acres, 40 of which are wooded and 30 under cultivation. The buildings include 15 cottages, and others are being built. At the last annual inspection reported there were present 50 members, 16 wives, and 7 widows.

Minnesota, Minnehaha Falls.-The Minnesota Soldiers' Home had its origin through the Grand Army of the Republic, and a general act was passed in 1887 providing for the construction of the Home and for its maintenance, the appropriation amounting to $100,000. The buildings include cottages, superintendent's residence, administrative building, etc., of stone and brick. The grounds have been beautifully laid out. The land includes 51 acres on a high plateau between the deep cañon of the Mississippi and the precipitous gorge of the Minnehaha valley, below the falls. Members present at last report, 68. Michigan, Grand Rapids.-The Michigan Soldiers' Home is one of the largest and most elaborate examples of the single-building style. Its dimensions are 250 feet front, 98 feet deep, with two wings, each 120 feet deep, there being three stories of brick above the basement of stone, and the front and ends surrounded by verandas; a tower surmounts the central portion. The building stands on the Home farm of 132 acres, near the banks of Grand river, three miles from Grand Rapids. It has a capacity for 400 members. The Home farm was given to the State by the citizens of Grand Rapids. The act creating the Home was passed in 1885. At the last reported inspection the number of persons present was 395.

Ohio, Sandusky.—The Home for Disabled Soldiers of Ohio is reached by a drive over a new avenue 100 feet wide, running three miles southward from Sandusky. It comprises 18 buildings, arranged about an ellipse, the major axis of which lies east and west, and is 800 feet long, and the minor axis about 400 feet. The buildings are of stone and brick, with brown and white sandstone trimmings. The present capacity is about 700 members. This Home was created by act dated April 30, 1886. The number of members present at the last report was 477. The area owned by the Home is 90 acres, given by the subscriptions of Sandusky and Erie counties.

Pennsylvania, Erie.—The Pennsylvania Home is on the bluffs 55 feet above Lake Erie, one mile from the city of Erie. The main building, covering an area of 370 × 370 feet, is the largest single-building Home in the United States. It has three stories above its basement, contains 163 rooms, and has a capacity for 600 members. The land covers 107 acres, 6 of which are cultivated, 30 devoted to pasture, and 60 on the bluffs. A mess-hall, 44 × 100 feet, with seats for 500, a library of nearly 600 volumes, a reading-room, and a chapel, are important features. The building is of brick, with stone trimmings, having brick partition-walls, with fire-escapes. At the last inspection reported, 247 members were present. This Home originated in an act approved June 3, 1885, making appropriations therefor; and it was opened for inmates Feb. 22, 1886.

New York, Bath.-The New York State Soldiers' and Sailors' Home is the largest and one of the oldest in the country. It is, in fact, a village of 30 attractive buildings, gracefully disposed along two sides of a park, within two miles of the valley of the Cohocton, which flows through

its grounds. The land comprising the Home consists of 360 acres of valley and upland, with 100 acres of woodland. There are nine separate buildings for dormitories, having a capacity for 1.200 men. These are of stone and ornamental brick, with extensive verandas, the central building being surmounted with towers, and the entire combination of structures showing Gothic gables, with barbacan turrets on the principal angles. This Home was incorporated in 1863, but no appropriations were made, and nothing further was done toward it until 1872, in which year, and again in 1876, other acts were passed, out of which in the latter year the Soldiers' Home at Bath eventually came into existence. The first movement was founded on gifts by the town of Bath, Steuben County, with subscriptions taken under the auspices of the Grand Army of the Republic, under which construction began in 1877. In the following year an act was passed transferring the Home to the State and appropriating money for the cost of land and buildings and for maintenance. The appropriations of the State from 1879 to 1889 amount to $1,130,861. The average number of members was 873. From the farm there is an income of about $10,000. The number of members present at the last annual inspection was 1,043.

