The House

P:Adopted the conference report on the Postal Pay and Rate Increase Bill, 370 to 8. (Went to Senate.) P: Passed a Deficiency Appropriation Bill carrying among other items, $57,600 for an investigation of diseases communicable through oysters and other shellfish and $125,000 to pay informers who gave tips to Customs men which enable them to catch smugglers of jewelry and other valuables.* An amendment was attached on the floor to increase the salary of the President's Secretary from $7,500 to $10,000. Representative Sanders of Indiana, who was to become the President's Secretary on Mar. 4, was absent at the time. Later, he protested and the amendment was removed at the last minute. (Went to Senate.)

P:Substituted for the Haugen Cooperative Marketing Bill (prepared in accordance with the recommendations of the President's Agricultural Conference) the Dickinson Farm bill (not pleasing to the Agricultural Conference), and passed the latter. (Went to Senate).

P:Passed a Senate resolution extending U. S. sovereignty to Swain's Island, about 200 miles northeast of American Samoa. The island is owned by an U. S. citizen, Alexander Jennings, is a mile wide and a mile and a half long, has about 70 inhabitants including 40 children. (Went to the President.) P: Adopted a Senate resolution providing for the completion of the historic frieze in the rotunda of the Capitol. (Went to the President.) P: Adopted a Senate resolution providing that donations "of the best specimens of early American furniture and furnishings" be accepted for use in the White House. (Went to the Presidnt.)

--Under the law, a person giving information leading to the discovery of smuggled jewelry receives 25% (but not to exceed $50,000) of the amount recovered by the Government.