Cleveland County herald., 1920-01-01
Domestic Affairs

DOIElCOtlO All CHI
 The return of the United States to a condition of peace was not accom- plished easily. Unusual conditions ex- isted 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 inn portant events of the year. Ratifica- ton of the national prohibition amend ment came early in the year with rapidity that surprised the nation. on January 29 the state department pro- claimed the ratification of the amend ment and set January Is, 1920, as the date when it would become effective.
 On January Attorney General Greg ory rendered his resignation, to become effective March 4, and A Mitchell Pal mer was appointed to succeed him on February 27. 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 IS they were sentenced to 20 years imprison- ment
 On March 2 Herbert Hoover was appointed by the president to be di- 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 ', by cable from Paris, called a special ses- sion of congress to convene May 19. On May 10 the campaign for the Vic tory Liberty loan, the last popular war loan. closed with heavy Oversub- scription of the $4,500,000.000 bond issue.
  sixth congress opened on May 19 with she Republicans in control of both house and senate for the first time since 1912. The house of representa- lives was organized by the election of Congressman Gillett of Massachusetts as speaker. Tn the senate Senator Cummins of Iowa was elected presi- dent pro tenn.
 One of the first acts of the new house was to pass the woman suffrage amendment to the Constitution by a vote of 304 to 80. The amendment was again brought up in the senate on June and this time was adopted by a vote of 56 to p.
 The activities of anarchistic ele- ments were manifested on June 2 when bombs were exploded simultan- eouslv 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 of liouor was illegal throughout the United States. On July 12 President
 
 Wilson vetoed the agricultural appro- nriation bill because of a rider" re- pealng the daylight saving law. Con gress promptly passed separate bill repealing the daylight saving law and when President Wilson vetoed this measure, both houses passed the bill over his veto on August 20.
 The country was aroused during the summer by a series of race riots, the first of which occurred in Washington on July 21. Four persons were killed in the rioting at the capital On July 27 the most serious race riots of the year began in Chicago. II was found necessary to call out state troops and before order had been restored 33 persons had been killed and hundreds injured.
 In recognition of the services which he rendered as commander-in-chef of the American eXpeditionary forces. General Pershing was made a general for life by act of congress. His com mission was handed to him as he landed on September at New York with the First division.