Work Done

The House:

P: Passed (168-to-160) a bill by New York's' Celler amending the Volstead Act so that physicians may prescribe medicinal liquor and beer without quantitative restrictions; sent it to the Senate. During the debate Texas' Blanton pointed out that the temporary presiding officer, Maryland's Palmisano, was a onetime bartender. Quitting the rostrum Representative Palmisano retorted: "I've never denied it. That's why I'm against Prohibition."

P: Impeached (183-to-142) California's U. S. District Judge Harold Louderback.

P: Defeated a bill to grant U. S. citizenship to Samoans.

P: Passed the $315,419,000 naval appropriation bill; sent it to the Senate.

P: Passed the $30,700,000 Second Deficiency bill, last of the annual appropriation measures; sent it to the Senate.

P: Passed a Senate bill giving the Comptroller of the Currency wider powers over National banks in States where banking moratoriums have been declared; sent it to the President.

The Senate:

P: Passed a House bill to revise the bankruptcy law in the interest of private debtors.

P: Passed a bill by North Dakota's Nye authorizing the U. S. to settle its naval oil scandal claims against Pan-American Petroleum and Richfield Oil of California for $5,000,000.

P: Rejected (38-to-36) a conference report on the Treasury-Post Office appropriation bill after the House had eliminated Senate economy amendments.

P: Passed the $1,003,726,000 appropriation bill for independent offices, after increasing the Federal Trade Commission's funds to continue its "Power Trust" inquiry and listening to Nebraska's Norris lecture from a huge wall chart labeled "Spider Web of Wail Street."

P: Heard Louisiana's Long flay a Senate investigator into his State rule as a liar, scoundrel, thief and forger.

P: Received from its Foreign Relations Committee a favorable (15-to-5) report on the St. Lawrence seaway treaty.

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