Daniel J. Ryan, Secretary of State, was born in Cincinnati in January, 1855. When he was seven years of age his parents moved to Portsmouth, Ohio, where he has since resided. He received his elementray education in the public schools and graduated at the high school at Portsmouth in 1875. He took a course in law, beginning before his graduation at school, and in 1877 was admitted to the bar by the Supreme Court in session at Columbus. In April of the same year he was elected City Solicitor of Portsmouth and reelected in 1879. In 1883 he was nominated by acclamation for Representative in the General Assembly and triumphantly elected, and in 1885 was reelected and was subsequently chosen Speaker pro tem. of the Sixty-seventh General Assembly. He was the first State President of the Ohio Republican League, serving two years, and was Temporary Chairman of the National Republican League in New York City, in December, 1887. In 1888, at Dayton, he was nominated by acclamation for Secretary of State and elected in November. He was again nominated and reelected in 1890. This was the sixth time he had been nominated for office by his party and always by acclamation. He resigned as

Secretary of State, in 1892, to accept the office of Commissioner of the World's Fair for the State of Ohio, and filled this position, as he had the others to which he had been elected, with great credit to the State and honor to himself. At present he is a successful practitioner, with an office in Columbus, Ohio.

Joseph P. Bradbury, Judge of the Supreme Court, was born on a farm near Kyger, Gallia County, Ohio, November 21, 1838. He still devotes his spare time to farming and is noted as a breeder of fancy cattle. His education was obtained in the common schools of his native county. In 1857 he entered the military service of the United States, serving that year in an expedition against the Mormons, his commander being Albert Sidney Johnston, later prominent as a Confederate General. He also served in an expedition under General Reynolds, who was afterward killed at the battle of Gettysburg. In 1859 he went to California and for several years was engaged in gold mining. He began the practice of law in 1866 at Union City, Indiana, but removed the same year to Pomeroy, Ohio, which is still his home. In 1869 he was elected Prosecuting Attorney of Meigs County and was reelected in 1871. In 1875 he was elected Common Pleas Judge and again in 1876 and in 1881. In 1884 he was chosen Judge of the Fourth Judicial Circuit and served as such until elected to the Supreme Bench in 1888. He was reelected in 1893, and his term of office will expire in 1899.

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HE second session of the Fiftieth Congress began on Monday, December 3, 1888, and closed by limitation of law on Sunday, March 3, 1889. The most important measure enacted was the one providing for the admission into the Union of four new States, namely: Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota and Washington. The conference bill was adopted by both Houses on February 20th, and was approved by the President on the 22d. It was believed at the time by the Democrats that Montana and Washington were Democratic, North Dakota Republican and South Dakota doubtful. The Republicans were confident that all were Republican. Subsequent events proved that the Democrats had reasonable grounds for their belief, for all except the third named have been vacillating politically. Other measures importance which Congress acted upon were: Refunding the Direct Tax (which the President vetoed); a law incorporating the Nicaragua Canal Company; one for the protection of Alaskan fisheries, and one for the protection of American interests in Panama. Congress also passed a law for the relief of General William S. Rosecrans, at one time a Democratic nominee for Governor of Ohio, and placed him on the retired list as a Brigadier General of the United States Army. The measure met

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with some opposition in the House, but it was not factional.

The electoral vote was counted in the hall of the House of Representatives on February 13th, both branches of Congress meeting in joint convention. There were no objections offered to the vote of any State, and therefore no discussions or unusual occurrences. The proceedings were merely formal and Harrison and Morton were declared duly elected President and Vice President of the United States, having received 233 votes each, to 168 votes each for their competitors, Cleveland and Thurman.

Benjamin Harrison, twenty-fifth President of the United States, was born at North Bend, Hamilton County, Ohio, August 20, 1833. He received a classical education, graduating from Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, in 1852. He studied law in Cincinnati, was admitted to the bar and immediately removed to Indianapolis, Indiana, where he has since resided. In October, 1860, he was elected Reporter of the Supreme Court of the State, but in 1862 enlisted in the Union Army, raised the Seventieth Indiana Volunteer Infantry regiment and was commissioned as its Colonel. In August these troops were sent to the front and served actively until mustered out in 1865. In the meantime the Democrats declared the office vacant-although Harrison

had left an efficient deputy, and elected his successor. Colonel Harrison was brevetted Brigadier General of Volunteers, January 23, 1865, "for ability and manifest energy and gallantry in command of brigade." In October, 1864, while at the front, he was elected Clerk of the State Supreme Court, for the second time, and, after his return from the war, again entered upon the duties of the office, serving for four years. In 1876, to the surprise of the public, Godlove S. Orth, Republican candidate for Governor of Indiana, withdrew from the canvass near the close of the campaign and General Harrison was substituted. He ran two thousand votes ahead of his ticket, but was beaten by three thousand votes at the October election. In 1879, President Hayes appointed him a member of the Mississippi River Commission, which he accepted, and President Garfield offered him a Cabinet position in 1881, which he declined. He was chosen to the United States Senate in 1881 as the successor of Joseph E. McDonald, Democrat, and served until March 3, 1887. He was defeated for reelection by David Turpie, Democrat, after a prolonged and most extraordinary contest, and at once resumed the practice of law. On June 26, 1888, General Harrison was nominated for President by the Republican National Convention at Chicago, was elected in November, 1888, and inaugurated March 3, 1889. He was renominated at the Minneapolis Convention, June 10, 1892, but was defeated for reelection the following November. After his retirement from office he again took up his law practice in Indianapolis.

