New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1916-12-29
POLITICAL

Jan. 4~-Congress reassembled.
Jan. 11.-Progressive national committee
called conyention for June ! in Chicago.
called for July 10 in st. Paul.
Jan. 25.-President Wilson nominated
Louis d. Brandeis for Supreme court
justice.
Feb. 2,-House passed antichild labor
bill.
Feb. 4.-senate passed bill for indepen-
dence Of Philippines in 2 to 1 years.
making available $500. 900 for re-eguippinp
Mare Island and New, York navy yards
and house bill increasing by 800 the en-
trance class at naval academy.
Feb, lo,-Secretary of War Garrison and
Assistant Secretary Breckenridge re.
signed.
Russia, resigned.
Feb. l%s.-senate ratified Nicaraguan
canal route treaty
Feb. 2S.-Haitian treaty ratified by SEN
March al. II. Shea of Seymour. Ind
nominated ambassador to Chile.
March SInNewton d: Baker of Cleve-
March 22.-House passed Hay army re-
organization bill.
March M.-House passed immigration
bill with literacy test clause.
April 1l-House passed $4,000, 900 rivers
and harbors bill.
April 1s.-senate passed army r%eorgani-
cation bill.
April 2l.-Japanese ambassador protested
to President Wilson against oriental ex-
clusion clause of immigration bill.
April 22,-senate passed house bill re-
pealing free sugar law.
April %: Henry Morgenthau resigned as
ambassador to Turkey.
April 30,-Socialist Labor party nomi-
mated Arthur e. Reimer of Boston for
president and Caleb Harrison OF Chicago
for vice president.
May l.-House rejected bill pledging
withdrawal from Philippines within def
May l5.-senate rejected nomination of
G. Rublee Of N. II. as member federal
trade commission.
May R.-Senate passed army bill.
House passed s5l Geo 900 flood control bill.
May DIHouse passed $1,000. 900 ship
House passed army bill.
May 29.-Senate passed rivers and har-
June Louis d. Brandeis confirmed as
associate Justice of Supreme court.
June 2.-House passed naval appropria-
June 7.-Republican and Progressive ma
ti2nal conventions opened in Chicago.
June 10.-Charles Evans Hughes nomi-
vention.
June 1O.-Theodore Roosevelt nominated
by ProgressiveS
June 14-Democratic convention opened
at st, Louis.
June l5..wilson and Marshall renomi-
mated by Democrats.
D',' w. Ntli uttllleu ITDBTeSSlNe
nomination and Progressive national com
mite indorsed candidacy of Hughes.
June 2'.-Senate passed sundry civil, good
r .ssa Is and pension bills. carrying total of
June CIV. r. Wilcox made chairman
or Republican national committee.
June %.-House voted s27, 900. 600 for i'm
roads bill.
July lo.-House passed emergency rev.
enue bill.
July l2,.senate passed agricultural bill.
July l3.-Judge ]. Fl. Clarke of Ohio
nominated for associate Justice U. S. Su-
preme court.
July l5.-Congressman Hay Of Virginia
nominated associate justice U. S. court of |
claims.
July H.-Abram Elkus nominated as am.
to Turkey.
July 19.-Prohibition national convention |
opened In st. Paul, MINI.
July 2l.-Senate passed navy bill pro-
viding for l57 vessels.
Prohibitionists nominated ]. Frank Han
ly for president and Ira d. Landrith for
vice president.
July 27.-Senate passed army bill car
rying $3l3, $40, Az.
Aug. s.-Child labor bill passed by SEN
Aug. 15.-House passed big navy bill.
Aug. l6.-Senate passed bill promising in.
dependence to Philippines when Filipinos |
are fit for self-government.
Aus. lS.-President Wilson vetoed army
bill.
Senate passed shipping purchase bill.
Aug. l9.-Federal workmen's compensa-
act passed by senate.
Aug. @-iouse accepted senate amend.
nents to army bill.
sept. 5.-Senate passed emergency rev.
nue. bill with reprisal provisions against
British blacklist.
Sept. 7.-Senate ratified treaty for DUR
'hase of Danish West Indies.
Sept. 8.-Congress adjourned.
Sept. G.-Republicans won in Maine
Nov. 7.-Wilson and Marshall reelected
and vice president of U. S.
Nov. lO.-Count Tarnowsky named Aus
rian ambassador to U. 9.
Dec. 4~-Congress began short session.
DIR. Henry Van Dyke, American ambas-
ador to the Netherlands; T. A. Thomp-
minister to Colombia. and W. II
iornibrook, minister to Siam. resigned.
Dec. 5.-President Wilson read his mes
age to congress.
Dec, H.-Senate passed immigration bill
With literacy test clause.