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. Circult 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 classined 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 Michlgan, 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 expir ing 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. son 23. The Senate passes the Culberbill 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 Great Britain's protest on the exemptlon of American shipping from the payment of Panama Canal tolls, delivered Jan. 20, is made public. An officer and six privates of the U. S. troops in the Philippines are killed during a fight with Igorrotes in Jolo. 24. The Senate approves a resolution providing for a memorial to Lincoln in Washington. 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. pletes the ratification of the income-tax amendment to the Federal Constitution. The U. S. Supreme Court affirms a decision of a lower court dismissing an indictment of the United Shoe Machinery Co., as a combination in restraint of trade. 7. The House Committee investigating the money trust attempts unsuccessfully to obtain testimony from William Rockefeller at Brunswick, Ga. Four American warships are ordered to points in Central America to forestall a threatened revolutionary outbreak. 8. The House passes the Webb bill prohibiting the shipment in interstate traffic of intoxicating liquors intended for sale in prohibition territory. 10. The Senate passes the Webb bill prohibiting shipment of liquor into prohlbition territory. Four American warships are despatched to points in Mexico for the protection of American citizens. Sixteen persons are killed in a riot between striking miners and police near Mucklow, W. Va. charge of accepting bribes in connection with the election of a U. S. Senator. 12. The electoral vote for President and Vice-President is canvassed in a joint session of the Senate and House. The following are elected to the U. S. Senate: from Wyoming, F. E. Warren (Rep.), for the term expiring 1919; from Kansas, Wm. H. Thompson 11.-Five members of the West Vir(Dem.), for the term expiring 1919;ginia legislature are arrested on the from New Mexico, A. B. Fall (Rep.), for the term expiring 1919; from Ne vada, Key Pittman (Dem.), for the term expiring 1919; from South Carolina, Benj. Tillman, for the term expiring 1919; from New Jersey, Wm. Hughes (Dem.), for the term expiring 1919; from Texas, Morris Sheppard (Dem.), for the term expiring March 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, Jos. T. Robinson (Dem.); from Delaware, Willard Saulsbury (Dem.). 13. Twenty-nine officials of the National Cash Register Co., on trial at Cincinnati for violation of the Sherman Act, are found guilty. 14.-The House passes the Diplomatic and Consular appropriation bill. President Taft vetoes the Immigration bill. Individuals and corporations comprising the dissolved Bathtub Trust, on trial at Detroit for violation of the Sherman Act, are found guilty; the next day fines aggregating $51,000 are imposed. 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. 16.-Joseph H. Hertz, of New York, is 30.-Cipriano Castro is denied admit-elected Chief Rabbi of the United Hetance to the United States on appeal brew Congregations of the British Emto the Department of Commerce and pire. 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. FEBRUARY 1. The Senate passes a resolution to amend the Federal Constitution by limiting the tenure of the Presidency to one term of six years; the Senate also adopts the conference report on the Immigration bill. President Taft approves a resolution providing for the erection of a Lincoln memorial in Washington. 3.-The assent of Delaware 17.-The House passes the Public Buildings bill. dero, of Mexico, that no steps leading to intervention are contemplated by the United States. President Taft assures President Ma Twenty-nine officials of the National Cash Register Co. are sentenced at Cincinnati to jail terms of from three months to a year. 18. The Senate repasses the Immigration bill over the President's veto. The House passes the Pension appropriation bill. The representatives of the railroads operating east of Chicago agree to the arbitration of the demands of their firemen under the Erdman Act. 19. The House fails in an attempt to pass the Immigration bill over the com- President's veto. 20. The Senate passes the Diplomatic and Consular appropriation bill. 21.-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 President Taft orders to Galveston additional force of 6,000 men. 25.