The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1933-12-28
Chronology
-of the
| Year 1888
/ Compiled by
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DOMESTIC
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state troops were sent dileT t"o
Jan. flight hundred enraged
Iowa farmers halted farm mortgage
sale.
Jan. 5-Former President Calvin
Coolidge died in Northampton, Mass;
a aaa p Of pasIie moureng
Jan. 12-House passed domestic
allotment farm aid bill.
Jan. 13-President Hoover vetoed
the Philippine Independence bill. and
the house OVERRIDE the veto.
Jan. 17-Senate repassed Philip
pine independence bill over Presi-
Jan SoNPresident Hoover and
President-Elect Roosevelt agreed
to open war debt negotiations with
Jan. Ex-senator h. B. Halves Of
Missouri resigned.
Jan. 23-The Twentieth amend
ment to the Constitution, ending
lame duck" sessions of congress
souri,, the thirty-sixth state to APP
DR.. Harry WOODBURY. Chase re-
signed as president OF the Untver-
sity Of Illinois to become chancellor
OF jane anew s4% s snixsrS''y s,imson in
vited all non-defaulting nations to
conference on war debts after
Congress voted sso.ooo.oOo for
Jan. a5.senate passed the Glass
Jan. soMHouss passed bill to on
able debtors to avoid bankruptcy.
and the Glass banking bill.
Feb. 7|Senate ousted Sergeant at
Arms David S. Barry for traducing
1t in magazine article. :.
Roosevelt called conference Of all
Feb. 1+Governor Comstock OF
Michigan proclaimed an eight-day
banking holiday.
Feb. 15-An anarchist. Giuseppe
Zangara, fired five shots at Franklin
D. Roosevelt in Miami, missing him,
Feb. 16NSenate adopted resolution
for repeal Of Eighteent amendment.
Feb. 2o-Resolution for prohibit
Feb. 2i-Appointment announced
Of Senator Cordell Hull as secretary
of state and William H. Woodin of
New York as secretary OF the treas
ury in the Roosevelt cabinet.
Feb. 23-Congress passed $3OS.0OO.-
600 naval appropriation bill.
Of farm board.
Feb. .24-House Of representatives
impeached. Federal Judge Harold
Louderback Of California for mis-
demeanors in office"
Feb. 26-President-E Elect Roosevelt
announced Henry Wallace would be
secretary of agriculture and James
A. Farley postmaster general; 80
of the interior and Claude A. Swan
son as secretary of the navy an
nounced by Roosevelt.
Federal grand jury. in Chicago In
Gicted the insults and others for u.s.
ing the mails to defraud.
March Harry Byrd appointed
senator from Virginia to succeed
Swanson.
Treasury postofiice bill. comforting
reorganization powers on President.
Rainey of Illinois chosen next speak
or by Democrats.
Henry Morgenthau. Jr.. named
new chairman of farm board.
March s-Bank holidays pro-
claimed in New York and Illinois.
ney general in Roosevelt cabinet.
March Franklin D. Roosevelt
inaugurated President OF United
seventy-second congress came to
q close.
March 5-President Roosevelt de-
clared q four-day bank holiday and
called congress in session on March
March Theodore Roosevelt re-
signed as governor general OF the
Lewis Douglas appointed director
March ssPresident Roosevelt, ex-
tended bank holiday indefinitely.
Congress gave President full con-
troll Of banking system.
Congress met in special session;
Rainey elected speaker of house.
March 10-President asked con:
gress for power to cut veterans
costs and government salaries $780,
March 1l-House passed Presi-
dents economy bill.
March 13-Banks reopened.
Robert w. Bingham appointed am
bassador to England; Jesse ]. Straus,
ambassador to France; and Josephus
March I4-House passed SO per
cent beer bill.
March 16-Senate passed beer bill.
March 19-Zangara, slayer Of May
or Cermak Of Chicago. electrocuted
at Miami.
March ss-House passed Roosevelt.
March 27-President scrapped farm
board and combined several agri-
cultural bureaus.
March ss-Pre sid mt issued order
ployees Is per cent.
April President signed regula-
lions reducing veterans aid $780,
100000, effective July 1.
April 3-Claude G. Bowers named
ambassador to Spain.
Michigan first state to repeal dry
amendment.
April Wisconsin voted repeal.
April 5-President ordered return
Of gold boards over 500 by May. 1.
nations to economic conference in
Washington.
April S-Mayor Frank Murphy of
Detroit named governor-general of
Philippines.
April 12-Ruth Bryan owen named
minister to Denmark.
April 17-Senate rejected 16 to 1
silver augmentation amendment to
House adopted resolution giving
April 19-United States went of
gold standard; embargo on gold ex-
portations declared; bill for Com
trolled imitation" drafted for admin
April 2o-Breckenridge Long NOM
mated for ambassador to Italy.
April 2l-House passed bill pro-
viding half billion dollars for out
right relief gifts to the states.
Sumner Welles nominated for am
bassador to Cuba.
April 25-House passed the Muscle
Shoals bill.
Wisconsin ratified prohibition re-
peal amendment.
April 26-Mrs. Nellie Tayloe Ross
appointed director of the mint.
April 27-L A Steinhardt was ap-
pointed minister to Sweden and Am
bassador Hugh s. Gibson transferred
from Belgium to Brazil.
April 28-Senate passed farm bill
with credit and currency expansions
amendment.
House passed $4,000, 100000 home
mortgage refinancing measure.
Warren Delano Robbins was APP
pointed minister to Canada, and
Robert n. Gore governor OF Porto
Rico.
Iowa farmers rioted and attacked
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