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ships. Two hundred ships, with a net tonnage of 

 533,017, entered the port, and 300 ships, with a 

 tonnage of 722,791, cleared. During the year 

 1901, 291 ships, representing a tonnage of 645,024 

 entered, and 347 ships, representing a tonnage of 

 "80,100, cleared. 



This year $1,715,217 was spent in Galveston 

 for permanent improvements. The appropriation 

 made by Congress for deepening and widening the 

 channel in the inner harbor was $300,000; for re- 

 pairing the jetties, $750,000. Including the sea- 

 wall and Government projects money is available 

 to the amount of $3,130,283 for improvements in 

 1903. 



Political. The Prohibition Convention met in 

 Dallas, July 4. The platform consisted simply 

 of a denunciation of the liquor traffic and the 

 Government's participation in it through the li- 

 censing system. 



In the platform of the Socialistic Convention, 

 Dallas, July 4, the acceptance of the principles of 

 Socialism was held to be the only solution of the 

 labor and capital question. Labor conditions, es- 

 pecially as they affected children, was held to be 

 worse in Texas than in the East and North. 



The platform adopted by the Populist Conven- 

 tion, at Fort Worth, Aug. 12, reaffirmed the na- 

 tional platform of the party, and called particular 

 attention to the initiative and referendum as the 

 only method by which the people could express 

 themselves fully and freely on political questions. 

 The name of The Allied Populist Party of Tex- 

 as was adopted, and an invitation was extended 

 to the laboring people to unite with that body. 



The platform of the Democratic Convention, 

 which met in Austin, July 17, declared faith in 

 the principles of the party as set forth in the Kan- 

 sas City platform ; pointed out the dangers of im- 

 perialism, centralization, trusts, monopolies, mer- 

 gers, and other combinations as being hurtful to 

 the people ; commended the efforts of the Senators 

 and Representatives in Congress from the State 

 for their efforts in aid of tariff reform ; of a canal 

 connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans; of 

 election of Senators by direct vote of the people, 

 and the securing of appropriations for the im- 

 provement of waterways and harbors ; urged them 

 to oppose every attempt to establish a branch 

 banking system; approved the administration of 

 Gov. Sayers; praised him for the splendid finan- 

 cial condition of the State and the reduction of 

 taxes; commended the condition and manage- 

 ment of State eleemosynary institutions; favored 

 a law providing for the improvement of the pub- 

 lic roads of the State and the employment thereon 

 and upon the farms of the State of short-term con- 

 vict*; supported the reenactment of the uniform 

 text-book law and liberal appropriations for edu- 

 cational institutions; requested the Legislature 

 to provide for the establishment of textile schools 

 as a department of industrial education in the 

 Agricultural and Mechanical College; favored the 

 submission of a constitutional amendment author- 

 izing the chartering of State banks of discount 

 and deposit; demanded the enactment of a law 

 prohibiting the employment of children under 

 twelve years of age in factories using machinery; 

 approved the Louisiana Purchase Exposition proj- 

 ect; favored legislation to prohibit free passes on 

 railroads; declared for uniform election primaries, 

 and fixed the second Saturday in July, 1904, as 

 the date for holding primaries in every county. 



The platform of the Republican Convention, 

 Fort Worth, Sept. 11, approved the acts and poli- 

 cies of the present national administration; de- 

 clared Theodore Roosevelt to be the unanimous 

 choice of the Republicans of Texas as the candi- 



date for President in 1904 ; congratulated the peo- 

 ple of Texas upon the generous recognition given 

 to the seaports and harbors of that State by a 

 Republican administration and a Republican Con- 

 gress; favored the establishment of a port of entry 

 adjacent to the Beaumont oil-field, and -favored 

 national and State aid for the protection of the 

 rivers and valleys of the State from overflows; de- 

 manded freedom of speech and protection for the 

 newspapers of the State; recommended the intro- 

 duction of industrial education into the normal 

 schools, orphans' homes, and, where possible, into 

 the public schools; opposed the employment of 

 child labor in factories and like institutions; con- 

 demned the Democratic party for its advocacy of 

 sumptuary and restrictive laws; and condemned 

 the employment of convict labor on farms and in 

 factories in competition with free labor. 



The candidates of the Democratic party for 

 Governor and Lieutenant-Governor, S. W. T. Lan- 

 ham and George D. Neal, were elected. The vote 

 for Governor was: Lanahan, 218,959; Burkitt, 56,- 

 678. All the Democratic candidates for the Sen- 

 ate (31) were elected; 127 Democrats were elected 

 for the House, and 1 Populist, the Democratic ma- 

 jority on joint ballot being 158. 



TJTAH, a Western State, admitted to the 

 Union Jan. 4, 1896; area, 84,970 square miles. 

 The population in 1900 was 276,749. Capital, 

 Salt Lake City. 



Government. The State officers in 1902 were 

 as follow: Governor, Heber M. Wells, Republic- 

 an; Secretary of State, James T. Hammond; 

 Auditor, Charles S. Tingey; Treasurer, John De 

 Grey Dixon; Attorney-General, M. A. Breeden; 

 Superintendent of Public Instruction, A. C. Nel- 

 son; Adjutant-General, Charles S. Burton; Li- 

 brarian, Lilburn P. Palmer; Bank Examiner, 

 Walter J. Beatie; Coal-Mine Inspector, Gomer 

 Thomas; Engineer, A. F. Doremus; Fish and 

 Game Commissioner, John Sharp; Food and 

 Dairy Commissioner, Moroni Heiner; Justices of 

 tlie Supreme Court, James A. Miner (Chief Jus- 

 tice), R. N. Baskin, and George W. Bartch ; Re- 

 gents of the State University, James Sharp, 

 Frank Pierce, Waldemar Van Cott, Mrs. Emma 

 J. McVicker, Mrs. Rebecca E. Little, Joseph T. 

 Kingsbury, Moses Thatcher, Thomas R. Cutler, 

 and W. W. Riter; Commissioner of Statistics, 

 Charles De Moisey; Secretary of the Board of 

 Health, Dr. T. B. Beatty; Secretary of the Land 

 Board, Byron Groo. 



The term of the State officers is four years. 

 They are elected at the time of the presidential 

 elections. The Legislature meets biennially in 

 January of the odd-numbered years; the session 

 is limited to sixty days. 



Education. According to the yearly statist ic< 

 compiled in the office of the State Superintendent, 

 in 1902 there was a school population of 70.4ti(>. 

 This includes all between the ages of six and 

 eighteen, and shows a decrease over the preceding 

 year of 97. The expenditures for school purposes 

 in 1902 were $1,459,446.06. In 1901 they were 

 $1,359,721.70, a per capita of $19.10 and $17.77 

 respectively. The maintenance expenses of the 

 schools make the annual cost of education per 

 capita $5.20. 



In the financial condition of the public schools 

 there has been a gradual improvement ever since 

 statehood, and the revenues derived from the 

 sale of Government lands, set aside for school 

 purposes, is constantly increasing. The receipts 

 for 1902 and the preceding year were drawn from 

 the following sources: State tax of 3 mills, coun- 

 ty school tax. district levy, and special tax and 

 sinking-fund tuition. The funds for 1901 amount- 



