Work Done

The House:

P: Passed the $1,002,800,000 Independent Offices Appropriation bill; sent it to the Senate. Undebated and untouched was the item of $966,838,634 for veterans compensation and pensions, the amount recommended in the President's budget.* Despite complaints that the "Power Trust" was trying to stifle the Government's investigation of its activities, the House refused (181-to-165) to increase the Federal Trade Commission's allowance from $510,000 to $820,000.

P: Passed the $16,588,878 Legislative Appropriation bill; sent it to the Senate. A proposal to cut Representatives' salaries from $10,000 to $7,500 was howled down (145-to-32) without a record vote amid cries of "Grand stand stuff! Demagoguery! Millionaire control of the House!"

The Senate:

P: Suspended David Sheldon Barry as its Sergeant-at-Arms for writing an article for New Outlook.

P: Swore in Democrat Bennett Champ Clark, son of the late great House Speaker, as Senator from Missouri, vice Harry Bartow Hawes, resigned.

P: Debated the Treasury-Post Office Appropriation bill; eliminated (39-to-35) the $19,000,000 air mail subsidy, but did not (36-to-32) alter the $35,500,000 ocean mail subsidy; adopted (41-to-12) a "Buy American'' amendment, requiring the Government to use only U. S.-made supplies and equipment.

* Loud cries of "Outrage!" "Scandal!" went up in the Press at the House's failure to economize on veterans expenses. The technical defense was that no cuts could be made until the substantive laws which required this total appropriation had been modified.

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