The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1920-01-02
Domestic Affairs

domestic AHalrS
The return Of the United States to a
condition Of peace was not accom-
| plished easily. Unusual conditions eX-
listed and the people OF h country
were confronted with problems that
had been unknown in h days before
the war.
The adoption OF nationwide prohi'
bitiOn and the submission by congress
| Of the constitutional amendment for
complete wOnan's suffrage were i'm
pOrtant events Of the year. Ratifica-
ton of the national prohibition amend
ment came early In h year with a
rapidity hat 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 9 Attorney General Greg
DRY rendered his resignation. to become
effective March 4, and A. Mitchell Pal
mer was appointed to succeed him on
February q. On January IL Walker
d. Hines was appointed director gem
eral of railroads to succeed William
G. McAdoo.
The governments first blow at the
radicals during the year was deliv-
cred on January s when Congressman
Victor L. Berger and -four other So
cialist leaders were found guilty by
a federal jury in Chicago OF c%onspirins
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 ieg's-
iatinn 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 ~.
On May 10 the campaign for the VIC
tory Liberty loan, he last popular war
loan, closed with a heavy Oversub.
scription of the S4r50OOOO,OOO bond
issue.
The special session Of the Sixty
sixth congress opened on May - with
she Republicans In control Of both
house and senate for the first time
since 1912. The house OF representa-
tives was organized ny the election Of
Congressman Gillett Of Massachusetts
ms sneaker. In the senate Senator
Cummsns Of Iowa was elected presi-
dent pro tern.
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 50. The amendment
was again brought up In the enate on
June 4 and this time was adopted by
a vote of IS to p.
The activities OF anarchistic ele-
ments were manifested on June Z
when bombs were exploded simnltan-
eously Mt the residences of ten mel IN
eight Eastern cities.
On July the wartime emergency
prohibition act went into effect and
for the first time In history the saie
OF liquor was illegal throughout the
United States. On July Il President
Wilson vetoed the agricultural appro-
prfation bill because Of a rider" re-
pealing the daylight saving law. Con
greas promptly passed 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 "a aroused during the
summer BY q series Of race riots. the
first Of which occurred in Washington
on July q. Four persons were killed
in the rioting at the capital. On July
q the most serious race riots Of the
year began in Chicago. 1t was found
necessary to call out state troops and
before order had been restored 81
persons had been killed and hundreds
injured.
In recognition of the services which
he rendered as commander-in-chief OF
the American expeditiOnary forces,
General Pershing was made q general
for life by act OF congress. His com
mission was handed to hin as he
landed on September 8 Ut New York
with the First division.