CONGRESS: The Legislative Week May 3, 1926

The Senate—

> Passed a resolution offered by Senator McNary of Oregon asking the Shipping Board not to sell the American-Oriental Mail Line to the "Dollar Line." The resolution had no legal force, but was adopted merely to bring pressure to bear to prevent a sale which was practically consummated. Mr. McNary objected that $4,500,000 was an insufficient price and that the sale of the line to the Dollars would give them a monopoly in the Pacific.

> Approved the Italian War Debt Settlement by...

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