XXXV. CHRONOLOGY AND NECROLOGY AMERICAN CHRONOLOGY JANUARY 1. The parcel post service is inaugurated throughout the United States. 2.-Congress reassembles after the Christmas recess. The New Hampshire legislature elects as Governor, Samuel D Felker (Dem.). 3. Joseph W. Bailey (Dem.), U. S. Senator from Texas, resigns. 4.-R. W. Johnston (Dem.) is appointed to the U. S. Senate from Texas, succeeding Joseph W. Bailey, resigned. President Taft declares himself in favor of submitting the Panama Canal controversy to arbitration, in the event of failure of diplomatic negotiations. After a funeral service in New York, the body of Whitelaw Reid is interred at Tarrytown. 6.-Hearings preliminary to the drafting of tariff legislation are begun by the Ways and Means Committee of the House of Representatives. John W. Heiskell is appointed to the U. S. Senate from Arkansas, succeeding Jeff Davis, deceased. The Supreme Court hands down decisions disapproving a plan suggested by the Union Pacific Co. for the dissolution of its merger with the Southern Pacific Co., and reversing the U. S. Circuit Court in the cotton pool case, which is returned to the lower court with directions to proceed with the trial of the defendants. 7. An investigation of an alleged Shipping Trust is begun by the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries of the House of Representatives. The steamship Rosecrans is wrecked on Peacock Spit, Oregon, with a loss of 31 lives. 12. Floods cause much distress at many points along the Ohio River. The steamship Uranium grounds outside Halifax harbor; the 883 passengers and the crew are rescued. 13. The Electoral Colleges of the different states meet and formally cast their ballots for President and VicePresident; the Republican electors of Utah and Vermont cast their ballots for Vice-President for Nicholas Murray But ler. Judge Robert W. Archbald is found guilty in the Senate on five of the thirteen articles of impeachment against him, and sentenced to removal from the bench and disqualification from holding a Federal office. 14. The House defeats an amendment to the Post Office Appropriation bill annulling an executive order placing fourth-class postmasters in the classified service. The following are elected to the U. S. Senate from Massachusetts, John W. Weeks (Rep.), for the term expiring 1919 from Idaho, W. E. Borah (Rep.), for the term expiring 1919; from Michigan, Wm. A. Smith (Rep.), for the term expiring 1919; from Montana, Thos. J. Walsh (Dem.), for the term expiring 1919; from Colorado, John F. Shafroth (Dem.), for the term expiring 1919, and Chas. S. Thomas (Dem.), for the term expiring 1915; succeeding Chas. J. Hughes, deceased. 15.-Edwin C. Burleigh (Rep.) is elected to the U. S. Senate from Maine, for the term expiring 1919. The U. S. cruiser Denver is sent to Acapulco, Mexico, where Americans are endangered by a threatened rebel attack. Cipriano Castro is refused admittance to the United States under the immigration law. 16. The Senate passes the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Appropriation bill. 17. The House accepts the conference report on the Immigration bill. 20.-The Senate rejects the conference report on the Immigration bill because of a provision requiring of immigrants certificates of character. President Taft formally accepts an appointment as Kent Professor of Law in Yale University. 21. The House passes the Army appropriation bill. The following are elected to the U. S. Senate for the term expiring 1919: from Oregon, Harry Lane (Dem): from Nebraska, George W. Norris (Rep.); from Rhode Island, Le Baron B. Colt (Rep.); from Minnesota, Knute Nelson (Rep.); from Iowa, W. S. Kenyon (Rep.); from Oklahoma, R. L. Owen (Dem.) 22. Thos. Sterling (Rep.) is elected to the U. S. Senate from South Dakota, for the term expiring 1919. 23. The Senate passes the Culberson bill prohibiting contributions by corporations to political conventions and primary campaigns. John K. Shields (Dem.) is elected to the U. S. Senate from Tennessee, for the term expiring 1919. June 23-29, with an attendance of 900. The papers and proceedings appeared in the Bulletin of the Association for July, 1913, and the meeting is summarized in New York Libraries, III, 314. The officers for 1913-14 are: president, Edwin H. Anderson, director of the New York Public Library; vice-presidents, Hiller C. Wellman, Springfield (Mass.) City Library, and Gratia Countryman, Minneapolis Public Library; secretary, George B. Utley, 78 E. Washington