The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1920-01-09
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Jan. ll-WiSconSin and Minnesota TAU
ned prohibition amendment
Jan. 21-Nevada ratified prohibition
amendment.
Jan. 2s-State department proclaimed
raufcation Of prohibition amendment ana
set Jan. 16. 1920. as date when 1t Ii enec-
tive.
: Feb. 1ONSuffrage amendment beaten In
senate by one vote.
dahl and Tucker, socialists. sentenced to
~ years imprisonment for violating es-
Feb: 2-Sew revenue law. signed by
president, went into effect.
Feb. 27-H. c. Wallace, Tacoma. ap-
pointed ambassador to France.
A; Mitchell Palmer made attorney gen.
March NORMAN Hapgood made minis
ter to Denmark.
March 3-Victory loan bill passed by
senate.
March 4Congress adjourned sine die.
dor TO Italy, resigned.
April l6-Hugh Gibson appointed first
u. 3. Minister to Poland.
April 29-PostmaSter General BurleSon
directed return OF cable companies TO pri-
Vate ownership May 2.
April 30-Plot to kill many prominent
Americans with mailed bombs uncovered.
May MAY day riots in many cities.
May president called extra session or
congress for May 10.
May 80 Special session OF congress
oPCllcd, NIllttl tIeClSQ SpedheI.
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 27-Dr. Lynn Harold Hough elected
president Of Northwestern university.
June 2-Anarchist plot 10 destroy homes
of law enforcement o~ficials in eight east
ern cities attempted. Two persons killed.
June ESenate adopted woman suffrage
constitutional amendment resolution.
June 5-PoStmaster General BurleSon
surrendered operation of telegraph and
telephone systems to the companies.
June lo-Legislatures of Illinois. Wis
consin and Michigan ratified woman SUI
rage amendment.
July WARTIME 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-President Wilson vetoed agri-
cultural bill because Of its provision re-
pealing daylight saving law.
July 13-President A. G. Townley and
Joseph Gilbert of Nonpartisan league OF
North Dakota found guilty by jury at
jackson, Mimi. Of conspiracy to teach
July 2l-Race riots in Washington. four
persons killed.
July 27-Race riots In Chicago; two
killed, many hurt.
July 2S-Chicago race war spread; 36 in
all were killed and hundreds hurt.
! July 30-State troops in action to queil
Chicago race riots.
July 31-Government relinquished con-
troll Of the telegraph and telephone sys-
tens.
Aug. ~1-Congress repealed daylight-sav-
ing law.
and criminal proceedings against the big
Five packers.
Aug. S-President Wilson addressed con-
9reSs on high cost OF living.
AlO 1A-HnnrU Ford Wnm lhaI GIL III
against Chicago Tribune. with nominal
damages.
Aug. l5-President Wilson vetoed the
misunderstanding repeal act.
Aus. notwithstanding repeal bill
passed over presidents veto.
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. +Pershing nominated general and
confirmed by senate.
Sept 5-Secretary OF Commerce Redfeld
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.
barred by arrests In Chicago.
Five hundred convicts at Pontiac, Ill.
revolted and killed a 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. 12-Col. j. d. Bell, Brooklyn, elect
ed commander-in-chief OF the CT. A. r.
Sept. 1S-Thanks Of congress given to
General Pershing.
Sept. e6-President Wilson'S trip ended
Sept. 2S-Great mob in Omaha lynched
negro prisoner, fought police, set fire TO
courthouse and almost killed Mayor E. p.
Smith.
Sept. 3o-Brand whitlock made ambas-
sador to Belgium.
Oct. Five white men and eleven ne
groes killed in race war at Elaine, Ark.
Oct liking and queen of the Belgians
Oct. 20-International trade conference
opened in Atlantic City.
Oct 27-President Wilson vetoed prohi-
bition enforcement bill and house re-
oct. 2S-Senate passed prohibition en-
forcement bill over presidents veto and
it became law.
Farmers national congress opened In
Hagerstown. Md.
oct. 3l-Secretary OF Commerce Redfeld
retired from the cabinet.
Nov. 4-RepublicanS won election in
Massachusetts,. New York and Kentucky
Maryland and Mississippi. VETS won in
Ohio.
Nov. 7-Hundreds Of Reds arrested by
federal agents all over country.
Nov. III. w. w. members fred into
American legion parade at Centralia.
Wash. killing four eX-soldiers; one Of
murderers lynched.
Prince Of Wales arrived I'm Washington.
President Wilson left his bed for first
time In six weeks.
Nov. 12-Franklin D'Olier elected ma
tional commander OF American legion.
Nov. 15-Secretary Of the Treasury Car
ter Glass appointed u. 8. senator from
Virginia.
Nov. lS-House adjourned.
Nov. l9-Senate adjourned.
Nov. gu. S. Senator Newberry Of
Michigan and 14 others indicted for
election frauds.
Dec. Irregular session Of congress
opened.
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 8 in Chicago.
Dec. 11-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-
s~titutionality 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-
fip,ta all their side lines