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4; in Norway, 4; in Denmark, 3; in France, 2; in Switzerland, 2; in Wales, 1; in Finland, 1; total income, $17,161,092, of which $6,843,031 are credited to English societies, $5,403,048 to those of the United States, $1,430,151 to German, and $1,280,684 to Scottish societies; whole number of missionaries, including ordained ministers, ordained physicians, lay missionaries, married women not physicians, and unmarried women not physicians, 13,607, of whom 5,136 are from England, 4,110 from the United States, 1,515 from Germany, 653 from Scotland, etc.; number of native agents, 77,338; of communicants, 1,317,684, of whom 84,186 were added in 1899; of native Christian adherents, 4,414,236. The total amount of native contributions was $1,841,757. The educational work of the missions included 20,374 schools of all grades, with 1,046,309 pupils. These schools comprised 93 foreign missionary universities, having 35,414 students; 358 theological and training schools, with 11,905 students; 857 boarding and high schools, with 83,148 pupils; 134 industrial training institutions and classes, with 6,309 students; 63 medical and nurses' schools and classes, with 589 students; 127 kindergartens, with 4,502 pupils; and 18,742 elementary or village schools, containing 904,442 pupils, 267,720 of whom were girls. The Bible has been translated into 421 languages and dialects, and the various agencies engaged in the distribution of Bibles, tracts, etc., returned an aggregate annual circulation of 14,494,098 copies. One hundred and forty-eight mission publishing houses and printing presses returned an annual aggregate issue of 10,561,777 copies of their publications, and 366 magazines and papers in foreign mission lands circulated 297,435 copies. Three hundred and fifty-five hospitals and 753 dispensaries were sustained, at which 93,705 in-patients and 2,579,651 out-patients were treated; besides 90 leper hospitals and asylums and homes for the untainted children, with 5,166 leper inmates. The Woman's Christian Temperance Union had affiliated national branches in 26 foreign mission countries. The Anglo-Indian Temperance Association in India had 281 affiliated temperance societies. Other elements of the missionary force were 87 missionary training institutions in Christian lands, not including theological seminaries, and 67 mission steamers and ships, which were used in evangelistic, medical, and other departments of mission service in the foreign field.

Besides the 249 missionary societies actively engaged, 200 other societies indirectly co-operating or aiding in foreign missions or engaged in specialized efforts, and 68 women's auxiliaries, were mentioned, the income of which would swell the total of income for missions to $19,126,120. Fiftyfour native organizations for extension of knowledge and the furtherance of national, social, moral, and religious reform were said to be affiliated to missions, and most of them due to missions.

From 1649 to 1800 12 missionary societies, and from 1800 to 1830 22 societies, were formed. The subsequent record of new societies, by decades, is: 1830-40, 16 societies organized; 1840-50, 25; 1850-'60, 34; 1860-'70, 41; 1870-'80, 57; 1880-'90, 92; 1890-1900, 100. The year in which the largest number of societies were formed was 1890, when 22 societies were organized; the next year in the record was 1896, with 11 new societies.

Nine sectional meetings were held in the afternoon of April 23, at which special surveys were presented of the several mission fields, including those in Japan, Korea, China, Assam, Burmah, Siam, India, Ceylon, Oceanica, Mohammedan lands, Africa, North and South America, and "Hebrews in all lands."

