Montana 1,818,992,249 539.30 955.66 Total .75,527,381,374 767.58 Nebraska 472,036,968 Nevada 379.20 *Genera? property not assessed for state pur139,109,838 1,409.05 poses. New Hampshire-Tilton. NATIONAL HOME FOR DISABLED VOLUNTEER SOLDIERS. Established by act of Congress March 21, 1866. Names and Location of Branches-Central, Day- Illinois-Quincy. ton, O.; Northwestern, Milwaukee, Wis.: South-daho-Boise. ern, Hampton, Va.; Eastern, Togus, Me.; West- Indiana-Lafayette. ern, Leavenworth, Kas.; Marion, Marion, Ind.; Pacific, Santa Monica, Cal.: Danville, Danville, Ill.: Mountain. Johnson City, Tenn.: Battle Mountain Sanitarium, Hot Springs, S. D. Board of Managers-The president of the United States, the chief justice of the Supreme court. the secretary of war, ex officiis, Washington, D. C.; president, Gen. George H. Wood, Dayton, O.; first vice-president, Capt. John C. Nelson, Logansport, Ind.; secretary, James S. Catherwood, Hoopeston, Ill.; Maj. James W. Wadsworth, Geneseo, N. Y.; Col. H. H. Markham, Pasadena, Cal.; Maj. John W. West, Lewiston, Me.; Col. George Black, Olathe, Kas. General treasurer-Col. C. W. Wadsworth. Inspector-general and chief surgeon-Col. James E. Miller. Requirements for Admission. 1. Honorable discharge from the United States service. 2. Disability which prevents the applicant from earning a living by labor. 3. Applicants for admission will be required to abide by all the rules and regulations made by the board of managers, perform all the duties required of them and obey all the lawful orders of the officers of the home. 4. A soldier or sailor to be admitted must forward with his application his discharge paper. his pension certificate if he is a pensioner and his discharge from a state me if he has been an inmate of such home. These papers are retained at the branch to which he is admitted to prevent their loss or fraud, but are returned to him when he is discharged. Soldiers or sailors whose pensions exceed $16 a month are not admitted to the home except for special reasons. The National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers is supported by the United States government. The annual appropriation for that purpose is about $4,000,000. STATE SOLDIERS' HOMES. There are a number of state homes for disabled volunteer soldiers who, for various reasons, are unable to obtain admission to the national homes. The federal government contributes toward the support of the state homes the sum of $100 for each soldier, based upon the average attendance for the year: the remainder of the expenses is paid by the states themselves. Some of these homes are on the cottage plan. Following is a list of the state homes: California-Yountville. Colorado-Monte Vista. Connecticut Noroton Iowa-Marshalltown, Massachusetts-Chelsea. Missouri-St. James. Nebraska-Grand Island Vineland. Oxford. and North Dakota-Lisbon. Ohio-Sandusky. Rhode Island-Bristol. HOME FOR REGULAR ARMY SOLDIERS. The United States maintains a home for disabled and discharged soldiers of the regular army at Washington. D. C. All soldiers who have served twenty years in the army and all soldiers who have incurred such disability, by wounds, disease or injuries in the line of duty while in the regular army, as, unfits them for further service are entitled to admission to the home. The home is in charge of a board of commissioners, consisting of the governor of the home, the adjutant-general of the army. the judge-advocate, the commissary-general, the quartermaster-general, the chief of engineers and the surgeon-general. The present governor is Lieut.Gen. S. B. M. Young (retired). CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS' HOMES. Confederate veterans of the civil war have a home at Beauvoir, near Biloxi, Miss. The residence there of Jefferson Davis in his last years was secured in 1902 as a refuge for helpless old southern soldiers by the United Sons of Confederate Veterans. It is supported by that society and the United Daughters of the Confederacy. Another home for confederate veterans was opened in Washington. D. C.. May 24, 1913, by the women of the Southern Relief association. NATIONAL PROHIBITION AMENDMENT. The house of representatives in Washington, nation of demobilization, the date of which D. C., by a vote of 282 to 128 adopted, Dec. shall be determined and proclaimed by the 17, 1917, the senate joint resolution submit- president of the United States, no beer, wine ting to the states an amendment providing for or other intoxicating malt or vinous liquor the suppression of the liquor traffic one year shall be sold for beverage purposes except for after the ratification of the amendment by export. the required thirty-six state legislatures and The provision further directs: also providing that the amendment shall be inoperative unless ratified within seven years from the date of submission. The resolution had passed the senate Aug. 1, 1917, by a vote of 65 to 20. It was amended in the house and the senate accepted the resolution as amended Dec. 18 by a rising vote of 47 yeas to 8 nays. Following is the joint resolution as adopted by the house and senate: Article Section 1. After one year from the ratification of this article the manufacture, sale or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the United States and all territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited. "Sec. 2. The congress and the several states shall have concurrent power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. "Sec. 3. