Show DOMESTIC AFFAIRS Presidential electors of time the states met January 1 12 and antl went through h the formality of voting for President and vice Ice president of ot time the United l Stales Calvin ln Coolid Coolidge e and Charles Gates Dawes were declared declare l elected and antl on March 4 the they were dul duly Inaugurated Before Defore that event congress had lind put through the usual grist oi of appropriation appropriation tion lion bills and ha had lind l passed a measure increasing postal rates and the pay of postal employees It also raised time the salaries of ot its own members to and of the cabinet members to Associate Justice McKenna of ot the Supreme court resigned l Januar January 4 and the President appointed Attorney Gen Gen- General General eral F Stone to the vacancy 1 few days lays later inter lie he nominated Charles CharlesB B Warren of Michigan to be attorney general When the senate met mt In special cial session after time the he Inauguration one ot of Its first acts was vas to reject the Warrem War War- Warren Warren ren rem nomination because of ot Ills his former business connections Time The President sent In time the name nume again and again It was rejected Mr Coolidge thereupon nominated John G Sargent for the pl place and he lie was accepted l Secretary of State Hughes retired from time the cab cab- cab inet met Inet on March 4 and amid was succeeded by Frank B n Kellogg then ambassador to Great Britain Secretary of War Weeks who had been ill III for many months resigned l on October 13 and Dwight 1 F Davis ls assistant secretary was given glyen the portfolio Mr II Davis position was Riled lined by the time appointment ot of Co Col Col Hanford MacNider 1 former na- na na national commander of ol 01 the American merican Le Le- Legion Legion Legion gion William M Jardine of ot Kansas was made secretary of ot agriculture on February 1 H A change In the White WhiteHouse WhiteHouse House Itself that was of ot especial in- in interest In Interest terest to politicians was the resignation resignation tion Lion of ot C Bascom Slemp as secretary to the President and the appointment of Everett erett Sanders of ot Indiana President lent Coolidge spent the summer sum summer mer vacation at Swampscott Mass lass Massand and during the time year ear he lie made several se trips for tor the purpose of delivering ad ad- addresses addresses dresses The more Important of these were sere to St St Paul MInn lInn for the Norse Norse- Norse American American centennial celebration to Omaha for time the meeting of ot time the Amer Amer- Amerlean American lean ican Legion and to Chicago o for the convention con of or the American Farm Bu- Bu Bu Bureau eau reau federation Vice Ie President Dawes was exceedingly active e In carrying on Ills his campaign for revision of ot the rules ot of the senate making speeches on that topic In iii many tunny parts of ot the country When the tile Sixty ninth con congress opened Its sessions on Oil December 7 lot lie was ready to go o on with whim Ills his fight but with without out glittering prospects of ol 01 success Time The Republicans were in full Cull con con- control control troi of ot the new congress but the old Insurgent ent bloc In tile the party was there again undaunted IJ by disciplinary m meas measures as- as ures mires h by which its members w were re Ile- Ile deprived de deprived ot of most of their Important com com- committee committee assignments In the lower lowerhouse lowerhouse lowerhouse house they refused to support the He- He Re He- Republican publican candidate for speaker Nicho Icho Nicholas las ins Lon Longworth orth of Ohio who ne erthe nevertheless less was as elected The also amended time the rule concerning dis- dis discharge dis discharge charge of ot committees so that a n ma ma- majority majority of ot the lie house houe must sign a peti letl- peti- peti petition petition tion to take lake le legislation out of ot u a com corm committee's committee's hands mind and place It before the house In Iu the lower lofter 10 er house sat three women Mrs rs members Mrs Rogers Hoers ot of Massachusetts an and l Mrs hs Kahn ahn of or Cali Cull California California fornia on the time Republican side and Mrs Norton ot of New Jersey on n the he Demo Demo- J mo cratic side With n a vast number ot of bills Introduced nt at time the be beginning of the session the he house put at ut the top of 01 the list the lie tax tux reduction measure that had been prepared by Ily the wa ways nays s 's and means committee during the tile fall and at once went vent to work on It This bill hili proposed n a cut In