Besides these exercises the sessions of the conference were devoted to the discussion, in prepared papers and addresses and volunteered remarks, of the numerous aspects of a large list of subjects relating to topics which might be referred to the following principal heads: Authority and purpose in mission work; evangelistic work; woman's work-evangelistic, educational, etc.; native agency in evangelistic work; the missionary staff; literature; the study of missions; medical work; work for young women and children; value of foreign missions as an educational agency in training young people; administrative problems of the mission; Bible translation and distribution; educational work; wider relations of missions (in the fields of discovery, geography, commerce, colonization, philology, science, philosophy, etc.); the native church and moral questions; medical training of natives; vernacular literature; normal training; missions and governments; woman's work in foreign missions; comity and division of fields; cooperation and division of fields in occupied and unoccupied territory; higher education in mission fields; mission presses; self-support by mission churches; principles and methods in the evangelistic church; educational and medical work; missionary boards and societies; elementary schools; industrial training; the training of missionaries; students and other young people their achievements; the volunteer student movement; nonChristian religions; organized movements among the young people of the Church; responsibility of the Church in the light of the working of God's Spirit among the students and other young people; apologetic problems in missions; relation of medical work to missionary work as a whole; hospitals and dispensaries; educational philanthropic work: literary work; missionary literature for home churches; relation of missions to social progress and peace; home work for foreign missions; support of missions by home churches; outlook and demands (the present situation-its claims and opportunities, outlook and demands for the coming century).

A private conference of officers of the several boards, missionaries, and delegates interested in the matter was held, May 1, to consider the best means of preserving the results of the Ecumenical Conference. A resolution was passed, declaring it to be the sense of the meeting that committees should be requested to consider the question of appointing an international committee, who, by correspondence or by conference or by both, shall deal with co-operative work in missions, and make known the result of their deliberations to the soci eties represented in the conference.

International Missionary Union. - The seventeenth annual meeting of the International Missionary Union, held at Clifton Springs, N. Y., was attended by 85 returned missionaries, representing 17 societies and 18 mission fields. The proceedings were similar in character to those of the Ecumenical Conference of Missions, which were often referred to. Members spoke of the conditions of their fields; and the topics discussed were classified under such heads as missionary apologetics, or evidences afforded by the mission fields of the supernatural character of Christianity; the influence of missions on the trend of governments, international comity diplomacy, etc.; education; medical missions; native churches; missionary comity and co-operation; and woman's work.

MISSISSIPPI, a Southern State, admitted to the Union Dec. 10, 1817; area, 46,810 square miles. The population, according to each decennial census since admission, was 75,448 in 1820; 136,621

in 1830; 375,651 in 1840; 606,526 in 1850; 791,305 in 1860; 827,922 in 1870; 1,131,597 in 1880; 1,289,600 in 1890; and 1,551,270 in 1900. Capital, Jack

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Government. The following were the State officers in 1900: Governor, A. H. Longino; Lieutenant Governor, J. T. Harrison; Secretary of State, J. L. Power; Treasurer, J. R. Stowers; Auditor, W. Q. Cole; Attorney-General, Monroe McClurg; Revenue Agent, Wirt Adams; Land Commissioner, E. H. Nall; Adjutant General, William Henry; Superintendent of Education, H. L. Whitfield; Railroad Commissioners, J. D. McInnis, A. Q. May, J. C. Kincannon; Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Thomas H. Woods till April 1, when, his resignation taking effect, his place on the bench was filled by the appointment of S. S. Calhoon, who was reappointed, at the expiration of the term, May 10, to serve for the following term; Justice Albert H. Whitfield became Chief Justice and S. H. Terral and S. S. Calhoon Associate Justices; Clerk, Edward W. Brown-all Democrats.

