Work Done

Last week the Senate:

> Easily beat back an attempt by Massachusetts' Henry Cabot Lodge to strike out a $17,500 salary appropriation for Laurence Steinhardt, U. S. Ambassador to Russia, as a reflection of national resentment against Russia.

> Confirmed President Roosevelt's reappointment of Carroll Miller (Pa.) as a member of the Interstate Commerce Commission, the President's nomination of James J. McEntee (N. J.) to be director of CCC.

Last week the House:

> Observed with admiration a rubberstamp spelling out the forceful legend: "Hell No!" as designed and used by Ohio's Representative James Seccombe in giving some of his correspondents short answers.

> Discovered that New York's neanderthalic Representative Sol Bloom is the man who drops shiny new pennies about the Capitol steps for people to find--an inexpensive philanthropy that makes even dourpuss finders beam, according to Mr. Bloom.

> Learned from blind, too-sympathetic Representative Matthew A. Dunn, of Pennsylvania, that he would not seek re-election because his health had been overtaxed by constituents he could not help to jobs, money, food.

> Refused in committee to approve another $250,000 appropriation for the Byrd Antarctic Expedition, now in Antarctica. Reason: the committee had been misinformed last year as to how long it would have to go on putting up cash.

> Amended the Barkley stream-pollution bill to put "teeth" in pollution-prevention measures by authorizing court-proceedings against violators as public nuisances.

> Swore in Walter A. Lynch (Dem., N. Y.), Bartel J. Jokman (Rep., Mich.) as new members of Congress.

> Passed a $90,069,139 deficiency bill which provided, among other things, for soil conservation, 45 new agents and five clerks in the Secret Service to protect the President and his family amidst "conditions in this country arising as a result of the wars in Europe."

> Disallowed a request from J. Edgar Hoover for an appropriation. Mr. Hoover's request: $135,000 to complete barracks & firing range for the FBI at Quantico, Va.

> Axed out of an appropriation bill $17,000 sought by the National Park Service to begin work on converting the $2,000,000 Vanderbilt estate near Hyde Park, N. Y., into a national historic site. Recommended by the same committee was $50,000 to complete the Saratoga (N. Y.) National Historical Park.

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