Connecticut, Noroton.-Fitch's Home for Soldiers, as it is called, had its origin in the philanthropic efforts of Benjamin Fitch, a citizen of Connecticut, who established it by charter in 1863, the charter being amended and acts passed in 1882, 1884, and 1886, under which the Home finally came under the control of the State. The Home is on a tract of 14 acres near Noroton station, on the New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad, 35 miles east of New York city. It comprises 6 buildings, the main building being 170 x 40 feet in dimensions. At the last report, Jan. 3, 1889, 169 members were present.

Vermont, Bennington.-This Soldiers' Home is of the summer hotel type, and was originally the property of the incorporators of the Trenor W. Park Home for Diseased Women and Children. This property was given Feb. 5, 1887, to the trustees of the Soldiers' Home. It is half a mile north of Bennington, and comprises 170 acres of woodland and 10 under cultivation, the remainder of the 200 acres being in lawn and grass. There are 5 buildings, of wood with slate roofs. On Jan. 4, 1889, there were 41 members; in September, 55.

Massachusetts, Chelsea.—This Home is also of the summer hotel type, being a single building 220 x 60 feet, on a tract of 4 acres, 200 feet above the sea, and 4 miles north of the State House in Boston. It is a large building of three stories, with spacious verandas and porches. The library consists of 2,500 volumes with files of 93 newspapers. On Jan. 7, 1889, there were 147 members. The Massachusetts Home was incorporated May 11, 1877, but no appropriations were made until 1883, since which time it has cost the State $105,000.

Dakota, Hot Springs.-During the past year legislative action was taken with a view to estab lishing a soldiers' home at Hot Springs, Fall River county, Dakota.

The annual inspection of the State homes for disabled soldiers and sailors of the United

States is made by the assistant inspector-general of the National Home, a report of which is made to the speaker of the House of Representatives. The latest of these reports, published by Gen. William W. Averill, U. S. A., includes, besides a mass of valuable information concerning the homes, a list of all members, their names, company and regiment, rank, length of service, nationality, occupation, etc., present at the last inspection in each of the State homes. It also includes plans and elevations of the buildings comprised in many of the homes, and the by-laws, rules and regulations, and act of incorporation of each of them.

Homes for Ex-Confederate Soldiers.-After the civil war the impoverished condition of the South naturally prevented the appropriation of money or the taking of efficient steps toward the amelioration of the condition of its veteran soldiers; but, as the South began to recuperate, the sentiment in this direction began to crystallize in some degree, and efforts were made toward the foundation of soldiers' homes. There are four of these now in the Southern States: R. E. Lee Camp, No. 1, C. V., at Richmond, Va.; one in New Orleans containing 30 inmates, supported by a State appropriation of $50,000 a year; one in Austin, Texas, supported by private contributions; and one at Pikesville, Md. Individual States have made appropriations for pensions to their disabled soldiers. The only ex-Confederate home of which any particulars have been obtained is that first mentioned, the Lee Camp Soldiers' Home, at Richmond. Lee Camp was organized April 18, 1883, by 38 veteran Confederate soldiers, who, after perfecting their organization, appointed a committee to petition the Legislature of Virginia for a charter, in the preamble of which, after stating the purposes of the organization, they said:

It is proposed not to prolong the animosities engendered by the war, but to extend to our adversaries on all fitting occasions the courtesies which are always proper between soldiers, and which in this case a common citizenship demands at our hands. We propose to avoid anything which partakes of partisanship in religion and politics; but at the same time we will render our aid to the maintenance of law and the preser

vation of order.

Mainly by the efforts of the ladies of Richmond this Camp collected, by means of a bazaar, $23,000 for the purpose they had in view, which was approved by Phil. Kearny Post, G. A. R., and $8,000 for the same purpose was raised in the North and West, while the late Hon. William W. Corcoran sent to Lee Camp his check for $5,000. Altogether $52,000 was collected, and the Soldiers' Home was founded, which undoubtedly became the model for the other Confederate homes mentioned above. The Richmond Home comprises attractive cottages two miles from the city, on Grove road, in the western suburbs. This Home generally contains 125 inmates, with many applicants for vacancies.

SOUTH CAROLINA, a Southern State, one of the original thirteen; ratified the Constitution May 23, 1788; area, 30,570 square miles; population, according to the last decennial census (1880), 995,577; capital, Columbia.