The term of the State officers is four years; they are chosen in November of the years next preceding those of the presidential elections. The Legislature meets biennially the first Tuesday after the first Monday of January in even-numbered years. Population. The census shows that the increase in population in the past decade has been 20.2 per cent. The figures by counties are as follow: Adams, 30,011; Alcorn, 14,987; Amite, 20,708; Attala, 26,248; Benton, 10,510; Bolivar, 35,427; Calhoun, 16,512; Carroll, 22,116; Chickasaw, 19,892; Choctaw, 13,036; Claiborne, 20,787; Clarke, 17,741; Clay, 19,563; Coahoma, 26,293; Copiah, 34,395; Covington, 13,076; De Soto, 24,751; Franklin, 13,678; Greene, 6,795; Grenada, 14,112; Hancock, 11,886; Harrison, 21,002; Hinds, 52,577; Holmes, 36,828; Issaquena, 10,400; Itawamba, 13,544; Jackson, 16,513; Jasper, 15,394; Jefferson, 21,292; Jones, 17,846; Kemper, 20,492; Lafayette, 22,211; Lauderdale, 38,150; Lawrence, 15,103; Leake, 17,360; Lee, 21,956; Leflore, 23,834; Lincoln, 21,552; Lowndes, 29,095; Madison, 32,493; Marion, 13,501; Marshall, 27,674; Monroe, 31,216; Montgomery, 16,536; Neshoba, 12,726; Newton, 19,708; Noxubee, 23,846; Oktibbeha, 20,283; Panola, 29,027; Pearl River, 6,697; Perry, 14,682; Pike, 27,545; Pontotoc, 18,274; Prentiss, 15,788; Quitman, 5,435; Rankin, 20,955; Scott, 14,316; Sharkey, 12,178; Simpson, 12,800; Smith, 13.055; Sunflower, 15,084; Tallahatchie, 19.600; Tate, 20,618; Tippah, 12,983; Tishomingo, 10,124; Tunica, 16,479; Union, 16,522; Warren, 40,912; Washington, 49,216; Wayne, 12,539; Webster, 13,619; Wilkinson, 21,453; Winston, 14,124; Yalabusha, 19,742; Yazoo, 43,948.

Vicksburg has 14,824 inhabitants; Meridian, 14.050; Natchez, 12,210; Jackson, 7,816; Greenville, 7,642; Columbus, 6,484; Biloxi, 5,467; McComb, 4,477; Laurel, 4,193; Holly Springs, 4,185; Hattiesburg, 4,175; Water Valley, 3,813; Corinth, 3,661; Aberdeen, 3,439; Canton, 3,404; Wesson, 3,279; Yazoo, 3,194; West Point, 3,193; Greenwood, 3,026. The figures are as given in a local newspaper. In another list Greenwood, Holly Springs, and Laurel are given a smaller number and Yazoo a larger.

Finances. The amount of receipts from all Sources during the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 1900, was $1,916,491.70, which amount, increased by $333,765.80 cash in the treasury Oct. 1, 1899, shows the available cash to have been $2,250,257.50, against which the Auditor's pay warrants to the amount of $1,627,825.57 and special warrants to the amount of $30 were paid, leaving a cash bal-ance on hand at the end of the year of $622,401.93. VOL. XL.-25 A

The payable debt of the State amounts to $1,018,429.52, of which $8,029.80 was in outstanding warrants, $929.22 railroad tax distribution, $2,449.90 certificates of indebtedness, and the remainder bonds and unpaid interest on them. The amount of the nonpayable debt is $1,884,658.89; it is in school and college trust funds. The total State debt is $2,903,088.41.

The receipts from the Penitentiary were $219,416.27, including $35,027.23 balance at the beginning of the year; and the disbursements were $117,310.05, leaving a balance of $102,106.22. The total assessed valution of property in the State is $188,716,159; of this, $57,400,336 is personalty. The increase in the total is $27,490,038. The largest increase has been made in the piney woods section. The number of polls assessed is 294,515. The amount collected on poll taxes for the year was $280,074.12. The tax is two dollars, and its payment is a prerequisite for voting, so that about half the population otherwise qualified to vote are disfranchised from this cause alone.

The figures of valuation given above do not include the assessments of railroad, telegraph, express, and sleeping-car property, which are made by the Railroad Commission.

The revenue from saloons, of which there were 146, was for a year $131,100. There are now 13 counties only that license the business.

The amount of capital invested in manufacturing enterprises is $4,295,164; in merchandise, $15,104,641. The value of cattle is given as $2,167,685; of horses, $7,251,975; of mules, $8,208,711. The amount of money going to make up the assessment of personalty is $7,847,747.

Education. According to the apportionment of school money made in December for the half year, the 590,222 children in the country districts will receive $595,758.88 and the 62,777 children in the separate school districts, $70,907.68. The Legislature appropriated $1,000,000 for the schools this year-a larger amount than ever before.

The school children have chosen the magnolia, by vote, as the State flower.

