The Legislative Week

The Senate:

P: Ratified extradition treaties with Esthonia, Latvia, Siam.

P:Gave the privilege of the floor to Frau Schreiber, member of the German Reichstag.

P:Passed a resolution proposed by Senator Ladd of North Dakota calling on Secretary of Agriculture Wallace to furnish data on the wheat futures market in Chicago as evidenced in the trading of the last two months.

P:Passed a bill proposed by Senator Wadsworth of New York to create a Bureau of Civil Aeronautics in the Department of Commerce under the direction of a Commissioner to receive a salary of $6,000. The purpose of the Bureau would be to foster civil aeronautics, inspect and certify aircraft, establish air traffic rules, establish air routes, encourage the building of landing fields.

P:Elected Senator Ellison D. Smith, Democrat, of South Carolina, Chairman of the Interstate Commerce Committee, on the 32nd ballot.

P:Passed a bill to create a national industrial farm for women prisoners, the site to be selected by the Secretary of the Interior.

The House: P: Passed a bill for recodifying the Federal Statutes.

P:Received a favorable report by the Military Affairs Committee on a bill to allot captured German cannon to states in proportion to the number of troops furnished during the War.

P:Devoted the larger part of a day to hearing eulogies of the late Claude Kitchin, Democratic Floor Leader in the House (TIME, June 11).

P:Received and debated a bill reported by the Appropriations Committee, authorizing expenditures of $261,727,965 by the Department of the Interior during the next fiscal year--$10,000,000 less than the amount asked by the Department.

P:Received a memorial from the Philippine Independence Mission asking freedom for the Islands and attacking Governor General Wood.

P:The Foreign Affairs Committee killed resolutions authorizing investigations of the sale of arms to the Obregon Government (Mexico) by the Administration.

P:The Rules Committee reported out proposed liberalization of the rules, demanded by the Republican insurgents (TIME, Dec. 17, 24). The changes approved by the majority of the Committee but disapproved by radical and by Democratic members include: 1) If a petition signed by 150 members is presented, a majority of the House may, on the first or third Monday of any month, discharge a bill which has been in Committee for 30 days and begin consideration on the floor; 2) If a bill is approved by a Committee, its Chairman may not pocket the bill but must report it to the House--failing which another member of the Committee is to report the bill; 3) To prevent a bill from being advanced on the calendar by "unanimous consent," three (not one) objections must be made.

The Committee did not approve the proposal of the insurgents which would abrogate the rule that all amendments to a bill must be germane to its subject.