The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1920-01-15

amendment.
Jan. estate department proclaimed
ratification OF prohibition amendment and
set Jan. IL. 1920. as date when II Is efrec-
Feb. lo-sufrrage amendment beaten in
Feb. lS-Berger, Kruse, Germer. Eng
dahl and Tucker. socialists, sentence 10
70 years Imprisonment for violating .es-
Feb. 25-New revenue law. signed by
president, went into effect.
Feb. Pill. c. Wallace. Tacoma. APP
pointed ambassador to France.
A: Mitchell Palmer made attorney gen
erai.
March NORMAN Hapgood made minis
March s-victory loan bill passed by
senate
March 4-Congress adjourned sine die.
April 7-Thomas Nelson Page. ambassa-
dor to Italy, resigned
April l6-Hugh Gibson appointed first
u. 5. Minister to Poland.
April 29-Postmaster General Burleson
directed return OF cable companies TO pri-
waite ownership May 2.
April 30-Plot TO kin many prominent
Americans with mailed bombs uncovered.
May MAY day riots in many cities.
Nav 7-President called extra session or
congress for May 49,
May Especial session OF congress
opened; Gillett elected speaker.
Frederick Gillett elected speaker OF next
house.
My @-President Wilson's cabled mes
sage read TO congress.
May 2l-House adopted woman suffrage
consttutional amendment resolution.
May 27-Dr. Lynn Harold Hough elected
president of Northwestern university
June 2-Anarchist plot 10 destroy homes
of law enforcement officials in eight east
ern cities attempted. Two persons killed.
June +-Senate adopted woman suffrage
constitutional amendment resolution.
June 5-Postmaster General Burleson
surrendered operation of telegraph and
telephone systems TO the companies.
June l0-Legislatures of Illinois, Wis
consin and Michigan ratified woman suf-
trage amendment
July l-Wartim3 emergency prohibition
law went into effect
July 1l-Federal trade commission re-
ported TO President that packers planned
complete control of all foodstuffs.
July l2-Presdent Wilson vetoed agri-
cultural bin 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. Mimi. OF conspiracy to teach
dsloyalty
July 2l-Race riots in Washington. four
persons killed
July 27-Race riots in Chicago: two
July 2S-Chicago race war spread; So in
all were killed and hundreds hurt.
July Sl-State troops in action to quell
Chicago race riots
July 31-Government. relinquished con-
troll Of the telegraph and telephone sys-
TENS
Aug 1-Congress repealed daylight-sav-
Aug 6-President Wilson ordered civil
and criminal proceedings against the big
Five packers.
Aug. S-President Wilson addressed con-
gress on high cost of living.
Aug. 1EHenry Ford won libel suit
against Chicago Tribune. with nominal
Aug l5-President Wilson vetoed the
daylight-seving repeal act.
Aug notwithstanding repeal bill
"A
A. Mitchell Palmer confirmed by senate
as u. s. attorney general
Sept, 2-Bill to make Pershing general
for life passed by congress.
Sept. 3-President Wilson started on
speaking tour of country.
Sept. 4-Pershing nominated general and
confirmed by senate
Sept. 5-Secretary OF Commerce Redfield
resigned effective Oct. 81.
Prohibition enforcement bill passed by
senate.
Sept 6-Charles NJ Galloway resigned
as federal civil service commissioner. and
| attacked Postmaster General Burleson.
Sept 7-Great fake stock swindle plot
barred by arrests I'm Chicago.
Five hundred convicts at Pontiac. Ill.
revolted and killed guard
Sept. s-General Pershing landed at
New York and was given great reception
and commissioned general for life.
Sept. 9-Cardinal Mercier of Belgium
landed at New York.
Sept. Pool. j. ID. Bell, Brooklyn, elect
ed commander-in-chief OF the G.. A. r.
Sept 1s-Thanks of congress given to
Sept. 2s~President wilson's trip ended
by his Illness
Sept. 2s-Great mob In Omaha lynched
negro prisoner, fought police, set fire to
courthouse and almost killed Mayor f. p.
| Smith.
Sept. So-Brand whitlock made ambas-
sador TO Belgium.
groes killed in race war at Elaine. Ark.
Oct. Fixing and queen OF the Belgians
landed in New York.
| Oct 20-International trade conference
| opened in Atlantic City.
Oct. 27-President Wilson vetoed prohi-
bition enforcement bill and house re-
| passed II.
Oct. 2s-senate passed prohibition en-
| forcement bill over presidents veto and
Farmers national congress opened in
oct. si-secretary OF Commerce Redfield
retired from the cabinet.
Nov. ERepublicans won election I'm
| Massachusetts,. New York and Kentucky
| and Democrats won in New Jersey,
Maryland and Mississippi Vets won In
| Ohio.
| federal agents all over country.
| Nov Ill w. w. members fired into
American legion parade at Centralia:
| Wash. killing four ex-soldiers: one OF
| murderers lynched
Prince OF Wales arrived In Washington
President Wilson left his bed for first
| time IN SIX weeks
| Nov. l2-Franklin DOlier elected ma
| tional commander OF American legion
Nov. 15-Secretary OF the Treasury Car
ter Glass appointed U. s. senator from
| Virginia.
| Nov. iS-House adjourned.
| Nov. 19-Senate adjourned
| Nov. gu 8 Senator Newberry OF
Michigan and 1874 others indicted for
election frauds.
Dec. Irregular session OF congress
Dec. 2-President Wilson's message
| read to congress.
Congressman J. w. Alexander OF Mis-
souri, made secretary OF commerce
Dec. 10-RepublIcan national committee
set the convention for June In Chicago.
Dec. 1I-Dr Fl. A. Garfield resigned as
| fuel administrator.
Dec. Ex-senator Johnson, California,
| announced his candidacy for presidency.
| Dec. 15-U. s. Supreme court upheld con-
| stitutionalty of wartime prohibition act.
Dec. Ex-senator Harding. Ohio, an
| nounced his candidacy for Republican
| nomination for presidency
Dec. i7--Big packers agree TO discon-
| tinue all their side lines
Dec l9-Victor Berger. convicted Social
ist. reelected to congress from Fifth Wis