Work Done

With a burst of energy the U.S. Senate passed 163 bills (most of them trivial). Among its works, the Senate:

P:Confirmed Justice Department Trustbuster Stanley Barnes as a judge on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals (San Francisco).

P:Approved a resolution establishing the Booker T. Washington National Monument at Washington's birthplace in Franklin County, 25 miles south of Roanoke, Va. As sent to the President, the bill authorized $200,000 for developing a 537-acre tract where now stands a reconstructed version of the one-room cabin where Booker Washington was born a slave on April 5, 1856.

P:Authorized a final $55,000 for Estes Kefauver's Juvenile Delinquency Investigation Subcommittee, told it to wind up its work by Jan. 31, 1957. Kefauver had originally asked for $110,000, agreed to settle for half.

The House:

P:Authorized a $180 million appropriation for the District of Columbia and sent it on to the Senate. Next day the House voted to increase D.C. taxes by nearly $10 million, including a 5-c--per-fifth increase (from $1 to $1.25 per gallon) in liquor for one of the nation's wettest cities.

P:Thought for a minute that it was going to see a fist fight between Ohio's Democratic Representative Wayne Hays and New Jersey's Democratic Representative Alfred Sieminski. Trouble started when Hays accused Lieut. General (ret.) Joseph M. Swing, the U.S. Immigration Commissioner, of "arrogance," said he had been warned not to cross Swing lest the commissioner interfere with Hays's efforts to get citizenship for his adopted two-year-old German daughter. Cried Hays: "I will guarantee that if he did try that, when I got him face to face he would not be physically able to hold the job from then on." Sieminski replied that he had served in the Army under Swing, who was "no cream puff," and if you "approach him with a chip on your shoulder, he will knock your block off." Then he asked if Hays cared to "step outside." Other Congressmen intervened and brought peace--easily.

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