Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-01-09
POLITICAL

Jan. 4.-COnSTGSS T0dSS6InDleQ.
Jan. 11-Progressive national committee
called convention for June in Chicago
Jan. 23.-National Prohibition convention
called for July 10 in st. Paul.
Louis d. Brandeis for Supreme court
Feb. 2-House passed antichild labor
bill.
Feb 4-Senate passed bill for indepen-
dence of Philippines in to years.
Feb 9.-Senate passed house resolution
making available 5000 for re-equipping
Mare Island and New York navy yards
and house bill increasing by 800 the en-
trance class at naval academy.
Feb 10.-Secretary of War Garrison and
Assistant Secretary Breckenridge re-
Feb. 15-G. T. Marye. ambassador to
Russia, resigned.
Feb. is.-senate ratified Nicaraguan
Feb. 2S.-Haitian treaty ratified by SEN
March 81. H Shea of Seymour. Ind.
nominated ambassador to. Chile.
March 6.-Newton D. Baker of Cleve-
land appointed secretary of war.
March 22.-House passed Hay army re-
organization bill.
March 30.-House passed immigration
bill with literacy test clause.
April 11.-House passed $S9.OoO0O0 rivers
and harbors bill.
April 21-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 25-Henry Morgenthau resigned as
ambassador to Turkey.
April 30.-Socialist Labor party nomi-
mated Arthur E. Reiner of Boston for
president and Caleb Harrison of Chicago
for vice president
withdrawal from Philippines within def
mite time
May 15.-Senate rejected nomination of
G. Rublee of N. H. as member federal
trade commission
May 17.-Senate passed army bill.
House passed $51, 000. 900 flood control bill
May M.-House passed $5O.000,000 ship
House passed army bill
May 2s.-Senate, passed rivers and har-
bors bill.
associate Justice of Supreme court.
June 2-House passed naval appropria-
ton bill.
June Republican and Progressive ma
tlonal conventions opened in Chicago
June 1O.-Charles Evans Hughes nomi-
vention.
June 10.-Theodore Roosevelt nominated
June H.--Democratic convention opened
at st. Louis
June. B.--Wilson and Marshall renomi-
nated by Democrats.
June 26.-Roosevelt declined Progressive
nomir alton and Progressive national com
mite indnrsed candidacy of Hughes.
June .l.-Senate passed Sundry civil, good
roads and pension bills. carrying total OF
June 27.--W. R. Wilcox made chairman
of Republican national committee.
June 2S.-HouSe voted $2700O.O00 for i'm
mediate use of army. and passed good
July 1o.-House passed emergency rev.
July 12..Senate passed agricultural bill
carrying. $4,000, 900.
July 13.-Judge ]. H Clarke of Ohio
nominated for associate justice U. S. Su-
July 15.-Congressman Hay of Virginia
nominated associate justice y. S. court of
claims.
July B-Abram E1kus nominated as am
bassador to Turkey
July 19.-Prohibition national convention
opened in st. Paul, MINI.
July H.-Senate passed navy bill pro-
viding for 157 vessels
Prohibitionists nominated ]. Frank Han
1y for president and Ira D. Landrith for
July N:-Senate passed army bill car
Aug. S.-Child labor bill passed by SEN
Aug, 15.-House passed big navy. bill.
lug. 16.-Senate passed bill promising in
dependence to Philippines when Filipinos
are fit for self-government
bill nlus- lS-PFesident Wilson vetoed army
Senate passed shipping purchase BILL
Aug. 19.-Federal workmen's compensa-
ton act passed by senate.
Aug. 25.--House accepted senate amend
mentS to army bill.
Sept. 5.-Senate passed emergency rev.
enue bill with reprisal provisions against
British blacklist
Sept. T.-Senate ratified treaty for pur-
chase of Danish West Indies.
Sept. S.-Congress adjourned.
Sept R.-Republicans won In Maine
election.
Nov. 7.-Wilson and Marshall reelected
president and vice president of u. S.
Nov. 10.-Count Tarnowsky named Aus
trian am bassador to u. S.
Dec. 4-Congress began short session
DR.. Henry Van Dyke, American ambas.
sador to the Netherlands; T. A. Thomp-
son, minister to Colombia, and W. II
Hornibrook, minister to Siam. resigned
Dec. 5--President Wilson read his mes
sage to congress.
Dec. H.-Senate passed immigration bill
with literacy test clause