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Working days left: I. Essential bills to enact if a special session was to be avoided: I. Essential bills enacted last week: I.

House Work Done. The House of Representatives last week:

P: Passed (328-to-79) the Bonus Loan Bill over the President's veto; sent it to the Senate (see col. 3). P: Adopted (289-to-93) a Senate resolution amending the Constitution to abolish "Lame Duck" sessions; sent it to conference where it died in disagreement. P: Passed a Senate bill to maintain the highest local wage scale on Federal construction jobs; sent it to the President. P: Passed (205-to-68) a Senate bill to modernize three battleships (Mississippi, New Mexico, Idaho) at a cost of $30,000,000; sent it to the President. P: Passed a Senate bill providing for 24-hour quarantine service at U. S. ports; sent it to the President. P: Adopted a Senate bill for co-operative State & Federal employment agencies, after rejecting (182-to-84) an Administration substitute favored by Secretary of Labor Doak; sent it to the President. P: Passed (302-to-101) a bill to tax yellow oleomargarine 10-c- per Ib.

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

P: Adopted a resolution condemning as "a dangerous practice" the State Department's policy of passing judgment on foreign loans floated in the U. S. P: Passed the Second Deficiency Bill, last of the eleven essential appropriation measures: sent it to conference. P: Adopted a conference report on the $358,000,000 Navy Appropriation Bill; sent it to the President. P: Passed (7640-17) the Bonus Loan Bill over a presidential veto, making it law (see col. 3). P: Confirmed (7240-11) Eugene Meyer to be Governor of the Federal Reserve Board.

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