Georgia Gov. Hugh Dorsey puts out a pamphlet detailing 135 cases of abuse of negroes in the state, including lynchings and peonage. He wants a state constabulary set up, to be sent when necessary to prevent lynchings; a fine on any county that has a lynching; and the ability to appoint a commission of judges to investigate lynchings, with a view to removing officials who fail to stop them. Dorsey writes: “In some counties the negro is being driven out as though he were a wild beast. In others he is being held as a slave. In others no negroes remain.” Dorsey’s term expires next month.
The Senate passes the Knox Resolution revoking the 1917 declaration of war on Germany and Austria-Hungary. The vote is 49 to 23, 3 Democrats joining the Republicans, the rest denouncing the resolution as a betrayal of the allies. Andrieus A. Jones (D-NM) says the resolution is “an abject apology for having entered the war.” Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge announces that the Versailles Treaty, even if revised to meet US isolationist objections, won’t be resubmitted to the Senate by Harding, who will negotiate a peace treaty with Germany. It’s unclear if he’s actually speaking for Harding, whose public position is a bit nebulous, as was his custom.
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An Italian immigrant in Akron, whose wife that he thought died during the war showed up. Feds say he should just live with both of them and they agree. I suspect there’s a little more to the story.
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