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CONGRESS: The Senate Week May 27, 1929

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

¶ Passed its farm relief bill, with Debenture, 54 to 33.

¶ Made legislation for reapportionment and the 1930 census its unfinished business.

¶ Passed without a roll call legislation to improve the Army promotion list.

¶ Confirmed: Horace Paul Bestor of St. Louis as a member of the Federal Farm Loan Board; onetime Senator Irwine Luther Lenroot of Wisconsin as a judge in the Court of Customs & Patent Appeals.

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