Work Done

The Senate:

P: Passed (72-to-11) the tax bill raising $1,115,000,000 in new revenue; sent it to conference with the House; later adopted the conference report and forwarded the bill to the White House.

P: Received from the Appropriations Committee an omnibus bill to effect economies of more than $238,605,000 as part of the Budget-balancing program (the House bill saved only $52,270,000); voted (38-to-27) for a 10% reduction in all Federal wages over $1,000 per year, thereby cutting expenditures an estimated $117,150,000.

The House:

P: Adopted without a roll call the conference report on the tax bill; returned it to the Senate (see above).

P: Received and debated the second deficiency appropriation bill for $15,398,000, last of the big money measures.

P: Received from the Ways & Means Committee a bill sponsored by Speaker Garner authorizing the Democratic plan of Depression relief (see p. 13).

P: Passed a bill bestowing a Medal of Honor upon Richmond Pearson Hobson for his attempt in 1898 to blockade the Spanish fleet in Santiago harbor by sinking the Merrimac.

P: Passed bills bestowing Distinguished Service Medals upon Russel N. Boardman and John L. Polando for their 5,011-mi. non-stop flight from New York to Istanbul.

P: Adopted (176-to-129) a resolution by Missouri's Shannon to investigate "Government competition with private enterprise" in the form of sales of merchandise at Army posts and elsewhere; viewed as exhibits a pair of women's pink silk pyjamas purchased at Fort Leavenworth, Kan. and an array of gin, rum. corn and rye flavoring extracts bought at a Government store in Washington.

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