The report of the summer normals and institutes says that at least 75 per cent. of the white teachers of the State have attended either the normals or the institutes. At least one third of the white teachers were enrolled in the various normals.

The fund used to defray the expenses of the summer work was composed of a State appropriation of $3,500, a Peabody apportionment of the same amount, local subscriptions amounting to $1,650, and the institute fund, which is made up from the examination fees collected from teachers.

The attendance at the colored normals and institutes was no more than is usual, because this has been a year of unprecedented rains.

The Normal School, at Holly Springs, receives $2,000 each year for maintenance, and $250 additional for repairs, fuel, and insurance.

The Agricultural and Mechanical College has about 400 students. It receives a maintenance fund of $25,719, besides special sums for improvements. A textile school is to be established in connection with the college at a cost of $40,000, and a branch experiment station in the southern part of the State in the piney woods section, on a tract of not less than 200 acres.

Alcorn Agricultural and Mechanical College, for colored students, receives an annual support fund of $8,000, besides the income from the land received from the Government. The trustees have decided to establish a department for colored girls.

The Industrial Institute and College for Girls, at Columbus, is to have new dormitory and infirmary buildings, provided for by the Legislature.

Mississippi College graduated 8 men in June; 241 were enrolled. Millsaps College conferred degrees on about 30, 16 of whom were from the law class. The University of Oxford conferred the degree of LL. B. on 24 students, A. B. on 9, B. S. on 4; and 5 received that of bachelor of philosophy. Charities and Corrections.-The number of inmates in the State charitable institutions is about as follows: Hospital for the insane, Jackson, 600; hospital for the insane, Meridian, 354; school for the blind, 44; school for the deaf, 109.

The Legislature appropriated the following sums for maintenance: State Insane Hospital, $97,460, and $2,500 for superintendent's salary; East Mississippi Insane Hospital, $48,000 and $2,000 salary; Deaf and Dumb Institute, $18,450, besides salary of superintendent; School for the Blind, $9,818; State Charity Hospital at Vicksburg, $12,000, on condition that the city and county give in addition one third that amount.

The Legislature gave $4,000 to build an annex for colored children to the School for the Blind; but the trustees, finding the sum too small, decided to turn it back into the State treasury, and ask the next Legislature for a sufficient amount.

The Board of Control, which is composed of the Governor, the Attorney-General, and the 3 members of the Railroad Commission, bought land for the new convict farm in December-about 13,000 acres in Sunflower County, at $5.74 an acre for 11,000 acres, and $6 for the remainder. The appropriation was $80,000. The receipts from the Penitentiary for the fiscal year were greater by $97,627 than those of the year preceding.

Railroads. The total valuation of the railroads, express, telegraph, and palace car companies operating in the State, according to the report of the Railroad Commission published in March, is $26,338,476, on which the tax assessed amounts to $171,200.35, being an increase in valuation over 1898 of $1,901,290 and an increase of taxes collected of $12,359.14. The privilege taxes for 1899 amount to $40,862.22, against $40,582.90 for 1898, an increase of $279.32. The figures for 1900, published in July, show a still further increase in value.

The commission ordered a new mileage tariff on cotton seed, to take effect Oct. 1.

The Gulf and Ship Island road was finished to the coast this year, and the first passenger train was run about Aug. 28. The road runs from Jack son to Gulfport through Hattiesburg.

Banks. From a tabulation prepared by the Auditor it appears that there were 107 State banks on Oct. 1, against 92 banks on Oct. 1 of the previous year. The majority of the new banks are in the southern part of the State and the delta. The loans and discounts on personal indorsements, real estate, and collateral securities were $13,227,954.61, an increase of $2,917,817.77 over those of last year.

The stocks, bonds, and warrants, classed as resources, amount to $1,019,268.55, an increase of $125,293.17.

The expenses and taxes are stated at $231,860.16, an increase of $25,330.45 from last year's figures. Other items of resources are named to form a total of $20,782,962.11, an increase of $3,492,885.73 over that of last year.

