Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1921-12-29
June 22-Charles G. Dawes made direc.

June 22-Charles G. Dawes made direc-
| tor of federal budget.
| June A-Secretary of the Navy Denly
| publicly reprimanded Admiral Sims for
| indiscreet utterances in London speech.
| c. b. Warren of Detroit appointed am
| bassador to Japan and w. NJ. Collier of
| Washington ambassador to Chile.
| June N-House passed supplementary
| prohibition law barring medicinal beer
| and wine.
June 3o-Willlam Howard Taft made
| chief justice of Supreme court of U. S.
House adopted modified resolution de-
claring war with Germany ended.
| July 1-Senate adopted peace resolution.
| July 2-President Harding signed the
| peace resolution.
July 5-Senator ]. o. wolcott of Della
ware resigned to become chancellor of
state.
July 7-Gen. T. Coleman Du Pont ap-
| pointed senator from Delaware.
| July 15-Senate shelved soldier bonus
| bill indefinitely at Presidents request.
July 0-Senate passed the Sweet bill
| for soldiers relief bureau.
Gov. Small and Lieut.. Gov. Sterling of
| Illinois indicted on charges Of fraud and
embezzlement of state funds.
| July 2l-House passed the tariff bill.
| Aug. @Senate passed agricultural cred
| its bill.
Aug. S-senate passed bill prohibiting
medical beer and otherwise amending the
| Volstead act.
Aug. 9-Sweet soldier relief bill signed
by President and Col c. R. Forbes made
director of the veterans bureau.
Bill for federal regulation of boards of
, trade passed by senate.
| Aug. 20-Tax revision bill passed by
| house.
Aug. 22-senate passed railroad admins
| tration bill.
Aug. 2-Congress recessed until Sept.
q after passing &S,50000O shipping board
| deficiency bill and the billion-dollar farm
exports credit bill, and extending the
| dye embargo to Jan. l. 1922
Aug. 30-President Harding issued proc
| lamation ordering bands of West Virginia
miners to cease insurrectionary move
ments and dispense.
Sept. Irregular army troops sent into
the West Virginia mine region.
Gen. Leonard Wood accepted post Of
governor general of Philippines.
Sept. 3-West Virginia insurgents sur
rendered to U. 8. troops.
Sept. 9-President Harding appointed
| Charles e. Hughes, Henry Cabot Lodge,
| Elihu Root and Oscar W. Underwood to
represent U. s. in conference on limita-
| ton of ornaments and Far East ques-
| lions.
Sept. 2o-Holm O. Bursum elected U. s.
senator from New Mexico.
Sept. 21-Congress reconvened and Pres
ident Harding submitted treaties with
Germany, Austria and Hungary:
j, G. Grew nominated minister to
Switzerland, and DR.. ]. D. Prince of New
| Jersey minister to Denmark.
Sept 26-Conference on unemployment
opened in Washington.
Sept. 27-Fifty-fifth annual encampment
G. A. r. opened in Indianapolis
| Sept. 29-LeWis s. Pitcher of Brooklyn
elected commander-in-chief of G., A. r.
Sept. S0-Shipping board and Emergency
| Fleet corporation separated
Oct. 3-John Barton Payne appointed
chairman of American Red Cross.
William II. Taft sworn in as chief just
ice of Supreme court
Oct 4President Harding appointed the
following ministers: To Panama, Dr.
John Glover South of Kentucky; to Mic
aragua, John E. Kramer of Colorado; to
Venezuela, Willis o. Cook of South Da-
kota; to Guatemala, Roy Davis of Mis-
| souri,; to CzechosloVakia, Lewis Einstein
Of New York; to Bulgaria, Charles S.
Wilson of Maine; to Finland. Charles L.
Kagey of Kansas and to Siam, Edward
| e. Brodie of Oregon.
Oct 6-Lauritz S. Swenson of Minnesota
appointed minister to Sweden.
Oct 10-Senate passed Borah bill ex-
empting American coastwise shipping
from payment of Panama canal tolls.
Oct 15-Leonard Wood inaugurated gov
ernor general of Philippines.
Oct Ex-Governor Frazier and other
Nonpartisan league state officials of North
Dakota ousted by recall election.
Oct. 3l-American Legion convention
opened In Kansas City.
Nov. 1-Cordel Hull OF Tennessee
elected chairman of Democratic national
| committee.
Nov. 2-Lieut Col. Hanford MacNider
| of Mason City, Ia, elected national COM
mander of American Legion.
Nov. 5-Soldier bonus bill defeated in
senate.
Nov. TAX Revision bill passed by
senate.
Nov. S-John F. Hylan reelected may
or of New York. f. Lee Trinkle elected
governor of Virginia. Democrats won in
| Kentucky.
Senate extended emergency tariff act
indefinitely.
Nov. 9-America's unknown dead soldier
reached Washington and lay in state be-
meath the dome of the capitol.
]. w. Riddle of Connecticut appointed
ambassador to Argentina.
Nov. 11-America's Unknown Soldier
buried at Arlington on Armistice day
Nov. 1S-Senate adopted conference re-
| port on anti-beer bill
Nov. 19-House passed the maternity
bill
Nov. 2l-House adopted conference re-
port of tax bill.
Nov. 22-Porto Rico asked the removal
of Governor E. Mont Reilly as "incom-
petent and prejudiced."
Nov. 23-Tax and anti-beer bills were
enacted into law and special session Of
congress ended.
Nov. 29-Wood- Forbes commission re-
ported against immediate independence
for the Philippines and recommended
strengthening hand OF American govern
ment there
Dec. 5-Congress met in regular session.
President Harding submitted to con-
gress the first national budget, for gov
eminent expenses of 1923, showing reduc-
ton of half billion.
Dec. 6-President Harding in message
suggested labor court to end strikes, de-
velopment of cooperative marketing
among farmers decentralization of indus
try, modification of the American valua-
ton scheme in tariff BILL and other rem
edial measures
INDUSTRIAL
Jan. 3-Supreme Court of United States