The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-01-02

Jrne 2o-Charles G. Dawes made dlrec-
tor of federal budget.
June 24-Secretary of the Navy Denny
publicly reprimanded Admiral Sims Tor
indiscreet utterances in London speech.
c. b. Warren Of Detroit appointed am
bassador to Japan and w M. Collier OF
Washington ambassador to Chile.
Jule H-House passed supplementary
prohibition law barring medicinal beer
and wine.
June 95-WilIiam Howard Taft made
chief justice of Supreme court of y. ).
House adopted modified resolution de-
clarng war with Germany ended.
July 1-Senate adopted peace resolution.
July president Harding signed the
peace resolution.
July 5-Senator ]. o. Wolcott of Della,
ware resigned to become chancellor o.
state.
July Gen. T. Coleman Du Pont ap.
pointed senator from Delaware,
July 15-Senate shelved soldier bonus
bill indefinitely at Presidents request; ~
July 20-Senate passed the Sweet Dill
for soldiers relief bureau.
Gov. Small and Lieut. Gov. Sterling OF
Illinois indicted on charges OF traud ana
embezZlement of state funds.
July 2l-House passed the tariff bill.
Aug. 4-Senate passed agricultural cred
Aug. S-senate passed bill prohibiting
medical beer and otherwise amending the
Vostead act.
by President and Col. c. r. Forces made
director of the veterans bureau.
BIN for federal regulation of boards OF
trade passed by senate.
Aug. @-TaX revision bill passed by
house
Aug. 22-senate passed railroad admins
tration bill
Aug 24-Congress recessed until Sept,
y after passing SIS, 10000 shipping board
deficiency bill and the billion-doIlar 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 L. s. troops.
Sept. 9-President Harding appointed
Charles Z. Hughes. Henry Cabot Lodge,
Elihu Root and Oscar W. Underwood to
represent L. s. in conference on limita-
ton of ornaments and Far East ques-
tons.
Sept. 2O-Holm o. Bursum elected u. S.
senator from New Mexico.
Sept. 21-Congress reCOnvened and Pres
ident Harding submitted treaties with
j. c. Grew nominated minister to
Switzerland, and DR.. J. Z. Prince of New
Jersey minister to Denmark.
Sept. 2-Conference on unemployment
opened in Washington.
Sept. 27-Fifty-ffth annual enCampment
G. A. r. opened in indianapolis.
Sept. 29-Lewis s. Pitcher Of Brooklyn
elected commandments of G. A. r.
Sept. 3o-Shipping board and Emergency
Fleet corporation separated
Oct. 3-John Barton Payne appointed
chairman Of American Red Cross.
William H Taft sworn in as chief just
ice of Supreme court.
Oct. +PTesident 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-
n q
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
L. Brodie of Oregon.
Oct. 6-Lauritz S. Swenson of Minnesota
appointed minister to Sweden.
oct. 1o-Senate passed BOrah bill eN-
empting American cOastwise shipping
from payment of Panama canal tolls.
Oct. I5-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 31-AmeriCan Legion convention
opened in Kansas City.
Nov. 1-CordelI Hull of Tennessee
elected chairman OF Democratic national
Nov, 2-Lieut. Col. Hanford MacNider
OF Mason City. Ia, elected national com
mauder Of American Legion.
Nov. 5-Soldier bonus bill defeated il
Nov, Tax Revision bill passed by
senate.
Nov. s-John F. FTylan reelected may
n of New York. F. Lee Trinkle elected
governor of Virginia Democrats won I'm
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.
J. ". Riddle of Connecticut appointed
ambassador to Argentina.
Nov 1l-America's Unknown Soldier
buried at Arlington on ArmtstiCe day.
Nov. 1S-Senate adopted conference re-
port on anti-beer bill.
Nov. 19-House passed the maternity
bill.
Nov. 21-House adopted conference re
port of tax bill.
Nov. 22-Porto Rico asked the removal
Of Governor f. Mont Reilly as ''incom-
petent and prejudlced."
Nov. 23-Tax and and-beer bills were
enacted into law and special session OF
congress ended.
Nov. 2s-wood-Forbes commission re-
ported against immediate independence
for the Philippines and recommended
strengthening hand OF American govern
nent there
Dec. 5-Congress met in regular session.
President Harding submitted 70 con-
eminent expenses of 1923, showing reduc-
ton of half billion.
Dec. 6-President Harding in MESA &c
suggested labor court to end strikes, de-
velopment of cooperative marketing
among farmers, decentralization of indu8-
try, modification of the American valua-
sion scheme in tariff bill, and other rem
sd3al measures.
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