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ISLAND, 



legislate before election to that the people 1 

 re-electing them could judge of th.-ir acts. an.. 



..ire pa*: :nt-r.-M> of the 



.lions and inimical to the rights 



of tie ' the dote 



.-us of tin- State to tin- charac- 



U will lit- i after 



1 



Church; l.ieutctmi, ivette Bart let t ; 



ue. Miles A. McNamee; Aitorne\- 



i!, (Jeorge T. Brown; Treasurer, Bdarand 



The Socialist-Labor p -""" 



March 12, and adopted the following declaration of 



ml the proceeds of all wealth created should 

 be distributed equitably am -n - ' h- act ual producers, 

 and that the instruments of production .should be 

 the projterty of so*-,. 



iiat the capitalist class, by controlling the po- 

 litical |ower. appropriates to themselves thegi 

 part of th product of labor, and possess the m-ehe- 

 of t he tools of production, and this causes all the 

 iniquities from which the working class now suffer. 



:iat to secure tln product of labor and the 

 machinery of production to their rightful o'.\ 

 the working class must unite at the polls, withdraw 

 the political power from the capitalist class, i 

 it in their own hands, and institute the co-operative 

 commonwealth the employment of themselves by 



The ticket was : For Governor. Franklin K. Bur- 



Lieutenant Governor, Bernard .!. M:irra\ 

 retary of State, James Jefferson; S 

 Frederick J. Frank ; Attorney-General, John Ber- 

 lin. 



The Republican convent ion. held in Provi.i- 

 March 16, chose the following candidates : !'.: 

 ernor, Klisha Dyer; Licutenai: r. Aram .F. 



Pothier; Secretary of State. Churl.- I'. U-nnctt : 

 -ney- General, Willard B. Tanner: (icncral 

 Treasurer, Samuel Clark. These candidates were 

 tooted. 



lowing is the vote for Governor: Dyer, Re- 

 publican. 2 .arch, Democra : Pea- 



body. Prohibitionist, 2,096; Burton, Socials 



Larry, Li! 



Leiri-l.i' N ilon. -The Providence session 

 began .Ian. ;JI!. and the Newport -e ion May -J"). .1. 

 Edward Stud ley was Speaker of the House. Tin- 

 Governor's message explained that, to meet the ex- 

 cess of expenditures for the year, it had been neces- 

 sary to discount a note for $50.000, and draw upon 

 the tax for 1897 to the extent of more than $25.000. 

 Balances from the appropriations for I'P.V 



y jail, for lands in Cranston, and forth*- I'rovj- 



annorv, amounting to $187,90&85, had been 

 ed hack to the treasury in accordance with 

 resolutions of the Legislature. The regular it. 

 from ordinary sources was larger than that of any 







An act was passed to pr-.vid.- for licensing and 

 regulating .ing, bonding, and keeping of 



infants. It re M uir that any person other th. 

 over- 

 charitaMc institution, or any duly authorized officer 

 or agent of the sain- ives, boards, or keeps 



for hire, any infant under the age of two year 

 related by blood or marriage to. -gaily 



adopted by, or committed to him, must have a 

 written license from the Board of Charities and 

 Corrections, approved by the Board of Health of 

 the city or town where i't is propped to keep the 

 child. The penalty for violation of the act is a fine 

 of $100, or imprisonment fr-r both: 



and if the defendant in a prosecution claims rela- 



ip to the child in q i legal cuMody 



of it, the burden of proof i- \MI!I him. 



f<-r tin- protection of children for- 

 Miployment of any under the age : 

 teen vears in theatrical and circus perform. 



21 ml the like, unless it be in connect ion wit h elm relic-. 

 1 tools, or private instruction in dancing or mu- 

 ' unless it be under the auspices of a lihodc 



Incorporated, ; ! \\ ithout 



. purpos,. aiithori/ed by law. or 

 unless it IH> with the written -oiiM-nt of the 



of th. ..nt ,f th. innoU 



inployed ; or in an\ 



; or wan.!' ipanon, m- for the exhibi- 



f deformity, etc.. the Society for the |'i 

 lion of Cruelty to Children may'sei/e .md detain 

 any child .so occupied as a witness at the trial of 



the iHTSOtl responsible. 



The rolor of the State flag was chang.-.l fr..m 

 blue to white, i color, which was changed 



to blue in 1 



M given to the authorities of Providence 



;iblish a public-school teachers' retirement 

 fund. The sou ires of t he fund are to be legacies and 

 gifts : 1 per cent, of tin paid to tea 



who shall, prior to Oct. 1. ]*'.;. , :, . -t to come un- 



der the pro visions of tba aot j and 1 percent, of the 

 salaries paid to all teachers appointed after said 

 date; provided that no teacher shall be assessed f,-r 

 more than 1 per cent, of $1,200 a year; and inter- 

 est or income from the-e moneys. Tlnc entitled 

 >ments from the fund are teachers who ha\e 

 contributed at least five years and have taught a 

 certain time for men at 'least thirty-live years and 

 for women at least thirty of which 

 years shall have been in the public school- of the 

 city next preceding the time of retirement. The 

 annuity received shall be equal to one half th' 

 ary at the time of retirement. |.rovii led that in no 

 case shall it exceed $600 a ; 



ie changes were made in the road laws, and 

 $30,000 was appropriated for macademixing sample 

 sections of highway not more than one half mile 

 in length, under the, direction of the highway com- 

 missioner. 



The laws on insolvency were amended. pn.\ 

 that in suits f d property the a 



may intervene in any action relating to the prop- 

 erty of the insolvent, and may take upon himself 

 the prosecution or defense of such suits. Judg- 

 ments in suits begun in the lifetime of one wi 

 left an insolvent estate, or before the estate w,. 

 dared insolvent, are to be included with the other 

 claims 



It was provided that any person who is so ad- 

 dicted to the habitual. 



! alcohol or of any poisonous drug, as to ren- 

 der it necessary for his <,\\n welfare or for the I 

 of the community that he should be re-trained and 

 cured, may be restrained by his next friend either 

 within his own house or in" the Butler Hospital for 

 the Insane during such period, not exceeding 

 . as may be requisite to * 

 his e,ire. 



A -i\th ' 'oiirt 



was provided for. 



Among the appropriations were the follou 

 xnenses of the (Jem-nil Assembly. $o'_' 

 judicial ex|cnscs. $10:{,500; for educational pur- 

 poses, $171,800: for five public libraries. *<;..VX); 

 for ti Home and School. ^!>0.(KM. ! 



the products of the farm : for sup|ort of the indi- 

 gent insane, $8.000: for State printing, $:5UXH), 

 and binding, $6,500 : for advertising and publish- 

 ing laws. $ lO.fMKi; for militia and military affairs, 

 "0: for the Board of Charitie- and Corrections, 

 $225,000; for relief of Union soldiers, sailors, and 



