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Congress the imperative duty of carrying into effect by appropriate legislation the declarations of that platform as soon as the more pressing needs of the currency problem have received attention"; recommends that the prohibitory 10 per cent tax on State bank issues be repealed. VIRGINIA POPULIST.

August 3, 1893.

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PARTY.-"We

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had promise of government economically administered until hope has given place to despair. The party claim that they never had a chance,' now in power while, in fact, they have many times had a large majority in the lower house of Congress and have recently proved to the country that they had to 'chance' increase their enough Own salaries. might at least have outlined They which would have inspired the people a policy with confidence. enumerate in detail the long list of unWe cannot here fulfilled pledges made to. the people by the Democratic party. . . . Have we fared any better in our State administration, which has been under exclusive Democratic control for nearly eight years?"

FINANCE.-"We favor the free and unlimited coinage of silver and gold at the present legal ratio of 16 to 1; a National currency, safe, sound and flexible; a full legal tender for all debts, public and private, issued by the general Government only, based on its credit and not on its indebtedness, in volume maintain a healthy condition of business, sufficient to and distributed directly among the people, when demanded on the security of their property, at a reasonable rate of interest, under such system as the wisdom of Congress may devise. alterably opposed to State banks, or any We are unother than National currency, because of its undesirableness and because the Constitution of the United States conferred the power to issue money on the general Government only, and this power cannot be delegated."'

TAXATION.-"We demand a rigid listing of all stocks, bonds and evidences of debt property, subject to taxation at their true market value, and the imposition, both by National and State governments, of a graduated income tax, with severe penalties for the evasion of the law. Non-resident corporations doing

business in the State should be taxed according to the value of the business done. National and State legislation should be so framed as not to build up the few at the expense of the many, whether under a tariff law, an internal revenue law or an oyster law."

VIRGINIA PROHIBITIONIST.

September 6, 1893.

It declares that both the Democrats and Populists have intentionally avoided the declarations upon the subject of morals and temperance. "The Populists," paper says, "have fused with the Demothis crats wherever they considered it politic to do so, and believing that the Democratic party in Virginia, which is now and has been for years the dominant party, has fallen largely into the hands of professional politicians, whose first aim is

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self-aggrandizement through division of the spoils, and that the better elements of the party no longer control its actions, we view with alarm the continued indifference and studied avoidance of all moral and reform measures. methods, enforced by the liberty-destroyCorrupting ing Anderson-McCormick election constitute in a majority of instances their sole claim to political advancement." The last plank in clares in favor of "a graduated income the platform detax, supported by effective laws, that the poor man may not alone bear the burden of taxation, while the rich man, declining ownership of real estate because

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it can be listed and estimating his own wealth, possesses a pocket bulging with bonds upon which he defiantly pays no taxes." This is understood to mean State income tax, though this is not made clear by the language of the text. WASHINGTON REPUBLICAN. September 19, 1894.

We affirm our allegiance to the principles of the Republican party, and indorse unreservedly the platform of 1892, believing a return to these principles in the Administration of the Government is absolutely necessary to insure a return of National prosperity.

We deplore the terrible calamity that has befallen our common country by reason of the gross incompetency and misrule of the Democratic party, which for nearly two years has had absolute control of the Federal Government. demn it for its so-called policy of tariff We conreform, which in practice its leader and head denounces as dishonor," a policy which taxes the poor one of "perfidy and man's breakfast table for the sake of enriching its political friends and benefactor, the colossal Sugar Trust of America, a policy the very menace of which has destroyed confidence, ruined values, demoralized capital and starved labor. WASHINGTON DEMOCRATIC. September 28, 1894.

TARIFF.-"Resolved, That we earnestly and cordially indorse the efforts of the present Democratic Administration to reform the enormities of the Republican tariff system as indorsed in the late McKinley bill, and we heartily commend the bill recently passed by Congress as a Democratic an intelligent and patriotic step in the direction of an enlightened international policy, and proved by the highest statesmenship of which is apthe world. A policy which shall throw open the seaports of the United States, and particularly the seaports of our own State, to those raw staple products, such as wool, flax, hemp, jute and other such staples, which experience must ever be the basis of a sound manuhas proven facturing system. That by the importation into our own ports of these staples we shall at one and the same time encourage the building up to a State and local manufacturing system, which shall free our people from the exactions of manufacturing trusts 3,000 miles distant and at the same time, by encouraging the importation of such staples, stimulate a system of international interchange

and thus directly foster and encourage the export of our manufactured products, and other products in which we excel all the nations of the earth."

