The Senate Week

Work Done. Last week, the U. S. Senators:

P: Confirmed the Administration's elevation of Representative William R. Green of Iowa to the bench of the U. S. Court of Claims.

P:Passed (for the third time since 1922) a bill raising to 75% of their active service pay the retirement pay of 3,030 emergency Army officers who were disabled 30% or more in the World War; sent it to the House.

P: Listened to Vice President Dawes while he read an epistle from Congressional Medalist Lindbergh inviting each & every Senator to fly with him last week*.P: Amended, passed and sent to the House the Norris resolution ordering the War Department to complete and operate the Government's $140,000,000 wartime power plants at Muscle Shoals, Ala., on the Tennessee River, and ordering the Department of Agriculture to experiment with making cheap nitrate fertilizers there, for sale at cost to farmers. P: Rejected by 39 votes to 29 the renomination of John Jacob Esch of Wisconsin to the Interstate Commerce Commission, after hot intersectional debate on his voting in coal-rate cases.

*Only two Senators accepted -- Arizona's Ashurst, who later said, he would be out of town on the days Col. Lindbergh mentioned; North Dakota's Frazier, who asked if his two sons might go too.