scores of deaths and much damage to
property in the South and Middle West.
22.-The
Moore, Chief of the Weather Bureau,
resignation of Willis
to take effect July 31, is announced.
L.

23.-A violent storm in the Middle
West causes over 250 deaths and much
destruction of property; Omaha, Neb.,
is the chief sufferer.
25.-Floods in
Pennsylvania, especially severe at Day-
Ohio, Indiana
ton, O., cause hundreds of deaths and
and
immense damage to property.

26. The legislature of Illinois elects
to the U. S. Senate James H. Lewis
(Dem.) for the term expiring 1919, and
Lawrence Y. Sherman (Rep.) for the
term expiring 1915.

28.-Details of proposals made by the
United States to Colombia on Feb. 15,
for the adjustment of differences arising
out of the secession of Panama and the
cession of the Panama Canal route,

are made public.
Great damage is caused by floods
at Albany, Troy, and other cities along
the Hudson River.

APRIL

1.-William H. Taft assumes his du ties as Kent Professor of Law in Yale University.

2. The United States notifies the other powers of her intention to recognize the Chinese Republic.

Ambassador

4.-The Japanese Washington informally protests against in land-tenure legislation pending in the California legislature offensively discriminating against Japanese.

The Progressive House of Representatives meet in open members of the

caucus.

Benito Villanueva is appointed Minister to the United States from Argentina. 6.-The appointment of Francis G. Caffey as Solicitor of the Department of Agriculture is announced in Washing

ton.

A strike of street-railway employees, accompanied by riotous conditions, begins in Buffalo.

7.-The Sixty-third Congress assembles in special session; the Underwood Tariff bill is introduced in the House, and Champ Clark is reëlected Speaker.

York, the body of J. Pierpont Morgan is interred at Hartford, Conn.; a memorial service is held in Westminster Abbey, London.

15.-John J. Mitchell (Dem.) is electW. Weeks (Rep.), resigned. ed to Congress from the Thirteenth District of Massachusetts, succeeding John

borne, as Assistant Secretary of State;
Walter H. Page is nominated as am-
bassador to Great Britain; John A. Os-
and Wm. H. Osborn, as Commissioner
of Internal Revenue.

designed to exclude Japanese from own-
ership of land in California.
The California Assembly passes a bill

16.-Willis L. Moore is removed by President Wilson from the post of Chief of the Weather Bureau.

17.-William C. Harris is nominated as Director of the Census, and Henry of War. S. Breckenridge, as Assistant Secretary 18.-President

Governor Johnson, of California, against a clause aimed against Japanese in landWilson protests to tenure legislation pending in the California legislature.

19. The Democratic members of the House complete a ten-day caucus on the Underwood Tariff bill.

21.-The Tariff bill is reintroduced in
the House and referred to the Com-
mittee on Ways and Means.
22.-The

Protecting labor unions from prosecu-
House
Civil appropriation bill, with a clause
passes the Sundry
tion under the anti-trust law, and the
Indian Appropriation bill.

The Underwood Tariff bill is reported to the House by the Ways and Means Committee without change.

President Wilson appeals to the Govthe removal from pending land-tenure ernor and legislature of California for legislation of clauses offensively discriminating against Japanese.

23. The House begins general debate on the Tariff bill.

The award of the board of arbitration in the dispute between the eastern railroads and their firemen is filed in New York.

plosion in the Cincinnati mine of the Ninety-six miners are killed by an exDr. Eusebio A. Morales is appointed Minister to the U. S. from Panama. Pittsburgh Coal Co., at Courtney, Pa. 24.-President Wilson despatches Wm. An election on constitutional amend-fornia to attempt to avert the passage J. Bryan, Secretary of State, to Caliments in Michigan results in the de- of offensive land-tenure legislation. feat of woman suffrage and the adoption of the initiative, referendum and call.

re

S.-President Wilson reads his first message to the Senate and House of Representatives assembled in joint ses

sion.

The Democrats in the House reject a proposal for an open caucus.

The approval of Connecticut completes the ratification of the amendment to the Federal Constitution providing for the direct election of U. S. Senators.

11. The Republicans in the House meet in open caucus.

The street railway strike in Buffalo is ended.

12.-John Bassett Moore is nominated as counselor to the Department of State. 14. After a funeral service at New

Wm. J. Bryan presents to the diplo-
matic representatives in Washington a
plan for securing the peace of the world.
Virginia
25. The striking coal miners in West
vote to return
terms proposed by Governor Hatfield
work on
and accepted by the operators.
28.-The House concludes general de-
bate on the Tariff bill.

to

Wm. J. Bryan, Secretary of State, delivers to the California legislature the views of President Wilson on the pending land bill.

29.-The House begins consideration
of amendments to the Tariff bill.

Government depositories will be required
30.--Wm. G. McAdoo, Secretary of
the Treasury, announces that hereafter
deposits.
to pay 2 per cent interest on public

842

MAY
1.-President Wilson addresses politi-
cal meetings in Newark and Elizabeth,
N. J., in support of jury reform.