-The Senate passes the Pension and Indian appropriation bills. President Taft appoints John Bas set Moore and George Gray (reappointment) representatives of the U. S. in the Permanent Court of Arbitration at the Hague. Woodrow Wilson is Inaugurated President, and Thomas R. Marshall, VicePresident of the United States; Wm. H. Taft, twenty-seventh President, retires. The Senate of the Sixty-third Congress is assembled in special session. 5.- -President Wilson's appointments to Cabinet offices are confirmed by the Senate. in John W. Kern, of Indiana, is chosen Woodrow Wilson resigns as Governor of New Jersey as of March 1. 26.-The Senate passes the Post fice 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 to provide for the construction of two battleships. 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 Presi dent's veto. John H. Marble is nominated as member of the Interstate Commerce Commission. cau 7. The Senate Democrats, in cus, choose as president pro tempore James P. Clarke, of Arkansas. Scores are killed and injured in an explosion of a shipload of dynamite on board the Alune Chine in Baltimore harbor. 10.-Chas. P. Neill is nominated Commissioner of Labor Statistics, and Daniel C. Roper, First Assistant Postmaster-General. 11.-President Wilson issues a statement on the friendly attitude of his administration towards the cause of good government in the Latin American The report of the committee appoint-republics. ed to investigate the alleged Money Trust is presented to the House. The reply of Great Britain to the American note on Panama Canal tolls is delivered to Secretary Knox. The strike of garment workers in New York City is ended. President Taft signs the Public Buildings bill and the bill creating a Department of Labor; withholds his signature from the bill for the improvement 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. Hearings are begun in New York in the arbitration of the demands of the railway firemen. 13. John Skelton Williams is nominated Assistant Secretary of the Treas ury; Franklin D. Roosevelt, Assistant Secretary of the Navy; Beverly D. Galloway, Assistant Secretary of Agriculture; and Edwin F. Sweet, Assistant Secretary of Commerce. Henry F. Hollis (Dem.) is elected to the U. S. Senate from New Hampshire. A severe storm causes scores of deaths and Immense lamage to prosperity in the southern states. 14.-Ratifications are exchanged at Washington for the extension for five years from June 4, 1913, of the arbitration treaty between France and the United States. 15.-President Wilson issues a proclamation convening Congress in extra session on April 7. John Burke is nominated Treasurer of the United States. The trial, under martial law, of fortynine persons on charges growing out of the strike of coal miners is begun at Paint Creek Junction, W. Va. A modified plan for the dissolution of the Union Pacific-Southern Pacific merger is disapproved by the California Railroad Commission and withdrawn. 18.-President Wilson announces the withdrawal of the United States from the Six Power Group for the financing of the Chinese Republic. 20.-Huntington Wilson, Assistant Secretary of State, resigns. 21.-A storm of great violence causes scores of deaths and much damage to | property in the South and Middle West. 22. The resignation of Willis L. Moore, Chief of the Weather Bureau, to take effect July 31, is announced. 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 Ohio, Indiana and Pennsylvania, especially severe at Dayton, O., cause hundreds of deaths 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. 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. Dr. Eusebio A. Morales is appointed Minister to the U. S. from Panama. 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 elected to Congress from the Thirteenth District of Massachusetts, succeeding John W. Weeks (Rep.), resigned. Walter H. Page is nominated as ambassador to Great Britain; John A. Osborne, as Assistant Secretary of State: and Wm. H. Osborn, as Commissioner of Internal Revenue. The California Assembly passes a bill designed to exclude Japanese from ownership of land in California. 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 S. Breckenridge, as Assistant Secretary of War. 18.-President Wilson protests to Governor Johnson, of California, against a clause aimed against Japanese in landtenure legislation pending in the Callfornia 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 mittee on Ways and Means. the House and referred to the Com 22. The House passes the Sundry Civil appropriation bill, with a clause tion under the anti-trust law, and the protecting labor unions from prosecuIndian Appropriation bill. The Underwood Tariff bill is reported to the House by the Ways and Means Committee without change. President Wilson appeals to the Governor and legislature of California for the removal from pending land-tenure legislation of clauses offensively discriminating against Japanese. 