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MISCELLANEOUS.-Approves policy of an income tax; denounces the Reilly Pacific railroads funding bill, and demands that Congress use every effort to further the foreclosure of the Government mortgage on the Union and Central Pacific railroads, and that one transcontinental railroad shall be owned, controlled and operated by the Government; favors the election United of States Senators by a direct vote of the people; favors Government aid and control of the Nicaragua Canal, and demands its speedy construction; demands the free and unlimited coinage of both silver and gold in the ratio of 16 to 1, and the passage of such laws as will make silver receivable for all debts, public and private, and be equal in purchasing power with gold.

WASHINGTON POPULIST.

June 29, 1894.

Demands "free and unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1 without the consent of any other nation on earth"; also the exemption of homesteads, while occupied by the owners or their families as such, from forced sales, executions or otherwise to the value of $3,000, and a like exemption of personal property instead of specific exemption from forced sales; also the reduction of salaries of all public officers commensurate with the duties performed; also a graduated annual tax on all lands owned by any individual or corporation above the assessed valuation of $10,000, exclusive of improvements, the rate continually increasing on such additional valuation until land monopoly in the city, town and country shall be destroyed. WEST

VIRGINIA REPUBLICAN.
May 5, 1892.

Reaffirms Republican platform of 1888, condemns the Gubernatorial steal four years ago, indorses protection as a principle, and commends the McKinley Tariff law and reciprocity; asserts belief in American ability to make all the tinplate consumed in the country, and exhorts all Americans to purchase American products in preference to imported goods; condemns the Free Wool bill as an unjust and hurtful attack on the agricultural interests of the country; demands better immigration legislation; regards as of highest importance that every dollar issued by the United States shall have a purchasing power of 100 cents, so that our gold, silver and paper issues may be kept on an equal footing; favors liberal pensions and denounces as partisan the Democratic attacks on the present administration of the Pension Office.

WEST VIRGINIA

REPUBLICAN,

August 3, 1892.

Indorses Minneapolis nominations and platform; policy of Protection as necessary to the development of the country; favors anti-Pinkerton law, and denounces Democratic State administration for creation of a State debt, legislative gerry

mander and steal of the Governorship in 1889.

WISCONSIN REPUBLICAN.
July 25, 1894.

TARIFF.-"The present condition of the the country resulting from threatened the change in its industrial policy by Democratic party, the hundreds of facthe tories and workshops closed down, thousands of men out of employment, are the best witnesses which can be gotten to testify to the wisdom of the policy of protection to home industries which has always been sustained and fostered by the Republican party." of

LABOR.-"We recognize the right labor to organize, using all honorable measures for the purpose of dignifying and bettering their condition and placing them on an equal footing with capital, to the end that both may fully realize the fact that they are friends and equally essential to each other and the prosperity of all people."

FINANCIAL.-"The Republican party is in favor of honest money. We are opposed to any scheme that will give the country a depreciated and debased currency. We favor the use of silver as a currency to the extent only that it can be circulated on a parity with gold."

MISCELLANEOUS. - "The Republican party is the party of religious liberty, of absolute non-sectarianism, of entire separation of Church and State, of free common schools and of the utmost independence of idividual thought, speech and action within the law."

WISCONSIN DEMOCRATIC.

September 6, 1894.

TARIFF.-"The new tariff law affords the country substantial relief, and is a broad stride in the direction of accomplishing the results that the Democratic party has so long contended for."

SILVER.-"By the repeal of the Repub. lican measure known as the Sherman Silver law, the money of the country is restored to a sound basis, and no proposed legislation should be entertained which does not provide that every dollar issued by the Government should be of equal intrinsic and interchangeable value."

INCOME TAX.-"The income tax feature of the Tariff bill meets our approval." ADMINISTRATION.-"The Administration of President Cleveland has been wise, patriotic and courageous, and commends itself to the Democracy of the State of Wisconsin." the

MISCELLANEOUS.-"Denounces American Protective Association, and commends the Democratic Administration of the State.

WYOMING REPUBLICAN,
September 27, 1894.

TARIFF.-"We once more renew our allegiance to the Republican party, proclaim our devotion to its cardinal principles and again pronounce in favor of protection and reciprocity as expressed in the McKinley bill; and we demand the continuance of the tariff system as advocated by the Republican party for the past thirty years. We are opposed

arbitration, with jurisdiction to hear and determine controversies between laborer and employe.

WYOMING DEMOCRATIC.

