The House Week

Work Done. Last week the U. S. Representatives :

P: Passed the Greek Debt settlement ($19,659,836 over 62 years), also approving a loan of $12,167,000 for 20 years at 4% for refugee work. P: Passed the Austrian Debt settlement ($34,630,968.68 over 25 years beginning in 1943).*

P: Debated and passed a bill appropriating some 285 millions to run the Department of the Interior, including 221 millions for military pensions and a quarter-million (first of four instalments) to buy up privately-owned lands in Yosemite National Park.

P: Passed bills increasing funds to modernize the battleships Oklahoma, Nevada, California and to complete two submarines. P: Passed bills adjusting the personnel and pay of Marines, Army, Navy, Coast & Geodetic Survey, Public Health Service. P: Passed a bill conferring the Distinguished Flying Cross upon Orville Wright and the late Wilbur Wright; sent it to the Senate.

*These settlements are the last of the War-debt refundings.