CONGRESS: The Senate Week Apr. 30, 1928

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

¶ Watched Cyrus Locher, Ohio Democrat sworn in to succeed the late Frank Bartlette Willis, Republican. (On his third day in the Senate, Senator Locher was invited to preside in the absence of Vice President Dawes. He acquitted himself ably as a Parliamentarian, in the little he had to do during one of Senator Blease's interminable speeches.)

¶ Adopted after hot dispute a resolution requiring the Secretary of the Navy to report on lives and money spent in the occupation of Nicaragua by U. S. Marines. (Secretary Wilbur next day reported 21 killed, 45 wounded, $1,607,290 spent.)

¶ Passed a bill authorizing 75 millions in 1930 and 1931 for Federal roadbuilding; sent it to the House.

¶ Passed a bill raising to the rank of Lieutenant General, two retired Army officers, Major Generals Hunter Liggett and Robert Lee Bullard.

¶ Passed a resolution by Senator Gould of Maine, instructing the U. S. Tariff Commission to investigate the cost of producing potatoes.

¶ Finished a long debate and finally passed Senator Norbeck's bill for migratory bird sanctuaries, omitting the provision requiring hunters to buy Federal licenses for $1 and limiting annual appropriations to $1,000,000.