Monday, Apr. 09, 1928

The Senate Week

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

P: Rejected a resolution to combine the authorized Congressional and Presidential inquiries into the S-4 disaster, and submarine safety devices.

P: Confirmed four appointments to the Federal Radio Commission (see p 12).

P: Passed, 70 to 0, a Flood Control bill (see below); sent it to the House.

P: Passed the bill appropriating some $138,000,000 to run the Department of Agriculture, including $4,544,000 to rebuild flood-wrecked roads in Kentucky, Vermont, New Hampshire.

P: Confirmed the appointments of Alexander Pollock Moore to be U. S. Ambassador to Peru, and U. S. Attorney Peyton Gordon to be a justice of the District of Columbia Supreme Court.