Government.-The following were the State officers during the year: Governor, John P. Rich

ardson, Democrat; Lieutenant-Governor, William L. Mauldin; Secretary of State, J. F. Marshall; Treasurer, Isaac S. Bamberg, who died in June and was succeeded by E. R. McIver; Comptroller-General, J. S. Verner; Attorney-General. Joseph H. Earle; Superintendent of Education, James H. Rice; Commissioner of Agriculture, A. P. Butler; Railroad Commissioners, Milledge L. Bonham, D'Arcy P. Duncan, Eugene P. Jervey; Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, W. D. Simpson; Associate Justices, Henry McIver and Samuel McGowan.

Finances. The following is a statement of the State debt remaing unpaid on Oct. 31. Bonds and stocks fundable by law at 50 per cent. of the face value, principal $441,629.22, fundable value $220,814.61; blue bonds and stocks and deficiency bonds and stocks, $401,882.45; brown consol bonds and stocks, $5,973,226.96; total debt, $6,595,924.02.

The receipts for the year ending Oct. 31, including $77,120.63 on hand at the beginning of the year, were $1,236,816.60; the expenditures were $1,176,673.78, and there remained on Oct. 31 a balance of $60,142.82. The receipts from the State tax levy were $689,399.23; from the phosphate royalty, $212,101.96; from the Agricultural Department for fertilizer, fees, etc., $45.542.49; and from the United States, for rent and damages to the citadel, 77,250. Among the expenditures were $65,137.17 for the judicial department, $44,500 for the State University, $75,983.26 for the citadel academy, $6,266.66 for the State Penitentiary, $104,360.74 for the Lunatic Asylum; $14,885 for the Deaf, Dumb, and Blind Asylum, $51,001.75 for completion of State House, $48,127.80 for pensions; $31,169.95 for Agricultural Department, $365,910.04 for interest due.

The assessed valuation of property liable to taxation in 1889 was as follows: Real, $84,544,621; personal, $43,632,022; railroad property, $17,243,373; total, $145,420,016. The State tax thereon was 54 mills. For 1888 the total valuation was $141,986,154.

Education. For the school year ending Aug. 31, the statistics were as follow; School districts, 605; public schools, 3,948; white pupils enrolled, 89,761; colored pupils enrolled, 104.503; average attendance-white pupils 59,357, colored pupils 69.892, pupils not classified 7,109, total 136,358; teachers employed-white 2,528, colored 1,622; average monthly salary-male teachers, $26.61; female teachers $23.50; number of school-houses, 2,962; total expenditures, $460,434.24; of which $396,332.86 were paid for teachers' salaries, and $19,291.19 for new buildings. In comparison with the previous year there was a slight decrease in the number of white pupils enrolled and a slight increase in the number of colored pupils.

At the State University the total attendance for the school year 1888-'89 was 235. At the Claflin Agricultural College 947 pupils were enrolled, of whom 21 were in the collegiate department. The total cost of maintaining these two institutions for the year was $65,543.96.

The attendance at the South Carolina Military Academy for the year 1889 reached the unusual number of 153 pupils, of whom 68 were State beneficiaries.

Charities.-The number of patients at the State Lunatic Asylum increased during the fiscal year ending in November from 680 to 722, the largest number at one time being 732. There has been a remarkable increase in the number of colored insane patients in recent years. In November, 1878, there were 101 colored patients in the asylum and in November, 1889, 313, while for the white population the increase was slightly over 75 per cent.

Penitentiary.-On Oct. 31 there were in confinement at the State Penitentiary 884 prisoners-59 white and 825 colored. Of this number 150 were employed in shoe and hosiery contracts inside the prison, 265 were at work on the Columbia Canal, and there was a daily average of 285 employed on the agricultural contracts. The year began with an indebtedness of $14,162.49, and the disbursements amounted to $73,298.32. The earnings amounted to $88,565.33 in cash, leaving a balance of $1,104.52.