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the constitution by the legislatures of the several states, as provided in the constitution, within seven years from the date of the submission hereof to the states by the congress." Up to Dec. 1, 1918, the following states had ratified the amendment. They are named in the order of ratification, the dates in all cases being in 1918: "The commissioner of internal revenue is hereby authorized and directed to prescribe rules and regulations, subject to the approval of the secretary of the treasury, in regard to the manufacture and sale of distilled spirits and removal of distilled spirits held in bond as of June 30, 1919, until this act shall cease to operate, for other than beverage purposes; also in regard to the manufacture, sale and distribution of wine for sacramental, medicinal or other than beverage uses. "After the approval of this act no distilled, malt, vinous or other intoxicating liquors shall be imported into the United States during the continuance of the present war and period of demobilization, except wines which may be imported until May 1, 1919, provided that this provision against importation shall not apply to shipments en route to the United States at the time of the passage of this act." Minnesota 425,865.40 W. Virginia. 159,713.89 382,707.20 .... 508,603.98 Wyoming 183,805.78 ..... Kansas 434,653.61 S. Carolina.. North Carolina. Virginia. North Dakota. Washington. . West Virginia. Mississippi... 268,751.60 Wisconsin .... Kansas. The Anti-Saloon League of America on Nov. 8, 1918, claimed that as the result of the state elections on Nov. 5 the ratification of the constitutional amendment was assured. "Ohio, Florida, Nevada, Wyoming and Min-tary of agriculture, in accordance with the pronesota, said the league officers, have voted dry and elected ratification legislatures. These states, added to the fourteen that have ratified the amendment and the nineteen states now dry that are sure to ratify the amendment make thirty-eight, or two more than the required thirty-six states for ratification." PROHIBITION AFTER JUNE 30, 1919. On Nov. 21, 1918, President Wilson signed a food production stimulation bill containing a rider making the United States "bone dry" after June 30, 1919. In substance the new law provides that after May 1, 1919, until the conclusion of the present war and thereafter until the termination of demobilization, the Idate of which shall be determined and proclaimed by the president of the United States, no grain, cereals, fruits or other product shall be used in the manufacture or production of beer, wine or other intoxicating malt or vinous liquor for beverage purposes. After June 30, 1919, until the conclusion of the present war and thereafter until the termi Missouri 1918.......$10,000,000 | 1920. .......$20,000,000 These sums do not include the $1,000,000 which is appropriated each year for ten years for the development of roads and trails within or partly within the national forests. Road construction except for military purposes practically ceased in 1918, to be resumed at the end of the war. The total of all state and state-aid roads built to Jan. 1, 1917, was 69.186. The total mileage of roads in the United States in 1917 was 2,455,761, of which 287,047 were surfaced. THE MOONEY CASE. What had become internationally known as "the Mooney case' "" came to a climax Nov. 28, 1918, when Gov. W. D. Stephens of California at the request of President Wilson saved Thomas J. Mooney from death on the gallows for his alleged participation in the death of ten persons from a bomb explosion in San Francisco while a preparedness parade was in progress. The governor commuted the sentence of death imposed by the court to imprisonment for life. The death sentence passed upon Mooney was for the murder of Mrs. Myrtle Irene Van Loo of Merced, Cal.. one of ten persons killed by the preparedness day bomb. Four others were indicted with him on ten counts of murder. but his case was singled out as an issue by labor organizations of several countries. Strikes were urged in various parts of the country, and others were urged in other countries as labor's protests. Mooney's appeal to wartime workers not to strike stopped agitation for a general strike May 1, 1918. Four of the five persons indicted were tried for murder. Mooney was sentenced to be hanged May 17, 1917. Warren K. Billings was given a life sentence. Mrs. Rena Herman Mooney, Mooney's wife, and Israel Weinberg, a taxicab driver, were acquitted on one charge and were in November, 1918, at liberty on bail on other charges of murder, while Edward D. Nolan, a machinist, still was awaiting trial. Mooney's activity in a San Francisco