The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1920-01-07

TER. CHALLIS. IDAHO
socialists seized control Of the govern
| ment.
The situation in Ireland where the
Sim Feln continued its efforts to es.
as the year advanced. Repeated dis
orders occurred and on September II
Viscount French, lieutenant governor
Of Ireland, prohibited further meetings
Of the so-called Irish parliament. Many
arrests were made by the military.
The fighting in Russia had continued
without decided advantage to any
group until on October Is the force
commanded by General Yudenitch. ad-
vancing against the bOlshevists,
reached point within fifteen miles Of
Petrograd.
While other problems growing out Of
the war were being settled, the ques-
ton Of the disposal Of Fiume continued
to cause trouble. On September IS
Gabrielle d'Annunzio, the Italian SOL
dier.pOet, entered Fiume at the head
Of several thousand soldiers and took
| eoA.:-ol Of the port in defiance Of the
Italian and allied military authorities.
On September 10 the representatives
Of the great powers handed a peace
treaty to Bulgaria. Under this treaty
western Thrace was taken from Bull
garia, her army was reduced to 10000,
and she was required to pay Sac, 0OO,-
600 as reparation for damages done by
her armies.
Reverses for all Of the forces op-
posing the bolsheviki were reported in
November. On the 18th General Yu-
denitch was forced to retreat to the
Esthonian border and resigned COM
mand Of the Russian northwest army.
On the same day it was reported that
the bolsheviki had captured Omsk, the
seat Of the Kolchak government. DAN
nunzio created a still more serious sit
uation for Italy when he seized lara,
Dalmatia, on November IA.
Domestic Affairs M
The return of the United States to a
condition of peace was not accom-
plished easily. Unusual conditions ex-
listed and the people Of the country
were confronted with problems that
had been unknown in the days before
the war.
The adoption Of nationwide prohi-
bition and the submission by congress
Of the constitutional amendment for
complete woman's suffrage were i'm
portant events Of the year. Ratifica-
ton Of the national prohibition amend
ment came early in the year with a
rapidity that surprised the nation. On
January 20 the state department pro-
claimed the ratification of the amend
ment and set January 16, 1920. as the
date when it would become effective.
On January 8 Attorney General Greg
DRY rendered his resignation, to become
effective March 4, and A. Mitchell Pal
mer was appointed to succeed him on
February p. On January II Walker
D. Hines was appointed director gen.
eral Of railroads to succeed William
G. McAdoO.
The governments first blow at the
radicals during the year was deliv-
cred on January when Congressman
Victor L. Berger and four other So
cialist leaders were found guilty by
a federal jury in Chicago Of conspiring
to interfere with the successful con-
duct of the war. On February 10 they
were sentenced to 20 years. imprison-
ment.
On March 2 Herbert Hoover was
appointed by the president to be d.
rector general Of American relief
among the population of Europe.
Because of the necessity for legis-
lation to meet the new after-war con-
ditions, President Wilson on May z, by
cable from Paris, called special SEES
sion Of congress to convene May 10.
On May 10 the campaign for the Vic
tory Liberty loan, the last popular war
loan, closed with a heavy oversub-
scription Of the $4,000, 100000 bond
issue.
The special session Of the Sixty
sixth congress opened on May 10 with
the Republicans in control Of both
house and senate for the first time
since 1912. The house Of representa-
tives was organized by the election Of
Congressman Gillett Of Massachusetts
as speaker. In the senate Senator
Cummins Of Iowa was elected presi-
dent pro TEN.
One Of the first acts Of the new
house was to pass the woman suffrage
amendment to the Constitution by a
vote Of 3O4 to 80. The amendment
was again brought up in the senate on
June 4 and this time was adopted by
a vote of So to 25.
The activities Of anarchistic ele-
ments were manifested on June 2
when bombs were exploded simultan-
eously at the residences Of ten men in
eight Eastern cities.
On July l the wartime emergency
prohibition act went into effect and
for the first time in history the sale