Income and other taxes that would reduce the national revenues by more amore than thun 3 32 It was virtually a nonpartisan meas meus- measure lire ure and s seemed assured of passage Aside from Vice President Dawes ef cf effort fort Cort to reform the senate procedure In- In Interest In Interest terest In the upper house at nt first cen en centered on the attitude of tor Rob Hob Hobert Robert Robert ert M r Jr of Wisconsin who hud lind been elected to succeed d hl his late father fathel the leader lemler of ot the insurgents Insurgents gents Time young man gave gU I C every in- in indication in indication that lie Iw would follow In in the footsteps ps of ot Ids his sire Another of the radical senators had Senator awn Senator add I-add of ot North orth Dakota to and rand Governor Go had hind Gerald I P 1 Nyc Ne an avowed owed follower ot of LaFollette to succeed hIm bun Somme Some of I the senators opposed the lie seating ot of otI I Mr Nye NyI on the ground that the gov gov- governor gov- gov governor governor had no right under the state constitution to fill fiU a senatorial we- we va vacancy a- a cancy Senator Ralston of ot Indiana a Democratic died October 14 and A n R Robinson Republican was appointed to fill the vacancy Senator Spencer of ot Missouri also passed away and his place was filled by George II Williams One 0 of the most spectacular political battles of ot recent times was that a waged for the lie mayoralty of New York It be- be began be began gan nn with a n hot contest for lor the Demo Demo- Democratic Democratic cratic nomination between GoAl Gov Go Al AI Smith and Tammany whose choice was us State Senator Jimmy Walker amid the Hearst following which witch urged the of ot Mayor Tammany won out and antl In the election Walker was easily time the victor over F PD I D Waterman time the Republican nominee Col Col William Mitchell by his Ills deter deter- determined determined I mined fight light to improve the air Service service i ice of ot the thc army and navy made his nume a household word Early in the year his outspoken criticisms of his sup superiors rIOls resulted l In his Ills removal from the onice ollice of ot assistant chief of ot time the army army- air oil service ice but lie he kept on talk talk- talkIng talking talking ing and writ writing In until the War depart depart- department department ment had to order his trial b by court court- martial court Meanwhile the President had appointed a special hoard lioard to inquire Into the time condition of ot the time air all service and this board after lengthy length hearings modo n a report upholding Mitchell In Inmany Inmany Inmany many of his criticisms It condemned however his Ills pet scheme for mailing the I he air nil service ser an nn Independent depart depart- department department ment Having IJa no warfare no really serious business or economic troubles and ond not much In the way of ot politics time the peo peo- people people pie of ot the United States devoted u II great deal of ot attention to prohibition Its enforcement nail ond Its violation It IL could not be denied that the dry law was not being thoroughly enforced so In June General Andrews assistant sec sec- secretary secretary Ieta of ot the treasury was put In full charge of ot the job job- lie He made n a swe sweep sweep- sweeping sweep ins p- p en en en ing oG reorganization of ot the time federal machinery depriving Pro Pro- Prohibition Prohibition Prohibition Commissioner Haynes of ot most of Iris Ills powers and dividing di the country Into 24 districts with administrators re- re responsible responsible re responsible to to him There Is little nee need l to remind read read- readers readers readers ers of ot the Scopes trial In Dayton Dnton Tenn in which the time school teacher was convicted of ot violating the lie state law for for- forbidding forbidding bidding the teaching teaching- of any theory U of th the origin of ot mankind contrary to that found in do the Bible With Willi William WilHam Jen- Jen Jennings Br Bryan an I leading adin the time prosecution and Clarence Darrow Chicago atheist S ms chief counsel for the time defense time the contest was between fundamentalIsm and liberalism and the people of ot time the country learned more about Charles Darwin and the lie theor theory of ot evolution than they would otherwise in n a life lite- lifeline lifetime time line However there could be no de In this tills contest Mr Scopes was found guilty on his own n that he had violated the law Only a afew afew few da days s 's after affer the close of the trial onI on Jul July 20 G Mr Ir Bryan was found dead In I lied bed |