To protect and preserve the fish in the permanent lakes and ponds within the State.

To regulate mines and mining, and to repeal chapter 202 of the acts of the Eighteenth General Assembly. To exempt from judicial sale the pension money paid to any person by the United States Government, and certain of the proceeds and accumulation thereof. To provide for the erection of and maintenance of station-houses and connections at the points of intersection or crossing of two or more railroads.

To repeal section 1621 of the Code and to enact a substitute, relating to a course of study for the State Agricultural College.

To provide for the assessment and taxation of lands granted to railroad companies or corporations which have become earned but not patented.

To amend section 1384 of the Code in relation to the care of the insane.

In relation to the protection of game.

To provide for the levy of one half mill additional State tax.

To provide for selling, leasing, and patenting the lands belonging to the Towa State Agricultural College and farm.

To prohibit giving or selling fire-arms to minors. To amend chapter 147, laws of the Nineteenth General Assembly, relating to the bonding of county indebtedness.

To prohibit the use of barb-wire in inclosing public grounds.

To protect all citizens in their civil and legal rights. To provide for the distribution of funds by the assignees of insolvents.

To amend section 2578 of the Code in relation to the foreclosure of liens on real estate.

To prevent the spread of small-pox. Authorizing actions against railroad companies to be brought in the name of the State on recommendation of the Board of Railway Commissioners.

Providing additional penalties for the violation of the law relating to the sale of intoxicating liquors. Authorizing the condemnation of grounds for union depots, and authorizing the organization of companies for the construction of such depots.

Prohibiting the killing of quail for two years. Providing for the refunding of bonded indebtedness of counties, at not more than 6 per cent.

Requiring trains to stop before reaching the crossing of other tracks.

To create a Bureau of Labor Statistics, and providing for the appointment of a commissioner of the same at a salary of $1,500 per annum.

Providing for the semi-annual collection of taxes. Amending sections 2086 and 2087 of the Code relating to defenses on non-negotiable paper.

Raising the standard for admission to the bar. Permitting townships that have voted tax in aid of the construction of railroads to vote an additional five mills for the same purpose.

Providing for the inspection of coal-oil and the appointment of a State Inspector.

Providing a system of drainage and for the reclaiming of swamp and overflow lands.

Establishing an additional Insane Hospital in southwestern Iowa, and appropriating $150,000 therefor. Appropriating $50,000 for land for the State Agricultural Society for a permanent location. Appropriating $369,500 for completing the new Capitol and improving the surrounding streets. Agreeing to amendments to the Constitution proposed by the Nineteenth General Assembly.

The following are the amendments: 1. The general election for State, district, county, and township of ficers shall be held on the Tuesday next after the first Monday in November.

2. At any regular session of the General Assembly the State may be divided into the necessary judicial districts for District Court purposes, or the said districts may be reorganized, and the number of the districts and the judges of said courts increased or

diminished; but no reorganization of the districts or diminution of the judges shall have the effect of removing a judge from office.

3. The grand jury may consist of any number of members, not less than five nor more than fifteen, or the General Assembly may provide for holding persons to answer for any criminal offense without the intervention of a grand jury.

4. That section 13 of Article V of the Constitution be stricken therefrom, and the following adopted as such section:

SECTION 13. The qualified electors of each county shall at the general efection in the year 1886 and every two years thereafter elect a county attorney, who shall be a resident of the county for which he is elected, and who shall hold his office for two years, and until his successor shall have been elected and qualified.

The woman-suffrage amendment passed the Senate by a vote of 26 to 24, but was lost in the House, on a motion to postpone indefinitely, by a vote of 50 to 44.

Prohibition. The prohibitory law passed at this session took effect on the 4th of July. The following is its language:

Code be and the same is hereby repealed, and the folSEC. 1. That section 1555, chapter 6, title 11 of the lowing is enacted in lieu thereof:

SEC. 1555. Wherever the words intoxicating liquors occur in this chapter the same shall be construed to mean alcohol, ale, wine, beer, spirituous, vinous, and malt liquors, and all intoxicating liquors whatever, and no person shall manufacture for sale, or sell, or keep for sale as a beverage any intoxicating liquors whatever, including ale, wine, and beer; and the same provisions and penalties of law in force relating to inconstrued to apply to violations of this act, and the toxicating liquors shall in like manner be held and manufacture, sale, or keeping for sale, or keeping with intent to sell, or keeping or establishing a place for the sale of ale, wine, and beer, and all other intoxicating liquors whatever.

