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SPAIN. 



The returns of the presidential election were: 

 McKinley, 54,530; Bryan, 39,544; Woolley, 1,542; 

 Barker, 339; Debs, 176. 



The Republican candidates for State offices and 

 for Congress were elected. The vote for Governor 

 stood: Herreid, 53,803; Lien, 40,091; Carlisle, 

 1,331; Stair, 316. 



Two changes in the Constitution were sub- 

 mitted: One was the repeal of the dispensary 

 amendment, which was adopted in 1898, but had 

 not gone into effect for lack of legislative action 

 to prescribe a method of administering it. The 

 other was to allow the State to loan $1,000 on a 

 single quarter section of land, the limit having 

 been $500. For the repeal of the dispensary pro- 

 vision 48,673 votes were cast and 33,972 against. 

 The second amendment was carried by a vote of 

 49,989 to 5,653. 



The Legislature will be constituted as follows: 

 Senate, 39 Republicans, 6 fusionists; house, 78 

 Republicans, 9 fusionists. 



SPAIN, a kingdom in southwestern Europe. 

 The legislative power is vested in the Cortes, con- 

 sisting of a Senate of 360 members and a Con- 

 gress of 432 members. Of the Senators half are 

 life and ottic-ial members and half are elected by 

 the provincial and communal assemblies, the ec- 

 clesiastical bodies, universities, and academies, 

 and the most highly assessed taxpayers. Sen- 

 ators in their own right are royal princes, 

 grandees of Spain who have an income of 60,000 

 pesetas or more, captains general of the army, 

 admirals of the navy, archbishops, and presiding 

 judges of the superior tribunals, numbering alto- 

 gether 80. The Crown appoints 100 life Senators. 

 The elective Senators sit for ten years, half of 

 them being renewed every five years, but if the 

 Cortes are dissolved all go out. Every Spaniard 

 twenty-five years of age enjoying full civil rights 

 and a citizen of a municipality for two years 

 possesses the right of suffrage. The Congress is 

 composed of 10 Deputies at large receiving over 

 10.000 votes in several * districts, 88 Deputies 

 elected by 26 electoral colleges in which a system 

 of minority representation is carried out, and 334 

 Deputies elected by districts. The present King 

 of Spain is Alfonso XIII, born May 17, 1886, post- 

 humous son of Alfonso XII and Maria Cristina, 

 an archduchess of Austria, who during her son's 

 minority acts as Queen Regent. The Council of 

 Ministers, constituted on March 4, 1899, was com- 

 posed in the beginning of 1900 of the following 

 members: President of the Council and Minister 

 of Foreign Affairs, Francisco Silvela; Minister of 

 Justice, Count Torreanaz; Minister of War, Gen. 

 A/.carraga; Minister of Marine, Gomez Imaz; 

 .Minister of Finance, Sefior Villaverde; Minister 

 if the Interior, Sefior Dato; Minister of Pub- 

 lic Works, Agriculture, and Commerce, Marquis 

 Pidal. 



Area and Population. The area and popula- 

 tiwi of the 49 provinces at the census of Dec. 31, 

 1897, is given in the table on this page. 



The population consisted of 8,773.730 males and 

 1) .31.li.770 females. The legal population was 8,884,- 

 :W males and 9,341. U.'.l females; total, 18,226,040. 

 The population of Madrid on Doc. 31. 1807, was 

 ii 12.1 50; Barcelona. f>n!i.:>s<.i : Valencia. 21)4.768; 

 Sevilla, 146.20."); Malaga. 125.579; Mun-ia. 10S.408. 



Finances. The revenue for the financial year 

 18'.)S was 803,940,904 pesetas, having increased 

 from 764,993,033 j)esetas in 1895; the expenditure 

 \\;is 869,402,226 pesetas, having grown from 

 780,242,373 pesetas. The provisional results for 

 lS!l!t made the revenue S42.533.002 pesetas and 

 the expenditure 907.189,184 pesetas. Sefior Villa- 

 verde's budget for 1900 calculated the revenue at 



937,930,415 pesetas, of which 391,342,990 pesetas 

 were to come from direct taxes on land, mines, 

 trade, industry, Government salaries, registration, 

 etc., 359,000,000 pesetas from indirect taxes, cus- 

 toms, and excise, 156,150.024 pesetas from the 

 tobacco monopoly, the lottery, the mint, and 

 other sources, 19,578,254 pesetas from profits on 

 Government property, 2,020,000 pesetas from sales 

 of property, 9,755,000 pesetas from the public 

 treasury, and 84,147 pesetas from Fernando Po. 

 The total expenditures were estimated at 937,178.- 

 134 pesetas, of which 9,250,000 pesetas were for 

 the civil list, 1,638,085 pesetas for the Cortes, 427,- 

 923,882 pesetas for the public debt, 1,638,178 pese- 

 tas for the courts of law, 71,075,889 pesetas for 

 pensions, 812,883 pesetas tor the Council of Min- 

 isters. 4,754,290 pesetas for the Ministry of For- 

 eign Affairs, 54,453,919 pesetas for the Ministry 

 of Justice, 174.329,539 pesetas for the Ministry of 

 War, 28,341,613 pesetas for the Ministry of Ma- 

 rine, 24,518,862 pesetas for the Ministry of the In- 

 terior, 88,038,104 pesetas for the Ministry of Pub- 

 lic Works, 19,152,019 pesetas for tin- Ministry of 

 Finance, 29,951,020 pesetas for collection of tax*-. 

 and 699,851 pesetas for Fernando Po. The Cortes 

 refused to sanction the scale of taxation proposed 

 by Sefior Yillaverde, and demanded economics. 

 Some of the new taxes were therefore stricken out 

 and the salaries and superfluous expenses of all 

 the departments were curtailed. The appropria- 

 tions for the Ministry of Justice were cut do\\ n 

 to 53,466,537 pe-et;i-. those for the Ministry of 

 the Interior to 23,441,097 pesetas, of the Ministry 

 of Public Works to 80,736,422 pesetas, and of the 



