CONGRESS: The Senate Week May 13, 1929

Work Done.-The Senate of the U. S. last week:

¶Debated farm relief (see col. 2).

¶Rejected (70 to 14) a resolution by Alabama's Heflin to condemn a nameless Brockton, Mass., bottlethrower (TIME, May 6).

¶Debated national origins, with Pennsylvania's Reed blocking a vote to suspend this immigration quota system.

¶Adopted a resolution to permit Minnesota's Shipstead to take his oath of office in a Baltimore Hospital (see col. 2).

¶Confirmed the nominations of: George T. McDermott, Orie L. Phillips, Curtis Dwight Wilbur as U. S. circuit judges; Julius Klein as Assistant...

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