remaining 

 unexpended at the end of the fiscal year : 



State Hospital remaining clue Sept. 30, 1892, $34,- 

 L'^.T'.i; appropriations for 1893 and 1894, including 

 amount paid by counties, $882,708.14; paid to Sept, 

 30, 1894, $812,453.63; unexpended, Sept. 30, 1894, 

 1192,421.46. 



School for the Blind due Sept. 30, 1892, $3,934.58; 

 appropriated for 1893 and 1894, $03,520.14; paid to 

 Sept, 30, 1894, $58,179.72 ; balance, $9,275. 



School for the Deaf due Sept. 30, 1892, $20,529.90; 

 appropriated for 1893 and 1894, $81,000; paid to Sept. 

 30, 1894, $80,391.28; balance, $21,138.62. 



Industrial School due Sept. 30, 1892, $32,457.21 ; 

 appropriated for 1893 and 1894, $108,590.34; paid to 

 Sept. 30, 1894, $115,124.05 ; balance, $25,923.50. 



State Prisondue Sept. 30, 1892, $648.44; appropri- 

 ated for 1893 and 1894, $50,000 ; paid to Sept. 30, 1894, 

 $45,486.58; balance, $5,161.86. 



Public School due Sept. 30, 1892, $7,402.75 ; appro- 

 priated for 1893 and 1894, $109,000; paid to Sept. SO, 

 1894, $73,297.86; balance, $43,104.89. 



At the State Prison a residence for the war- 

 den, a tailor and knitting shop, a kitchen, hos- 

 pital, etc., have been erected, and at the Indus- 

 trial School a school house. 



The State Board of Control has under its su- 

 pervision, in adtlition to these 7 State institu- 

 tions, 4 semi-State institutions, 21 county asy- 

 lums for the chronic insane, the Veterans' Home, 

 66 county jails, 43 county poorhouses. 6 city poor- 

 houses, all private benevolent institutions, and 

 all the police stations and lockups in the State, 

 at present numbering 171. 



For maintenance at the Veterans' Home $39,- 

 107.99 was expended during 1894, $12,662.21 of 

 this amount being paid by the United States. 



Live Stock. The number of horses on the 

 assessment rolls for 1894 was 459.414; neat cat- 

 tle, 1,195,072 ; mules and asses. 4,428 : sheep and 

 lambs, 948,226; swine, 420,785 milch cows, 



663,099. The total valuation of live stock was 

 $52,954,241. 



Agriculture. The number of acres devoted 

 to farm products in 1894 was as follows : To 

 wheat, 464.512; corn, 1.076.426: oats, 1,744,200; 

 barley, 443,049 ; rye. 259,043; potatoes, 223,973; 

 root crops, 11,059; cranberries, 6,110; tobacco, 

 17,360; cultivated grasses, 1,696,740; growing 

 timber, 2,509,747; apples, 84,200 ; grapes, 1,087; 

 flax, 3,527 ; berries, 4,314. 



The development of agriculture and of the 

 dairy industry has been notable during the past 

 ten years. Many thousands of acres have been 

 cleared and developed into profitable farms, and 

 it is estimated that more than $160,000,000 is 

 now invested in the dairy industry, and that the 

 milk products of the State in 1894 aggregated 

 $30,000,000. The receipts of the State Agricul- 

 tural Society during the year were $36,859.22. 

 The receipts of the 56 other agricultural and in- 

 dustrial societies aggregated $158,267.21. 



Fish Culture. The sum appropriated to the 

 Fish Commission for 1894 was $13,000, and dis- 

 tributions of the fry of brook and rainbow trout, 

 pike, bass, white fish, and lake trout have been 

 made to the streams arid lakes. 



Census Statistics. The Census Bureau re- 

 port, dated Feb. 20, 1894, gives these statistics of 

 manufactures in Wisconsin: Number of estab- 

 lishments, 10,417; value of land, $57,766.281; 

 buildings, $24,461 .110; machinery, etc., $43,228,- 

 127; live assets, $121,059,886; average number 

 of employees, 132,031 ; total wages. $51,843,708: 

 cost of materials used, $145,437,016 ;. value of 

 products, including receipts from custom work 

 and repairing, $248,546,104. 



The valuation of real and personal property in 

 the State, as given by the Census Bureau report 

 dated March 13, 1894, is: Real estate, including 

 improvements, $1,098,350,591 ; live stock on 

 farms, etc., implements and machinery, $82,951.- 

 887; mines and quarries, and product on hand, 

 $8,388.551 ; gold, silver, coin, and bullion, $27,- 

 934,449; machinery of mills and product on 

 hand, $81,874,031 ; railroads (including street 

 railways) and equipment, $294,209.054; tele- 

 graphs, telephones, shipping, and canals. $14,- 

 738,945; miscellaneous, $224,801,515; total, $1,- 

 833,308,523. 



Political. At the November elections 4 tick- 

 ets were presented. Republican, Democratic, Pop- 

 ulist, and Prohibition. The Republican party 

 was successful, with a plurality of 54,307 votes. 

 Ten Republican Congressmen were elected. 



WOMAN SUFFRAGE. The woman-suffrage 

 movement is the organized demand for the re- 

 moval of all obstacles, legal and other, to the 

 possession by women of the power to vote and 

 hold office, and, incidentally, for the removal of 

 all social disqualifications on account of sex. 



The abstract right of women to vote and 

 hold office seems not to have been a point for 

 consideration until nearly the middle of the 

 present century. In England its practice was 

 based wholly upon expediency. Such powers, 

 though seldom used, were not denied. Ladies of 

 rank and abbesses sat in the Weta, or Saxon 

 House of Lords, either in person or by proxy, 

 and the rolls of Mary Tudor's Parliament con- 

 tain the names of women. Women sat upon the 

 boards of great secular companies ruling over 