23. The House begins general debate on the Tariff bill. in the dispute between the eastern rallroads and their firemen is filed in New York. The award of the board of arbitration Ninety-six miners are killed by an explosion in the Cincinnati mine of the Pittsburgh Coal Co., at Courtney, Pa. J. Bryan, Secretary of State, to Call24.-President Wilson despatches Wm. An election on constitutional amend-fornia to attempt to avert the passage ments in Michigan results in the de- of offensive land-tenure legislation. feat of woman suffrage and the adoption matic representatives in Washington a Wm. J. Bryan presents to the diploof the initiative, referendum and recall. plan for securing the peace of the world. 25.-The striking coal miners in West Virginia vote to return to work terms proposed by Governor Hatfield and accepted by the operators. 8.-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 on 28.-The House concludes general debate on the Tariff bill. 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. 30.-Wm. G. McAdoo, Secretary of the Treasury, announces that hereafter Government depositories will be required to pay 2 per cent interest on public deposits. MAY 1.-President Wilson addresses political meetings in Newark and Elizabeth, N. J., in support of jury reform. 2.-President Wilson concludes a conference with New Jersey political leaders 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. David Starr Jordan resigns as presldent of Leland Stanford University and is appointed chancellor. 20.-George W. Guthrie is confirmed as Ambassador to Japan, and Gaylord Saltzgaber as Commissioner of Pensions. A suit to dissolve the U. S. Shoe Machinery Co. under the Sherman Act is begun in Boston. An international conference on 22.-The Senate authorizes the ComOne Hundred Years of Peace Celebra-mittee on Banking and Currency to hold tion meets in New York. Francis L. Patton resigns as president of Princeton Theological Seminary. 5.-The Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia affirms the conviction 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 passes the Sundry Civil appropriation bill with provisions exempting labor organizations and agricultural 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. Saltz gaber 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 hearings on the Currency bill. Commissioner-General of Immigration. Anthony Caminetti is nominated as 24. The Senate resolves to investigate industrial conditions in the West Virginia coal fields. State Senator Stephen J. Stilwell, of soliciting a bribe. New York, is convicted by a jury of Thirty-six persons are killed and at Long Beach, Cal. scores injured in the collapse of a pler 26.-President Wilson issues a state ment denouncing the activity of a tariff lobby in Washington. 27. The St. Louis and San Francisco Railway is placed in the hands of a re ceiver. 29.-The Senate passes a resolution providing for the investigation of the President's charges of the activity of a tariff lobby. Andrieus A. Jones is nominated as As sistant Secretary of the Interior; Clay Tallman as Commissioner of the General Land Office; and Cato Sells as Commissioner of Indian Affairs. 30.-The National Maine Memorial Monument is unveiled in New York. 31.-The Seventeenth Amendment to the Federal Constitution, providing for the direct election of U. S. Senators, is proclaimed by the Secretary of State. The Postmaster General publishes a report accusing Frank H. Hitchcock, bis predecessor, of unjustifiable methods of bookkeeping and of false economy. The arbitration treaty between Great Britain and the United States is extended for a period of five years from June 5. Theodore Roosevelt obtains a judgA. Newett, at Marquette, Mich. ment in a suit for libel against George JUNE 2.-A committee of the Senate begins an investigation of the alleged existence of a tariff lobby in Washington. Thaddeus A. Thomson is nominated as Minister to Colombia. 4.-Japan presents a second note of protest against the California land-tenure legislation. 7.-John P. White, President, and 18 other officials of the United Mine Workers of America, are indicted at Charleston, W. Va., for conspiracy in restraint of trade. 9. The Supreme Court hands down a decision in the Minnesota rate cases, upholding the right of the state to fix intrastate rates on interstate railroads. 10. Cornelius Ford is nominated as Public Printer, and Charles M. Galloway and Hermon W. Craven as Civil Service Commissioners. |