2.-President Wilson concludes a con-
ference with New Jersey political lead-
ers with an address in Jersey City.

3. The California legislative passes a revised bill prohibiting alien ownership of land.

the

United States replies to the representations of Japan.

dent of Leland Stanford University and David Starr Jordan resigns as presiis appointed chancellor.

20.-George W. Guthrie is confirmed as Ambassador to Japan, and Gaylord chinery Co. under the Sherman Act is Saltzgaber as Commissioner of Pensions. A suit to dissolve the U. S. Shoe Mabegun in Boston.

22.-The Senate authorizes the Com

An international conference on One Hundred Years of Peace Celebra-mittee on Banking and Currency to hold tion meets in New York.

dent of Princeton Theological Seminary.
Francis L. Patton resigns as presi-
5.-The Court of Appeals of the Dis-
trict of Columbia affirms the convic-
tion for contempt of Samuel Gompers,
John Mitchell and Frank Morrison, but
modifies the sentences.

6.-Four New York police inspectors
are convicted of conspiracy.

7. The Senate
Civil appropriation bill with provisions
passes the Sundry
exempting labor organizations and sg-
ricultural associations from prosecution
under the Sherman Act.

President Wilson issues an executive
order requiring fourth-class postmasters
to undergo civil-service examinations.

George W. Guthrie is nominated as Ambassador to Japan; Gaylord M. Saltzgaber as Commissioner of Pensions; and John Purroy Mitchel as Collector of the Port of New York.

8.-The House passes the Underwood Tariff bill.

9.-Japan makes formal representations to the United States against the California land-tenure legislation.

10.-H. Olin Young (Rep.), Representative in Congress from Michigan, resigns his seat.

11.-President Wilson appeals to Governor Johnson, of California, for the postponement of action on the land-tenure legislation.

A conference of Republican leaders is held in Chicago.

12.-The U. S. Supreme Court denies the petition of the Government for a rehearing of the Minehill Railroad case.

13. An international tribunal for the arbitration of claims of Americans and Britons meets in Washington.

The New Jersey Senate rejects a juryreform bill passed the previous day by the House.

14.-Four important eastern railroads make formal application to the Interstate Commerce Commission for a reopening of the advanced rate cases of 1910.

Wm. C. Redfield, Secretary of Commerce, warns manufacturers that wage reductions alleged to be due to tariff revision will be investigated.

Tornadoes in Nebraska cause several deaths and much destruction of property.

16.-The Senate rejects a resolution to hold hearings on the Tariff bill and refers it to the Committee on Finance. Governor Hunt, of Arizona, signs a bill prohibiting alien ownership of land. 18.-The waters of the Pacific Ocean are admitted to the western end of the Panama Canal.

19.-Governor Johnson, of California, signs the Alien Land-Tenure bill; the

Commissioner-General of Immigration.
hearings on the Currency bill.
Anthony Caminetti is nominated as
Virginia coal fields.
24. The Senate resolves to investi-
gate industrial conditions in the West

soliciting a bribe.
State Senator Stephen J. Stilwell, of
New York, is convicted by a jury of

Thirty-six persons

scores injured in the collapse of a pier are killed and at Long Beach, Cal.

26.-President Wilson issues a statement denouncing the activity of a tariff lobby in Washington.

Railway is placed in the hands of a re27. The St. Louis and San Francisco

ceiver.

providing for the investigation of the
29.-The Senate passes a resolution
President's charges of the activity of
a tariff lobby.

sistant Secretary of the Interior; Clay
Andrieus A. Jones is nominated as As-
Commissioner of Indian Affairs.
Tallman as Commissioner of the Gen-
eral Land Office; and Cato Sells as

Monument is unveiled in New York.
30.-The National Maine Memorial

31.-The Seventeenth Amendment to the Federal Constitution, providing for the direct election of U. S. Senators, is proclaimed by the Secretary of State.

predecessor, of unjustifiable methods of The Postmaster General publishes a report accusing Frank H. Hitchcock, his bookkeeping and of false economy.

The arbitration treaty between Great
Britain and the United States is extend-
ed for a period of five years from
June 5.

A. Newett, at Marquette, Mich.
Theodore Roosevelt obtains a judg-
ment in a suit for libel against George

JUNE

of a tariff lobby in Washington.
2.-A committee of the Senate begins
an investigation of the alleged existence

Thaddeus A. Thomson is nominated as
Minister to Colombia.

protest against the California land-ten-
4.-Japan presents a second note of
ure legislation.

other officials of the United Mine Work-
7.-John P. White, President, and 18
ton, W. Va., for conspiracy in restraint
ers of America, are indicted at Charles-

of trade.

upholding the right of the state to fix
9. The Supreme Court hands down
a decision in the Minnesota rate cases,
intrastate rates on interstate railroads.

10. Cornelius Ford is nominated as
Public Printer, and Charles M. Gallo-
way and Hermon W. Craven as Civil
Service Commissioners.

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15.-A bill amending the Erdman Act passes both houses of Congress and is signed by President Wilson.

