Showing posts with label 1923 Wyoming Special Legislative Session. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1923 Wyoming Special Legislative Session. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 18, 2023

Wednesday, July 18, 1923. Special Session Ends.


The Special Session of the Legislature was already over.

Bet it wouldn't be that quick now.

And the shocking murder trial resulting from the shooting of a woman in a car which would not dim its lights, at the hands of law enforcement, was set for September.

Future German ally, Fascist Italy, published a timetable for the Italianization of South Tyrol which included imposing the Italian language and banning immigration from Austria and Germany.

Winston Church was called as a witness in the trial of Lord Alfred Douglas for liable,.   A deposition of Arthur Balfour was also read into evidence.  It would be the first of two such trials, with Douglas winning this one.  He'd lose the next one.  The statements were accusations he made regarding Churchill in the Admiralty during World War One.

Sunday, July 16, 2023

Monday, July 16, 1923. Summer session.


Wyoming's second, in its history up to that point, special legislative session convened in Cheyenne to address its state farm loan provisions.

Magnus Johnson of the left-wing Minnesotan Farmer-Labor Party was elected to the U.S. Senate in a special election.  This meant that both of Minnesota's senators were members of the party.


The Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party was a hugely successful third party in that state, coming to control the legislature during the Depression, as well as providing the bulk of Minnesota's Congressional representation.  During the Depression, however, the American Farm Bureau became the primary representative for farmers, and it was hostile to the party.  In 1944 Hubert Humphrey took the party into the Democratic Party, and it ceased to exist.  Humphrey, moreover, expelled the Communists from the organization, whose presence showed how radical it actually was.

The Democratic Party in that state is technically the Democratic Farmer Labor Party


The Depression arrived for farmers in the U.S. before the rest of the general public, which likely explains the rise of the Farmers Labor Party in Minnesota, which was heavily agricultural and also heavily influenced by the left wing politics of Scandinavia where many of its residents had roots.

Johnson was Swedish born and had a semi successful political career, winning and losing.  He was also a farmer.

Italy and the UK agreed to call an international conference on German reparations, irrespective of whether France would participate or not.

Fairbanks, Alaska presented President Harding with a special collar for Laddie Boy.