Phosphate.-During the year ending Aug, 31, 212,101 tons of phosphate rock were removed from the navigable streams of the State, against 190,224 tons in the year preceding. The royalty paid into the treasury was $212,101.96, against $186,993.87 in 1888.

Railroads. There are thirty-four railroads in the State, having a total mileage on June 30 of 2,084 miles, against 1,914 miles on June 30, 1888. The increase is greater than in any previous year. There was an increase over 1888 of $407,657.45 in total income, and $821,327.32 in expenses. The railroads paid during the year in taxes $221,793 to South Carolina, $88,111 to Georgia, and $17,981 to North Carolina.

Confederate Pensions.-Under the pension act of 1888, $50,000 was appropriated annually for pensions to Confederate soldiers and their widows, and provision was made that pension claims should be passed upon by a county board and a State board of pensions. During the year these boards passed upon 2,276 claims, of which 1,949 were approved-515 being soldiers' claims, and 1,434 widows'. The amount paid out in pensions was $45,613.80, and for examining board expenses, etc., $3,986.40. The average amount for each pensioner was slightly over $23.

Decision. The constitutionality of the act of December, 1888, validating the township bonds issued in aid of railroads, which the State Supreme Court had declared unconstitutional, was before the same court this year, and a decision was rendered in favor of validity.

Legislative Session. The regular annual session of the Legislature began on Nov. 26, and was adjourned on Dec. 24. The most important act of legislation was a repeal of the law protecting the civil rights of the colored race, which prohibited common carriers, inn and res taurant keepers, and managers of theatres or other places of amusement from discriminating against persons of color in the accommodations or otherwise. This law had been on the statute books more than twenty years. An act relating to State convicts forbids their employment in phosphate mining, and provides that a farm or farms shall be purchased out of the surplus earnings of the State Penitentiary, on which such convicts shall be worked. Provision was made for refunding at par that part of the State

debt known as the "brown consol bonds and stocks," which bear interest at 6 per cent., and become due in July, 1893. The refunded debt shall bear 4 per cent. interest, instead of 6 per cent., and shall not become payable till 1940. Persons wishing to exchange their bonds and stocks for the new issue, may present them to the State Treasurer at any time before July, 1893, and in addition to the new bonds or stocks, shall receive in cash the difference of 2 per cent. in interest from the date of surrender to July, 1893. After June, 1892, the treasurer may advertise and sell such of the new bonds and stocks as have not been issued in exchange for old ones, as above provided, and from the proceeds shall in July, 1893, redeem the old bonds and stocks then due. For the payment of interest on the new issue, the State binds itself to levy annually a tax of three mills, or so much thereof as is necessary for the purpose. The Legislature of 1888 late in the session passed a bill accepting a devise under the will of Thomas G. Clemson of 814 acres in Oconee County, and of certain other property, on condition that the State should erect and maintain an agricultural and mechanical college; but the Governor did not sign and return the bill till the opening of the present session. An act was thereupon passed to provide for building and maintaining the proposed college. Half of the land script fund heretofore vested in the State University was given to the new college as a permanent fund; the annual grant of $15,000 from the United States for maintaining an agricultural experiment station was taken from the State University and given to the new college; for building and maintenance, $40,000 was appropriated - $15,000 from the general funds, $10,000 from the fertilizer tax of 1889, and $15,000 from the same tax in 1890. The trustees of the new college were authorized to use fifty State convicts on the new buildings, paying only for their transportation and maintenance. An amendment to Article IV of the Constitution to abolish the office of county commissioners was proposed, and its submission to the people in 1890 was provided for. The State tax for the year beginning in November was fixed at 5 mills. Other acts of the session were as follow:

Reducing the maximum rate of interest that may be legally agreed upon and collected from 10 to 8 per cent.

To authorize incorporated towns of 300 inhabitants or more to substitute hard labor in their streets for fine and imprisonment in cases of misdemeanor.

To prevent the killing and destruction of fish in the fresh waters of this State by the use of dynamite, giant powder, or other explosive material.

Providing a mode of ascertaining the names of registered voters convicted of disqualifying crimes, and requiring their names to be erased from the regis tration books.

ing to minors under eighteen years, of cigarettes, toTo prohibit the sale, furnishing, giving, or providbacco or cigarette paper, or any substitute therefor. Changing the names and location of voting precincts in the State.