President Benjamin Harrison's inauguration occurred a few minutes after twelve o'clock, on a platform adjacent to the east portico of the Capito. The rain was pour

ing down when the President reached the portico and an effort was made at the time to prevent him from risking his life in such a storm, but he said he would not disappoint the large assemblage of spectators and would take a wetting with the rest. The oath of office was administered by Chief Justice Fuller and the inaugural address followed. It was a remarkable fact that during the reading of the lengthy document thousands of people remained the whole time and listened with attention and interest, frequently responding to some sentiment with great outbursts of applause. Only two inaugural addresses had been more voluminous, that of the new President's grandfather, William Henry Harrison, in 1840, and of James K. Polk immediately following in 1844. The ceremonies attending this inauguration celebrated not only the advent of a new Administration but the beginning of the second century of the Republic under the present form of government, although George Washington, the first President, was not inaugurated in the then capital city, New York, until April 30, 1789. This was due to the fact that Congress could not organize until April 6th, when the electoral votes were counted. Washington was not notified until the 14th and did not arrive until the 23d. Even then Congress was unprepared and delayed the ceremonies until the 30th, though John Adams had been installed in the chair of the Senate as Vice President on the 21st.

The rain which had begun on March 3, 1889, continued all through the 4th, but notwithstanding the inclemency of the weather there was a great parade that took all the afternoon to pass the reviewing stand. In his address, President Harrison upheld

the doctrines of protection to American industries and the reform of civil service, recommended an increase of the United States Navy, advocated subsidies for American steamships, the restriction of foreign immigration and the revision of the election laws. With reference to the naturalization of foreign-born citizens, he said:

Our naturalization laws should be so amended as to make the inquiry into the character and good disposition of persons applying for citizenship more careful and searching. Our existing laws have been in their administration an unimpressive and often an unintelligible form. We accept a man as a citizen without any knowledge of his fitness and he assumes the duties of citizenship without any knowledge as to what they are. The privileges of American citizenship are so great and its duties so grave that we may well insist upon a good knowledge of every person applying for citizenship and a good knowledge by him of our institutions. We should not cease to be hospitable to immigration, but we should cease to be careless as to the character of it. There are men of all races, even the best, whose coming is necessarily a burden upon our public revenues or a threat to social order. These should be identified and excluded.

The Cabinet appointments were promptly confirmed by the Senate. They, together with subsequent changes (dates of which are given), were: Secretary of State, James Gillespie Blaine, of Maine; John Watson Foster, of Indiana, June 29, 1892; Secretary of the Treasury, William Windom, of Minnesota; Charles Foster, of Ohio, February 7, 1891; Secretary of War, Redfield Proctor, of Vermont; Stephen B. Elkins, of West Virginia, December 24 1891; Secretary of the Navy, Benjamin Franklin Tracy, of New York; Postmaster General, John Wanamaker, of Pennsylvania; Attorney General, William Henry Harrison Miller, of Indiana; Secretary of the Interior, John Willock Noble, of Missouri; Secretary of Agriculture, Jeremiah McLain Rusk, of Wisconsin. Of these, Windom, Noble and Rusk were

natives of and had grown to manhood in Ohio, Charles Foster always resided in Ohio, and Miller resided at Toledo and practiced law in Ohio courts for several years prior to his removal to Indiana, but was a native of New York.

Shortly after the new President took his seat-March 22d, Stanley Matthews, of Ohio, Judge of the United States Supreme Court, died, and the vacancy was filled by the appointment of David Josiah Brewer, of Kan

sas.

The adjourned session of the Sixty-eighth General Assembly of Ohio opened on Tuesday, January 8th, and the final adjournment occurred on Monday, April 15th. The number of bills passed was unusually large, but were mainly of a local character and amendments to existing laws. Those of a general nature were: To suppress

bucket shops"

and gambling in stocks. To prevent the waste of natural gas. To prohibit the manufacture and sale of adulterated liquors. To define and punish the crime of riotous conspiracy (aimed at Whitecap" organizations). To make the Compulsory Education Law more effective. An amendment to the Election Law to prevent loitering around the polling places, and to prohibit the distribution of tickets by unauthorized persons on election day.

President-elect Harrison left his home in Indianapolis on February 25th, enroute to Washington Washington to be inaugurated, passing through Ohio that afternoon and night. He was greeted at every station by great throngs of enthusiastic citizens, and was met at the Columbus union depot by Governor Foraker and other State officers, members of the General Assembly and thousands of cheering constituents at nine o'clock in the evening. In response to the