It passed the Senate by a vote of 35 to 13, four Republicans voting against it and one Democrat for it, and the House by a vote of 52 to 41, one Democrat voting for it.

A State Temperance Convention met in Des Moines on January 23, and passed, among others, the following resolutions:

That we fully trust and confidently expect that our present Legislature will promptly meet the wishes of the people in not only repealing the statute permitting the sale of ale, wine, and beer as beverages, but enact and provide suitable penalties to enforce the law so that the citizens in any part of the State can effectually close up and put a stop to all traffic in intoxicating beverages of whatever name or nature, whether sold or given away in a saloon, hotel, clubroom, drug-store, private house, or any other place or in any manner.

That however wise, judicious, and stringent prohibitory laws our General Assembly may pass (and pass such it unavoidably will), it still will remain as much the imperative duty of the friends of temperance to keep up their several organizations for the purpose of seeing that such laws shall be executed and enforced, as it was for them to create the public sentiment that brought these laws into being, and upon the practical carrying out of this purpose depends largely the success of the prohibition movement in our State.

On February 8, the Women's Christian Temperance Union presented a memorial to the Legislature in favor of a prohibitory law.

Insane Hospitals.The report from the Insane Hospitals for the quarter ending Sept. 30, 1884, shows at Independence 667 inmates, and at Mount Pleasant 599. The cost of supporting them for the quarter was, at Independence, $24,816.24; at Mount Pleasant, $18,780.91, or a total of $53,597.12. Every county in the state is represented. Dubuque furnishes the largest number, 46. July 30, 1883, there were 580 inmates at Independence, and at Mount Pleasant 472. The increase since that period is 214. Both institutions are overcrowded, yet this does not include the entire insane population of the State; for, a few years ago, so overcrowded became the hospitals, that thousands of incurables were removed to county hospitals and poor-houses.

Election. On the 4th of November the Republican ticket was successful. The following is the vote for presidential electors: Republican, 197,089; Fusion (Democratic and Greenback), 177,316; Prohibition, 1,472. For Secretary of State, the vote was: Frank D. Jackson, Republican, 198,001; James Dooley, Democrat, 179,219; scattering, 233.

The vote on the constitutional amendments was as follows:

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story, floor to ceiling, 20-9; square feet of ground covered, 54,850; above the level of the sea, 1,151; house, 108-4; height, 44-9; Supreme Court room, floor, 34.5 x floor, 74× 914; height, 47-9; library, floor, 52-6 x 50-2, height, 23.9; diameter of rotunda, 66-8. Foun dation granite hewed from Iowa bowlders; yellowstone came from St. Genevieve, Missouri; gray-stone came from Carroll county, Missouri. Total cost to October 1, $2,362,531.60; height to top of finial, 275 feet.

ITALY, a kingdom of southern Europe. (For details relating to area, population, etc., see "Annual Cyclopædia " for 1883.)

Government.—The King, Humbert I, born March 14, 1844, the eldest son of Victor Emanuel, succeeded to the throne Jan. 9, 1878. During the cholera season of 1884 he distinguished himself by visits to the infected cities, and personal inspection of the hospitals and means of relief. The ministry is: President of the Council, Signor Depretis; Interior, Signor Morana: Finance, Signor Magliani; Justice and Ecclesiastical Affairs, Signor Gianuzzi-Savelli; Foreign Affairs, Signor Mancini; War, Signor Ricotti, since Oct. 24, 1884; Navy, Admiral Racchio; Public Works, Signor Gelana; Agriculture, Industry, and Commerce, Signor Grimaldi; Public Instruction, Signor Baccelli.

The United States Minister in Rome is William W. Astor, and the Italian Minister at Washington, Baron S. de Fava. The Italian Consul-General at New York, G. B. Raffo.

Finances. At the close of the fiscal year, ended June 30, 1884, Italy owed 11,000,000,000 lire, 2,000,000,000 of which represented the floating debt, not paying interest; there were therefore 9,000,000,000 consols, on which the annual interest amounts to 442,312,977 lire; 435,904,897 thereof at 5 per cent. interest, and 6,408,080 at 3 per cent.; and there was, besides, the 5 per cent. interest on the debt due to the Holy See, which interest amounts to 3,225,000 lire. The budget for the fiscal year 1883, which estimated an incorne of 1,310,000,000 lire, is shown to have produced in reality an income of 1,334,000,000, or 24,000,000 more, while the expenditure was 1,333,000,000, instead of the estimated 1,

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