CONGRESS: The Legislative Week Feb. 4, 1924

The Senate:

¶Heard debates on tax reduction, the proposed flight of the Shenandoah to the North Pole, Teapot Dome disclosures, a 40,000-word report on Russia by Senator King of Utah, who visited Russia last Summer. ¶ Ratified two conventions with Mexico, negotiated last Summer (TIME, Aug. 27) for adjusting mutual claims. ¶ Voted, without dissenting voice, to withdraw from Committee a resolution of Senator Caraway of Arkansas to cancel the Teapot Dome Oil lease.

The House:

¶Considered over a period of several days the appropriations bill for the Department of the Interior....

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