The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1926-01-01
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DOMESTIC
Jan. 4-Associate Justice Joseph Nc
kenna of Supreme court resigned and
President Coolidge named Attorney Cen
eral Harlan r. Stone to succeed him.
Mrs Nellie L. Ross sworn in as gov
erpor of Wyoming.
Jan. 6-Senate upheld Presidents veto
of postal salary raise bill by one vote,
Senate passed Interior department bill
and house passed emergency deficiency
bill carrying S157 100000
Jan. 7-Senate passed treasury. post
office and agriculture supply bills.
Jan. 9-House passed army appropria-
ton bill carrying S331,000.0O0.
Jan. 10-President Coolidge announced
that Secretary of State Hughes would
retire from the cabinet on March and
that Frank B. kellogg had been selected
to succeed him.
Charles B. Warren nominated for at
torney general
Jan. 12-Presidential electors met in the
state capitals and cast their votes. Cool
idge and Dawes being formally elected.
Jan. 1S-Alanson b. Houghton. am
bassador to Germany, selected to sue
coed Frank B. Kellogg as ambassador
to Great Britain.
Senate passed deficiency bill carrying
1853 900, 600
JAN 1ESenate passed the Underwood
Muscle Shoals bill
Jan. &c. Bascom Slemp resigned as
secretary to the President and Everett
Sanders of Indiana was named to sue
coed him.
Rt. Rev. w. NJ. Brown. former bishop
of Arkansas, found guilty of violating
Episcopal doctrine by church board of
review and his expulsion from ministry
recommended.
Former Secretary DENLY exonerated
and Fall condemned by minority report
from senate committee on oil inquiry.
Ia praS orn naI
completion of work of United States
railroad administration created during
the war; cost to nation was 81 ,6l4 500 600.
Senate adopted majority report on Tea
pot Dome oil scandal. censuring Fall
and DENLY.
Mrs. Miriam A Ferguson inaugurated
governor of Texas.
Jan. 30-Col. Charles R. Forbes, former
director of the veterans bureau and
John w Thompson. millionaire contrac-
tor of st. Louis. found guilty by a jury
in Chicago of having conspired to de-
fraud the government in contracts for
soldiers hospitals
Emile Daeschner. new French ambas-
sador, presented credentials to President
Coolidge.
Senate passed postal pay and rate In
crease bill
Jan. SO-Dog teams carrying antitoxin
for diphtheria- Nome started
on 665-mile run.
Feb. 2-Serum reached Nome in record
breaking time.
House passed bill for $3.50, 900. 600 for pub
lie buildings program for six years.
Delaware and Utah rejected child la
Dor amendment.
Feb. 3-House returned postal increase
bill to senate, asserting it's right to
initiate all revenue legislation.
Thompson sentenced to two years in
prison and $4,000 fine each.
Tennessee legislature rejected .hild la
Dor amendment.
Feb 1O-Housa passed postal nav and
rate increase bill substituted for senate
measure.
Senate ratified commercial treaty with
Feb. i2-special senate committee on
campaign funds reported. advising law
against sending of such funds from one
state to another.
Feb. 14-WiIliam M. Jardine of Kansas
appointed secretary of agriculture, and
George Parks governor of Alaska.
Feb. 16--Floyd Collins. entrapped by
bowlder in Sand Cave, kentucky, on
January 80. found dead.
Senate confirmed nomination of Frank
B. Kellogg to be secretary of state.
Senate passed again its own postal
Feb 17-Senate voted to increase
salaries Of members of congress to s10.-
600 and of cabinet members to $4,000.
Feb. 20-House accepted senate amend
ment for raise of congressional and
cabinet salaries.
Feb 22-LaFollette third party split
three ways by withdrawal of 16 labor
Feb. 26-Charles s. Deneen appointed
senator from Illinois to succeed the late
Medill Mccormick.
House passed Dickinson co-operat tive
marketing bill as substitute for Capper-
Haugen measure.
Feb. N-Repubiican members of next
house in caucus elected Nicholas Long
worth Of Ohio speaker.
House committee reported great frauds
in bureau of printing and engraving.
March 3-House adopted resolution ad-
vocating American entry into world
Navy war game began in the Pacific.
March 4Calvin Coolidge and Charlie
G. Dawes inaugurated President and vice
president of United States.
March 5-United States shipping board
and Emergency Fleet corporation won
verdict for s11,51. sSS against Virginia
shipbuilding corporation
March 6-Lieut. Col. James E. Fechet
named as successor to Brig. Gen. Will
liam Mitchell. assistant chief of army
air service.
of Charles Beecher Warren as attorney
general.
March 12-President Coolidge again
submitted name of Warren to senate to
be attorney general.
March 13-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's nomination of Warren Il
be attorney general by vote of 46 to 49,
Thomas F. Woodlock of New York as
member of the interstate CONNER CO
commission.
March 3O-Brig. Gen William Mitchell
ordered to Texas flying field. revertine
to rank of colonel.
March 31-United States shipping board
sold it's five Pacific ships for So 900 to
Dollar interests.
April 3-Indictments against Fall. Sin
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 23-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 29-Solicitor General ]. III. Beck
MAY s-w. T. Van orman won national
balloon race with Goodyear III.
May 4-International Council of Women
convened in Washington.
May 5-Secretary Wilbur ordered avia-
ton 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
fury magazine. elected president of Uni
versty of Wisconsin.
Mgr j F.. Noll of Huntington, Ind.
made bishop of Fort Wayne
Nav 21-Presbyterian general assembly
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