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Working days left: 7. Essential bills to enact if a special session is to be avoided: 2. Essential bills enacted last week: 7.

House Work Done. The House of Representatives last week:

P: Passed the Second Deficiency Appropriation Bill--last of eleven supply measures ; sent it to the Senate.

P: Adopted (216-to-153) a Muscle Shoals conference report whereby the Government would operate the power plant, lease the fertilizer factory; sent it to the Senate.

P: Adopted a resolution to quash impeachment charges against U. S. District Judge Harry Bennett Anderson of Tennessee.

P: Passed a bill to broaden the Treasury's tariff embargo power against goods or raw materials produced by convict, forced or indentured labor; sent it to the Senate.

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

P: Adopted conference reports on the Treasury & Post Office ($1,083,000,000), War ($445,000,000), Agriculture ($215,000,000), District of Columbia ($45,000,000), Legislative ($27,000,000), State, Justice, Commerce & Labor ($138,000,000) and independent offices ($1,052,000,000) appropriation bills; sent all seven to the President.

P: Adopted (55-to-28) the Muscle Shoals conference report; sent it to the President.

P: Passed a $358,000,000 naval appropriation bill; sent it to conference.

P: Passed (72-to-12) the Bonus Loan Bill; sent it to the President.

P: Appointed John William Davis as special counsel to prosecute its ouster suit against the Federal Power Commission.

P: Passed a bill for a board to adjudicate claims arising from the Government's Mediterranean fruit fly eradication campaign in Florida; sent it to the House.

P: Passed a bill to reinstate at the Naval Academy two midshipmen dismissed for bringing girls into the mess hall; sent it to the House.

P: Rejected by the unanimous vote of its Foreign Relations Committee a treaty with Canada for scenic preservation at Niagara Falls because of its private water power provisions.

P: Passed a bill to authorize construction of $20,877,000 new veterans' hospitals; sent it to the House.

P: Adopted (55-to-28) the Muscle Shoals conference report forwarded by the House; sent it to the President.

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