Legislative Week

The Senate--

P: Adopted Senator Edwards' resolution calling on Secretary Mellon to reveal what role the Anti-Saloon League had in fixing the poisonous denaturants used in industrial alcohol.

P: Passed appropriation bill of some $128,600,000 for the Department of Agriculture. (Bill went to conference.)

P: Debated renewal of Sheppard-Towner Maternity Act; ceased without action, smothered by statistics.

P: Debated Lausanne Treaty with Turkey behind closed doors; arrived at neither conclusion nor vote.

P: Received, as did the House, President Coolidge's written message on the Nicaraguan situation (see p. 10).

P: Heard Senator Reed of Missouri deliver satiric observations on the misty emanations of the official White House Spokesman (i.e., President Coolidge).

The House--

P: Passed appropriation bill of some $314,000,000 for the Navy Department, afterrejecting Representative Tilson's cruiser-building amendment (see p. 9). (Bill went to the Senate.)

P: Passed a bill creating a Division of Safety in the Department of Labor (Bill went to the Senate.)

P: Heard Representative Celler of New York cry that themembers of the House and Senate "drink to excess." Next day, he refused to take back his statement and re-emphasized it.

P: Heard insistent demands for immediate action on radio legislation.