Senate Week

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

P: Postponed for one week hearings on the nomination of Roy 0. West of Chicago to be Secretary of the Interior.

P:Granted an annual pension of $5,000 to Mrs. Lois L. Marshall, widow of one-time (1913-21) Vice President Thomas Marshall.

P: Passed the Porter Narcotic Bill. This bill provides for the establishment of two Federal hospitals in which criminal drug addicts in Federal prisons will be segregated and treated. The Porter Bill has already passed the House, awaits now the approval of President Coolidge.

P: Heard Senator Reed of Pennsylvania report that Senators Borah and Norris were blameless in connection with payments alleged to have been received by them from the Soviet Government.

P: Debated the Kellogg Peace Pact, opposition to which became more prolonged, more vigorous, than had been at first expected (see below).

Treaty. Debate on the Kellogg Peace Treaty occupied most of the Senate's week. It had been thought that the treaty would be passed early in the week, but debate dragged on endlessly. Secretary Kellogg's refusal to consider the addition of any interpretive or qualifying resolution, together with pacifist activities which linked the passage of the treaty with the defeat of the penning Cruiser Bill, made treaty opponents More than ever determined to put on record the Senate's understanding of various treaty provisos. Toward the close of the week Senator Bingham of Connecticut announced that he had circulated a round robin to which he had secured 20 signatures of Senators pledging themselves to oppose the unqualified passage of the treaty. The Senator claimed that he could get 12 more votes for interpretation, or just enough to prevent ratification.