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When the 71st Congress sat down Dec. 1 for its final session, it had 70 working days ahead of it in which to do its essential work and avert a special session of the 72nd Congress after March 4. Parliamentary experts, familiar with the Administration's program, listed 13 essential bills Congress must pass in its 70 days. Of these, eleven were appropriation bills to pay Federal running costs through fiscal 1932. The other two were Unemployment Relief and Drought Relief.

During the first seven working days no essential bill was passed.

Senate Work Done. The Senate of the U. S. last week:

P: Recommitted (59-10-21) a House bill to regulate interstate bus traffic (see p. 13)

P: Rejected (5840-27) a resolution not to

seat Pennsylvania's Senator-elect James

John Davis for his campaign expenditures

(see p. 12).

P: Heard Nebraska's Senator Norris flay

the steel industry for upping prices $1 per

ton. Massachusetts' Senator Walsh hint of

a "conspiracy."

P: Adopted a resolution for a Department

of Agriculture inquiry into cotton price

declines and short sales.

P: Passed and sent to the White House a

bill defining "petty offenses" as those

punishable by not more than six months

in jail and $500 fine.

P: Passed a House bill to increase slightly the pay of customs agents.

* Last week William Green, whose American of Labor President Hoover had in making the Doak appointment, "We regard the incident as closed -- for present, at least."

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