New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1920-01-02
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Jan. michigan Legislature ratified pro
hibItion constitutional amendment.
Jan. Legislature of OHIO. Dklahomi
and Colorado ratified the prohibition
amendment.
Supreme court declared constitutions
the act torhidding shipment Of liquor int,
dry territory.
Jan. SBerser. Kruse. Germer. Engdan
and Tucker, Socialists, convicted in Chi
cage of sedition and dis!oyaIty.
Tennessee, Idaho and Maine legislature.
ratified prohibition amendment.
Jan 9-Nest Virginia ratified prohibi
tion amendment.
Attorney General Gregory resigned. eff.
fectiye March 4.
Jan. H-Prohibition amendment ratified
by Illinois, Alabama. Arkansas. Callfor
MIA. Indiana. Kansas and North Carolina
Jan. l5-lowa. Utah. Colorado. Oregon
and New Hampshire ratified dry amend
ment.
Jan. lG-Nebraska ratified prohibition
amendment. making the three-iourths
majority necessary. and Missouri and
Wyoming followed.
Forty-six l. W. VS. con, .cted OF con
spIracy- In Sacramento. Cal.
Jan. i-NiscOnsin and Minnesota rati-
ned prohibition amendment.
Jan. 2l-Nevaia ratified prohibition
amendment.
Jan, estate department proclaimed
ratihcatlon of prohibition amendment and
set Jan, 10. 1920. as date when it is effec-
Feb. ~1O-sunrage amendment beaten in
senate by one vote.
Feb. lS-Rerger. Kruse. Germer. Eng
dahl and Tucker, socialists. sentenced to
~ years Imprisonment for violating es-
pionage act.
Feb. 2~3-Spanish and Cuban radicals ar
Rested in New York and Philadelphia for
Conspiracy ab to KIN President Wilson:
president, went into effect.
Feb. 21-H. c. Wallace. Tacoma, APP
pointed ambassador to France.
a: Mitchell Palmer made attorney gem
March Norman Hapgood made minis
ter to Denmark.
March 3-Victory loan bill passed by
senate
March ~4-Congress adjourned sine die.
April Thomas Nelson Page. ambassa-
dor to Italy. resigned.
April l6-iIugh Gibson appointed first
l. $ Minister to Poland.
April 2t-Postmaster General Burleson
directed return Of cable companies to pri-
Nate ownership May 2
April D-Plot to kill many prominent
Americans with mailed bombs uncovered,
May MAY day riots in many cities.
May president called extra session of
congress for MAY 10.
May Especial session OF congress
opened, Gillett elected speaker.
Frederick Gillett elected speaker of next
house.
May N-President Wilson'S cabled mes
sage read to congress.
May 2l-House adopted woman suffrage
constitutional amendment resolution.
May 21-Dr. Lynn Harold Uough elected
of northwestern university.
June 2~-Anarchist plot to destroy homes
Of law enforcement officials in eight east
ern cities attempted. Two persons killed.
June 4-Senate adopted woman suffrage |
amendment resolution.
June 5-Postmtster General Burleson
sutfehdtred operation of telegraph and
telephone systems TO the companies.
June lO-Legislatures of Illinois, Wis
consin and Michigan ratified woman suf-
amendment.
July WARTIME emergency prohibition
July ll-Federal trade commission re-
ported TO President that packers planned
'oinplete control of all foOdstuffs.
July l2-President Wilson vetoed agri-
'uitural hill because of its provision re-
pealing daylight saving law.
July l3-president A. G. Townley and
Joseph Gilbert of Nonpartisan league of
North Dakota found guilty by Jury at
Jackson, MINI. of conspiracy to teach
iisloyalty.
July 2l-Race riots in Washington. four
PERSONS killed.
July 21-Race riots in Chicago; two
,tlled, many hurt.
July 2S-chicago race war spread; SO in
were killed and hundreds hurt.
'hicago race riots.
July 3l-GoveInment relinquished con-
rol of the telegraph and telephone sys-
ems.
Aug. ~l-Congress repealed daylight-sav-
NC law.
Aug. President Wilson ordered civil
nj criminal proceedings against the big
We packers. .
Aug, S-President Wilson addressed CON
ress on high cost of living. d
aug E-lllinois militia sent to Peoria to /
uell strike riots.
Aug. li-%lIenry Ford won llbel suit
gainst Chicago Tribune. with nominal +
amages, =
Aug l5-President Wilson vetoed the =,
lyltght-saving repeal act. !
Aug. ylight-saving repeal bill !
issed over presidents veto. .
\. Mitchell Palmer confirmed by senate q,
; L.. ). attorney general. y
Sept Bin TO make Pershing general 4,
n life passed by congress. "
sept 3-President Wilson started on I,
tour of country. -"
4-pershinI nominated general and %
by senate. v
5-Secretary OF Commerce Redheld n
effective oct. 81. -
Prohibition enforcement bill passed by ~
G-Charles NJ Galloway resigned
federal civil service commissioner. and 4
tackled Postmaster General Burleson.
7-Great fake stock swindle Mot n
red hy arrests In Chicago.
hundred c~onvicts at Pontiac. III.
volted and killed a guard. n
sept S|General Pershing landed at c,
nv YORK and was given great reception
n commissioned general for life. n
sept. s-Cardinal MERCER OF Belgium
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conna nder- -cbtas y, nh.oo"EeiSn' erect
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49, por.hann =" oohsress gwen T" re-
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~. s9'"e"' "hsoh trlp ended
sept 2s-Great mob in Omaha lynched ~
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Montgomery Ala NV" =
.ept. 3a-Rrand whitlock made ambas- dr
'ni !" btIelum
let Five white men and eleven ne De
ies kllied IN race war at Elaine. Ark. eli
',t --hIng and queen OF the Belgians
.hed IN New York. so
-lhtffhaipnal trade conference an
flfn IN AIaItlc 'ltN go