Connecticut western news., 1920-01-01
Domestic Affairs

The return of the United States to 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 prOhf- bitiOn and the submission by congress of the constitutional amendment for complete wOmanS suffrage were i'm pOrtant events of the year. Ratifica- tion of the national prohibition amend- ment came early in the year with rapidity that surprised the nation. On January % 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 4. Mitchell Pal mer w?s appointed to succeed him on February 2. On January II Walker D. Hines was appointed director gen eral of railroads to succeed William | G. McAdOo.
 The govc.nI@a.ts li:st blow at the radicals dv",n~ thn year was deliv e~ed on January when Congressman ] Victor l.. Berger and four other So ! enlist leaders were found guilty by i a federal jury in Chicago of cOnspiring 1 to interfere Wi.n the successful con duct of the war. On February IS they were sentenced to 20 years imprisOn- ment.
 On March ? 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 or May ', by cable from Paris, called q special ses- sion of congress to convene May 10. On May 10 the campaigr for the Vic tory Liberty loan, the last popular war loan, closed with q heavy oversub- scrintion of the S4,50OO00000 bond iss1e.
 The snociaI session of the Sixty ] sixth congress- opened on Nay>19 with
 
 house and senate for the first time since 1912. The hOu%" of representa- tives was organized by the election ,nf ! Congres&man Gillett of Massachusetts as speaker. Tn the senate Senator Cunmins of Iowa was elected preS- dent pro tenn.
 One of the first acts of the new | IC Ff,orr rro amendment to the Constitution by a vote of 3O4 to So. 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 when bombs were exploded simultan- eOusly at the residences of ten men in eight Eastern cites.
 On July i the wartime emergency prohibition act went into effect and for the first time in history the sale of liquor was illegal throughout the United States On July 12 President Wilson vetoed the agricultural aTprO- priatiOn bill because of q rider re- healing the daylight saving law. Con greSs promptly r%sSPd a separate bill repeating 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. It was found necessary to @" out state :roops and