street car strike characterized by violence and his alleged Industrial Workers of the World affiliations drew suspicion toward him and his wife. They were arrested five days after the explosion at Guerneville, Cal. Mooney's trial opened Jan. 3, 1917, and ended with his conviction Feb. 9. Frank C. Oxman, a cattleman of Durkee, Ore., the state's chief witness, testified in the Mooney trial that he saw the Mooneys, Billings and Weinberg drive to the spot where the explosion occurred, and saw Billings deposit a suitcase supposed to contain the bomb. Subsequently Mooney's attorneys charged Oxman testified falsely and that he sought to induce F. E. Rigall of Grayville, Ill., to do likewise. The Illinois State Federation of Labor announced it had similar information. Rigall testified at Oxman's trial for attempted subornation of perjury that Oxman offered to divide with him a portion of a large reward offered for Mooney's conviction. Oxman was acquitted. "Frameup" Charge Made. Charges that Mooney was denied a square deal and that he was the victim of a "frameup, " which were made at various times after his conviction, culminated Nov. 22 when a report signed by John B. Densmore, federal director of employment, alleged crookedness in the prosecution of many cases in the San Francisco courts." Among other charges the report said "practically the whole case against Mooney, Billings and Mrs. Mooney was made to order." During the two years worldwide appeals were made to labor bodies to act in support of a new trial. Russian radicals paraded in Petrograd and made a demonstration before the embassy. The American Federation of Labor, the London Trade council, and other organizations made public demands for a new trial for Mooney. Governor's Statement. In commuting Mooney's sentence Gov. Stephens issued the following statement: "On July 22, 1916, ten persons-men, women and children-were killed and about fifty others wounded in a bomb explosion during a preparedness parade in the city of San Francisco. The parade was a patriotic manifestation into which the people had entered with much spirit and loyal impulse. "Manifestly, because of the occasion chosen, hostility to the nation's defense measures must have had a part in actuating the perpetration of so horrible a deed. "It is not unreasonable to assume that a sympathy or even a definite relationship existed between those murderers and the propaganda and violence then being engaged in throughout the country by agents of the German government. "The case as presented to the California courts was that of murder, without further evidence of motive than the impossible tenets of anarchists whose sympathies for the_German cause in the war are well known. Their wild pacifist theories fitted into the widespread activities of the kaiser's agents in this country. "A number of person of pronounced anarchistic tendencies were arrested shortly after the explosion and of these Warren K. Billings was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment and Thomas J. Mooney found guilty and sentenced to be hanged. "So long as avenues of appeal to the courts remained open to Mooney and he was availing himself thereof, I deemed it improper for executive authority to interfere. "Although the constitution of California clothes the governor with power to exercise clemency at any time after conviction, it is important, so far as practicable, not to intrude into any criminal case until the judicial branch has finally disposed of it. Only recently has final action been taken by the United States Supreme court, and the case of The People vs. Thomas J. Mooney placed squarely before me. "In considering the Mooney case, I have had before me the urgent appeal of the president of the United States that I grant commutation. "Originally, early this year, I received a letter from the president asking me if it would not be possible to postpone the execution of Mooney until he could be tried upon one of the other indictments against him. "Inasmuch as an appeal already had been taken to the Supreme court of California, which appeal itself acted as a stay of the execution, there was at that time no occasion for action on my part. I take it that the president was not correctly informed as to the status of the case. "I have carefully reviewed all the available evidence bearing on the case. There are certain features connected with it which convince me that the extreme penalty should not be executed. Therefore, and because of an earnest request of President Wilson for commutation, and conscious of the duty I owe as governor of this state to all of its people. I have decided to commute Mooney's sentence to life imprisonment." Wilson's Letters to Stephens. President Wilson's letters to Gov. Stephens urging clemency for Mooney were written in March and June, the first reading as follows: "The White House, Washington, D. C., March 27. 1918.-Gov. William D. Stephens, Sacra mento, Cal.: "With very great respect I take the liberty of saying to you that if you could see your way to commute the sentence of Mooney it would have a most heartfelt effect upon certain international affairs which his execution would greatly complicate. "WOODROW WILSON." In June the governor received this additional message, the president again urging commutation of sentence: "The White House, Washington, D. C., June 4. 1918.-Hon. William D. Stephens, Sacramento, Cal.: "I beg that you will believe that I am moved only by a sense of public duty and of consciousness of the many and complicated interests involved when I again most respectfully Tallahassee ..Atlanta Honolulu .. Baton Rouge. .. Lincoln Trenton.. North Carolina..... Raleigh.. North Dakota...... Bismarck.. .Columbus.. Rhode Island....... Providence South Carolina..... Columbia South Dakota...... Pierre Wyoming ..Cheyenne Governor. Term, Next leg- Limit islature. session. Jan. 1919 50 days *Mar. 1919 60 days *Nov. 1919 None. 60 days Jan. 1919 60 days 4,000 Feb. 1921 4,000 Jan. 1921 *Jan. 1919 10,000 Jan. 1923 ....2 5,000 Jan. 1921 *Jan. 1919 90 days 5,000 Jan. 1921 6,000 Jan. 1921 5,000 June 1920 7,000 Apr. 1921 5,000 Jan. 1921 12,000 S. J. Catts, D........4 *Jan. 1919 60 days June 1919 50 days *Jan. 1919 Jan. 1921 *Jan. 1919 60 days *Jan. 1920 *May 1920 *Jan. 1919 *Jan. 1920 90 days Jan. 1919 None. *Jan. 1919 None. Jan. 1919 90 days Jan. 1920 60 days *Jan. 1919 70 days *Jan. 1919 60 days *Jan. 1919 60 days *Jan. 1919 60 days *Jan. 1919 None. 60 days 60 days None. Jan. 1920 Jan. 1919 None. Jan. 1918 60 days W. C. Sproul, R.......4 10,000 Jan. 1923 3,000 Jan. 1921 3,000 Jan. 1921 3,000 Jan. 1921 4,000 Jan. 1921 4,000 Jan. 1921 6,000 Jan. 1921 2,500 Oct. 1920 5,000 Feb. 1922 6,000 Jan. 1921 5,000 Mar. 1921 5,000 Jan. 1921 4,000 Jan. 1919 *Biennial sessions. †Appointed by the president. ‡Quadrennial sessions. UNITED STATES FOOD EXPORTS. Jan. 1919 Jan. 1919 *Jan. 1919 60 days *Jan. 1919 75 days *Jan. 1919 90 days *Jan. 1919 60 days *Jan. 1919 None. *Jan. 1920 90 days *Jan. 1919 60 days *Jan. 1919 45 days *Jan. 1919 None. *Jan. 1919 40 days The following table shows the increase over normal in exports of foodstuffs by the United States since it became the food reservoir for the world on account of the war: Beef products, lbs....186,375.372 621,745,507 3,084,390,281 2,149,787,050 1,108,559,519 1,065,398,247 Wheat harvest 1917-18 was 200,217,333 bushels below the average of the three previous years. The United States food administration issued the following Sept. 24, 1918: "Under the agreement entered into by the food administration with the food controllers of the allied nations, our breadstuffs export program for the coming year will be: Wheat, rye, barley and corn, or flours calculated as grain for breadstuffs, 409.320,000 bushels, of which from 100.000.000 to 165,000,000 bushels may be cereals other than wheat." IRISH HOME RULE AND CONSCRIPTION. ors, of Dublin, Belfast and Cork; fifteen peers resident in Ireland; eleven persons nominated by the lord lieutenant, fifteen representatives of commerce and industry. four representatives of labor, one for each province; eight representatives of county councils, two each province. Total, 64. (Carried 48 to 19.) Ireland was the scene of much political | ative of the general assembly, three lord mayturmoil and unrest in 1918. In April the convention which had been in session in Dublin for about eight months concluded its labors and a report, the main features of which are appended, was made. It was thought for a time that a fairly satisfactory solution of the Irish problem had been found and that the dream of home rule would at last be realized. But the conscription question, which had been raised earlier in the year, was coupled with the home rule proposition and aroused much opposition from the nationalists and the people generally that no progress made toward the establishment of a government in Dublin. The breach, on the contrary. was widened by the violent actions of the Sinn Feiners and the refusal of young Irishmen to volunteer in the army in any large numbers. So was On May 17 it was announced in Dublin that a German plot had been discovered in Ireland and that an outbreak of armed violence had been planned. On the following days many Irish leaders, including Prof. Edward de Valera and other Sinn Feiners, were arrested. It did not appear, however, that the plot had gone very far before it was crushed by the authorities. The great war came to a close before the conscription question was finally settled. OUTLINE OF HOME RULE PLAN. Sir Horace Plunkett made public April 12 the report of the Irish convention. Paragraph 42. under the title, "Statement of Conclusion," summed up the report as follows: "Section 1. The Irish parliament to consist of the king, senate and house of commons. Notwithstanding the establishment of an Irish parliament. the supreme power and authority of the parliament of the united kingdom shall remain unaffected and undiminished over all persons. matters and things in Ireland and every part thereof. (Section carried by 51 to 18.) "Sec. 2. The Irish parliament to have general powers to make laws for peace. order and the good government of Ireland. (Section carried 51 to 19.) "Sec. 3. The Irish parliament to have no power to make laws on the following: Crown and succession. the making of peace and war. army and navy. treaties and foreign relations. dignities and titles of honor. necessary control of harbors for naval and military purposes. coinage and weights and measures. copyrights and patents. "The imperial and Irish government shall jointly arrange. subject to imperial exigencies. for the unified control of the Irish police and postal services during the war. provided that. as soon as possible after the cessation of hostilities. the administration of these two services shall become subject to the Irish parliament. 