The Legislative Week

The Senate:

P: Passed a bill for the incorporation of the American Bar Association. (Went to House.)

P: Adopted a joint resolution creating a commission to codify and re- vise Federal statutes. (Went to House.)

P: Ratified a treaty with Finland for the extradition of criminals.

P: Passed the Legislative Establishment supply bill with an amendment increasing the salaries of Senators and Representatives from $7,500 to $10,000 a year (see below). (Returned to House.)

P: Passed the Appropriation Bill for the District of Columbia carrying $32,000,000. (Went to Conference.)

P: Confirmed the nomination of William M. Jardine, President of the Kansas Agricultural College (TIME, Feb. 23), to be Secretary of Agriculture, George A. Parks to be Governor of Alaska and William E. Humphrey to be a member of the Federal Trade Commission.

P: Passed a House bill to reimburse certain citizens of Texas for damages received on August 23, 1917, when some 100 members of the 24th (Negro) U. S. Infantry shot up Houston. (Went to the President.)

P: Passed a bill appropriating $1,200,000 for the construction of a U.S. embassy and a consulate in Tokyo. (Went to the President.)

P: Passed a bill forbidding the exportation of helium (non-inflammable balloon gas (see SCIENCE). Went to the President.)

Passed a bill appropriating $10,000 for the care of the tomb of Zachary Taylor in Kentucky. (Went to the President.)

The House:

P: Passed a bill providing $10,000 for the maintenance of the burial place of Zachary Taylor. (Went to Senate.)

P: Adopted a resolution for Federal participation in the celebration of the 150th Anniversary of Bunker Hill (June 17, 1925).

P: Passed a bill for the restoration of Fort McHenry, Baltimore, the birthplace of the Star Spangled Ban ner. (Went to Senate.)

P: Passed a bill authorizing the erection of a $15,000,000 bridge across the Potomac from the Lincoln Memorial to Arlington. (Went to the President.)

P: Passed the supply bill for the Legislative Establishment with the Senate amendment increasing Congressional salaries. (Went to the President.)

P: Held a special Sunday session for memorial services for the late Representative Julius Kahn of California (TIME, Dec. 29; see WOMEN). Said Finis J. Garrett, Democratic floor leader: "He will take rank among the great Jews of history and to say that is to say much."