Events of the Month

EVENTS OF THE MONTH, BY THOMAS HULL, SECRETARY OF THE GENERAL BOARD OF Y. M. M. L A.

February 11th, 1899: The State Senate passes the bill for the removal of the University of Utah to the hill side east of Salt Lake City. 18th: In the joint assembly of the State Legislature Representative Albert A. Law, of Cache County, accuses A. W. McCune, candidate for United States Senate, of bribery. A committee consisting of Senators Shurtliff, Whitney and Howell and Representatives Mansfield, Cummings, Sorenson and Stewart was appointed to investigate the charges.

• • *     After a long and hard struggle against obnoxious resolutions
    

  the majority of the committee on resolutions of the National Council of Women, in convention at Washington, D.* C, report the following resolution, which is adopted: Whereas, The National Council of Women of the United States

stands for the highest ideals of domestic and civic virtue, as well as for the observance of law in all the departments, both State and national; therefore. Resolved, That no person should be allowed to hold a place in any law-making body of the Nation who is not a law-abiding citizen. The minority report, which was defeated, recommended the following: Whereas, As the passage of the Edmunds bill (so called) established the law of monogamic marriage as binding upon all citizens of the

United States; therefore, Resolved, That no person shall be allowed to hold a place in any law-making body of the Nation who is not in this and in all other matters a law-abiding citizen. * * * The French assembly elects Emile Loubet President of France.

478 IMPROVEMENT ERA. Emile Loubet, who until his election to the Presidency was Presi- dent of the French Senate, was born at Marsanne, on December 1 1838 was educated for the bar and began his practice at Montemidar. He entered political life in the general election of 1876 when he professed himself a Republican and opposed to general and complete amnesty He was elected by a great majority and at once associated himself in the Assembly with the Republican left. After having been twice re-elected to the Assembly he became a candidate for the Senate in his old department and was elected in 1885 He became a member of the first Tirard Ministry, which only survived tor three months, holding the position of Minister of Public Works When M. DeFreycenit declined to undertake the presidency of the coun- cil he was entrusted with the reconstruction of the Ministry and took ^^"^'^'^ '^ ^' ^"'"°' ^"""^ ^^''^ retirThlT892 ^' ^°"'*""' ^^^

19th: Serious riots occur in Paris, France, between friends and opponents of the newly elected president, Emile Loubet '"'''"' ^" ^' Highland Boy' TTf Utah, w^'sold^^T^:l^''^ IS to the Standard Oil Company for mine, Bingham, * * $4,000 000 * The House Committee on Election of President and Vice-President acts favorably on the proposed Constitutional amendment in relation to pdygamy in the United States. The title of the resolution they w 1 ^ introduce is as follows: "Proposing amendments to the Constitution prohibiting nolv^amv ''*" '^' ^'" '''^'^ '^'^^^' *« '^- JurL'dic dtouTl-f """ Y Polygamists for election as Senators on a^d or Representatives in SgreS"^ ^' Constitution also is provided as ^r^rtfn '!^'''°^ follows: ^' ^'^^^^"^y «^^" ne^er exist within the TT >. United ?/f ' States or any place subject to their jurisdiction Sec Congress shall have power to 2. make all needful laws to enforce this article and punish its violators." 22nd: The rebels start serious fires in Manila and a night of areat excitement is passed. Inestimable damage is done and hundr ds inhabitants are rendered homeless. * * * ofthe The inhahitrt. nf at

Otist Vth^'^ '''''''^'' '''-' ''' «^- and'sti;tt t^^^^^ gS 23ri: The funeral of the late President Faure, of France, occurs in Paris.