Requiring the polls at all voting places to be kept open from seven o'clock in the forenoon till four o'clock in the afternoon. [The hour for closing had previously been six o'clock.]

Changing the time for meeting of presidential electors from the first Wednesday in December to the second Monday in January next after their election.

SOUTH DAKOTA, a Western State, admitted to the Union on Nov. 3, 1889; area, 76,620 square miles; population (estimated), 379,000; capital, Pierre.

Government.-The following were the State officers from the date of admission: Governor, Arthur C. Mellette, Republican; LieutenantGovernor, J. H. Fletcher; Secretary of State, A. O. Ringsrud; Treasurer, W. F. Smith; Auditor, L. C. Taylor; Attorney-General, Robert Dollard; Superintendent of Public Instruction, G. L. Pinkham; Commissioner of School and Public Lands, O. H. Parker; Justices of the Supreme Court, Dighton Corson, A. G. Kellam, and John E. Bennett.

The Admission Act.-The provisions of this act, which received the signature of President Cleveland on Feb. 22, 1889, so far as they relate to South Dakota, are as follow: An election shall be held on May 14 to choose delegates to a constitutional convention, which shall meet at Sioux Falls on July 4. The people, on May 14. shall also vote for or against the Sioux Falls Constitution adopted in September, 1885, and, if a majority shall be in favor of the Constitution, its provisions shall be incorporated in the new Constitution, which shall be perfected by the Sioux Falls Convention in July, and which shall be submitted to a vote of the people on Oct. 1. If this new Constitution is accepted, South Dakota shall become a State by proclamation of the President. On admission the State shall be entitled to two members in the House of Representatives. The State shall receive the sixteenth and thirty-sixth sections in every township, or sections in lieu thereof, the proceeds from the sale or lease of which shall form a permanent public-school fund. This fund shall also receive 5 per cent. of the net proceeds derived by the Federal Government from sales of unappropriated public lands within the State. Seventy-two sections of the public lands are confirmed to the State for university purposes. Fifty sections are granted for public buildings at the capital, 120,000 acres for agricultural colleges, 40,000 acres each for the School of Mines, Reform School, Deaf and Dumb Asylum, Agricultural College, and State University; 80.000 acres for normal schools; 50,000 acres additional for public buildings at the capital, and 170,000 acres for general educational and charitable purposes. All lands and buildings thereon already set apart for the uses of the Penitentiary at Sioux Falls are given to the State.

Constitutional Convention.-In accordance with the Admission act, Territorial Governor Mellette, on April 15, issued his proclamation, calling a special election to be held in the South Dakota counties on May 14, for the purpose of choosing delegates to a constitutional convention, and also to vote on the question whether the Constitution framed by the Sioux Falls Convention in September, 1885, should be adopted as the basis for the Constitution of the proposed State of South Dakota. This election resulted in the choice of 75 delegates, as provided in the Admission act, a large majority of whom were Republicans. On the question of adopting the Sioux Falls Constitution, 41,123 votes were cast, of which 37,710 were in favor of the Constitution and 3,413 against it. The delegates met at Sioux

