The Senate Week

Work Done. The Senate of the U. S. last week:

P: Passed the District of Columbia Appropriation Bill.

P: Passed a bill to construct a $33,500,000 George Washington Memorial Parkway along the Potomac River.

P: Passed a bill creating a National Employment Service. Already passed by the Senate to combat joblessness are bills to create a stabilization board on public works and to compile employment statistics.

P: Passed a bill to reorganize the Federal Power Commission by replacing the Secretaries of War, Interior, and Agriculture with three full-time commissioners.

P: Passed a bill putting Mexican immigration on a quota basis.

P: Adopted a resolution directing the Department of Commerce to report on aviation accidents.

P: Adopted a resolution to amend its own parliamentary rules, abolishing the Committee of the Whole and permitting Senators who have not voted on a bill to move its reconsideration.

P: Passed a House bill transferring Prohibition enforcement from the Treasury Department to the Department of Justice.

P: Passed a bill to construct two federal penal institutions, one a reformatory in the West, one a penitentiary in the Northeast. This bill completed legislation for the Department of Justice's new prison program.

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