Work Done

Last week Congress also:

> Advanced, by a Senate Judiciary Committee vote of 9 to 7, Republican Minority Leader Everett Dirksen's proposed constitutional amendment to allow a state to apportion one house of its legislature on a basis other than population. The committee then cleared, 14 to 2, a House-passed immigration bill to abolish the national-quotas system, adding an amendment by North Carolina Democrat Sam Ervin that would impose a 120,000-a-year limit on immigration from Western Hemisphere countries.

> Passed, by a 62-to-24 vote in the Senate, an Administration-backed amendment to the farm bill that would sharply reduce the price support for cotton and make up the income loss to growers by direct Government payments for acreage diversion. The bill still faces a Senate battle over wheat subsidies.

> Passed, in both chambers, a $1.78 billion military construction bill. House Republicans failed in an attempt to override President Johnson's veto of an earlier bill that would have required the executive branch to notify Congress at least 120 days before closing of any military base, giving Congress time to write restrictive legislation. Under the new bill, Congress will get a 30-day warning.

> Passed in the House, and sent to the Senate, a bill empowering the Federal Government to take permanent possession of the rifle with which Lee Harvey Oswald killed President Kennedy, as well as any other evidence in the case deemed relevant by the U.S. Attorney General.

> Passed in the House, and sent to the President, a bill authorizing Secret Service protection for the wife and children of a President for four years after his death or resignation from office. The measure will also provide lifetime protection for ex-Presidents and their wives.

>Passed in the Senate, and sent to the White House, a bill authorizing cash awards of up to $25,000 each to members of the armed forces for cost-saving suggestions and technical innovations.

Such an incentive system has existed since 1954 for civilian Defense Department employees, who last year collected $2,351,980 for 63,581 suggestions that led to savings of $66,171,148. > Approved, in the Senate Public Works Committee, a modified version of the Administration's highway beautification program (see MODERN LIVING). > Approved, in the House Public Works Committee, an omnibus rivers and harbors bill authorizing $1.9 billion for 144 projects, ranging from a $15 million flood-control system in Iowa Republican Representative H. R. Gross's home town of Waterloo to an $83 million initial grant for dredging Texas' Trinity River so that Dallas and Fort Worth might become seaports.

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