The tabulation of liabilities states the capital paid in at $4,483,096.64, an increase of $646,584.64 from that of 1899. The surplus this year is $578,544.35, an increase of $35,136.47. The undivided profits are $1,133,045.55, an increase of $456,579.69. The individual deposits subject to check are $10,412,325.07, an increase of $1,217,924.10. The bills payable are $1,927,019.22, an increase of $462,209.57.

There are no savings banks, but several banks have savings departments. There are 12 national banks. The branch bank law is found to be ineffective, since it does not provide for separate statements of the property of the branch banks.

Levees. The board of commissioners for the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta reported for the year ending Dec. 1 that the volume of work had been extensive. The disbursements from Jan. 1 to Dec. 1 were $601,045.30, which was for contracts, engineering, salaries, interest on bonds, etc. When existing contracts are finished the board will have 120 miles of levees. The levee board has been in existence since 1882, and in his financial statement the president shows that since that time it has issued bonds amounting to $1,850,000; of this amount, $773,000 have been retired.

The Brandywine Rock Wall.-A subscription has been started for a fund to be used in an investigation of this mysterious wall in Claiborne and Copiah Counties. The character of the rock, which is thought by some to be artificial, is under examination. It is conjectured that a city was once inclosed by it.

Cotton. The cotton crop was smaller this year than in other recent years. It is given as 1,230,000 bales. Ten mills were reported as having been in operation, and 7 more were building. There were 2,427 looms and 81,890 spindles. The colored people are raising funds for a cotton factory in Jackson, and it was understood that $50,000 had been subscribed by the end of the year.

The New Capitol. The Legislature provided for the immediate building of the Statehouse. It is to be on the Penitentiary site, the prison buildings having been moved to the convict farms. The plans of Theodore C. Link, of St. Louis, were chosen for the building, and the contract was let in December to a Chicago firm, W. A. & A. E. Wells. Their bid was $831,743, and the time set for completing the work twenty-eight months.

Lawlessness.-The Governor recommmended a law to suppress lynching in the State, but a bill with that object failed to pass. There were several lynchings in the year. In March a negro accused of murder was hanged by a mob near Greenville. In June two negroes suspected of murdering a young girl at Biloxi were taken from jail at Mississippi City and hanged, because it seemed certain that one of them must be guilty. One had been taken out a few days before and tortured to make him confess, which he refused to do. In March a negro was shot to death by men of his own race, because of an assault upon a little girl. Another who had murdered his wife was taken from officers near Vicksburg, Oct. 22, and shot to death by a crowd of negroes. Aug. 13, a negro was taken from jail at Corinth and hanged in the public square, for assault upon a little girl. A lynching took place at Gloster, April 13, said to have been without even a pretext of justification, and 12 white men were brought to trial for it in May; but the result of the trial has not come under notice. A negro who shot a marshal at Gulfport was lynched near that place in December. A feud in Winston County was reported to have resulted in the death of 12 men; but a newspaper in that county deplored the sensational reports regarding the feud and said that as a matter of fact the killing of only 7, 5 whites and 2 negroes, could be traced directly to it.

Legislative Session. The regular biennial session of the Legislature began Jan. 2 and ended March 12. John R. Dinsmore was President pro tem, of the Senate, and A. J. Russell was Speaker of the House.

Gov. Longino was inaugurated Jan. 16. In his

address he emphasized the necessity of action on the Statehouse question, the need of a textile school, of a general primary election law, and of another convict farm, considered the subject of the suppression of mob violence, and expressed disapproval of the proposition to divide the school money between white and colored schools according to the proportion of school taxes paid by each

race.

Two United States Senators were to be chosen, one to fill out the unexpired term of the late Senator Walthall, and the other to succeed him at the end of the term in 1901. Anselm J. McLaurin was the unanimous choice of the caucus for the long term, and was elected. For the short term two candidates were before the caucus, ex-Gov. Robert Lowry and William V. Sullivan, who had been appointed to fill the place in the interval before the meeting of the Legislature. Mr. Sullivan was nominated by a vote of 88 to 72, and was elected. Laws to the number of 198 were made, and 9 resolutions were passed.

