Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1925-12-31
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salaries or members or congress TO So
100 and of cabinet members to s15,D00.
Feb 20-House accepted senate araend-
ment for raise of congressional and
cabinet salaries
Feb 26-Charles S. Dencen appointed.
senator from Illinois to succeed the late
House passed Dickinson cooperative
marketing DILL as substitute for Capper-
liaugen measure
house In caucus elected Nicholas Long
worth of Ohio speaker.
House committee reported great frauds
in bureau of printing and engraving.
March 3-House aavptes. resolltion adj
vocating American entry into world
court
Navy war game began in the Pacific
March 4-Calvin Coolidge and Charles
G. Dawes inaugurated President and vice
president of United States
March 5-United States slipping board
and EMERGENCY Fleet corporation won
verdict for sf1,57l .S5S against Virginia
corporation
March 6-Lieut Col. James f. Fechet
named as successor 70 Brig Cen. WI
liam Mitchell. assistant chief Of army
air service.
March l0--Senate rejected nomination
Of Charles Beeeher Warren as attorney
general
March R-Presldent Coolidge again
submitted name of Warren to senate to
oc attorney general
March 49, Senate ratified the Isle OF
Pines treaty which fixed ownership Of is
land With Republic of Cuba
March 16-Senate again rejected Presi-
dent Coolidge nomination of Warren t.
be attorney general by vote of ~ TO 80
Thomas F. Woodlock of New York as
member of the interstate CONNIE. ,e
commission
March S0-Brig. Gen William Mitchell
to rank of colonel.
March 3l-United States shipping board
sold its five Pacific ships for S. 900 to
Dollar interests.
April 3-Indictments against Fall. Sim
clair and the Dohenys dismissed on a
technicality
April 7-U. s. s. Saratoga. largest air
plane carrier. launched
April Ex-senator Wheeler of Montana
went to trial in Great Falls for illegal
use OF his influence as senator.
April 2S-District of Columbia Judge
suspended consent decree by which big
Five packers agreed to divorce them
selves from unrelated lines.
April Ex-senator b K. Wheeler acuuit-
ted In trial at Great Falls. Mont.
April 27-war game at Hawaii ended
without official decision.
April 2S-Solcitor General j. NJ. Beck
resigned.
balloon race with Goodyear Ill
May 4-lnternational Council of Women
convened in Washington.
May 5-Secretary Wilbur ordered avia-
uon training for all cadets of Annapolis
academy
Coast guard feet began Intensive war
on the Atlantic coast rum fleet
May 13-Glenn Frank, editor of Cen
tury magazine, elected president of Uni
versity of Wisconsin
Mgr. J.. F. Noll of Huntington. Ind.
made bishop of Fort Wayne
May 21-Presbyterian general assembly
met In Columbus, Ohio. and elected DR..
G. r. Erdman of Princeton seminary
moderator.
May 25--J. T Scopes indicted in Day
ton. Tenn, for test case OF state law
against teaching of evolution theory
Governor Baker of Missouri appointed
9. H. Williams United States senator to
NIL out term of late Selden S Spencer.
May H-Grand jury in Washington re-
turned new indictments against Fall.
Sinclair and Doheny.
shipping board voted to scrap 200 ves-
May 2S-Doheny leases in FIX Hills
naval oil reserve and Hawaii contracts
voided by federal court in Los A geles.
May 29-Federal grand jury in Chi
cago indicted 269 furniture makiag con-
Germs and individuals for combining in
restraint of trade aud commerce.
June 5-William y. Mitchell ST Paul.
Mimi. appointed solicitor general
June S-President Coolidge addressed
Morse American centennial celebration in
ST. Paul, Mimi
June 14-President Coolidge de Jared
himself against reduction in sugar duty.
June T-MacMillan expedition to ex-
plore Crocker land sailed from Boston.
june ls-torty nine chairmakers pleaded
guilty to trust charges and were fined.
June 19-Federai Judge Kennedy at
Cheyenne Wyo.. decided the Teapot
Dome oil reserve lease to the Sinclair
company was legal and proper
June 23-President Coolidge moved to
summer White House at Swanpscott.
Mass.
Sweeping reorganiza tion plan for fed.
eral prohibition enforcement announced
by Treasury department.
June 3o-Tce box manufacturers in
dicted for antitrust law violation pleaded
guilty and were fined by Federal Judge
Mrs Edith N. Rogers of Lowell. Mass.
elected to congress TO succeed her hus-
band. the late John Jacob Rogers
July 1-Overnight air mail service be-
tween New York and Chicago estab-
DR.. F. E. Clark. founder and for "A
years president of Christian Endeavor,
resigned and was succeeded by Or. d. A.
Polling.
July 1o-E. B. Brousard Utah ap-
pointed to tariff commission
Scopes anti-evolution law trial
opened in Dayton, Tenn, with w. j.
Bryan aiding prosecution.
Eighty-three furniture manufacturers
pleaded guilty of violating antitrust law
and were fined s1Ss, 600.
July 2l-Scopes convicted in Dayton
evolution trial and fined 500.
July 25-New indictments returned in
Chicago against 155 furniture manufac-
turers for violating antitrust laws.
William Jennings Bryan died suddenly
in Dayton, Tenn.
July 31-William j. Bryan Inferred in
Arlington National cemetery
Aug. 4-Ford's bid of sl,706,00O for 200
Init Sfnfn CHI inc r1 Xy1SS or
cepted.
Aug. 12-National crime commission
in New York by prominent
Aug. 1s-Max Mason, mathematics pro-
fessor in University of Wisconsin,. cleo
ted president of University OF Chicago.
Aug. 1s-MacMillan expedition aban
ioned exploration Of polar regions by
airplane for the season.
Aug. 20-Secretary of Agriculture
Jardine ousted DR.. Fl G. Taylor. chief Of
bureau of agricultural economies.
Aug. 21-Assistant Secretary of the
Treasury Andrews announced appoint
nent OF "a prohibition district dminis-
traitors.
Aug, 2s-Power production started at
Aug. s1-Two navy planes began, the
light from San Francisco to Honolulu:
,ne broke down 800 miles out
Fifty ninth annual encampment of the
J. A. r. opened in Grand Rapids. Mich.
Senate recount OF Iowa senatorial eiec-
ion votes showed Brookhart 1S4 votes
lhead of Steck.
Sept 1-Second navy plane forced down
lear Hawaii by lack of fuel ard lost
n stormy sea, with crew of five. Found |
en- days later
Sept 3-Navy dirigible Shena ndoah
by storm in Ohio. Lieut.. !
rom Zachary Lansdowne and i3 others
,illed
John Il. Inman of Springfc,'. ILL.,, elect F.,
d commander in chief Of D. a. r.
Sent E--(NOI Nillia MITCHELL SaVprpIy
army and naHt air service.
Sept. 10-President Coolidge returned
o Washington fron vacation
Sept l2-Pres s.,ie;t Coolidge named |