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The Senate, after only eight minutes of debate, stripped the President of his ten-year-old power to devalue the dollar.

The House debated a $707 million Agriculture Department appropriation. Up rose Missouri's knob-nosed Clarence Cannon, errand boy for the Farm Bloc. The Appropriations Committee had already lopped $100 million for farm incentive payments off the bill. Representative Cannon, suspecting the Administration might use other Agriculture Department funds for such subsidies, and sticking tight to the farm-bloc alternative of higher prices, offered an amendment barring all incentive payments. The House, whipped into line by the farm lobby, approved.

On the tax deadlock, stubborn old Robert L. ("Muley") Doughton finally gave in. Lectured by Speaker Sam Rayburn, prodded unmercifully by Republicans, he called his Ways & Means Committee together, ordered it to report some kind of tax bill by this week.

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