Monday, Nov. 18, 1929
The Senate Week
Work Done. Last week the U. S. Senate:
P: Debated the tariff bill, revising downward the rates on earthenware, metals, manufactures.
P: Adopted a resolution by Michigan's Couzens directing the Federal Trade Commission to collect data on interstate transmission of electrical power.
P: Adopted a resolution directing Secretary of the Treasury Mellon to account for the expenditure of the $1,719,654 auxiliary prohibition fund appropriated at the last session.
P: Confirmed the nominations of Benjamin H. Littleton as judge of the Court of Claims and Walter Ewing Hope as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury.