Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-11-30
but this bulletin shows the following
percentages of

but this bulletin shows the following
percentages of
PERSONS WHO CAN NOT WRITE
among the native whites over 10 years
old; United States, 81; Alabama, 25;
Arkansas, 25 5; Florida. 20.7 Georgia,
23,2, Kentucky, 22.S; Louisiana, 1913;
North Carolina, 81 s; South Carolina,
% 4; Tennessee, 27S; Virginia, 1875;
Illinois, 5S; Indiana, 6,S; Iowa, 90;
Michigan, %; Wisconsin, 2; Massa-
chusetts. or; New York, %. Seventy
per cent of all ,colored persons in the
United States over 10 years old caa
not write, and II per cent. of the for
elgn-oorn white persons can not write.
The percentage of foreign born persons
who can write varies widely in differ s
ent states. In Connecticut per cent.
of the native whites and is 3 per cent.
OF foreign born persons over 10 years
old can not write. In Illinois only II
per cent. of the foreign-born can not
write, while in Maine 237 per cent.
can not. In this last state only ll.9
per cent. of the native whites are una
BILE to write. In Delaware 1876 per
cent. OF the foreigners can not write.
In Dakota the percentage is only IS;
in Massachusetts it is 1876; in Wiscon-
sin it is 10 s; in Rhode Island, it is rs:
and in Texas "a Z: while in South Ca
Iolina it is only 40, and in North Caro-
lima 33.
SECRETARY FoLGER's REPORT.
New YORK, Nov 24.-The Suns
Washington special has the following
on the forthcoming report of Folger:
The secretary will estimate a surplus
at the end of the fiscal year of $50.
100000. He relics upon an important
decrease in The river and harbor bill,
aud in fact in all appropriations. He
Will hint at the tendency to congress
slonal extravaganza, and will intimate
this extravaganza has been fostered by
the knowledge that there would be a
surplus of $145, 900 600 exclusive of Me
sinking fund at the end of the last tis-
cal year. The secretary will urge re-
duction Of taxation on the ground that
large SURPRISES tempt to extravaganza.
He will recommend that the debt
ought not to be paid off more rapidly
than it comes due. He will remind con-
gress this can be done simply by meet
ing the sinking fund. He will oppose
| the abolition OF the internal revenue
tax, but will go further than he did
last year, respecting reduction of
these taxes. He will still urge that
spirits and tobacco be taxed, but will
suggest that the amount may be safely
reduced. He will also recommend
that the pending tax bill be passed. He
further recommended tariff reduction,
but will make no special recommends
ton on this subject, except to call at
tention to the work OF the tariff COM
mission. He will confine himself to
recommending a careful and thorough
revision of the tariff, though he will
suggest reduction of the sugar ta4
and that on iron and steel manufac-
lures. He will also call the attention
OF congress to the relation of the ma
tional banks to the bonded debt of tie
country, suggesting that the rapid ex-
tingushment of the currency may fol-
low, because banks will refuse to take
AZ and AS at premium to replace
IS and 34s, preierring to retire their
circulation. The secretary will recon-
mend, therefore, that if the revenues
are not reduced the banks be allowed
to place 3s and 3l's with As and AS,
giving circulation for the full face val
ue. 1t is plain that the secretary and
president mean to do all in their pow.
| er this winter to bring congress TO its
senses, and that John Sherman is TO be
the administrations ally on the floor of
the senate. He will soc the secretary
through, and give him such advice IS
he may deem best. In other words,
Shermans sway over the treasury is
| restored.
! THE MANNING-CHALMERs CASE.
Mr.. Manning, Of Mississippi, says
that all talk of the governor reconsid-
ering his action in granting Mr.. Man
ming - certificate of election is baseess.
~ the certificate il now in his posses-
| sion and the governor cannot reconsic-
er the iact whatever change dis mind
may undergo. What course he will
pursue Mr.. Manning declines to indi
cate, but he says lie is in receipt of
many letters from his constituents and
from people in other parts of the state,
and has talked with many democratic
members of congress, and on every
side he il assured that he has rs good
a case legally ~ he could possibly have.
Gen. Chalmers is in position to sym
pathze with the bird whose own PIN
ion feathered the arrow that pierced
it, for the law points involved in this
case, and which Mr.. Manning insists on,
are the points claimed only two years
ago by Chalmers himself, and
atlirmed by the state courts
in the litigation between Chal-
mers and Lynch. Chalmers erected
the legal barriers behind which Man
ming is now intrenched, and which he is
now trying to destroy as Lynch tried to
destroy them two years ago. Mr..
Manning says further that the letters
he gets from home, assure him that he
had actually more legal ballots than
Chalmers, 40 that the equities as we'll
as the law are on his side; but it has
never yet been held that the letters to
a candidate from his friends, assuring