KANSAS. Thomas T. Taylor, State Board of Charities, Hutchinson. C. A. Hayes, M.D., Asst. Physician Hospital for the Insane, Osawatomie. KENTUCKY. R. C. Thomas, M.D., official delegate, member of State Board of Health. ILLINOIS. Shelby M. Cullom, Governor of Illinois, Springfield. E. F. Leonard, Private Secretary of the Governor, Springfield. Lieut.-Gov. Andrew Shuman, Chicago. George S. Robinson, President of State Board of Public Charities, Sycamore. Mrs. Robinson, Sycamore. J. C. Corbus, M.D., State Board of Public Charities, Mendota. Rev. Fred. H. Wines, Secretary of State Board of Public Charities, Springfield. Mrs. Wines, Springfield. John W. Whipp, Assistant Secretary of State Board of Public Charities, Springfield. R. W. McClaughry, Warden State Penitentiary, Joliet. J. C. Salter, Warden Southern Penitentiary, Chester. E. A. Kilbourne, M.D., Superintendent of Northern Insane Hospital, Elgin. H. F. Carriel, M.D., Superintendent of Central Insane Hospital, Jacksonville. Horace Wardner, M.D., Superintendent of Southern Insane Hospital, Anna. J. D. Scouller, M.D., Superintendent of State Reform School, Pontiac. George Davenport, Superintendent of Illinois Charitable Eye and Ear In firmary, Chicago. C. W. Marsh, Trustee Northern Insane Hospital, Sycamore. J. F. Culver, Trustee State Reform School, Pontiac. R. D. Lawrence, Commissioner of Southern Penitentiary, Springfield. R. J. Patterson, M.D., Superintendent Bellevue Place, Batavia. Henry J. Brooks, M.D., formerly Assistant Physician Northern Insane Hospital, Dixon. Rev. W. D. A. Matthews, Superintendent of Prison Department of the Mrs. John L. Beveridge, Industrial School for Girls, Evanston. CHICAGO. H. C. Senne, Chairman of the Board of County Commissioners. George W. Spofford, County Commissioner, Chairman Committee on Public Charities. P. McGrath, County Agent. D. W. Mills, Warden Cook County Hospital. E. B. McCagg, President of Relief and Aid Society. Rev. George C. Truesdell, Superintendent Relief and Aid Society. D. Wilkins, Superintendent Washingtonian Home. Viola E. Archibald, M.D., Illinois Social Science Association. Mrs. J. A. Thompson, Woman's Christian Association. Mrs. Thomas Burrows, Woman's Exchange. Mrs. William Penn Nixon, Woman's Exchange. Mrs. J. Clement, Woman's Hospital. Mrs. A. Peterson, Woman's Hospital. Mrs. F. D. Patterson, Woman's Hospital. G. S. Randall, Architect. Rev. R. W. Patterson, D.D., Theological Seminary of the North-West. Rev. Clinton Locke, D.D., President St. Luke's Hospital. J. S. Jewell, M.D. H. M. Bannister, M.D. E. L. Holmes, M.D., Eye and Ear Infirmary. S. J. Jones, M.D., Eye and Ear Infirmary. Gov. John L. Beveridge, Evanston. E. Ingalls, M.D., President State Medical Society. James R. Willett, Architect. J. C. Cochrane, Architect. A. G. Lane, County Superintendent Schools. Mrs. J. McGregor Adams. In the absence of the Governor of Illinois, the Lieutenant-Governor, Hon. Andrew Shuman, spoke briefly as follows: When the Governor "Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen, is out of the State, the Lieutenant-Governor is required to act as his official substitute. The Governor is out of the State to-day; and, although I will not presume to act as his substitute on this occasion as a speech-maker, I can nevertheless appear before you as his apologist. When Gov. Cullom left for Washington, a week ago, it was his intention to return in time to be present with you, and to take part in your deliberations. There must be a very good reason for his failure to carry out his intention, or he certainly would have been here as he had promised. He is noted for the scrupulous fidelity with which he fulfils his engage ments. "Ladies and gentlemen, there is no greater or better work in all this world than that in which you are engaged as the managers, agents, and ministers of the public and private charities of the country. The question of the repression and control of crime, pauperism, and the ills incident to human misfortune, is one of those partially-solved great problems of the ages, which still challenges the best thought and effort of the world's science, philanthropy, and statesmanship. The question as to what extent and by what methods the State should or can care for its unfortunates, and the question of how individual benevolence and organized private charity can most judiciously and effectively relieve the distressed, and help the needy, appeal to the soberest reason as well as to the tenderest heart. As I understand it, the object of this meeting is to confer about questions of this character. I can but express the hope that the results of your conference and deliberations may be in the highest degree edifying and gratifying to yourselves, profitable to the general public, and greatly promotive of the interests of our common humanity. "Ladies and gentlemen, if Gov. Cullom were here, he would, as