EVENTS OF 1888. 



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26. Crosby High License bill passed by New York 

 !:iy y). 



2^. France : Chamber of Deputies passes Panama 

 Lottery Loan bill (see June 5 >. The United E 

 gun-boat York to mi and the dynamite cruiser Vesuvius 

 launched at Philadelphia. 



SO. Irish Land Commission bill passed by English 

 House of Commons. Melville Weston Fuller, ofllli- 

 nois^ nominated by the President for Chief-Justice of 

 the Supreme Court of the United States. 



May 1. New York : General Conference of the 

 '1st Episcopal Church opens. 



S. New York : Ballot Reform bill passed by State 

 Assembly (see Ma;. 



f. New York: Bill to provide for the execution of 

 murderers by electricity passed by the Senate. 



9. New York : Crosby High License bill vetoed by 

 Governor Hill. 



10. New York : Ballot Eeform bill passed by the 

 Senate. 



13. Brazil : Bill to abolish slavery approved by the 

 Regent. 



15. Conventions representing United Labor and 

 Union Labor, met in Cincinnati, Ohio ; representing 

 Equal Rights, in Des Moines, Iowa. 



17. Great Britain : Irish Catholic members formally 

 deny the right of the Holv See to interfere iu Irish 

 politics. United States : "fhe Senate passes Pension 

 Appropriation bill (see June 7). 



5bJ. The Senate passes bill to establish a Department 

 of Labor (see June 13>. 



23. Lousiana : Randall L. Gibson (Democrat) elect- 

 ed United States Senator. 



24. United States : House of Representatives passes 

 Post Office Appropriation bill (see June 14;. 



-7. Central Asia : First train passes over the rail- 

 way to Samarcand. Ireland : The National League 

 confirm the action of their representatives in Parlia- 

 ment (see May ] 7). 



30. Prohibition party : National Convention opened 

 at Indianapolis. Ind. 



31. Ballot Reform bill passed by the Legislature of 



husetts. Canada : Lord Stanley succeeds Lord 

 Lansdowue as Governor-General. 

 June 1. Philip H. Sheridan appointed General of 

 Army in accordance with a special 

 act of Congress. The Senate confirms Robert B. 

 Roosevelt as Minister to the Netherlands, and con- 

 firms Philip H. Sheridan as General of the Army. 

 France : The Chamber of Deputies rejects Gen. Bou- 

 lanser's motion of urgency on revising the Constitution 

 and dissolving the Chambers. New York : Governor 

 Hill signs the bill for executions by electricity. Ore- 

 gon : Election carried by Republicans. 7.408 plurality. 



5. The Democratic National Convention nit 



St. Louis. France : The Senate passes the Panama 

 rv Loan bill (see April 23). 



6. Grover Cleveland renominated by the Democrats 

 for President of the United States. 



7. Allen G. Thurman nominated for Vice-Presi- 

 dent by the Democrat-!. Pension Appropriation bill 

 approved by the President i see Ma;. 



10. Ecuador : Gen. Antonio Flofes inaugurated as 

 President. 



11. New York: Governor Hill vetoes the Ballot 

 Reform bill. 



12. Rhode Island: Jonathan Chace elected United 

 States Senator. 



13. Bill establishing a Department of Labor ap- 

 proved by the President - see May 22). 



14. The Senate passes Post-Office Appropriation 

 bill i see May -2-1). 



15. Germany : The Emperor Friedrich Wilhelm 

 died. William II succeeds to the imperial throne. 



!?. Germany : Obsequies of the late Emperor 

 Frederick III. 'at Potsdam. 



19. Republican National Convention meets in Chi- 

 cago (see Jim 



The House passes the Naval Appropriation bill 

 and the Sundry Civil Appropriation bill. 



24. Ireland : A papal encyclical reiterated the for- 

 mer decree against boycotting and the plan of cam- 

 paign. 



_'5. Benjamin Harrison, of Indiana, and Levi P. 

 Morton, of New York, respectively- nominated by the 

 Republicans for President and Vice-President < 

 United States. 



^7. The House of Representatives passes United 

 States Public Land bill. 



July 2. The Senate passes the River and Harbor 

 Appropriation bill. Reunion of Federal and Confed- 

 erate veterans at Gettysburg twenty-fifth anniver- 

 sary of the battle. 



3. Prussia: Herr Herrfurth appointed Vice-Presi- 

 dent of the Ministerial Council and Minister ot the 

 Interior. 



y. Mexico : Gen. Porfirio Diaz re-elected President. 



11. United States : Census bill passed by the House. 



12. Diplomatic and Consular Appropriation bill 

 signed by the President. France : The Chamber of 

 Deputies rejects Gen. Boulaneer's motion for dissolu- 

 tion ; a vote of censure passed upon Boulanger. 



13. France : A duel with sword.s between the Prime 

 Minister and Gen. Boulanerer. the latter wounded. 



19. Africa: Major Edmund M. Barttelot, Stanley's 

 chief lieutenant in the expedition for the relief of 

 Emin Pasha, was murdered by natives. Italy : The 

 Chamber of Deputies passes an Electoral Reform 

 bill. 



20. United States: The Senate confirms Melville 

 W. Fuller to be Chief-Justice of the Supreme Court, 

 the vote stood 41 to 20. 



21. The Mills Tariff bill passes the House of Rep- 

 resentatives, 162 to 149. The Senate passes Freed- 

 men's Savings and Trust bill. 



23. France : Gen. Boulanger defeated in an elec- 

 tion for member of the Chamber of Deputies (see 

 August 19.) 



25. United States Senate passes Naval Appropria- 

 tion bill. 



2<>. United States Senate passes Army Appropria- 

 tion bill. 



27. England: The Local Government bill passed 

 its third reading in the House of Commons. 



30. Venezuela : Dr. Juan Pablo Rojas Paul assumes 

 the presidency. 



31. Italy takes formal possession of Massowah and 

 the adjoining territory. 



August 1. The Senate passes Sundry Civil Appro- 

 priation bill. 



5. Gen. Philip H. Sheridan died, at Nonquit, Ma=s. 



6. A train runs from London to Edinburgh, 400 

 miles, in seven hours and twenty-five minutes, in- 

 cluding stop; 



8. The Senate passes bill to prohibit the immigra- 

 tion of Chinese laborers. England: The Parnell 

 Commission bill passed its third reading in the 

 House of Commons. 



10. Hayti : Louis Etienne Felicite Salomon abdi- 

 cated the presidency, a war of factions followed. 



13. Germany : Count Von Moltke placed on the re- 

 tired list of ttie armv ; Gen. Van Waldersee succeeds 

 him as Chief of Staff. United States : The River and 

 Harbor bill became a law without the President's 

 signature. 



14. Gen. J. M. Schofield succeeds to the command 

 of the army of the United States, vice Sheridan de- 

 ceased. 



15. The American party met in convention at "Wash- 

 ington and nominated Gen. James L. Curtis, of New 

 York, for President, and James L. Grier, of Ten- 

 nessee, for Vice- President. 



18. Prussia : Karl Heinrich von Botticher appointed 

 Vice-President of the Prussian Ministerial Council. 



19. France: Gen. Boulanger re-elected as a mem- 

 ber of the Chamber of Deputies. 



21. United States Senate rejects the fisheries treaty 

 by a vote of 30 to 27. 



' 23. The President in a message asks for enlarged 

 powers under the retaliation act. 



