Work Done

The Senate:

P: Confirmed the appointment of Andrew William Mellon to be Ambassador to the Court of St. James's (see above). P: Debated direct Federal Unemployment Relief (see col. 3). P: Accepted the credentials of and administered the oath of office to Hattie Wyett Caraway of Arkansas, first woman ever elected to the Senate.-- P: Received from Oklahoma's Thomas a resolution asking that the Foreign Relations Committee report from time to time on Far Eastern developments affecting U. S. life and property, d. Received from Washington's Jones a resolution prohibiting Army and Navy activity in States which do not enforce Prohibition. P: Received from the Agriculture Committee a favorable report on three bills: 1) to create a revolving fund of $100,-000,000 for loans to drainage, levee and irrigation districts; 2) to set up a $10,000,000 fund for loans to agricultural credit corporations; 3) to extend the 1931 drought loans one year longer. P: Referred bills relating to reductions in pay of Government officials and employes to civil service committee. The House:

P: Adopted a resolution authorizing the expenditure of $1,000.000 for Federal participation in the Chicago 1933 World's Fair. $725,000 less than the appropriation authorized by the Senate. P: Adopted a bill for improvements in the channel of the Willamette River between Oregon City and Portland. Ore.

--Last week the Caraway home, a Colonial building valued at $40.000. in the Washington suburb of Riverdale. Md., was placed on auction to satisfy a $22,500 mortgage.

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