Work Done

The Senate:

P: Passed and sent to the House the Wagner Housing Bill.

P: Passed the Court Bill and sent it to conference (see col. 2).

P: Passed a bill introduced by Chairman Black of the Education and Labor Committee for a census of unemployment, partial employment and occupations to cost about $4,000,000.

P: Passed a House Bill restoring the wage of Federal court jurors, cut to $3 a day in 1933, to $4 a day.

The House:

P: Passed (205-to-0) and sent to the Senate a bill granting pensions to dependent Gold Star parents and widows of World War soldiers.* Replacing War Risk insurance payments which expire in the next three years, the pension ($45 a month for individual parents. $30 to $45 for widows) will go to 40,000 beneficiaries, cost the U. S. $8,900,000 to begin with.

* Still drawing Government pensions from the War of 1812 are Mrs. Caroline King, 88, East Aurora, N. Y. widow, and Esther Ann Hill Morgan, 80, of Independence, Ore. who was. pensioned as a helpless child because of blindness.

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