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general.
Is. Special session of the 61st congress
opened; Joseph G. Cannon elected
speaker of the house.
II. Tariff bill framed by the Republican
members of the ways and means COM
mittee of congress introduced in the
house by Serene E. Payne, chairman
of the committee
g. Ex-President Theodore Roosevelt sail
ed from New York for Naples on the
Hamburg american liner Hamburg.
o. An agreement reached by Austria and
Servia effecting peace in the Balkans
APRIL.
1. The last of the United States troops
left Cuba.
TO- The Payne tariff bill passed the house
by vote of 217 to 81.
10. Turkish garrison in Constantinople
mutinied and expelled the Young Turks
ministry.
10. Ultimatum of Young Turks to parlia-
ment.
"a. The Young Turks gained complete
control of Constantinople, making the
Sultan Abdul Hamid prisoner in his
palace.
a. Abdul Hamid H., sultan of Turkey,
formally deposed by the Constitutional
party and his brother, Mohammed
Reschad, chosen successor.
April 10 in Constantinople executed for
conspiracy.
10. Mohammed ", Turkeys new sultan.
invested with the sword of sovereignty
at Constaptinople.
IT, Gen. Stoessel and Admiral Nebogatoff.
who were serving sentences for neg
ect of duty in the late war, pardoned
by the czar.
49, DIR. Charles William Eliot retired from
the presidency of Harvard after 40
years service.
49, Abbott Lawrence Lowell assumed the
presidency of Harvard university.
JULY.
g. The senate passed it's amended tariff
bill by a vote of As to "a.
9. Riotous Bolivians attacked the Ar
gentine legation at La Paz in protest
against Argentina's decision in the Pc
ruvian boundary dispute.
IA. Prince Won Bulow, chancellor of the
German empire retired from Office and
was succeeded by DR.. Won Bethmann-
Hollweg Royal troops of Persia de-
feated by the Nationalist at Teheran.
q. Diplomatic relations severed between
Bolivia and the Argentine Republic
upon the initiation of Argentina.
rs. An anti-Diaz political riot at Guada-
lajara, Mexico, resulted in wrecking
the town. Anti-Moroccan war riot in
AUGUST.
e. The Russian Emperor Nicholas re-
ceived as the guest of King Edward
VII. of England at Cowes.
s. The Payne tariff bill finally passed
the senate; congress adjourned
II. Samuel r. Van Zandt, ex-governor OF
Minnesota, elected commander in chief
of the g. A. R, at Salt Lake City.
SEPTEMBER.
l. DR.. Frederick A. Cook announced the
discovery by him of the north pole or
April q. 1908.
Z. Peary cabled from Indian Harbor
Labrador, that he reached the north
pole April 6, 1909.
Is. President Taft started from Boston or
his 1900 mile trip. Marriage at Ding
wall, Scotland. of Miss Anita Stewart
of New York to Prince Miguel of Bra
ganza a claimant to the throne OF
Portugal.
OCTOBER.
- American minister to China. Charlie:
r. Crane, recalled from his mission bs
the secretary of state.
l3. Meeting of the provincial assemblies o.
China under tho new constitutional pro
gram. Prof. Francisco Ferrer. Spanish
revolutionary teacher. executed at Bar
celona
16 President Taft and President Diaz O.
Mexico met at Ell Paso. Tex.
q. Cabinet crisis in Spain. result of tn
execution of Prof. Ferrer, the revolu
ZIONIST. on Oct. 13.
g. Car Nicholas made triumphal en-
try into Italy. guest of King Victo
Emmanuel.
NOvEN b.3a,
z. Judge William j. Gaynor elected may9
of New York on the Democratic tick
ct: election general reverse FOR Tam
many Hall. Municipal reform defeat
ed in San Francisco Tom johnson
beaten by Herman Baehr in Cleveland
mayorafty election.
3. Gold medal voted to PeaIy for having
reached the north pole by the Nationa
Geographic society.
TO- President Taft reached Washington a
the end of his trip
30. British house of lords rejected thu
Liberal budget by vote Of $50 to 70.
DECEMBER
1. The state department handed Seno