The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1934-01-05
Chronology
S e tss 1893
Compiled by
E. W. PICK A ID
DOMESTIC


state troops were sent after two per-
sons were killed.
Jan. flight hundred enraged Iowa
farmers halted farm mortgage sale.
Jan; 6EFormer, President Calvin
Coolidge died in Northampton, Mass.
and President Hoover ordered 80 days
of public mourning.
Jan. 12-House passed domestic al
lotment farm aid BILL
the Philippine independence bill. and
the house OVERRIDE the veto;
Jan. 17-Senate repassed philippine
Independence bill over Presidents
Jan. 2o-President Hoover and Pres
ident-Elect Roosevelt agreed to open
war debt negotiations with Great
Jan. 21-senator H. B. Halves of Mis-
souri, resigned.
Jan. 23SThe Twentieth amendment to
the Constitution, ending lame duck
sessions of congress, was ofncially
adopted when Missouri. the seth state
Dr. Harry Woodburn Chase resigned
as president of University of Illinois
TO become chancellor of New York uni
versity.
Jan. 24-Secretary Stimson invited
all non-defaulting nations to confer
ence on war debts after March 4.
Congress voted S90.000.0o0 for farm
Ian. 25-senate passed the Glass
Jan. SO-House passed bill to en-
dUlS uSDlOTS 10 dNOlu UdHhTuplSyy anu
the Glass banking bill.
Feb. 4-House refused to cut pay of
congressman.
Feb. SENATE ousted Sergeant at
Arms David S. Barry for traducing 1t
in magazine article.
Roosevelt called conference of all
governors in Washington March s.:
igan, proclaimed an eight day bank
Feb. I5@An anarchist. Giuseppe Fan
CARA, fired five shots at Franklin d.
Roosevelt in Miami, missing him but
fatally wounding Mayor Cermak OF
Feb. 16-senate adopted resolution
for repeal of Eighteenth amendment.
Feb. 20-Resolution for prohibition
repeal passed by the house.
Feb. DISAPPOINTMENT announced OF
State and William H. Woodin Of New
York as secretary of the treasury in
the Roosevelt cabinet.
Feb. 23-Congress passed $30S, 000,0
naval appropriation bill.
J. c. Stone resigned as chairman Of
Feb; a3-House Of representatives
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.
Feb. 27@Haroid feke sia as secretary
Oh the interior ana SlauQe "A. swan
son as secretary of the navy announced
by Roosevelt.
Federal grand jury in Chicago in
dicted the insults and others for us
Ing the mails to defraud.
March Harry Byrd appointed SEN
ator from Virginia to succeed Swan
son.
Treasury-postoffice bill, comforting
passed.
March Representative Henry t.
Rainey OF Illinois chosen next speaker
Henry Morgenthau, Jr.. named new
chairman of farm board.
March Bank holidays proclaimed
in New York and Illinois.
Homer S. Cummings named attorney
general in Roosevelt cabinet.
March 4-Franklin d. Roosevelt in
augurated President of United States.
Seventy-second congress came to a
close.
March 5-President Roosevelt de-
called congress in session on March 9.
March Theodore Roosevelt re-
signed as governo- general Of the Phil
ippines.
-, Lewis Douglas appointed director of
March 9-President Roosevelt ex-
tended bank holiday Indefinitely.
OF banking system.
Congress met in special session;
Rainey. elected speaker of house.
for power to cut veterans costs and
government salaries 100000, 900.
March 11-House passed Presidents
March 13-Banks reopened.
Robert w. Bingham appointed am
bassador to England; Jesse i. Stratus,
ambassador to France; and Josephus
Daniels, ambassador to Mexico.
March 14-House passed 30 per cent
beer bill. w
March 16-senate passed beer bill.
HnN rob 70 @Na
Cermak of Chicago. electrocuted at
March 22-House passed Roosevelt
March 27-President scrapped farm
board and combined several agricul-
tural bureaus.
cutting pay of 100000 federal employ
ees Is per cent.
April President signed regulations
reducing veterans aid s40O,oOO.o0O. ef-
April 3-Claude G. Bowers named
ambassador to Spain.
Michigan first state to vote repeal
of dry amendment.
April WISCONSIN voted repeal.
April president ordered return of
gold boards over 500 by May /.
April president invited nine ma
tions to economic conference In Wash
ington. ~
April S-Mayor Frank Murphy of De-
troit named governor-general Of Phil
ippines.
April 12-Ruth Bryan Owen named
minister to Denmark.
April 17-Senate rejected is to / sill
Yer reconciliation amendment to farm
bill.
House adopted resolution giving
President power to declare an arms
embargo.
April 1s-United States went of
gold standard; embargo on gold ex-
portations declared; bill for Controlled
imitation" drafted for administration
April 20-Breckinridge Long nomi-
mated for ambassador to Italy.
April 2lmHouse passed bill providing
half billion dollars for outright re.
lief gifts TO. the states.
bassador TO Cuba
April 2S-House passed the Muscle
wisconsin ratified prohibition repeal
amendment.
April 2s-Mrs. Nellie Tayloe Ross ap-
pointed director of the mint.
April 27--L. A. Steinhardt was an
pointed minister to Sweden and An
bassador Hugh s. Gibson transferred
from Belgium to Brazil.
April 2S-Senate passed farm hin
with credit and currency expansion
mortgage refinancing measure.
Warren Delano Robbins was appoint
ed minister to Canada, and Robert III.
Gore governor of Porto Rico.
Iowa farmers rioted and attacked n
Judge at lie Mars; martial law pro-
claimed.
May House passed the $500. 900 900
emergency relief bill
g. t. delivering appointed commits
sioner OF Internal revenue; and j. F. T.
OConnor controller of the currency.
May 3-House passed imitation rider
TO farm bill.
Senate passed the Muscle Shoals bill
May 5-House passed bill to regu-
late sale of securities
Jesse ii. Jones made chairman of
Reconstruction Finance corporation.
hibition repeal amendment.
James B. Conant elected president
of Harvard university,
Senate passed bin for federal regu-
lation of securities.
May 9-House defeated price fixing