Falls on July 4, and organized by choosing Judge A. J. Edgerton as president. As the people had voted to adopt the Sioux Falls Constitution of 1885, the only duties of this convention, as provided in the Admission act, were to make such changes only in that Constitution as related to the name and boundary of the proposed State, and to the reapportionment of legislative and judicial districts, and such amendments as might be necessary to comply with the provisions of the Admission act, and then to provide for the submission of the Constitution thus amended to a vote of the people on Oct. 1. The convention appointed a committee to confer with a similar committee from the North Dakota Constitutional Convention, and to agree upon a division of the debts and property of the Territory of Dakota. The report of this committee was incorporated in the Constitution, such other minor changes as became necessary were made, and the whole was adopted as the proposed Constitution of South Dakota. The convention adjourned on Aug. 5. (For the leading provisions of the Sioux Falls Constitution of 1885, as incorporated in this Constitution, see the "Annual Cyclopædia" for 1885, page 283.) The report of the joint committee to divide the debts and property of Dakota Territory provides that all the public buildings and institutions of the Territory, in South Dakota, shall become the property of the State of South Dakota, which shall become responsible for all debts, bonded or otherwise, outstanding for their construction, repair, or maintenance. The State of South Dakota shall pay to the State of North Dakota $46,500, on account of excess of Territorial appropriations for permanent improvement of public institutions in South Dakota, for one half interest in the Territorial Library, etc. Such liabilities of the Territory as are not above provided for shall be shared equally by the two States, except that a detailed agreement is made for adjusting the Territorial expenses and receipts of the current year. Provision was made for the election of a full set of State officers on Oct. 1, the date of the election upon the Constitution, and for submitting independently the articles of the proposed Constitution relating to prohibition and to minority representation, as well as the question of temporary location of the State capital.

Election. The canvass for State officers began immediately after the dissolution of the Constitutional Convention. A Republican State Convention was called to meet at Huron on Aug. 28, at which time the following ticket was placed in nomination: For Governor, Arthur C. Mellette; Lieutenant - Governor, J. H. Fletcher; Secretary of State, A. O. Ringsrud; Treasurer, W. F. Smith; Auditor, L. C. Taylor; AttorneyGeneral, Robert Dollard; Superintendent of Public Instruction, G. L. Pinkham; Commissioner of School and Public Lands, O. H. Parker; Justices of the Supreme Court, Dighton Corson, A. G. Kellam, and John E. Bennett; Members of Congress, O. S. Gifford and J. A. Pickler. The platform makes the following declarations upon local questions:

We most heartily welcome to our fellowship the people who have come to us from foreign lands to find a home in this the country of their adoption, intending to render due respect to its laws. We favor the

enactment of such laws as will protect the citizen in the free exercise of his right of suffrage, and will insure fair and honest elections and equal and just taxation of property. Recognizing the pernicious influences of the traffic of intoxicating liquors upon every interest of our commonwealth, we favor national and State prohibition of such traffic and the adoption of the article of our Constitution relating thereto and the enactment and enforcement of such laws as will make the same effective. The great agricultural interests of Dakota demand that they should be protected, fostered, and guarded with jealous care, and such laws enacted as will insure equitable rates of transportation, allowing no unjust discrimination against sections or individuals; that we favor the improvement of the great waterways of the Northwest so as to bring close competition in the carrying trades. We favor a warehouse law which will give every farmer a free market for his produce and which will not leave him at the mercy of any elevator or railroad combination. We advise and urge prompt and liberal action on the part of the State and nation toward the establishment of a comprehensive system of irrigation. For such portions of our State as would be benefited thereby, we favor the establishment of a bureau of labor and statistics. We also favor prohibition of the employment of children under sixteen years of age in mines, shops, and factories. We favor the election of railroad commissioners and giving them ample authority for protection of the people against exorbitant rates and unjust discrimination. We view with alarm the dangerous encroachment of the numerous trusts forming all over our land, and demand the enactment of stringent laws declaring the formation of all trusts and combinations for the purpose of controlling or enhancing the price of any of the necessaries of life unlawful.

On Sept. 5 the Democrats met in State convention at Huron and nominated the following ticket: For Governor, P. F. McClure; Lieutenant-Governor, A. W. Pratt; Secretary of State, Otto Peemiller; Auditor, J. E. Horton; Treasurer, A. D. Hill; Attorney-General, R. F. Fellows; Superintendent of Public Instruction, G. H. McFarland; Commissioner of School and Public Lands, H. S. Volkman; Justices of the Supreme Court, H. McLaughlin, C. H. Winsor, S. B. Van Buskirk; Members of Congress, L. Q. Jeffries and S. M. Booth. The resolutions adopted include the following:

We are opposed to constitutional prohibition, now demanded by the Republican party of South Dakota, and favor in its stead a well-regulated license law, which is accepted by the Democracy of the country as the best method of controlling the traffic in intoxicating liquors and lessening the evils of intemper

ance.

