Work Done

The Senate:

P: Sat for five minutes; recessed for three days; sat for 65 minutes; recessed for three days.

P: Heard Nebraska's Norris make a minor historical correction of his famed fight on "Cannonism"' in the House 22 years ago.

P: Heard Texas' Connally berate the War Department for withdrawing troops from a Texas post scheduled for abandonment (see p. 26).

The House:

Adopted a conference report on the Philippine Independence bill; sent it to the President (see p. 25).

P: Passed a $43,652,000 Interior Department appropriation after inserting (138-10-105) a $460,000 item for a heating plant for Howard University (Negro) which G. O. Politicians considered important for party rebuilding; sent it to the Senate.

P: Passed, with less than 75 members present instead of the constitutional quorum of 214, a $110.862,000 Department of Agriculture appropriation bill; sent it to the Senate. In the first three supply bills passed this session the House claimed a saving (on paper) of $160,000,000 over last year.

P: Received from the Appropriations Committee a $31,421,000 general deficiency bill. The Treasury's budget request for $40,000,000 for tax refunds was called "excessive," reduced to $28,000,000.

P: Received from Nebraska's Howard a resolution requiring R. F. C. to report all loans made from February to July before the present publicity law took effect.*

*Last week R. F. C. reported that between Feb. 2 and Nov. 30, it paid out $1,502,168,401 in cash loans, got back $283,049,032. Jobless relief to states totaled $87,109,865 out of an available $300,000,000.

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