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UNITED STATES : — TENNESSEE

TENNESSEE.

Constitution and Government.— The General Assembly consists ol a Senate of 33 members elected for two years, and a House of Representatives of 98 members elected also for two years.

No clergyman of any denomination is eligible to either House. Qualified as electors are (with the usual excei^tions) all male citizens Avho have resided in the State 12 months and in the county six months next before the election and have paid the poll-tax.

Tennessee is represented in Congress by tAvo Senators and ten Represen- tatives.

Gover7ior.—Beu W. Hooper, 1913-15 (7,500 dollars).

Secretary of State.— H. W. Goodloe.

The State is divided into 96 counties. The State Capital is Nashville.

Area, Population, Instruction— Area, 42,050 stpiare miles (300

square miles water).

Years

Population \

Years

1 Population

1

Total

Per sq. mile

Total

Per sq. mile

1860 1880

1,109,801 1,542,359

26-6 1 36-9

1900 1910

2,020,616

2,184,789

1

48-4 52-4

In 1910 the population included 1,103,491 males and 1,081,298 females. Of the total, 18,460 were of foreign birth ; 473,088 were negroes, 216 Indians, 43 Chinese and 8 Japanese.

In 1900 the population by sex and race was : —

—

White

Negro

Asiatic

77 ! 2

79

1

Indian

Total

Male Female

782,702 757,484

238,388 241,855

57

51

1,021,224 999,392

Total

. 1,540,186

480,243

108

2,020,616

The foreign-born numbered (in 1900) 17,746, of whom 4,569 were German, 3,372 Irish, and 2,027 English. The cities, Avith population in 1910, are Memphis, 131,105 ; Nashville (capital), 110,364 ; Knoxville, 36,346 ; Chattanooga, 44,604; Jackson, 15,779 ; Clarksville, 18,548.

About 40 per cent, of the Church membership in the State are Baptist, and 33 per cent. Methodist ; Presbyterians and Disciples of Christ rank next; and then Roman Catholics.

In several counties school attendance is compulsory, and throughout the State the employment of children under 14 years of age in workshops, factories, or miues, is illegal. There are separate schools for AAdiite and for coloured children. In 1910 the public elementary schools had 521,753 enrolled pupils with 10,286 teachers. 99 public high schools had 317 teachers and 7,362 pupils. There is in the State a public normal school AA'ith 27 teachers and 495 pupils in 1910. Higher education is provided in

22 universities and colleges, the more important of which are : —