Work Done

The Senate:

P:Debated a bill by Nebraska's Norris to curb Federal injunctions in labor disputes and outlaw "yellow dog" contracts;-- rejected all amendments to soften its stringent provisions.

P:Received from the Pensions Committee a bill to give Mrs. Helen Herron Taft, widow of the 27th President of the U. S., a $5,000 annuity.

P: Adopted the Conference report on the Glass-Steagall bill; sent it to the House.

P:Received from the Naval Affairs Committee a bill from Maine's Hale to build the U. S. fleet up to maximum, treaty strength (see p. 14).

P: Passed a bill establishing civil (instead of Navy) government in American Samoa; sent it to the House.

P:Confirmed Benjamin Nathan Cardozo of New York to be an Associate Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court and James Henderson Douglas Jr. of Chicago to be an Assistant Secretary of the Treasury.

Committees of the Senate:

P:Approved in principle a bill to give the Philippines their independence after a plebiscite within 19 years.

P:Approved a bill cutting 20% from the salaries of members of the Federal Farm Board.

The House:

P: Passed (205-to-109) a bill authorizing an appropriation of $132,500,000 for emergency highway construction to increase employment; sent it to the Senate. Of the total, $120,000,000 would be lent States to spend in one year, repay in ten. Demo-crats claimed the measure would put a million jobless men to work. Republicans predicted a Presidential veto.

P: Adopted the conference report on the Glass-Steagall bill; sent it to the White House.

P: Passed a bill appropriating $124,215,999 for the State, Justice, Commerce and Labor Departments; sent it to the Senate.

P:Debated a bill appropriating $1.059,898,563 for the Treasury and Post Office Departments, a cut of $22,677,000 below the Hoover budget estimate. C. Passed (67-to-12) a bill by Maryland's Linthicum upping U. S. passport fees from $5 to $9; sent it to the Senate.

P:Received a petition requiring 145 signatures to force a vote on bringing to the floor a resolution modifying the 18th Amendment; Wets stampeded into the House well to sign it, effect their first test of voting strength in more than a decade.

Committees of the House:

P:Rejected a resolution by New York's La Guardia urging the Governor of California to pardon Thomas Mooney.

P: Heard Richard Whitney, president of the New York Stock Exchange, defend short sales, explain how they had kept the market open in critical times, protest against government regulation.

*"Yellow dog" contract: an agreement of employment wherein the employe promises the employer not to join any labor union.

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