I do, extend to you, in behalf of our people, the most cordial greeting, and the warmest welcome to our state and city." Gov. Bishop, of Ohio, responded on behalf of the delegates from other States. He said it was personally very gratifying to be present on this occasion, for he took a deep interest in a subject so vital to the welfare of our common country. He had the pleasure, one year ago, to welcome many who were now present to the State of Ohio, of which he had the honor then as now to be the chief executive. He was glad to meet again those who were last year at Cincinnati. This was, in his opinion, one of the best possible causes in which men and women could be engaged. If he could do any thing to forward this cause, he would gladly do it. Bishop Gillespie, of Michigan, said he did not know why he should be called on to speak, when there were so many present who had studied the subject, and had a wider acquaintance with it than he. He had sometimes visited the poor and those in prison, and had become much interested in these people. It was the habit of some people to think that the bars should be made stronger to keep criminals in, and that the poor were troublesome, and the quicker they were out of the way the better for society. There were others who believed that reformatory measures should be instituted. He believed it was one of vital interest to society, and one which should command the attention of all thoughtful men. REPORTS FROM THE STATES REPRESENTED. Nine of the States represented in the Conference then made reports on the charitable work therein, as follows: Michigan by Mr. Lord, Wisconsin by Mr. Elmore, Illinois by Mr. Robinson, Kansas by Gen. Taylor, Indiana by Mr. Early, Pennsylvania by Mr. Milligan, New York by Mr. Letchworth and Dr. Hoyt, Massachusetts by Mr. Spaulding, and Ohio by Dr. Byers and Gen. Brinkerhoff. These reports, some of them since revised by their authors, are the following: Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen, Since the last Conference, Michigan has kept along with her work: no change in policy has occurred, and some new institutions have been provided for. Our new Asylum for the Insane was opened in July, 1878, at Pontiac, and is, in point of architectural beauty combined with economy of structure, almost a model institution. We now have provision for one thousand insane patients, and have, including epileptics, about eighteen hundred in the State. The last session of the legislature also provided for the location and erection of an t industrial school for vagrant and delinquent girls, an institution greatly needed in our State. At the same session it was also provided, and an appropriation made, to build a separate institution for the education of the blind; they having heretofore been instructed in the same establishment with the deaf and dumb, much to the regret of our Board, and, as we thought, to the damage of both classes of pupils. Michigan has been blessed with a long line of governors who were in sympathy with advanced views of philanthropy, and with intelligent care and discipline for the dependent and criminal classes. Its legislature, though inclined to scrutinize closely all new schemes for additional institutions, has always responded with open-handed liberality where a case of necessity has been clearly made out. Our Board of Corrections and Charities has ever been careful to recommend no unconsidered or speculative projects, and has never yet been denied favorable legislation for reasonable requests. Mr. We have to regret, since the last meeting of the Conference at Cincinnati, the death of Hon. Uzziel Putnam, for several years a member of our board. He was a delegate to the Conference at Cincinnati; and many of you will remember him, as you were impressed with the earnestness and sincerity of his manner. Putnam was a man of such purity of life, and carried about him such an expression of good-will for all to whom he could be of service, that the atmosphere of those fields beyond the swelling flood, to which he was hastening, seemed to encircle him here. Mr. Putnam's place on our board was supplied by the Governor in the appointment of Dr. E. H. Van Deusen, for twenty years and until recently the medical superintendent of the Insane Asylum at Kalamazoo. Wisconsin as a State was thirty-one years old on the fifth day of this month. The New-England States, New York, and Pennsylvania have been perfecting their charitable and penal systems, and erecting suitable buildings, for a century; while in less than onethird of that time we have expended over six millions of dollars. What the States above named have done in a century, we have done in thirty-one years, and no wonder our taxes have been high. Particularly during the past four years of depression has this been felt by the tax-payers. The Wisconsin Institution for the Educa |