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Working days left: 38. Essential bills to enact if a special session is to be avoided: 11. Essential bills enacted last week: 0.

House Work Done. The House of Representatives last week:

P: Passed a bill appropriating $446,024,000 for the War Department after rejecting (271-to-59) a proposal to refuse Army aid to civilian schools or colleges where military training is compulsory; sent it to the Senate.

P: Passed (185-to-34) a bill providing for automatic copyright before publication of literary, musical or artistic compositions and extending the copyright period to 50 years after the author's death; sent it to the Senate.

P: Passed bills transforming Sully's Hill National Park (N. Dak.) into Sully's Hill National Game Preserve, enlarging the area of Mt. Rainier National Park (Wash.), authorizing increased expenditures on roads leading to national parks; sent them to the Senate.

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

P: Confirmed Henry Prather Fletcher, Thomas Walker Page, John Lee Coulter, Alfred Pearce Dennis, Lincoln Dixon and Edgar Brossard as U. S. Tariff Commissioners.

P:Passed (72-to-13) for the second time a bill to spend $30,000,000 on modernizing three battleships; sent it to the House.

P: Adopted an amendment to the Interior Department appropriation bill to provide the Red Cross with $25,000,000 for Drought Relief.

P: Adopted resolutions to investigate flour, bread and sugar prices, to allow its campaign expenditures investigating committee $50,000 to continue its inquiry.

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