Work Done

The House:

P: Sustained (193-to-158) President Hoover's veto of the first deficiency bill. The President disapproved the measure on the ground that Congressional review of tax refunds over $20,000 was an unconstitutional invasion of executive authority. Later a substitute for the first deficiency bill, without the objectionable provision, was passed, sent to the Senate.

P: Passed a $347,845,161 War Department appropriation bill after voting (202-to-158) to restore funds for citizens' military training camps; sent it to the Senate.

P: Passed the $102,602,000 state. Justice, Commerce & Labor Appropriation bill after reducing (129-to-118) the Dry enforcement fund from $9,120,000 to $8,440,000, prohibiting wiretapping (122-to-107) and outlawing "stool pigeons" (174-to-164) and the purchase of liquor for evidence; sent it to the Senate.

P: Received the $1,002,890,779 Independent Offices Appropriation, containing $945,988,634 for veterans, an increase of $18,000,000 over last year recommended by President Hoover. Also included was $30,000 for President Roosevelt's White House swimming pool.

P: Received from the Immigration Committee a bill to send needy Filipinos back to the Islands.

P: Received from the Insular Affairs Committee a bill to grant U. S. citizenship to Samoans, give them a civil government.

P: Passed (201-to-43) a bill to revise the bankruptcy law as a step toward private debt reduction; sent it to the Senate.

The Senate:

P: Passed (54-to-9) a bank reform bill by Virginia's Glass, after defeating (58-10-18) a 16-to-1 silver amendment; sent it to the House (see below).

P: Was threatened with a "taxpayer's filibuster" by Maryland's Tydings who demanded a 25% cut in all appropriations, as promised in the Democratic platform. Democratic leaders induced him to drop his fight on the formal promise that "appropriations shall be reduced at the earliest practicable time to a sum equal to estimated revenues."

P: Passed a second time the first deficiency appropriation bill, minus the tax refund review clause that produced a veto (see p. 13).

P: Adopted a resolution by Mississippi's Harrison providing for a broad inquiry into the Depression.

P: Received from the Manufactures Committee a bill providing $500,000,000 for direct jobless relief to the States.

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