The Legislative Week

The Senate:

P:Discussed at great length and amended the Underwood Bill for the leasing of Muscle Shoals as a nitrate fertilizer plant (see Page 5).

P:Decided that no important measure should be taken up until the Muscle Shoals Bill was disposed of.

P:Adopted a resolution appointing a joint committee of Congress to arrange for the inaugural ceremonies of President Coolidge on Mar. 4.

P:Appointed a joint committee to arrange for the celebration of the 200th birthday of George Washington (Feb. 22, 1932).

P:Passed viva voce a bill authorizing $110,000,000 expenditures for alterations on six older battleships, construction of eight light cruisers and of six river gunboats (see Page 5). (Previously passed by the House.)

P:Ratified treaties with Canada, Panama, the Netherlands and France to aid in preventing the activities of liquor-smuggling vessels.

The House:

P:Defeated a bill to make Lincoln's birthday a legal holiday in the District of Columbia.

P:Passed a bill to license and regulate "the practice of architecture" in the District of Columbia. (Passed by the Senate last May.)

P:Passed the appropriation bill for the Department of the Interior, carrying $238,000,000. (Goes to the Senate.)

P:Passed, with little debate, the supply bill for the Department of Agriculture, carrying appropriations of $124,000,000, of which $80,000,000 is for highway construction. (Goes to the Senate.)

P:Received the Naval Appropriations Bill from committee, carrying $290,000,000 for the support of the Navy. The report that went with the bill stated that the committee had learned from Secretary Wilbur that to keep our Navy at 5-5-3 strength, an annual appropriation, for the next 20 years, of $92,000,000 for ships and $18,000,000 for aircraft, or a total of $110,000,000 would be necessary.