The antitrust law was revised.

An important bill provides for elections to fill vacancies in offices where they have heretofore been filled by appointment of the Governor. Officials are to be elected where the unexpired term is longer than a year, if it is a district office; or fifteen months if it is a State office.

Corporations, associations, and individuals are. authorized to exercise eminent domain in construction of canals, ditches, tramways, and pole roads for private transportation. Another act allows

public roads to be worked by contract. A Statehouse commission was created, to consist of the Governor, the Attorney-General, and three other members, one appointed by the Governor, one by the Senate, and one by the House; and an issue of $1,000,000 of bonds was authorized for the purpose.

A military board was established, to be composed of the Adjutant General, Judge-Advocate General, and the commanding officers of the regiments of the National Guard; they are to make the order and instruction of the militia conform as nearly as practicable to those of the United States army.

The Governor is to appoint a commission to locate the positions of the State troops in the defense of Vicksburg in 1863, and recommended legislation. An appropriation of $20,000 was made for a monument at Chickamauga Park.

Acts were passed regulating reinsurance and reports of companies, and requiring foreign fire and marine insurance companies to transact their business in the State through licensed resident agents; exempting mutual assessment insurance companies from taxation; and allowing mutual benefit societies to do business without complying with the law in regard to foreign companies.

The laws on taxation were amended in some particulars: Canning factories, steam laundries, money-lending establishments, oil depots, roundbale presses, and land timber mills are to be taxed; branch banks must be taxed in their own districts, and the amount of capital there assessed must be deducted from the assessment of the main bank. Names of persons delinquent on poll taxes are to be published.

Acts were passed to secure better enforcement of the liquor license laws. Supervisors were authorized to drain overflowed lands and pay by tax on them at ten cents an acre.

New business enterprises established before 1910 are to be exempt from taxation five years.

A branch experiment station is to be established by the board of the Agricultural College where

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land is given for the purpose. It is to be in what is known as the "piney woods" region, south of the tier of counties on the line of the Alabama and Vicksburg Railroad.

An appropriation of $40,000 was made for a textile school at the Agricultural College.

A historical commission was created, to consist of five members appointed by the President of the State Historical Society. Its duty is to make a full, detailed, and exhaustive examination of all sources and materials, documentary and record manuscripts, of the history of Mississippi from the earliest times, whether in this State or elsewhere, and to include therein the records of Mississippi troops in all wars in which they have participated, and also of the location and present condition of battlefields, historic houses and buildings, and other places of historic interest and importance in the State.

The names of the institutions for the insane were changed. The one that has gone under the name Lunatic Hospital will be known as the State Insane Hospital, and the other as the East Mississippi Insane Hospital, instead of asylum. The Board of Control was directed to buy an artesian well-boring outfit for use at State institutions. Provision was made for an additional farm or farms for the Penitentiary of 8,000 to 15,000 acres.

The law on sale of public lands was amended so that when the title has failed the patentee may receive from the State the return of the purchase money, fees, and interest; and if the land has yielded no profit, he may receive also the taxes paid, with interest.

The classification of municipal corporations was changed: Cities, 2,000 inhabitants; towns, 300 (instead of 500) to 2,000; villages, 100 to 300.

An act to raise revenue provides for making valid all contracts made previous to the passage of this act and subsequent to Jan. 1, 1895, which are or were null and void or voidable under previous or existing laws because of nonpayment of privilege taxes due when such contracts were made, upon terms of full payment of all such privilege taxes so in default with 200 per cent. damages thereon within sixty days from the passage of the act.

Among other enactments of the session were: Regulating the sale and giving of cocaine. Exempting Confederate soldiers who are infirm or over sixty years of age from the operation of the act imposing privilege taxes on certain industries, except those on the selling of liquor, deadly weapons, pool tables, and some others.

Defining the concealment of a lien in case of sale as false pretense.

