The Senate Week

Work Done. Last week, the U. S. Senators:

P: Confirmed in office Secretary of Commerce William Fairfield Whiting, and other recess appointees (not including Secretary of the Interior Roy Owen West, whose case was heard in committee).

P: Debated and debated the House appropriations bill for the Treasury and Post Office departments; put in a joker for $270,000,000 to enforce prohibition at Senator Bruce's instigation; sent it to conference; adopted the conference report, taking out the joker and leaving $13,500,000 for prohibition, by vote of 38 to 35; sent the bill to the President. Said Senator Bruce: "The way to get rid of a bad law is to enforce it."

P: Debated, debated, debated the Boulder Dam bill and passed it; sent the measure to conference (see below).

P: Concurred on the House bill giving the Distinguished Flying Cross to the Wright Brothers; sent it to the President.