The Legislative Week

The Senate:

Discussed the disposal of Muscle Shoals, an occupation which has taken nearly all of its time since Dec. 1. For one day, however, it laid aside Muscle Shoals to consider unobjected measures and passed 136, most minor, including:

P: A bill granting a pension of $5,000 a year to Mrs. Edith Boiling Wilson. (Went to the House.)

P: A bill appropriating $14,750,000 for the construction of a McKinley memorial bridge across the Potomac at Washington from the Lincoln Memorial to Arlington. (Went to the House.)

P: A bill requiring compulsory school attendance for all children in the District of Columbia between the ages of 7 and 16, excepting children of 14 or more who have completed the 8th grade. (Went to the House.)

P: A bill authorizing the issuance of a special postage stamp commemorating the arrival of a ship bringing the first Norwegians to this country in 1825. (Went to the House.)

P: A bill to convert the military reservation at Camp Benning, Ga., into a national forest. (Went to the House.)

The House:

P:Passed the Treasury-Post Office Appropriation Bill, carrying $763,000,000. (Went to the Senate.)

P:Received from Committee the Army Appropriation Bill carrying $331,131,114 ($6,552,000 less than the appropriation for the present year) and began consideration of it.

P:Passed a bill to remunerate municipalities for property occupied by hangars of the air mail service. (Went to the Senate.)