The Senate Week

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

P: Amended the House postal rates bill, restoring the 1920 rates on second class mail (25% to 40% lower than present rates) ; passed it; sent it to conference.

P: Passed the House bill to allow the Secretary of the Treasury to designate as repositories of public money any State banks or trust companies belonging to the Federal Reserve System.

P: Debated, and postponed, the Boulder Dam bill.

P: Debated the Revenue Act of 1928, reducing taxation.

P: Amended and passed the House bill of appropriations to run the Independent Offices (Interstate Commerce Commission, Federal Trade Commission, etc., etc.); sent it to conference.