The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1931-01-08

! 10 an embassy.
jan. 22-House voted for six more
federal prisons.
Jan. 24-Senate put hides. leather
! and shoes on free list.
Jan. 2S-Fred NJ. bearing of Missouri
appointed ambassador to Peru.
Feb. .S-William H. Taft resigned as
chief justice of the U. S. Supreme
court. and President Hoover appointed
| Charles Evans Hughes to the position.
Feb. 6-Federal farm board launched
| emergency plan of surplus control cor
poration to check decline of wheat
Feb. 7-President Hoover named
| commission to investigate conditions
in Haiti. with w. C. Forbes as chair
Feb. S-President Hoover left wash
ington for a weeks fishing at Long
| Key, Fla.
House passed bill transferring pro-
| hibition enforcement to Justice depart
ment.
Herman Bernstein of New York APP
! pointed minister to Albania.
Feb. 13-Senate confirmed appoint
ment of Hughes as chief justice. So
Feb. 2O-Dr Harry W. Chase. presi-
dent of University of North Carolina,
elected president of University of ILL
President Hoover reappointed entire
| federal radio commission.
Feb. 24-Charles Evans Hughes
sworn in as chief justice of Supreme
Congress appropriated 100000 for
loans to farmers in flood districts of
South and West.
March 4-Former President Coolidge
dedicated the great Coolidge dam in
John N; WHY'S appointed ambassador
| t. Poland.
! March 6-senate voted increased tar
March lO-W. H. Taft buried at
March i2-senate voted farm board
~, a
March 14-Secretary Mellon an
nounced tax refund of approximately
| $33.000.O0O to U. s. Steel corporation.
ed pdge Games J. PaTfsr Of
North Carolina to Supreme court.
John d. Rockefeller. Jr., established
$16,000,0O0 fund for western national
March L2-E. L. Doheny acquitted Of
giving 100000 oil bride.
March 24-Tariff bill passed by SEN
United States and Canada negotiated
treaty to halt smuggling.
March 26-Rt. Rev James De Wolf
P Isl 3Pe Of chnrcb
April 2-House passed resolution for
commission to study universal draft
Tariff bill sent to conference.
Taking of fifteenth decennial census
begun.
April 4-senate passed bill for gov
eminent operation of Muscle Shoals
project.
April THE house passed the Porter
bill creating a bureau of narcotics.
April S-Mrs Ruth Hanna McCor-
mick nominated for senator by Repub-
leans of Illinois. defeating Senator
Deneen.
April 14-supreme court decided Chi
cago lake water diversion case in ac-
.ordance with the findings of Hughes
as special master
April l5-Roland w. Boyden selected
to succeed c. E. Hughes as American
member of permanent court of arbitra-
ton at The Hague.
April 21-Senate judiciary commit
tee voted 10 to against confirmation
| of Judge j. j. Parker as associate
justice of Supreme court.
April 24-House passed Sill, 100000
rivers and harbors bill. providing for
completion of Illinois waterway project
April 30-President hoover received
copy Of London naval treaty from Sec
retary of State Stimson.
May 2-President Hoover submitted
budget for s1O,600,OOO to begin work
on Boulder dam project.
May blouse defeated export de-
benture plan and voted for flexible
Nav denomination of Judge John J.
| Parker of North Carolina as associate
justice of the Supreme court rejected
by senate. 80 to Al.
owen j. Roberts of Philadelphia for
supreme court associate justice;
May lS-SenHIe passed Dill lot Ie0.
| eral employment bureau.
May 13-Senate voted to put Mexican
immigration under national origins
MAY May i4@senate passed bill transfer
ring prohibition bureau from Treasury
to Department of Justice.
May 17-Salvation Army celebrated
| Its golden jubilee in New York.
May Is-Bishop Cannon acquitted of
| stock gambling charges by committee
Of Methodist church. South.
May foy s OF haoo and CHI
| ford Pinchot for governor in Pennsyl-
vania Republican primary.
Senate confirmed Owen j. Roberts as
May 21-Hanford MacNider appointed
minister to Canada.
MAY 26-Supreme court ruled buyers
| of liquor are guilty of no offense.
May 30-President Hoover delivered
| Memorial day address at Gettysburg
| National cemetery.
June 2-Congress passed Spanish
| American war pension bill over Presi-
June Louis Bamberger of New
York and his sister. Mrs. Felix Fluid.
South Carolina Democrats nominated
j. w. Bailey for senator, defeating
June 9-President Hoover signed bill
increasing Civil war pensions by $12.-
| 100000.
Chicago BOARD OF ITdQe 0eQlC0IeO
Its new s22 100000 home.
Prof. Frank P. Graham elected pres
| ident of University of North Carolina
June 12-President Hoover nominal
ed w. Cameron Forbes as ambassador
TO Japan and reappointed Legge and
| league to federal farm board.
June 13-Senate passed the tariff bill
June 14-House passed the tariff bill
June 17-President Hoover signed
| the tariff bill, and it became effective
June i9-Rear Admiral Byrd arrived
| in New York from the Antarctic.
June 20-Senate confirmed Hanford
MacNider as minister to Canada.
| the senate.
June 22-President Hoover gave no.
| tice he would veto the World war vet
erans' bill as unsound and too costly.
Son was born to Colonel and Mrs.
| Lindbergh.
June 23-Senate passed the World
war veterans bill by vote. of &C to g..
Amos w. w. Woodcock appointed
June 26-President Hoover vetoed
| the World war veterans bill; the
house sustained the veto and passed
June 27-Almon A. Roth, California,
elected president of Rotary Interna-
| tional.
July Senate, passed, World war
| Cen Edgar Jadwin selected as head
| of federal power commission.
House passed bill for unified border
| patrol.
July S-Senate accepted World war
| pension bill of the house. and special
session of congress was adjourned.
July 4-President Hoover called spe-
cial session of senate to act on Lon
| don naval treaty.
July 7-Senate met in special ses-
sion and received message from PreSi-