The Legislative Week

The Senate:

P: Debated, amended and finally passed the Tax Reduction Bill, embodying the Simmons (Democratic) surtax rates (40% maximum).

P: Passed a bill revising and codifying the laws relating to the Veterans' Bureau.

P: Passed a bill appropriating $40,000 for the U. S. participation in the second international conference for regulating drug traffic.

P: Passed a resolution empowering the Committee investigating the Internal Revenue Bureau to employ special counsel and "other agents" desired.

P: Considered the appropriations for the Departments of Commerce, Justice, State and Labor.

The House:

P: By vote of 194 to 181 withdrew from Committee the Barkley Bill (to abolish the Railroad Labor Board) and brought it up for consideration. A combination of Democrats and Republican insurgents brought about this action which was made possible by the changes in the rules which they forced through at the beginning of this session (TIME, Jan. 21, 28).

P: Passed the District of Columbia Appropriation Bill carrying $24,560,000.

P: Adopted a resolution relieving China of payment of the remainder of the Boxer indemnity due this country, on condition that the money be used by the Chinese Government for educational purposes.

P: Adopted a resolution providing for a meeting of the Inter-Parliamentary Union in this country in 1925.

P: Adopted a resolution proposed by Democratic Floor Leader Finis J. Garrett, congratulating former Republican Speaker Joseph Gurney Cannon on his 88th birthday.

P: Defeated, 191 to 171, the joint conference report on the Immigration Bill setting forward the date of proposed Japanese exclusion to March 1, 1925, and ordered that phrase removed.