The Donaldsonville chief., 1921-01-15
DOMESTIC

DUNES l IL
March 1+United States senate adopted
new Article X reservation to peace treaty
by vote Of IS to 2G
. United States Supreme court slahteo
permission to state of New Jersey 20 ~
stitute original proceedings to test va
lidity Of prohibition amendment ,x
John Barton Payne retired as chalr-
man OF shipping board and was sworn al
as secretary of interior.
resolution by vote Of % to 50 declaring
for self-determination for Ireland.
House Of representatives passed army
3 C9 eaa{sd b en apd '0 ocers
March 19-German peace treaty WIN =;
league covenant failed Of ratihcatloh Al
senate.
March 2o-Truman II. Newberry, junior
United States senator from Michigan ana
Is others convicted by jury at 0lALu
Rapids, Mich, of having conspired cIl1lis- lis
naily in 1913 to violate election ia"s -
New berry fined $4,000 and sentenced 10
Imprisonment for two years: g.,
March 23-Banbridge Colby sworn IN
as secretary of state. oo,,
Government control Of Dltulnlfloaefs ef +iIIa TGr.
withdrawn by President Wilson, eHeclAVe
April /.
April 24-Dlrector General Of Railroads
Hines resigned, effective May 70. z tho
April Zb--SupTeMe tOIlt
Reading company and certain OF It's SUP
s1diaries an Illegal combination. -.--o.
May 13-Socalists nominated E4se1io isar
Debs for president and Seymour o'euiiiaA
for vice president. .,o,a
May 15-Senate adopted Knox Pea-0
resolution.
May ls-secretary of the Interior Payne
made director general OF Tallroaus ooo
resolution
May 24-president Wilson asked con
gress for authority to accept the iiiah
date for Armenia. :,
Investigation of presidential campaign
expenses begun by the senate.
May N-President Wilson vetoed khoA
peace resolution 80,
May 2S-Water power cOnseFFatlol1 n'''
passed by congress. ~
June Limited States Supreme court de
cided ratification OF cohstitu;;loiitH, ;nsinr
amendment is not subject to suplAlssloli
10 popular referendum.
Senate declined to give PRESIDENT au-
thority to accept Armenian mandate.
June 4-President Wilson vetoed budget
bill Congress passed bill increasing p"s
Undersecretary OF State Frank Polk
resigned. .z.
June 5--Congress adjourned, President
Wilson letting several important meas
ures die without his signature.
June Limited States Supreme court os-
clared valid both the prohibition amend
ment and the Volstead enforcement act.
June S-ftepuDllcdu HdlioiiaA @oi'' ~--->~'N
opened in Chicago W.
June l2-Republicans nominated War,
rem G. Harding of Ohio for pl esldent anu
Calvin Coolidge of Massachusetts 1oF
vice president.
nominated James M. Cox of Ohio for
President and Franklin D. Roosevelt, as
sistant secretary Of the navy Tor vice
July 14-Parley l.. Christensen. Salt
Lake City, nominated for president by
Farmer-Labor party in Chicago, a1ter
bolt by committee of forty-eisht ana SIN
July 20-George White, Marietta, Ohio,
elected chairman Democratic national
committee.
July 2l-Prohibitionists opened national
convention in Lincoln. Neb, and noml-
mated w. ]. Bryan for president by ac-
clamation.
July 22-Brryan deelining,, the Prohibie l;. :
Ohio for president and D. Leigh Colvin
Of New York for vice president.
Senator Harding notified OF nomination
by Republicans.
July Ex-Governor Coolidge notified OF
vice presidential nomination..
July 31-Interstate commerce commits
sion authorized freight, passenger and
Pullman rate Increase amounting to
about a billion and a half annually.
Aug. 2-TWenty Communist Labor lead
ers found guilty Of sedition In Chicago.
Aug. 5-Fatal anti-foreign riots IN West
FRANKFORT, ILL.,, STATE troops SGIil.
Street car strike riots i'll Denver; sew
eral persons killed.
Aug. 7--Governor Cox formally notified
Of his nomination.
Aug. l3-1ncrease of 1212 per cent in ex
press rates authorized by interstate COM
merce commission.
Aug 1S-fennessee, the last state neces-
sary, ratified woman suffrage amend
ment.
Aug. 2e-RatifcatIon of suffrage amend
ment proclaimed by Secretary Of State
Colby.
Sept. l3-Maine went Republican by
5000
Sept. 15-Terrifc explosion at Wall and
Broad streets, New York, laid to Reds;
thirty persons killed and 800 injured.
Sept 21-Three Socialists, reelected to
but resigned.
elected commander in chief of G. A. r.
President Wilson declined to abrogate
trade treaties, as asked by congress In
the merchant marine act.
Sept. 29-Col. J. w. Galbraith, Jr., Gin
cinnati. elected national commander OF
the American Legion.
Walter Dill Scott elected president OF
Northwestern university.
Oct. THE 1920 population Of contineR-
tai United States announced as Jos, ,663, l0S.
Nov 2-Warren G. Harding and Calvin
ident of United States; Republican land
slide.
California voters indorsed the anti-alien
Nov. 25-1rlsh mob in New York at
tackled Union League club because Brit
ish flag was flying.
Dec 3-Secretary of State Colby started
on formal visit to South America.
Dec. 6-Congress began the short ses-
sion
Dec. Nobel peace prize awarded to
President Wilson.
President Wilson's MESA ge to congress
urged independence for the Philippines
and a loan to Armenia.
Dec. &C. J. Vopicka resigned as United
States minister to the Balkan states.
Rear Admiral Henry T. Mayo retired.
Dec. 13-House passed bill suspending
immigration for IA months
House adopted resolution repeating war
time laws.
Senate adopted resolution for revival
of war finance corporation to aid the
farmers.
Dec. 14-Government crop report showed
shrinkage in values of nearly five billion
dollars compared with 1919.
Dec. 16-Senate passed bill authorizing z
farmers cooperative marketing assocla.
tions.
Dec. 16-senate passed bill forbiddlng
strikes on railroads.
Dec. 20-Permanent merger Of four ex-
press companies authorized by Interstate
commerce commission.
INDUSTRIAL
Jan. s-steel strike called off by work
ers committee.
Jan. 20--General railway strike in Tta1y.
martial law in principal cities. ;
Feb 9-Three hundred thousand nem-