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1092 vided for, and art Act passed allowing towns of 1,000 inhabitants or more to adopt the commission-manager form of government. By an Act of 1919 the commissioner of taxation was replaced by a state Board of Equalization with power to increase or decrease the assessed value of any class of property in any county. The law of 1909 limiting county taxes was replaced by the Act of 1911 grading the tax limit according to the assessed valuation of the county. A beginning was made in 1921 in the revision of the taxation system by- provision for an effective inheritance tax. The bonded debt was reduced from $140,000 in 1910 to $99,000 in 1918, but in 1920 it was increased to $1,935,000, due to the issue of bonds for the construction of roads.

Wyoming has been normally a Republican state in politics, but Republican control was seriously threatened for some years, beginning with the Insurgent Republican movement of 1910. Joseph M. Carey headed that movement, and a combination of Insurgent Republicans and Democrats resulted in the election in 1910 of Carey as governor, and of a majority of Democratic state officials. But the Republicans retained their control of the state Legislature throughout the decade 1910-20, and controlled the judiciary until the Act of 1918 providing for election of judges on a non-partisan ticket. Frank W. Mondell (Rep.) was reflected as the state's one representative in Congress in 1910 and in every succeeding election of the decade. Clarence D. Clark (Rep.) was reflected to the U.S. Senate in 1910 and Francis E. Warren (Rep.) in 1912 and again in 1918. In 1914 John B. Kendrick (Dem.) was elected governor by a vote of 22,387 to 19,174 for his Republican competitor; in 1916 he was elected to the U.S. Senate over Clark (Rep.) by a vote of 26,324 to 23,258. In 1918, however, the Republicans won the elections by substantial majorities, and in 1920 they swept the state for both state and national tickets. The presidential vote in 1912 was 15,310 for Wilson, 14,560 for Taft, and 9,232 for Roosevelt; in 1916 it was 28,316 for Wilson and 21,698 for Hughes; in 1920 it was 35,091 for Harding and 17,429 for Cox.

During the World War Wyoming supplied to the U.S. army 11,393 men, to the navy 638, and to the marine corps in. The subscriptions to the war loans, in each case exceeding the state's quota, were as follows: First Liberty Loan, $1,568,900; Second, $5,132,650; Third, $6,737,000; Fourth, $10,183,150; Victory Loan, $6,862,250.

The recent governors have been: Joseph M. Carey (Prog.), 1911-5; John B. Kendrick (Dem.), 1915-7^. L. Houx (acting, Dem.), 1917-9; Robert D. Carey (Rep.), 1919-. (L. A. W.*)