Authorizing boards of supervisors to compel vaccination; also to pay for isolation and disinfection in cases of contagious and infectious diseases.

Fixing the number of pounds to the bushel of wheat, corn, rye, and other products-in all, 33.

Providing that a transfer of property between husband and wife shall not be valid against a third person unless it is placed on record.

Providing for pensioning Confederate soldiers and sailors and widows; appropriating $150,000 for each of the two years to come, instead of $75,000 yearly, as heretofore.

An appropriation of $1,000,000 was made for the public schools, and $272,535 for colleges, white and colored; for hospitals and other charitable institutions, $289,918.

Two constitutional amendments were passed, to be submitted to vote in November. One requires the poll tax of each county to be retained for the school fund there, repealing the provision that all the poll tax money be apportioned among the

school districts in proportion to the number of children. The other provides for a new legislative apportionment, according to the results of the census. The last was made in 1882. Both these were carried at the election. They become parts of the Constitution only after legislative enactment to insert them.

The so-called Noel amendments were supposed to have been carried at the election of 1899, having received more votes in favor than against their adoption. This Legislature passed a resolution to insert them in the Constitution; but the question of their adoption came before the courts, and the decision was that an amendment should receive a majority of all the votes cast at the election. It was held, also, that they were not properly submitted, having been submitted as one, while they were really four; and the Constitution requires that each amendment be submitted separately. They concerned the judiciary and made it elective. An amendment passed in 1898, and ratified at the polls that year, giving levee commissioners power to cede to the Government their levees and rights of way was inserted in the Constitution by resolution.

Political.-No State election was held this year. The most notable event in State politics was the action of the Democratic State Committee, which met April 30, and ordered a plurality primary for the choice of delegates to the national convention and presidential electors for June 21. This action was contrary to all party precedent; State conventions have been the regular method for electing such representatives. Strong protests came from all over the State, and the committee was urged to reconsider its action and arrange for a convention. It did not do so, and a convention was otherwise called, which met at Jackson, June 5. Resolutions were passed strongly condemning the action, and charging the committee with the design of perpetuating itself, since it has been the custom for a new State committee to be chosen at each convention, and especially condemning the refusal to reconvene the committee to reconsider "their unwarranted, unprecedented, unnecessary, and undemocratic action." Other resolutions declared for Mr. Bryan, and denounced the policy of the administration on currency, expansion, the tariff, and militarism; opposed trusts, favored the Nicaragua Canal, and denounced the Hay-Pauncefote treaty; and commended the State administration. Delegates and electors were nominated and a new State committee. On the part of the committee it was declared that in 1899 the State committee was chosen for four years that is, till the year of the next State election.

Gross frauds were charged at the primaries, especially in Coahoma, Warren, and Issaquena Counties.

A Republican State convention was held April 26. The party principles were reaffirmed and delegates to Philadelphia selected. The electoral ticket was made up in August.

The People's party met in convention Aug. 15 and named candidates. The most significant part of the platform was the resolutions following: We do most solemnly and earnestly warn the people of this nation that the action of the Democratic party at Kansas City in relegating the financial question to the rear and making imperialism the paramount issue is the rankest deceit and treachery, and is calculated to mislead the people from the real issue. We hereby most earnestly assert that the financial question and Government ownership and control of public utilities are the para mount issues now before the American people."

The vote for President stood: Bryan, 51,706;

McKinley, 5,753; Barker, 1,644. All the members of Congress elected are Democrats. The vote for the poll tax amendment (omitting that of Bolivar County) was 42,931 for, to 7,522 against. On the apportionment amendment, 32,035 for, to 6,843 against.

MISSOURI, a Western Mississippi valley State, admitted to the Union Aug. 10, 1821; area, 69,415 square miles. The population, according to each decennial census since admission, was 140,455 in 1830; 383,702 in 1840; 682,044 in 1850; 1,182,012 in 1860; 1,721,295 in 1870; 2,168,380 in 1880; 2,679,184 in 1890; and 3,106,665 in 1900. This is an increase since 1890 of 15.9 per cent. The city of St. Louis had in 1900 a population of 575,238. Capital, Jefferson City.

