The Legislative Week

The Senate:

P: Heard Senator Ralston of Indiana, Democratic darkhorse, make hfs maiden speech. He advocated removal of all taxes on incomes of less than $5,000.

P: Adopted a resolution by Senator Heflin, Democrat of Alabama, for an inquiry by the Post-office Committee into charges of fraudulent land promotion in Texas.

P: Adopted resolutions by Senator Dill, Democrat of Washington, asking the State Department to furnish diplomatic correspondence relating to foreign oil concessions of Americans, especially in regard to the treaty with Colombia which former Secretary of the Interior Fall had advocated.

P: Spent more than half a day in executive (secret) session considering the nomination of Lieutenant Colonel Duncan K. Major for a Colonelcy, an item of news variously headlined by the press as VITAL DEBATE IN SENATE and OVER FOUR HOURS WASTED IN SENATE TO MAKE ONE COLONEL.

P: Confirmed by vote of 59 to 13 the nomination of ex-Senator Atlee Pomerene, Democrat of Ohio, as special counsel for the Government in the oil scandal.

P: Adopted a resolution by Senator La Follette, Republican of Wisconsin, call-ing for an inquiry by the Federal Trade Commission into the profits of bakers and flour millers in relation to the high price of bread and the low price of wheat.

The House:

P: Passed the Treasury-Post Office appropriation bill for 1924-25 calling for $729,000,000--the largest single peace time appropriation bill ever before Congress. It provides $119,000,000 for the Treasury Department, including $10,629,770 for prohibition enforcement, $10,652,000 for the Coast Guard, $13,874,000 for the Customs Service. For the Post Office $610,000,000 is provided.

P: Passed a bill (previously passed by the Senate) extending the life of the War Finance Corporation for nine months, until Dec. 31, 1924.

P: Passed a Senate resolution to in-clude in the oil prosecutions suits to recover Sections 18 and 36 of Naval Oil Reserve No. 1 (Elk Hills) now held by the Standard Oil Co.

P: Received an ultimatum from Representative Longworth of Ohio, Republican Floor Leader, that unless the flood of miscellaneous oratory, which threatens consideration of important legislation, were checked, he would institute night sessions and a "gas light schedule."

P: Considered at length the Mellon (25% surtax) bill for tax reduction, with its three alternatives; the Green (compromise Republican) 35% surtax measure, the Frear (insurgent Republican) 50% surtax-excess profits tax measure, the Garner (Democratic) 44% surtax measure.