Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1916 — POLITICAL [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL

Jan. 2.— Senate/ passed immigration bill with literacy Test. Jan. 6.—President Wilson declined for sixth lime to support federal constitutional amendment for woman suffrage. Jan. 12.—House of representatives by vote of 204 to 174 rejected Mondel 1 resolution proposing enfranchisement of Women. j Eighty Terre Haute men pleaded guilty to indictments charging conspiracy to corrupt the election of ' 1 November 3. 1914 Jan. 2s.—President Wilson vetoed the immigration bill because of the literacy test clause. Feb. 5 —House, passed naval appropriation bill with provision for two ships. Feb. 22.—President Wilson nominated as members of interstatejtrade commission JaaeptT~gv Pacles of Wisconsin,-Edward N. Hurley of Illinois, William J. Harris of Georgia; William H. Parry of Washington, and George Rublee -ot New Hampshire. Feb. 23.—Senkte passed army appropriation bill of $103,000,0001 and .house appropriated $6,000,000 for fortifications. March B.—Senate passed general deficiency, appropriation bill carrying $8,092,-

872. and confirmed trade commission appointees except George Rublee. , Robert W. - Woolley nominated as director. pf minL_ March 4.—Sixty-third coiigrese adjourned. Match 15.—Samuel L. Rogers of North Carolina succeeded William J.*Harris as director ,of census. April 6—Wfllllatn Hale Thompson, Republican, elected mayor of Chicago. Mayor -Roberts of Terre Haute, tnd., and 26 "others found gyiTty ?f conspiracy In election. „ June B.—Secretary of State Bryan, disapproving the note to Germany, resigned. June >gl—Supreme court annulled “grandfather clause" aimed at negro suffrage. f- June 22.—One hundred twenty-eight Indianapolis city officials and politicians, including Thofnas Taggart, Indicted for election fraud conspiracy. June 23.—Robert Lansing made secretary .of state. ■ . Aug. 28.—Frank L. Polk made counselor of U. S. state-department. Sept. 14.—South Carolina adopted statewide prohibition. - Oct. 19.—Woman-- -suffrage defeated In New Jersey. Nov. 2.—Suffrage defeated In New York, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania: Repub-: llcans carried Massachusetts, electing S W. McCall governor; new constitution rejected by New York; prohibition defeated in Ohio; A. O. Stanley, Dem., i el£Ste<J, governor of Kentucky, and E. C. Harrington. Dem.. of Maryland. Dec. 6.—Sixty-fourth congress assembled; Clark re-elected speaker of house* Dec. 7.—Democratic national committee selected-St. Louis for convention of June 14, 1916. Republicans won generally in Massachusetts tcuyn elections. Dec. ,14—Reublican national convention set for June 7 in Chicago. Dec. 17.—Henry P. Fletcher nominated ambassador to Mexico.