The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1922-01-06


.s3Ihns zehaslss 9: Dawes made dirsf
+, s5,ine --Sscrefafy. Of the Navy DENLY
publicly reprima1ded Admiral Sims for
indiscreet utterances in London speech.
E, 2; Warren Of Detroit aPPointssd am \,
Washington ambassador to- Chile.
June H-House passed supplementary
prohibition law barring medicinal beer
and wine
chief Justice Of Supreme court Of u 8.
House adopted modified resolution de-
clarng war with Germany ended.
July 1-Senate adopted peace resolution.
July president Harding signed the
July Esenator j. o. wolcott Of Della
ware resigned co become chancellor OF
state.
July 7--Gen. T. Coleman Du Point APP
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 q
Illinois indicted on charges Of fraud and
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
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. 2O-Tax revision bill passed by
house.
Aug. 2ACongress recessed until Sept.
q after passing $4S,500oO0 shipping board
deficiency bill and the billion-dollar farm
exports credit bill, and extending the
dye embargo to Jan. /. 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. S-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. 8. 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 M-Gongress reconvened and Pres
Germany. Austria and Hungary.
j. C. Grew nominated minister to
Switzerland. and DR.. J. D. Prince of New
jersey minister TO denmark.
Sept 26-Conference ON unemployment
opened in Washington.
Sept. FIFTY fifth annual encampment
G.. A. r. opened in Indianapolis
Sept: 2s-Lewis s. Pitcher Of Brooklyn
Sept. S0-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 4HPresident Harding appointed the
following minister's To Panama. DR..
John Glover South Of Kentucky; to MIC
aragua. John 2. Ramer 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 8.
Wilson Of Maine; to Finland. Charles L.
Kagey Of Kansas, and to Siam, Edward
e. Brodie of Oregon.
Oct e-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. H-American Legion convention
opened in Kansas City.
Nov. 1-Cordell Hull Of Tennessee
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.
governor Of Virginia. Democrats won in
Kentucky.
Senate extended emergency tariff act
indefinitely
Nov. sNAmerica's unknown dead soldier
reached Washington and lay in state be-
meath the dome of the capitol.
j. 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. ls-House passed the maternity
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 1928. 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. s-supreme Court of United States