WKK. 



Reichstag, who argued that women were as badly 

 treated in small trades, shops, ani home work as in 

 the lrge mills, and it was ilefealel b\ !'"> *<>tes to 

 96. The oongreM roted in favor of HveogtheDinf 

 the laws protecting women in all forms of emplny- 



. resolving llmi tlu-y should rwviv.- th. 

 \\;i.-. | .1- in- -ii f.. r tin- MIII " ' k, ill : thai ilir 

 :tiuiu hour. >f lal*r fr women should be 

 per day an<l forty-four |--r u,--k. with a rest 

 ity-tWO hour- from IIIMUI on Saturday. HIM! 

 ks after confinement women should n..t 

 ,nd -h ti M n<eei\e an indemnity eoual tO theft 

 wages from the. nUto .r mum< ij.ality. Th.- OOB- 

 greei reaolred that home work causes serious social 

 and sanitary evils, prevent- the n of 



workers and tin- application of laU.r laws, but it 

 n fax .,r -.f it < total abolition. 

 vialiM* lx-ing divided cm tin- oue-tion. which 

 was referral to another congress as 1 ooov 



plex for immediate solution. I^aws still in f..r< in 

 Germany ami A milting the corporal pun- 



ishment *of servants wen- condemned, and u resolu- 

 tion was carried declaring that domestic servant - 

 and agricultural laborers should ha\< the right of 



combination. The Kiigli-li re-olution fixing the 

 age of juvenile labor at -i\teen yean \\a- lo-i.and 



an amendment was carried substituting the limit 

 of fifteen \ear-. The rv-.lut ion in favor ,,f an 



enactment was 



carried easily. In regard to the ways and m< an- 



oi/ing labor protection ihr oongreH concin<led 



nnaninion-ly that good laws an- of \\,> avail unle-s 



the people concerned have the right to\,.te and 



ar.- free (.. e.iiiiliiiii- mil i nal ly and internationally, 

 and are thus in a po-iti..n t'o bring the neoeSHTJ 

 pressure to !>car -o that the la\\- may I.e effectively 

 i out. To in, -ft the objection of foreign com- 

 petition and facilitate the international a-simila- 

 tion of law- for the protection of labor, th. 

 gress requested the government- f Kur< ; 

 create an international ollice of lal.or. In I he 

 meantime the congress created a central olli 



itS OWn. composed ,,f the committee by \\hich it 



wa- or-ani/.-d. hich \\ill convoke another con- 

 gress when -ome practical lie. . mak- 

 I further and similar manife-tat ion of the 

 opinion- <>n which Catholic ami evangelical and 

 r^ani/.at ion- are united. 



I I NM ss| | . Southern State, admitted to 

 !ii<m .lune 1. 1790; area, 4'J.< >"><> -|iiare miles. 

 The iMipulation. according to each decennial cen-ns 

 since admission, was 105,602 in 1800; 21.7:7 in 

 1810; 432,771 in 1820; 681.904 in 1- 10 in 



1840: l.Mrj.717ii ix.Vi; l.HKl.soi in ls;.. : i 

 520 in 1870; 1 n 1880; and 1,767,51* in 



1890. Capital. Na-hville. 



(ioTprnment.- The following were the State 

 officers in 1897 : (J>vernor. Hjl)ert L. Tavl<.r: 

 rvtary >f State. William S. Morgan; Treasurer, 

 .;-;: (Vnnjttroller. James A. llarri-: 

 il. (i. \V. I'ickle; Su|KTintendent 

 of Instruction. Price Thomas; Adjutant (General, 

 ( 'harles Sykes ; Commissioner of Agriculture. John 

 T. Kssary"; LaW Commi>--ioner. A. H. Wooil : - 

 '. _-.'. M. x-itTor-1: Railroad < 'ommi--ioners. 

 t 1^ HullM-k, Newton 11. White, and Frank 

 M. Thomson : Chief Justice of the Supreme ( 'oiirt, 

 David L. SnodgraHs: As^K-iate Justices. W. ( . 