St., Chicago. Gifts. The Carnegie corporation continues its frequent gifts to libraries, the most important of which this year has been $750,000 to San Francisco. The Library Journal for May, 1913 (p. 305), summarizes the Carnegie gifts for the first four months of the year, and the American Library Association in its Bulletin for March of each year notes gifts to libraries for the preceding calendar year. The California General Assembly has voted to accept and erect a separate building for the famous Sutro library, which will become a part of the state library. Henry Crandall of Glens Falls, N. Y., left an estate valued at $500,000 to trustees to be devoted, on the death of his widow, now 82 years old, to a public library, a public park, and a boys' saving club, the proportions to be applied to each to be determined solely by the trustees. Retirements. The retirements of the year include William R. Eastman, after 22 years' service in the New York State Library (New York Libraries, III, 251); Henry M. Utley, who becomes librarian emeritus of the Detroit Public Library after 27 years of service; and John H. Arnold, after 41 years as librarian of the Harvard Law School. Appointments. Notable appointments of the year include: Edwin H. Anderson, Director of the New York Public Library, in succession to Dr. John Shaw Billings; William R. Watson, Chief of the Division of Educational Extension, New York State Library, in succession to William R. Eastman; Adam Strohm, librarian of the Detroit Public Library, succeeding Henry M. Utley; and Malcolm G. Wyer, librarian of the University of Nebraska, in succession to Walter K. Jewett. Bibliographic Enterprises. The publication of the eighth edition of the Decimal Classification only two years after the issue of edition seven is new proof of the wide and growing use of this, the leading system of library classification. The new schedules in political science, economics, engineering, agriculture, Canada, and California are greatly extended and many corresponding index entries are added. For three years the Committee on Bibliography of the American Historical Association has been at work upon a union list of collections on European history in American libraries, the second printing (although still a "trial edition") of which appeared earlier in the year. In it 2,200 sets are noted and the holdings of these sets by 94 libraries are indicated. The best showing is made by Harvard University Library, which owns more than 1,900 of the listed sets. This union list will be an invaluable aid to the research student in European history in locating the nearest copy of required material. Volume seven of Charles Evans' American Bibliography has appeared during the year. This is a chronological dictionary of all books and pamphlets printed in the United States from 1639 to 1820. It is to be complete in 11 or 12 volumes, and the present volume brings the record to 1789. Bibliography.-Important publications during the year include: GREEN, S. S.-The Public Library Movement in the United States, 1853-93. (Boston Book Co.)-Reviewed in Bulletin of Bibliography, VII, 154. OLCOTT, F. J. Children's Reading. (Houghton, Mifflin Co.)-Reviewed in Library Journal, XXXVIII, 297. RICHARDSON, E. C.-Classification, 2d ed. (Scribners.) Reviewed in ibid., XXXV. CHRONOLOGY AND NECROLOGY AMERICAN CHRONOLOGY JANUARY 1. The parcel post service is inaugurated throughout the United States. 2.-Congress reassembles after the Christmas recess. The New Hampshire legislature elects as Governor, Samuel D Felker (Dem.). 3.-Joseph W. Bailey (Dem.), U. S. Senator from Texas, resigns. 4.-R. W. Johnston (Dem.) is appointed to the U. S. Senate from Texas, succeeding Joseph W. Bailey, resigned. President Taft declares himself in favor of submitting the Panama Canal controversy to arbitration, in the event of failure of diplomatic negotiations. After a funeral service in New York, the body of Whitelaw Reid is interred at Tarrytown. 6.-Hearings preliminary to the drafting of tariff legislation are begun by the Ways and Means Committee of the House of Representatives. John W. Heiskell is appointed to the U. S. Senate from Arkansas, succeeding Jeff Davis, deceased. The Supreme Court hands down decisions disapproving a plan suggested by the Union Pacific Co. for the dissolution of its merger with the Southern Pacific Co., and reversing the U. S. Circuit Court in the cotton pool case, which is returned to the lower court with directions to proceed with the trial of the defendants. 