Evening star., 1924-12-31

chiefs of the Federation of Labor.
and, apparently against his will, by
the Socialist party. Senator Burton
X. Wheeler of Montana was given
second place on the ticket. There
were several other candidates, as
usual, who cut no figure in the re-
suits The evident plan of the La
Toilette following was to cause
deadlock in the electoral college and
throw the election into Congress.
When the votes of the Nation were
counted on the night of November 4
1T was found that Coolidge had car
ried 35 States, with 3S2 votes in the
electoral college; Davis had carried
IL States, all in the Solid South"
with 1876 electoral votes, and La
Toilette had won only the 13 cleo
toral votes of Wisconsin. Coolidge's
popular plurality was neary 10000
600. The Republicans also won COM
plete control of the next Congress
Two Women
Elected ms Governors.
Among the interesting results of
the day was the election of two
women as governors of States. They
are Mrs. Miriam Ferguson of Texas
and Mrs. Nellie r. Ross of wyoming
Al Smith gave an impressive demon
stration of his popularity by over
coming huge Republican plurality
in New York State and defeating
Theodore Roosevelt, jr., for the gov
ern orship.
Scandal resulting from the leasing
of naval oil reserve lands furnished
material for bitter attacks on the ad-
ministration and for long investiga-
tions by senatorial committees. Albert
b. Fal, former Secretary of the In
terror. was badly involved, and others
were smirched. Secretary of the Navy
DENLY resigned under pressure
President Coolidge and Congress took
steps to bring the guilty to justice
and to recover the reserves Court
proceedings are stil1 going on. Con-
gress gave considerable time to the
bin for tax reduction and passed
measure that included many features
urged by the Democrats and insur-
gent Republicans. A soldiers bonus
bill also was passed. The President
vetoed 1t, but both House and Senate
overrode the veto. An immigration
bill before Congress contained a
clause that would exclude the Japan
ese, and the Ambassador from Toxic
protested against this and so vexed
Congress that the measure was
World Flight
Started by Four Planes.
Four airplanes manned by eight
Army pilots started on flight
around the world from Santa Monica
Calf, on March II. In the Alaskan
islands the commander, Maj. Martin
and his plane came to grief and the
other planes continued the flight
With many vicissitudes and some ex-
I loit inc ha
/ their way to Japan, China, India, and
so on through Europe to Iceland
where another plane was wrecked
The two remaining planes success
fully flew to Greenland and thence
home Aviators of several other ma
tions attempted the same feat, but
all failed.
Curtis d. Wilbur of California be-
came Secretary of the Navy on March
IA, when Mr.. DENLY retired Attorney
| General Daugherty resigned March 2S
| at the request of the President because
his official actions were assailed and un-
der investigation. He was succeeded by
Harlan Fiske Stone Of New York. Sec
| retary of Agriculture Wallace died
October 25. and Howard Gore was
| named to fill the post until March 4.
warren Named
Ambassador to Mexico.
Friendly relations with Mexico hav-
ing been restored, Charles B. Warren
was appointed Ambassador in February
Later he resigned, and James r. Shelf
field of New York was named. Cyrus
Woods, Ambassador to Japan, resigned
in May, and in August Edgar A. Ban
croft of Chicago was given that post.
Hugh S. Gibson was made Minister to
Switzerland in March.
Gov McCray of Indiana got into f1nan-
cial difficulties and was convicted of US
Ting th@ mails to defraud and sentenced
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