Today -100: November 19, 1924: Of aqueducts and amnesties

Inyo County Sheriff Charles Collins calls himself powerless to remove the farmers occupying the L.A. Aqueduct because they’d just blow it up if he tried.

The French Senate grants amnesty to former PM Joseph Caillaux who that body convicted in 1920 (long after his arrest in 1918) on a bullshit high treason charge (“plotting against the external security of the State by maneuvers, machinations and intelligence with the enemy”). They also amnesty former interior minister Louis-Jean Malvy. Prime Minister Édouard Herriot commends the Senate for “forget[ting] and forgiv[ing] those differences of opinion which were considered dangerous during the war.”

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