Population. The population by counties, according to the census of 1900, was as follows: Adair, 21,728; Andrew, 17,332; Atchison, 16,501; Audrain, 21,160; Barry, 25,532; Barton, 18,253; Bates, 30,141; Benton, 16,556; Bollinger, 14,650; Boone, 28,642; Buchanan, 121,838; Butler, 16,769; Caldwell, 16,656; Callaway, 25,984; Camden, 13,113; Cape Girardeau, 24,315; Carroll, 26,455; Carter, 6,706; Cass, 23,636; Cedar, 16,923; Chariton, 26,826; Christian, 16,939; Clark, 15,383; Clay, 18,903; Clinton, 17,363; Cole, 20,578; Cooper, 22,532; Crawford, 12,959; Dade, 18,125; Dallas, 13,903; Daviess, 21,325; DeKalb, 14,418; Dent, 12,986; Douglas, 16,802; Dunklin, 21,706; Franklin, 30,581; Gasconade, 12,298; Gentry, 20,554; Greene, 52,713; Grundy, 17,832; Harrison, 24,398; Henry, 28,054; Hickory, 9,985; Holt, 17,083; Howard, 18,337; Howell, 21,834; Iron, 8,716; Jackson, 195,193; Jasper, 84,018; Jefferson, 25,712; Johnson, 27,843; Knox, 13,479; Laclede, 16,523; Lafayette, 31,679; Lawrence, 31,662; Lewis, 16,724; Lincoln, 18,352; Linn, 25,503; Livingston, 22,302; McDonald, 13,574; Macon, 33,018; Madison, 9,975; Maries, 9,616; Marion, 26,331: Mercer, 14,706; Miller, 15,187; Mississippi, 11,837; Moniteau, 15,931; Monroe, 19,716; Montgomery, 16,571; Morgan, 12,175; New Madrid, 11,280; Newton, 27,001; Nodaway, 32,938; Oregon, 13,906; Osage, 14,096; Ozark, 12,145; Pemiscot, 12,115; Perry, 15,134; Pettis, 32,438; Phelps, 14,194; Pike, 25,744; Platte, 16,193; Polk, 23,255; Pulaski, 10,394; Putnam, 16,688; Ralls, 12,287; Randolph, 24,442; Ray, 24,805; Reynolds, 8,161; Ripley, 13,186; St. Charles, 24,474; St. Clair, 17,907; Ste. Genevieve, 10,359; St. François, 24,051; St. Louis, 50,040; St. Louis city, 575,238; Saline, 33,703; Schuyler, 10,840; Scotland, 13,232; Scott, 13,092; Shannon, 11,247; Shelby, 16,167; Stoddard, 24,669; Stone, 9,892; Sullivan, 20,282; Taney, 10,127; Texas, 22,192; Vernon, 31,619: Warren, 9,919; Washington, 14,263; Wayne, 15,309; Webster, 16,640; Worth, 9,832; Wright, 17,

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Government.-The following were the State officers during the year: Governor, Lon V. Stephens; Lieutenant Governor, August H. Bolte; Secretary of State, Alexander A. Lesueur; Treas urer, Frank L. Pitts; Auditor, James M. Seibert; Adjutant General, M. Fred Bell; Attorney-General, E. C. Crow; Superintendent of Education, W. T. Carrington; Railroad and Warehouse Commissioners, T. J. Hennessey, J. Flory, W. E. McCully; Secretary State Board of Agriculture, John R. Rippey; Commissioner of Insurance, E. T. Orear --all Democrats, except Flory, Republican; Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, James B. Gantt; Associate Justices, Thomas A. Sherwood, Gavon D. Burgess, L. B. Valliant, W. C. Marshall, Theodore Brace, Democrats, and Walter M. Robinson, Republican; Clerk, J. R. Green, Democrat.

The Legislature, which holds biennial sessions, has in the Senate 25 Democrats and 8 Republicans;

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