 Caldwell. Jo},,, S. Wilke-. W. K. M.-Alli-ter. and 

 W. I>. Beard: Ju-tic,- of the Court of Chancerv 

 Appeal-. M. M. Neil. S. K. Wilson, and II. M. ^tr- 

 ite officers are Democrats 



Finanren. The Treasurer's books show that on 

 Jan. 1. IK*- .is a balance on hand of .- 



156.49. which im-liids $225,000 borroweil recmtly. 

 The. net halanee. therefore, on Jan. 1, 1898, was 

 fn.l.V.U'J. The total amount ) M >rrowi>d during 



er was $725.000. Taking from this t! 

 Ulaiie*. on hand, the total actual deficit f.r the 

 rear is $709340.58. A large number of outstand- 

 ing warm- 1. would make the total actual 

 deficit at.ut fT^'.'KPO. 



The receipts from Dec. 19. 1898, to Dec. 19. 1 V7 

 including the amount,* borrowed, were $1 

 i thr disbursements were $!.!'. 



The interest on the Sta t he fiscal 



The deficit rente, ta part at least, from the re- 

 duction of the tax rate in 1895 from 30 

 The Legislature of 1897 raised it to 45 cent 



eluding 1"> cents for schools. 



The Railroad Commissioners increased the valua- 

 tion of the railroad, telegraph, and telephone com- 

 panies by nearly $33.000.000, and the Hoard of 

 Equalization, after hearing objections from the 



com pa i lie-, -u-tained t he com mi-- ion. TS. The com- 

 panies brought suit in the I'niied Stale- di-tn<i 

 court, and a temporary injunction was granted. 

 The court required the roads to pa\ ia\. - under 

 the assessment of 1HJM5. this -urn to lie paid a- 

 taxes for 1*!>7, and to go as a credit on the pi 

 as-es-meiit. if sustained mi final hearing, and with- 

 out prejudice to the State'- right-. 



In October an important decj-ion\\a- rendered 

 in the Supreme Court which will have the effect of 

 securing a large amount of taxes to the Stale and 

 the coimii,-. that a tax lien has priority - 

 mortgage right. 



A oontroreny began in ISJM between the - 



and the Tennessee Coal. Iron, and Railroad Com- 

 pany, growing out of the Penitentiary lean- and 

 the mining trouble*.. The company, "having de- 

 faulted in the payment of rental- oil tin 

 convicts and other re-pect-. was sued by the ! 

 for more than $2<N.INM. The company -ct up 

 counter-claim-. A compromise was ma<l<-. !>'. II. 

 \vherebythecompanyagr.cd to pay $150,000 

 in full settlement. Of this. $75,000 \\a- to be in 

 cash and $7.VH)0 in deferred pavment-. for which a 



- to be entered, if tile -aille Wa- Hot di 



_- -d iii convict labor, 'fhi- decree was entered 

 early in INJJfi and a reference ordered to a-certain 

 what payment- had been made. The ma-t. 



~(|o\\edthal the decree had 1 II reduced to 



$44.0:51.7 1. The company excepted to this, but 

 the report was confirmed by the Court of Chancery 



Appeal-. 



Crime and Convict*. The amount expended 

 for criminal pro-eciition during the year ending 

 Dec. 1!> was $21!'.l!'!i.7*. exclu-ive of the safari. - of 

 attorneys-general, which amounted to s:;.Y; ( .ii.:;:,. 

 The amount paid for criminal pro-edition-* during 

 the f Mi. 1H6, was $171.'." 



In March then- convicts at liru.-liv 



inoiiiitain. 1i:{ at Ininaii. '{!! at the new pri-.n. 

 nnrl 't'2'2 at the old prison: total. 1.41M). Several 

 escaped this year frfm the old prison. The new- 

 one nas been erected at a cost of xOuO.fKK). 



The purchasers of the Ilarriman Railroad refu-ed 

 to be bound by a contract entered into when the 

 Ixnight its mining property at liru-hy moun- 

 tain in regard to the rates for hauling ooaL Suit 