Augustus O. Bacon is elected U. S. Senator from Georgia for the term ending March 4, 1919, in the first election held under the provisions of the Seventeenth Amendment.

16.-Henry Lane Wilson, Ambassador to Mexico, is summoned to Washington for conference with the President.

The United States replies to the latest Japanese note of protest against the California land-tenure legislation.

17.-Charles S. Mellen resigns the presidency of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad.

18.-The Senate Committee on Fi-
nance reports the Tariff bill.

Charles S. Hartman is nominated as
Minister to Ecuador, and William L.
Chambers as Commissioner of Media-
tion and Conciliation.

19.-The Secretary of State refers
to the Senate the draft of a proposed
treaty with Nicaragua.

22.-Archibald C. elected to the House of Representatives Hart (Dem.) is from the Sixth District of New Jersey, to succeed James Martin, deceased. Royal Meeker is nominated as Commissioner of Labor Statistics.

Thirty-one persons were killed and scores injured in a fire in the factory of the Binghamton Clothing Company, Binghamton, N. Y.

23.-James M. Sullivan is nominated as Minister to the Dominican Republic. George W. Hays is elected Governor of Arkansas to succeed Joseph T. Robinson, resigned.

The strike of silk workers at Paterson, N. J., is abandoned.

24.-L. E. Pinkham is nominated as Governor of Hawaii.

The Government brings suit under the Sherman Act against the American Telephone and Telegraph Co. at Portland,

The entire Michigan National Guard is called out to preserve order in a strike in the Calumet copper district.

25.-Postmaster-General Burleson issues an order authorizing increase in the weight limit and reduction of rates in the parcel post, effective Aug. 15.

George C. Todd is nominated as Assistant to the Attorney-General. and Charles S. Hamlin as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury.

Howard Elliott is elected President of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad.

26.-John W. Davis, of West Virginia, is nominated Solicitor-General of the U. S.

An agreement is concluded for the arbitration of a wage dispute between fifty-two eastern railroads and their conductors and trainmen.

27.-The United States demands the arrest of Mexicans responsible for the shooting of Charles B. Dixon, U. S. immigration officer at Juarez.

28.-Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo charges that a decline in the price of two per cent bonds is a part of a campaign to defeat the Currency bill. 29.-Charles F. Marvin is nominated Chief of the Weather Bureau.

the invitation to participate in the Pan-
30-The British Government declines
ama-Pacific Exposition.

announces that he will deposit $50,000,-
000
31.-The Secretary of the Treasury
banks of the South and West to assist
of Government funds in national
in crop movement.

Germany has declined to participate in
It is announced at Washington that
the Panama-Pacific Exposition.

cided not to participate in the Panama-
1. It is reported that Russia has de-
Pacific Exposition.

mittee.
John Purroy Mitchel is nominated for
mayor of New York by a fusion com-

Relations rejects Mr. Bryan's treaty
2. The Senate Committee on Foreign
with Nicaragua.

score injured in two explosions in a mine
Nineteen persons
bassador to Mexico; John Lind is ap-
are killed and a
near Tower City, Pa.
pointed adviser to the American Em-
4.-Henry Lane Wilson resigns as Am-
bassy.

block system of making rates and to
The Interstate Commerce Commission
make substantial reductions in tariffs.
orders express companies to adopt a new

as Minister to Venezuela.
6.-Preston McGoodwin is nominated

5.-Paul S. Reinsch is nominated as Minister to China.

nominated Minister to Haiti.
7.-Madison R. Smith, of Missouri, is

Bryan plan for world peace is signed
The first treaty to be concluded on the
between the United States and Salvador.

11.-The House Democratic caucus be-
gins consideration of the Currency bill.
John Lind arrives in Mexico City.

pointed U. S. Senator from Alabama for
12. Henry D. Clayton (Dem.) is ap-
Johnston, deceased, expiring in 1915.
the remainder of the term of Joseph F.

13.-William J. Price, of Kentucky, is
nominated as Minister to Panamą.

79 to 45, resolves to impeach the Gov-
The New York Assembly, by a vote of
ernor, William Sulzer, and presents eight
solves to begin the consideration of cur-
articles of impeachment to the Senate.
rency legislation immediately after the
14.-The Senate Democratic caucus re-
passage of the Tariff bill.

tions of Paul S. Reinsch as Minister to
15. The Senate confirms the nomina-
souri, as Minister to Haiti.
China, and Madison R. Smith, of Mis-

pate in the Panama-Pacific Exposition.
16.-The German Government an-
nounces its decision to decline to partici-

strikes an uncharted rock and sinks in
17.-The steamship State of California
lives.
Cambier Bay, Alaska, with a loss of 40

York, is nominated as Governor-General
20. Francis Burton Harrison, of New
of the Philippines.

845

Wm. J. Price as Minister to Panama.
The Senate confirms the nomination of

against Judge Emory Speer, of Georgia.
The House Committee on the Judi-
ciary begins an investigation of charges
Maury I. Diggs is convicted in San