The Legislative Week

The Senate:

P:Agreed to a conference report of the War Department Appropriations

Bill.

P:Adopted a unanimous report from the Committee on Privileges and Elections dismissing the contest against the election of Senator Mayfield of Texas and declaring him duly elected without a dissenting vote.

P: Considered the Isle of Pines Treaty.

P: Considered a Good Roads Bill to appropriate $575,000,000 for roads during each of the next two years. (Went to the President.)

P:Considered a bill for settling the so-called French spoliation claims amounting to $3,253,000. P: Confirmed the nomination of Harlan Fiske Stone to be Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, after a long debate and two favorable reports by the Committee on Judiciary: vote of 71 to 6 (see Page 5). P: Confirmed the nomination of Wallace R. Farrington to succeed himself as Governor of Hawaii. P: Passed a bill to enlarge the powers of the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals in order to limit the cases which may be brought before the Supreme Court; vote of 76 to 1, Senator Heflin casting the only negative vote. (Went to the President.) The House:

P:Passed a Public Buildings Bill providing $150,000,000 to be spent at the rate of $25,000,000 a year for the next five years (see below). (Went to Senate.)

P:Passed a bill to limit the number of cases which may be sent to the Supreme Court (see above). (Went to Senate.)

P:By vote of 225 to 153, returned to the Senate the Postal Pay and Rate Increase Bill (TIME, Feb. 9) refusing to act on it on the ground that the Senate has no authority to initiate a revenue measure.

P:Considered and passed the Independent Offices Appropriation Bill, after first restoring the appropriation for the support of the Tariff Commission struck out in Committee of the Whole a week before. (Went to Senate.) The measure carried $452,000,000, of which $405,000,000 was for the Veterans' Bureau. P: Passed the Appropriation Bill for the District of Columbia carrying $31,000,000. (Went to Senate.)