7. An investigation of an alleged Shipping Trust is begun by the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries of the House of Representatives. The steamship Rosecrans is wrecked on Peacock Spit, Oregon, with a loss of 31 lives. 12. Floods cause much distress at many points along the Ohio River. The steamship Uranium grounds outside Halifax harbor; the 883 passengers and the crew are rescued. 13. The Electoral Colleges of the different states meet and formally cast their ballots for President and VicePresident; the Republican electors of Utah and Vermont cast their ballots for Vice-President for Nicholas Murray But ler. Judge Robert W. Archbald is found guilty in the Senate on five of the thirteen articles of impeachment against him, and sentenced to removal from the bench and disqualification from holding a Federal office. 14.-The House defeats an amendment to the Post Office Appropriation bill annulling an executive order placIng fourth-class postmasters in the classified service. The following are elected to the U. S. Senate from Massachusetts, John W. Weeks (Rep.), for the term expiring 1919; from Idaho, W. E. Borah (Rep.), for the term expiring 1919; from Michigan, Wm. A. Smith (Rep.), for the term expiring 1919; from Montana, Thos. J. Walsh (Dem.), for the term expiring 1919; from Colorado, John F. Shafroth (Dem.), for the term expiring 1919, and Chas. S. Thomas (Dem.), for the term expiring 1915; succeeding Chas. J. Hughes, deceased. 15.-Edwin C. Burleigh (Rep.) is elected to the U. S. Senate from Maine, for the term expiring 1919. The U. S. cruiser Denver is sent to Acapulco, Mexico, where Americans are endangered by a threatened rebel attack. Cipriano Castro is refused admittance to the United States under the immigration law. 16. The Senate passes the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Appropriation bill. 17.-The House accepts the conference report on the Immigration bill. 20. The Senate rejects the conference report on the Immigration bill because of a provision requiring of immigrants certificates of character. President Taft formally accepts an appointment as Kent Professor of Law in Yale University. 21.-The House passes the Army appropriation bill. The following are elected to the U. S. Senate for the term expiring 1919: from Oregon, Harry Lane (Dem); from Nebraska, George W. Norris (Rep.); from Rhode Island, Le Baron B. Colt (Rep.); from Minnesota, Knute Nelson (Rep.); from Iowa, W. S. Kenyon (Rep.); from Oklahoma, R. L. Owen (Dem.) 22. Thos. Sterling (Rep.) is elected to the U. S. Senate from South Dakota, for the term expiring 1919. 23. The Senate passes the Culber son bill prohibiting contributions by corporations to political conventions and primary campaigns. John K. Shields (Dem.) is elected to the U. S. Senate from Tennessee, for the term expiring 1919. The reply of the United States to | pletes the ratification of the income-tax Great Britain's protest on the exemp- amendment to the Federal Constitution. tion of American shipping from the payment of Panama Canal tolls, delivered Jan. 20, is made public. The U. S. Supreme Court affirms a chinery Co., an indictment of the United Shoe Malower court dismissing straint of trade. a combination in re An officer and six privates of the 24. The Senate approves a resolu- The following are elected to the U. S. Senate from Tennessee, W. R. Webb, (Dem.), for the term expiring March 4, 1913, succeeding Newell, Sanders, interim appointment; from Idaho, James H. Brady (Rep.), for the term expiring 1915, succeeding Weldon B. Heyburn, deceased. 25.-The House accepts the report of a second conference on the Immigration bill. 28. The House passes the River and Harbors appropriation bill. ex The following are elected to the U. S. Senate from Wyoming, F. E. Warren (Rep.), for the term expiring 1919; from Kansas, (Dem.), for the term expiring 1919; Wm. H. Thompson from New Mexico, A. B. Fall (Rep.), for the term expiring 1919; from Ne vada, Key Pittman term expiring 1919; from South Caro(Dem.), for the lina, Benj. Tillman, for the term piring 1919; from New Jersey, Wm. Hughes (Dem.), for the term expiring 1919; from Texas, (Dem.), for the term expiring March Morris Sheppard 4, 1913, succeeding R. M. Johnston, interim appointment, and also for the term expiring 1919; from Arkansas, W. H. Kavanaugh (Dem.) for the term expiring March 4, 1913, succeeding John N. Heiskell, interim appointment. 29.