The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-12-30
DOMESTIC

Jan. 3-Henry P. Fletcher appointed am
bsissadoT to Belgium.
Jan 9-George Wharton Pepper az.
pointed United States senator from Penn
sylvaEia TO succeed the late Boies PEN
rose.
Jan I2-Senate by vote OF IS to Al seated
Truman II. Newberry of Michigan. with
re3uhe for lavish expenditure OF money
IA campaign.
Jan. 2e-House passed anti-lynching BILL
Gan. 3I-Senate passed foreign debt re-
funding bill. putting limit for payment at
Is years.
Feb. S-House accepted refunding bin IS
passed by senate.
Eco. a B. Houghton appointed am
bassador TO Germany, Theodore Brentano
minister to Hungary and A. Il. WashDurn
minister to Austria
Feb. s-Senate passed the house CO.
operative marketing bill
Feb. 11-Charles a RawSon appointed
United States senator from Iowa to sue
coed Kenyon.
Feb. Is-Federal Judge X. II. Lands
resigned, effective March l.
Feb. 21-Supreme court ruled Nineteenth
or woman's suffrage, amendment is con-
stitutional
Feb 2S-PresIdent Harding in address
10 congress, urged subsidies Tor American
merchant marine which viii amount to
sl5,000,eo in first year and $3Uo00,000 an
nually thereafter
March DIR. Hubert Work appointed
postmaster general
March 23-House of representative
passed soldiers bonus bill.
March 27-House voted 70 add $4,000, OG0
TO rivers and harbors appropriation
March 29-House passed army bill with
appropriations for army OF lls.o00.
April 15-House, in committee Of the
whole, voted, III to $50, to amend navy
bin 20 provide for 5000 men instead OF
Senate voted to extend 9 per cent irnrni-
grafton law for three years.
April l9-House clinched big navy"
action by vote Of 22l to las. and then
April m-Pan-American meeting @,
women opened in Baltimore
April 21-Congress appropriated $1,000. eco
for food control and relief in Mississippi
river valley.
May Limited States Supreme court
found packers control act constitutional
idge defeated Senator New in the Indiana
Republican primaries Samuel NJ Ralston
nominated by the Democrats.
May 5-House passed sl7,ooo.ooO soldier
hospital bill.
May 2o-A. H. Gelssler, Oklahoma. ap-
pointed minister to Guatemala.
May 24-Interstate commerce commits
sion ordered rail freight rates reduced
about 10 per cent. effective July l.
May go-Lincoln memorial at Washing
ton dedicated.
June 2-Senate passed army bill pro-
yiding for army of $4,000 enlisted men.
June 5-United States Supreme court
held labor organizations could be sued fer
siolations of Sherman antitrust law.
June I9-Senate passed navy appropria-
ion BILL providing for IS 900 enlisted men
Minnesota Republicans renOmiaated
United States Senator E. B. Kellogg,
and Democrats renominated Mrs Anna
y. Olesen.
June 2i-Illinois Supreme court upheld
the convictions of William Bross LLOYD
and IS other members of the Communist
Labor party for sedition.
June 22-Str!king miners in Williamson
county, Illinois, slaughtered 10 strike
breakers and mine guards.
June 24-Gov. Len Small OF. Illinois found
not guilty of conspiracy to defraud the
state
June 2T-Wisconsin Democrats nominated
Mrs Ben c. Hooper of Oshkosh for United
States senate.
June Ex-senator P. ]. IcCumter de-
feated for denomination In Republican
primaries OF North Dakota b. Lynn j.
Fra zier
July I-General Lord succeeded General
Dawes as director of the budget.
July Thames H. Wilkerson named TO
succeed X NJ Lands as United States
district Judge
July ls-Rooert B. Howell nominated
or senate by Republicans Of Nebraska
ard senator Hitchcock fenominated by
Democrats.
Aug. n-John w. Davis elected presi-
cent American Bar association.
Aus. 1s-Mai. David a. Reed appointed