CONGRESS: The Senate Week Feb. 18, 1929

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

¶Passed the cruiser-construction bill (see below).

¶ Passed a $456,000,000 War Department appropriation bill.

¶Adopted a resolution calling for an investigation of the Shipping Board's disposal of the U. S. Lines.

¶ Passed a bill to .create a 100,000-acre national park in the Grand Teton Range, Wyoming.

¶ Passed the House's bill authorizing the settlement of the Greek War loan at $18,125,000 over 62 years, and providing for a new 20-year Greek loan of $12,167,000.

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