The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1934-01-04
rOf10logy
S e t''s 1893
Compiled BY
E. w. PICKAR D
DOMESTIC

count, Illinois,, broke out again ana
state troops were sent after two per-
Jan. 4-Eight hundred enraged Iowa
farmers halted farm mortgage saiH;
Coolidge died in Northampton, Mass.
and President Hoover ordered 80 days
of PUBLIC mourning.
Jan. 12-House passed domestic al
lotment farm aid bill.
Jan. 13-President Hoover vetoed
the Philippine Independence Dill. and
the house OVERRIDE the veto.
Jan. 17-Senate repassed Phlilpplne
independence bill over Presidents
Jan. 2O-President Hoover and Pres
ident-Elect Roosevelt agreed to open
war debt negotiations with Great
Jan. Ex-senator H. B. Halves of Mis-
Jan. 2SSThe Twentieth amendment to
the Constitution, ending lame duck
adopted when Missouri, the seth state
to approve, ratified it.
DR.. Harry WOODBURY. Chase reslgned
as president of University OF ILLINOIS
to become chancellor of New York uni
versity.
ali non-defaulting nations. to confer
ence on war debts after March 4.
Congress voted s9o.OoO,oOO for farm
loans.
Jan. sOlHouse passed bill to en-
able debtors to avoid bankruptcy, and
Feb. 4IHouse refused to cut pay of
Feb. Senate ousted Sergeant at
Arms David S. Barry for traducing 1t
In magazine article. 49,. = @-- =,
Roosevelt called conference of all
governors in Washington March g..
Feb. 14-Governor Comstock of Mich
igan proclaimed an eight day bank
Feb. i5wAn anarchist, Giuseppe Fan
Roosevelt in Miami, missing him but
fatally wounding Mayor Cermak OF
Feb. 1s-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 -
naval val appropriation BIZ.
J. C. Stone resigned as chairman Of
farm board. -.....
im pea ad Federai jadge HaroId
Louderback of California for mis-
demeanors in office"
announced Henry Wallace would be
secretary of agriculture and James A.
Farley postmaster general.
of the interior and Claude A. swan,
SON as secretary of the navy announced
by Roosevelt. eEzsa 81
Federal grand jury, in Chicago In
ing. the mails to defraud.
March Harry Byrd appointed sem
ator from Virginia to succeed Swan
Treasury bill, comforting
reorganization powers on President.
March 2-Representative Henry T.
Rainey of Illinois chosen next speaker
by Democrats. = sz-5-.-
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.
Seyenty-second congress came to a
close.
March 5-President Roosevelt de-
clared four-day bank holiday and
called congress in session on March 8.
March Theodore Roosevelt re-
Lewis Douglas appointed director of
March s-President Roosevelt ex-
tended bank holiday Indefinitely.
Congress gave President full control
Of banking system.
Congress met in special session;
Rainey elected speaker of house.
March 10-President asked congress
for power to cut veterans costs and
government salaries S500,000,000.
March 11-House passed Presidents
economy bill.
March Blanks reopened.
Robert w. Bingham appointed am
bassador to England; Jesse I. Straus,
ambassador to France; and Josephus
Daniels, ambassador to Mexico.
March 1E-House passed 30 per cent
March 1e-senate passed beer BILL
March 1s-Zangara, slayer of Mayor
Germak OF Chicago. electrocuted at
March 22-House passed Roosevelt
March 27-President scrapped farm
board and combined several agricul-
tural bureaus. -. 49,:
March 2s-President issued order
cutting pay Of 100000 federal employ
ees 10 per cent. 80 Is. ~ =
reducing veterans aid $500. 1000 .'e eff
fective July 1. -<sf ~ So
April 3-cIaude q. Bowers named
ambassador to Spain. ". 49,, -.
Of dry amendment. >. -
April WISCONSIN voted repeal.
April 5-President ordered return of
gold boards over 500 by May 1.
April president invited nine ma
tions to economic conference in WASH
ington. -.
troit named governor-generaI Of Phil
1ppines.
April Truth Bryan Owen named
minister to Denmark.
April 17-Senate rejected 16 to I sill.
yer demonstration amendment to farm
bill. ..-
House adopted resolution giving
President power to declare an arms
embargo.
April 1s-Unfted States went off
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 21-House passed bill providing
half a billion dollars for outright re.
lief gifts to the states.
Sumner Welles nominated for am
baSsador to Cuba Gill
April ,25-House passed the Muscle
Shoals bill.
Wisconsin ratified prohibition repeal
April 2s-Mrs. Nellie Tayloe Ross an.
pointed director of the mint p
April 27-L. A. Steinhardt was an
pointed minister to Sweden and Am.
bassador Hugh S. Gibson transferrad
from Belgium to Brazil.
April 2S-Senate passed farm hill
with ls credit and currency expansion
House passed $4,000, 100000 homa