For the Record

■ Win some, lose some on the Panama Treaty issue. Sen. Alan Cranston, the Majority Whip and Jimmy Carter’s man on the floor on this one, has made one inroad on Southern intransigence. Sen. Ernest Hollings (S.C.) is the first of 22 Deep South senators to come out in favor of the pact. . . . Cranston, though more bullish than Majority Leader Robert Byrd, admits he’s short of the 66 votes needed for ratification. Byrd admits that his own mail is running “4,000 to six against.” . . . On the Republican side, Sen. Robert Griffin (Mich.) suggests opponents of the Canal may try to get a national referendum on the matter to see how the people feel about it. (Right now the polls show them overwhelmingly against.) . . . Panama has become an issue in the Virginia gubernatorial election with Henry Howell, the Democrat, campaigning for ratification and his opponent John Dalton coming out against. . . . Although George Meany has put the national AFL-CIO into Carter’s camp on this issue, Frank Fitzsimmons, head of the Teamsters union, is against the Treaty.

■ Democratic Senate leaders have set October 15 as “tentative” adjournment date for this session of Congress. Major legislation still to be enacted, according to Robert Byrd, is the energy bill, Social Security financing, and an increase in the federal debt ceiling. … A majority of the House last week voted down a $83 billion hike in the debt ceiling—fun while it lasted, but it won’t be for long.

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■ Win some, lose some on the Panama Treaty issue. Sen. Alan Cranston, the Majority Whip and Jimmy Carter’s man on the floor on this one, has made one inroad on Southern intransigence. Sen. Ernest Hollings (S.C.) is the first of 22 Deep South senators to come out in favor of the pact. . . . Cranston, though more bullish than Majority Leader Robert Byrd, admits he’s short of the 66 votes needed for ratification. Byrd admits that his own mail is running “4,000 to six against.” . . . On the Republican side, Sen. Robert Griffin (Mich.) suggests opponents of the Canal may try to get a national referendum on the matter to see how the people feel about it. (Right now the polls show them overwhelmingly against.) . . . Panama has become an issue in the Virginia gubernatorial election with Henry Howell, the Democrat, campaigning for ratification and his opponent John Dalton coming out against. . . . Although George Meany has put the national AFL-CIO into Carter’s camp on this issue, Frank Fitzsimmons, head of the Teamsters union, is against the Treaty.

■ Democratic Senate leaders have set October 15 as “tentative” adjournment date for this session of Congress. Major legislation still to be enacted, according to Robert Byrd, is the energy bill, Social Security financing, and an increase in the federal debt ceiling. … A majority of the House last week voted down a $83 billion hike in the debt ceiling—fun while it lasted, but it won’t be for long.