August 9, 1894.

to the Democratic schemes of forcing the workingmen of America to compete with the cheap labor of Europe and Asia, by admitting the products of such labor free, and we believe in the equal and full protection of life and property and the equal fostering and encouragement of every industry. We denounce the manifest incompetency of the Democratic party in the administration of National affairs as exhibited by its weak and vascillating foreign policy, by the shameful violations of its party pledges, and by its repeated attacks upon the beneficial provisions of our tariff system, in consequence of which the business of the country has been prostrated and its industries paralyzed. We denounce the manifestly unwise and un-American tariff bill now pending in Congress as a measure calculated to protect trusts and to reduce American labor to the conditions known in foreign countries. We denounce all attempts on the part of the Democratic party to place our principal SILVER.-Favors the "free and unlimproducts upon the free list, thus direct-ited coinage of gold and silver at the ing a positive blow at the prosperity of ratio of 16 to 1, without charge for mintour own State." age, and demand that the Nation return to such system of coinage at once without waiting for any other Nation.'

PENSIONS.-"We favor the payment of liberal pensions to the soldiers and sailors of the Union and to their surviving dependents, as a sacred obligation due from the entire people, and we insist that in the allotment and distribution of pension funds inimical and burdensome restrictions should not be imposed, and that in Government, State and municipal employment they should be given preference over others, qualifications being equal.'

SILVER.-Favors the free and unlimited coinage of silver and gold at a ratio of 16 to 1, with full legal-tender functions accorded to each in payment of public and private debts.

IMMIGRATION.-Favors such restriction upon immigration as shall more completely protect the laborers of America. LABOR DISPUTES.-Favors courts of

TARIFF.-"We regard the tariff question as settled by the 'overwhelming voice of the people, in favor of such tariff taxes only as are needed to pay the expenses of the Government when economically administered. We condemn those representatives of the people in Congress and out who have stood in the way of the complete fulfilment of the promises of the party on this question. We accept the Wilson bill as it passed the House of Representatives, as but a partial fulfilment of the promises of the Democratic party to reduce the tariff. We favor still lower tariff taxation for the relief of the people in these times of depression."

STATEHOOD.-Commends the act admitting Utah to Statehood, and urges that the same treatment be promptly extended to Arizona and New-Mexico.

U. S. SENATORS.-Favors the election of United States Senators by direct vote of the people.

INCOME TAX,-Favors an income tax as a part of the fiscal system, recognizes the principle as safe and just, and welcomes it as a step toward the restoration of equality of taxation.

MISCELLANEOUS.-Opposes secret political organizations, based on religious prejudices, because they are contrary to the spirit and genius of American institutions, thoroughly un-American and calculated to breed discord and contention and unseemly strife.

AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS.

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lowest for fourteen years, except that of 1885. The farm value of the crop of oats was $21,677,519 less than that of 1892. Of wheat grown in foreign countries the production of South America showed an increase of 61 per cent, due to the large extension of the wheat area of Argentina; Europe produced 27,000,000 bushels more than in 1892; Asia's share was 346,000,000 bushels, as against 290,000,000 bushels in 1892; Africa's crop was 35,500,000 bushels, an increase of 1,000,000 bushels; Australasia produced 41,000,000 bushels, as against 36,000,000 bushels in 1892. The total world's crop of wheat was 2.385,360,000 bushels, or 7,000,000 bushels less than crop of 1892.

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Number and value of live stock on farms of the United States in 1894: Horses, 16,081.139, valued at $769,224,799; mules, 2,352, 231, valued at $146,232,811; milch cows, valued 16,487.400, $358.998.661; (xen and other cattle, 36,608,168, valued at $536,789,747; sheep, 45,048,017, valued at $89.186,110; swine, 45,200,498, valued at $270,384,626,

MARCH 4, 1893-MARCH 3, 1895.

SECOND REGULAR SESSION BEGAN DECEMBER 3, 1894.

THE SENATE.

ADLAI E. STEVENSON, of Illinois, Vice-President and President of the Senate. WILLIAM R. Cox, of North Carolina, Secretary.

[Republicans (in Roman), 37; Democrats (in Italic), 44; Independents (in SMALL CAPS), 4; vacancies, 3; total, 88.

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(a) Appointed by Governor to succeed Hon. Alfred H. Colquitt, deceased. (b) Elected to succeed Hon. E. C. Walthal (Dem.), resigned.

(c) Appointed by Governor to fill vacancy caused by death, April 30, 1894, of Hon. F. B. Stockbridge.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, LIIIA CONGRESS.

CHARLES F. CRISP, of Georgia, Speaker. JAMES KERR, of Pennsylvania, Clerk. [Republicans (in Roman), 121; Democrats (in Italics), 217; Independents and People's Party (in SMALL CAPS), 12; total, 356; necessary to a majority, 179.]

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