-The House passes a bill appropriating $2,000,000 for a memorial to Lincoln. The Senate adopts a resolution extending the scope of the investigation into campaign funds to include the campaign of 1912. The following are elected to the U. S. Senate for the term expiring 1919: from Arkansas, (Dem.); from Delaware, Willard SaulsJos. T. Robinson bury (Dem.). 30.-Cipriano Castro is denied admittance to the United States on appeal to the Department of Commerce and Labor. 31.-The House adopts the report of a third conference on the Immigration bill. George P. McCabe, Solicitor of the Department of Agriculture, resigns as of March 4. decision of a as fully to obtain testimony from William stall prohibiting the shipment in interstate patched to points in Mexico for the pro- Mucklow, W. Va. ginia legislature are arrested on the joint session of the Senate and House. tional Cash Register Co., on trial at matic and Consular appropriation bill. ing the dissolved Bathtub Trust, on 15.-Memorial exercises for the late James S. Sherman are held in the U. S. Senate. The right of Cipriano Castro to enter the United States is affirmed by the U. S. District Court at New York. elected Chief Rabbi of the United He- Buildings bill. passes the Public President Taft assures President Ma- Twenty-nine officials of the National 18.-The operating east of Chicago agree to the 19. The House fails in an attempt 20. The Senate passes matic and Consular appropriation bill. the Diplo21.-The Senate passes the Sundry Civil appropriation bill. Nathan Goff (Rep.) is elected to the U. S. Senate from West Virginia for the term expiring 1919. 22.-President Taft orders a force of 4,000 men to proceed to Galveston, Texas, for possible service in Mexico. 24.-The Senate passes the River and Harbor appropriation bill, and also the La Follette bill providing for the physical valuation of railroads. an men. President Taft orders to Galveston additional force of 6,000 25. The Senate passes the Pension and Indian appropriation bills. Woodrow Wilson resigns as nor of New Jersey as of March 1. Gover 26. The Senate passes the Post Office appropriation bill, and also the bill creating a Department of Labor. The House passes the Naval appropriation bill with provision for only one battleship. Emilio Rabasa is appointed Ambassador to the U. S. from Mexico. 27.-The Senate passes the Agricultural appropriation bill. 28.-The Senate amends the Naval appropriation bill construction of two battleships. to provide for the President Taft vetoes the Webb-Kenyon bill prohibiting the shipment in interstate commerce of liquors intended for sale in prohibition territory; the Senate repasses the bill over the President's veto. The report of the committee appointed to investigate the alleged Money Trust is presented to the House. The reply of Great Britain to the MARCH workers in 1. The House passes over the President's veto the shipment of intoxicants in interstate bill prohibiting the commerce into prohibition territory. The Senate passes the General Deficiency appropriation bill. President Taft signs the bill providing for the physical valuation of railroads. The rejoinder of the British Government to the reply of the U. S. to Great Britain's protest against exemption of American coast wise Panama Canal, is made public at Washshipping on the ington. Woodrow Wilson's Governor of New Jersey takes effect; resignation as he is succeeded by James F. Fielder, president of the senate. 4.-The House passes the Sundry Civil appropriation bill over the President's veto. President Taft Buildings bill and the bill creating a signs the Public Department of Labor; withholds his signature from the bill for the improve ment of conditions of labor in the merchant marine; and vetoes the Sundry Civil appropriation bill. The third and final session of the Sixty-second Congress ends. ment) representatives of the U. S. in Wilson The Senate of the Sixty-third Con- John W. Kern, of Indiana, is chosen John H. Marble is nominated as member of the Interstate Commerce Commission. James P. Clarke, of Arkansas. Scores are killed and injured in an Daniel C. Roper, First Assistant Post- 11.-President Wilson issues a statement on the friendly attitude of his administration towards the cause of good government in the Latin American republics. railway firemen. 13. John Skelton Williams is nom- the U. S. Senate from New Hampshire. causes scores of Washington for the extension for five 15.-President Wilson issues a proc- John Burke is nominated Treasurer nine persons on charges growing out of A modified plan for the dissolution of 841 withdrawal of the United States from |