Slaughtering and meat packing.. Foundry and machine shop products. LEADING ILLINOIS INDUSTRIES IN 1914. $410,709,225 the persons employed 362,355 were wage earners. 97,506,966 These establishments manufactured products to 85,359,436 the value of $1,734,736,737, to produce which 84,339,611 Cars, steam railroad, not including op- TRIER Cars and general shop construction and repairs by steam railroad companies. 16,687,929 Leather, tanned, curried and finished... 15,662,742 Copper, tin and sheet iron products.... 13,236,073 Musical instruments, pianos and organs and materials ........ PROVISO 12,670,705 10,808,693 LYONS Patent medicines and compounds and In 1914 the metropolitan district had 10,945 manufacturing establishments, which gave employment to 444,876 persons during the year and paid out $353,484,061 in salaries and wages. Of CHICAGO CITY WORTH EVANSTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY. President-J. Seymour Currey. Secretary-William C. Levere. The Evanston Historical society has rooms in the Public Library building there. It has a library of 2.000 volumes, 1,000 pamphlets and a large amount of historical data. GOVERNMENT OF ILLINOIS. Legislative power is vested in a general assembly, consisting of a senate and house of representatives, both elected by the people. The state is divided into fifty-one senatorial districts, each of which elects a senator and three representatives. The general assembly makes laws and appropriates money for the government of the state and in general stands in the same relation to the state as congress does to all the states as a whole. The powers and duties of the chief executive officers are as follows: He Governor-The governor is vested with the chief executive power of the state. He is the commander in chief of the military and naval forces and may call out the militia to maintain the peace. He is required to inform the general assembly, by message, of the condition of affairs of the state and to recommend needed legislation. He may, by proclamation, call a special session of the assembly or adjourn it in case of disagreement between the two houses. He has the power to appoint certain officers and during a recess of the senate may fill vacancies or remove certain officers and may call special elections to fill vacancies in certain offices. may make requisitions upon the governors of other states for the return of fugitives from justice or offer rewards for the arrest of offenders against the laws of the state. He exercises a general supervision over the penitentiaries and may grant reprieves, commutations and pardons and may restore the rights of citizenship to ex-convicts. He may approve acts. of the legislature and exercise the veto power. Lieutenant-Governor-This officer is ex officio president of the senate and has the power to In cast the deciding vote in case of a tie. case of the death, conviction on impeachment, failure to qualify, resignation, absence from the state or other disability on the part of the governor, the lieutenant-governor succeeds to the office to the close of the term. Secretary of State-The secretary of state is charged with the safekeeping of the original laws and resolutions of the general assembly; with all books, bills and documents deposited with him by either house, and with all bonds, records and papers filed in his office. He keeps a record of the official acts of the governor; furnishes certified copies of the same to the assembly on request and certified copies of any of the records of his office on the payment of the statutory fees. He countersigns and affixes the seal of the state to all proclamations and commissions issued by the governor: issues 11censes for incorporations and certificates of or ganization to cities and villages and incorporated towns. He has charge of most of the buildings and grounds belonging to the state in Springfield, furnishes supplies for the general assembly and supervises the printing and distribution of all the public documents of the state. He calis the house of representatives to order at the beginning of each general assembly and presides over the same until the election of a speaker. He is the keeper of the great seal of the state and is the custodian and sealer of weights and measures. Auditor-The auditor is required to keep all the accounts of the state; to audit the accounts of all officers or other persons authorized to receive moneys from the state treasury: to personally sign all warrants drawn on the treasury; to institute suits wherein the state is a plaintiff, and to make a biennial report of the business of his office to the governor. With the governor and treasurer he determines the state tax rate. He exercises a general supervision over state banks, building, loan and homestead associations. State Treasurer-The state treasurer is custodian of the revenues and public moneys of the state. He must make monthly settlements with the auditor and a biennial report to the governor. Superintendent of Public Instruction-The superintendent exercises a general supervision over all the public schools of the state. He is the general and legal adviser of the county superintendents and must report biennially to the governor the general condition of all the schools of the state, the amount raised by taxation for school purposes and the manner of its expenditure and the general condition of all the school funds. He may grant state certificates to teachers or cause them to be withheld and must visit charitable institutions which are educational in character. Attorney-General-It is the duty of the attorney-general to represent the state in the Supreme court in all cases in which the state is interested; to act as counsel for all state officials; to be the legal adviser of the governor and other state officers in matters relating to their official duties, and, on request, to furnish them, as well as either branch of the general assembly, with written opinions upon constitutional or legal questions. preme. anklin.... amilton ancock. ardin..... enderson enry oquois ckson sper..... ferson... rsey. 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