Mountain advocate., 1921-01-07

March is-pnftcd states s.nass ADOPTED
/ new Article X resefvation to pesce ueatj
| BY vote OF 70 to &c.
psrmission to state sS q New Jersey TO in.
autute original proceedings TO test Va
hdity OF prohibition amendment
John Barton Payne retired ss chair
man OF shipping board and was sworn 10
as secretary Of interior.
March lS-United States senate adopted
resolution BY vote OF IS TO % declarinf
FOL, self-determinatlon for Ireland.
House Of representatives passed army
appropriation bill providing for army OF
$4,000 enlisted men and II, 800 oficers
March Fisherman peace treaty win
league covenant failed Of ratification In
March 20-Truman II. Newberry, Junior
United States senator from Michigan, and
others convicted by jury at GRAND
nsliy In ISIS to violate sisction laws.
Newberry fined $1,000 and sentenced to
Imprisonment for two years.
March 2S-Bainbridge Colby sworn In
Government control OF bituminous coal
wlthdrawn by President Wilson, ehseu'e
April 4-Director General OF Railroads
Hines resigned, effective May IS.
April 26-Supreme Court declared the
Reading company and certain OF its SUD
salaries an illegal combination.
May l3-Socialists nominated Eugene
Debs for president and Seymour Stedmsn
May Is-senate adopted Knox peace
May is-secretary Of the Interior Payne
made director general Of railroads.
May 2l-House ADOPTED senate peace
May a-President Wilson asked con-
gress for authority to accept the man
date for Armenia.
Investigation Of presidential campaign
expenses begun by the senate.
May wilenn Lat0Nd Kn0y
peace resolution.
May 2s-water power conservation bll
passed by congress-,
June Limited States Supreme court de.
amendment is not subject to submission
to popular referendum.
Senate declined to give President au-
thOrity to accept Armenian mandate.
June 4-President Wilson vetoed budget
bill. Congress passed bill increasing pay
Of postal employees.
Cndersecretary OF state FRANK roik
resigned.
June 5-Congress adjourned. President
Wilson letting several important meas
ures die without his signature.
June Limited States Supreme court de-
clared valid both the prohibition amend
ment and the Nolstead enforcement act
June s-Republican national convention
opened in Chicago.
June i2-Repubiicans nominated War
rem G. Harding OF Ohio for president and
Calvin Coolidge of Massachusetts for
vice president.
July 6-Democrats in San Francisco
President and Franklin d. Roosevelt, as
slstant secretary of the navy. for Vice
July ii-Parley +. Christensen, Salt
Lake City, nominated for president by
bolt BY committee OF fersy.sishi ana ain.
July S-.o.srs. white. Msrtss,H, oAis,
elected chairman psmesrAup hausnAi
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yelv ns@lgteTstRte eeIanstes esmnais:
Pullman fsts IRpFSass. snounting TO
about a billion and half annually.
Aug. Twenty Communist Labor lead
Aug. 5-Fatal anti-foreign riots in West
Ill: state troops sent.
street car strike riots in Denver; sew
Aug. 7-GovernOr Cox formally notified
Of his nomination.
Aug. 13-Increase Of le,s per cent In ex-
press rates authorized by interstate COM
Aug lS-Tennessee. the last state neces.
'ary. ratified woman suffrage amend
ment.
Aug. rehabilitation of suffrage amend |
nent proclaimed by Secretary of State |
Colby.
Sept. lS-Maine went Republican by
5000
Sept. i5-Terrifc explosion at Wall and
Broad streets, New York, laid to Reds;
hirty persons killed and 800 injured.
Sept. 2l-Three Socialists. reelected to
lew York assembly. ousted: two seated,
Sept 2I-W. A. Ketcham. Indianapolis.
elected commander In chief OF G.. A. r.
President Wilson declined 10 abrogste
rsde treaties. as asked by congress in
he merchant marine act.
Sept. 2-Col. J. w. Galbraith Jr., Gin
innati, elected national commander OF
he American Legion
Walter Dill Scott elected PRESIDENT Of
northwestern university.
Oct THE 1920 population OF continent
al United states announced as lUo,osj. los.
Nov 2-Warren @. Harding and Calvin
coolidge elected President and vice pres
lent OF United States; Republican land
Tide.
California voters Endorsed the nti-aIieD
Nov. 25-Irish mob in New York at
acked Union League club because Brit
sh flag was flying.
Dec. 3-Secretary OF State Colby started
u WISH 10 COulH America. |
Dec. 6-Congress began the short SEES
ion.
Dec. Nobel peace prize awarded to
resident Wilson.
President Wilson's message to congress
rged Independence for the Philippines
nd loan to Armenia.
Dec. &C. ]. Vopicka resigned as United
tates minister to the Balkan states
Rear Admiral Henry I. Mayo retired.
Dec. 3-House passed bill suspendinR
for IA months
House adopted resolution repeating war
me laws.
Senate adopted resolution for revival
war finance corporation to aid the
lrmers.
Dec. H-Government crop report showed
in values of nearly five billion
)llars compared with 1913.
Dec. l5-Senate passed bill authorizing
Irmers' cooperative marketing associs-
ons.
Dec. l6-Senate passed bill forblddinE
rikes on railroads
Dec. 2O-Permanent merger OF four sx-
ress companies authorized by interstats
1mmerce commission.