The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1923-01-04
DOMESTIC

Jan. 3-Henry z. Fletcher appointed am
Jan. s-George Wharton Pepper ap-
pointed United States senator from Penn
~sylvania to succeed the late Boies PEN
rose.
Jan. l2-Senate by vote OF IS to II seated
Truman II. Newberry Of Michigan, with
rebuks for lavish expenditure Of money
in campaign.
Jan. 26-house passed anti-lynching bill.
Jan, 31-Senate passed foreign debt re-
funding bill. putting limit for payment at
Feb. IA. B. Houghton appointed am
bsssRdor to Germany, Theodore Brentano
minister to Hungary and A. H. Washburn
minister to Austria.
Feb. S-Senate passed the house CO.
operative marketing bill.
United States senator from lows to sue
coed Kenyon.
Feb. Is-Federal Judge K. M. Lands
resigned. effective March l..
Feb. T-Supreme court ruled Nineteenth.
or woman's suffrage, amendment Is con-
stitutional.
Feb. 8-President Harding, In address
to congress. urged subsidies for American
merchant marine which will amount to
s16. oOo.0 600 in first year n S3O,oCo,00O an
nually thereafter.
March DIR. Hubert Work appointed
postmaster general.
March 28-House of representatives
passed soldiers bonus bill.
March H-House voted TO add SIS. Oo0, 900
TO rlNeTH anu Ia DOTS APPROPRIATION.
March 2s-House passed army bill with
appropria tions for army Of ll6,e
April 15-House, in committee OF the
whole, voted, III to 1S0. to amend navy
bill to provide for $500 men instead OF
500
Senate voted to extend 3 per cent immi-
grafton law for three years.
April ls-House clinched big navy"
passed the bill.
April N-Pan-American meeting OF
women opened in Baltimore.
April 2~I-Congress appropriated 81, 900, 900
for food control and relief in Mississippi
river valley.
May Limited States Supreme cour,
May a-Former Senator Albert ]. Bever.
idge defeated Senator New In the Indiana
Republican primaries. Samuel M. Ralston
nominated by the Democrats.
May b-House passed H.mo,0o soldier
May 2o-A. H. Geissler, Oklahoma. ap-
pointed minister 10 Guatemala.
May 24-Interstate commerce commits
sion ordered rail freight rates reduced
about 10 per cent, effective July /.
ton dedicated.
June 2-Senate passed army bill pro-
siding for army of 1873, 900 enlisted men.
June SUnited States Supreme court
held labor organizations could be sued for
violations of Sherman antitrust law.
June 19-senste passed navy appropria-
ton bill, providing for SO, 900 enlisted men
Minnesota Republicans renominated
United States Senator r. b. Kellogg.
and Democrats renominated Mrs. Anna
ID. Olesen.
June 21%-Illinois Supreme court upheld
the convictions of William Bross Lloyd
and Is other members of the Communist
Labor party for sedition.
une 2-Striking miners In Williamson
county, Illinois. slaughtered 10 strike
breakers and mine guards.
June z<-oov. Len Small Of Illinois found
not guilty Of conspiracy to defraud the
state
June a7-wisconsin Democrats nominated
Mrs. Ben c. Hooper of Oshkosh for United,
States senate.
June ~2s-senator p. J. McCumber de-
feated for denomination In Republican
primaries Of North Dakota by Lynn J.
Frazier.
July 1-GeneraI Lord succeeded Gsnsr>l
Dawes ~ director of the budget.
July i1-James II. W1ikerson named 10
succeed X. M. lands as United States
July is-Ksbert B. Howell nominated
for senate by Republicans Of Nebraska
and Senate Hitchcock renominated by
Democrats.
Aug. ii-John W. Davis elected pfss,-
dent American Bar association.
Aug. 16-Mai. David A. Reed appointed
to succeed the late United States Senator
Crow Of Pennsylvania.
Avs. is-senate passed the McCumber
Aug. n-House passed bill to create
coal investigating commission
Aug. H-Secretary Of State Hughes
ssiied fer Brasil