4. Restriction of the power of the (Section carried 49 to 16.) Irish parliament; prohibition of laws interfering with religious equality; a special provision protecting the position of Freemasons; a safeguard for Trinity college and Queen's university: money bills to be founded only on viceregal message: privileges and qualifications of the members of the Irish parliament to be limited as in the act of 1914; rights of existing Irish officers to be safeguarded. (Carried 46 to 15.) a "Sec. 5. Constitutional amendments as in the act of 1914. (Carried 46 to 15.) "Sec. 6. The executive power in Ireland to continue to be invested in the king, exercisable through the lord lieutenant on the advice of an Irish executive committee as in the act of 1914. (Carried 45 to 15.) "Sec. 7. Dissolution of the Irish parliament, ás in the act of 1914. (Carried 45 to 15.) "Sec. 8. Royal assent to bills, as in the act of 1914. (Carried 45 to 15.) "Sec. 9. Constitution of the senate as follows: One lord chancellor, four bishops of the Roman Catholic church, two bishops of the Church of Ireland [Episcopal], one represent "Sec. 10. Constitution of the house of commons: The ordinary elected members shall number 160. The University of Dublin, the University of Belfast and the National university shall each have two members, elected by graduates. "Special representation shall be given to urban and industrial areas by grouping the smaller towns and applying to them a lower electoral quota than the rest of the country. "The principle of proportional representation shall be observed whenever a constituency returns two or three members. "Forty per cent of the membership in the house of commons shall be guaranteed to the unionists. and, in pursuance of this, twenty members shall be nominated by the lord lieutenant, with a view to due representation of interests not otherwise adequately represented in the provinces of Leinster, Munster and Connaught, and twenty additional members shall be elected by Ulster to represent commercial. industrial and agricultural interests, the nominated members to disappear in whole or in part after fifteen years. "Extra Ulster representation is not to cease except on the decision of a three-fourths majority of both houses sitting together. "The house of commons shall continue for five years. unless previously dissolved. (Carried 45 to 20.) "Sec. 11. Money bills to originate only in the house of commons and not amendable by the senate.. (Carried 45 to 22.) "Sec. 12. Disagreement between the houses to be solved by a joint sitting. (Carried 45 to 22.) "Sec. 13. Representation in the British parliament to continue. Irish representatives to have the right to deliberate and vote on all matters. Forty-two Irish representatives shall be elected to the British house of commons. Irish representatives in the British house of lords to continue as at present until that chamreconsidered. (Carried 44 to 22.) ber is remodeled, when that matter shall be solidated fund to be established. Sec. 14. Finance: Irish exchequer and conan Irish comptroller and auditor-general to be appointed, as in act of 1914. If necessary, it would be declared that all taxes at present leviable in Ireland should continue to be levied and collected until the Irish parliament otherwise decides. Necessary adjustments of revenue between Ireland and Great Britain during the transition should be made. (Carried 51 to 18.) "Sec. 15. Control of customs and excise by the Irish parliament to be postponed further consideration until after the war, provided that that question shall be considered and decided by the united kingdom parliament within seven years after the conclusion of peace. Until the question of the ultimate control of Irish customs and excise shall be decided. the united kingdom's board of customs and excise shall include persons nominated by the Irish treasury. for "A joint exchequer board, consisting of two members nominated by the imperial treasury and two nominated by the Irish treasury, with a chairman appointed by the king, shall be set up to determine the true income of Ireland. "Until the question of the ultimate control of the Irish customs and excise shall be declared, the revenue due to Ireland, as determined by the joint exchequer board, shall be paid into the Irish exchequer. All branches of taxation other than customs and excise shall be under control of the Irish parliament. (Carried 38 to 30.) "Sec. 16. The principle of imperial con |