We declare in favor of minority representation and urge the fair-minded tax payers to support the article of our Constitution relating thereto as a partial protection against the evils of vicious legislation. We arraign the Republican party of South Dakota for extravagance and mismanagement in conducting the affairs of the Territorial government.

There was no Prohibition ticket in the field. At the election on Oct. 1 all the Republican candidates received large majorities. For Governor the vote was: Mellette, 53,964; McClure, 23,840. For Lieutenant-Governor-Fletcher, 54,711; Pratt, 22,946; For Members of Congress Gifford, 54,983; Pickler, 54,105; Jeffries, 23,229 ; Booth, 22,535. Members of the State Legislature were elected as follow: Senate-Republicans 37, Democrats 4, Independents 4; HouseRepublicans 104, Democrats 13, Independents 7. On the question of adopting the Constitution, as perfected by the Sioux Falls Convention in July,

the vote was: Yeas, 70,131; nays, 3,267. On the two constitutional propositions submitted independently to the popular vote, the article prohibiting the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquor was adopted by a vote of 40,234 yeas to 34,510 nays, and the article providing for minority representation was rejected by a vote of 24,661 yeas to 46,200 nays. For temporary location of the State capital, the city of Pierre had 29,256 votes; Huron, 15,647; Watertown, 12,012; Sioux Falls, 11,888; Mitchell, 7,793; Chamberlain, 2,421. Pierre was therefore selected. A similar vote taken in 1885 resulted in the selection of

Huron by the following vote: Huron, 12,695; Pierre, 10,574; Chamberlain, 3,232; Sioux Falls, 3,338; Alexandria, 1,374. The result of this election was officially communicated to President Harrison, and on Nov. 3 he issued his proclamation admitting South Dakota to the Union.

Legislative Session.-On assuming his office, Gov. Mellette issued his proclamation, convening the first State Legislature at Pierre on Oct. 15. Its first duty was to elect two United States Senators to represent the new State. In the Republican caucus, Richard F. Pettigrew and Gideon C. Moody were chosen. The Democratic caucus nominated Bartlett Tripp and M. H. Day. In the Legislature on Oct. 17 the Republican candidates were elected by the following votes: Senate-Pettigrew 41, Tripp 4; HousePettigrew 108, Tripp 14; Senate-Moody 41, Day 4;

House-Moody 107, Day 14. The Legisla ture then adjourned, to meet on Jan. 7, 1890. Finances.-The financial condition of the new State is set forth by the Governor in his first message in January, 1890, as follows:

At the date of admission the bonded debt assumed

by South Dakota was $710,200, of which amount $116,600 bears interest at 6 per cent. per annum, $125,000 at the rate of 5 per cent., $317,100 at 4 per cent., and the remainder, $152,500, at the rate of 4 per cent. [All these bonds were issued for building public institutions within the limits of the State.] There was also outstanding Nov. 4, an indebtedness by three funding warrants, of which South Dakota of the Territory to the amount of $150,000 evidenced owes $75,000. By the terms of the agreement made by the joint commission of the Constitutional Convention, South Dakota must also pay North Dakota $46,500 on account of the difference in adjustment of accounts up to March 8, 1889; since that date South Dakota has overdrawn its account, so that it is probable that South Dakota will have to pay, on final settlement of these three items, $150,000, making the total indebtedness at the date of admission $860,200. The balance belonging to South Dakota, received by the State Treasurer from the retiring Territorial Treasurer was $84,441.93, of which $38,407.70 was in bond funds and not available for the general purposes of the Government, and $46,034.23 in general fund, bond-interest fund, and stock-indemnity fund.

The Territorial Auditor has estimated the total re

ceipts for the current fiscal year to be $335,326.68, and the necessary expenditures to be $508,282.50, leaving a deficiency for the year of $172,905.82. By the State Constitution, which we have adopted, the total tax levy for ordinary purposes is limited to two mills.

The indebtedness that the State may create is very limited, under the Constitution. The Legislature may provide for the issue of bonds to cover the Territorial indebtedness assumed by the State, and may further increase this indebt