Other Work Done

In other work last week, the Senate:

P:Passed, by voice vote, an Administration-backed bill to simplify import duties, replacing a confusing two-value assessment system with a system of duties based on the price a U.S. importer pays for foreign merchandise. The customs simplification bill, first major foreign-trade measure passed this session, now goes to House-Senate conference.

P: Confirmed, by 64 (37 Democrats, 27 Republicans) to 22 (6 Democrats, 16 Republicans) President Eisenhower's nomination of liberal Republican Paul Hoffman, Marshall Plan administrator and now chairman of Studebaker-Packard (see BUSINESS) and of the Fund for the Republic, as one of five U.S. delegates to the U.N. General Assembly. The vote was preceded by a bitter battle in which Hoffman was attacked by the little three--New Hampshire's Styles Bridges, Wisconsin's Joe McCarthy, Indiana's William Jenner--for having associated with "questionable" characters, praised by Oklahoma's Mike Monroney as an "outstanding advocate of democracy." Ike's four other nominees--California's Bill Knowland, Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey, U.N. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., and Red Cross President Ellsworth Bunker were approved unanimously.

P: Confirmed, by 64-19 (4 Republicans, 15 Southern Democrats), Ike's year-old nomination of Solicitor-General Simon E. Sobeloff (TIME, July 9) to the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. In a last-ditch action, Southerners charged in eight hours of debate that Sobeloff, who argued the Federal Government's position on ways to implement school desegregation, would be "offensive" to the Maryland-to-South Carolina belt comprising the Fourth Circuit. At week's end, Sobeloff was sworn in as a federal judge.

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