Work Done

The Senate:

P: Passed (40-to-17) a resolution by Alabama's Black to appropriate $5,000,000 for storm relief in Southern States.

P: Refused (42-to-26) to reconsider the rejected nomination of Charles A. Jonas to be a U. S. District Attorney in North Carolina.

P: Ratified a treaty of friendship, commerce and consular rights with Norway; ratified another with Poland.

P:Voted to investigate the Farm Board.

Committees of the Senate:

P: Began an investigation of stock trading and short sales. When a declining market braced briefly, the investigators believed they had averted a billion-dollar bear raid.

P: Heard Secretary of the Treasury Mills urge deletion from the House revenue bill of $170,000,000 in "unjust" taxes on big estates, dividends, stock transactions and corporations.

P: Received a letter from Federal Judge Wilkerson, nominee for the Circuit Court, explaining that he had never bound himself to accept the prosecutor's recommendation of a light sentence for Scarface Al Capone in return for a plea of guilty, but had permitted withdrawal of that plea because the defense insisted on full acceptance of the prosecutor's recommendation or nothing.

The House:

P: Voted to unseat Peter Granata, Republican, as Representative of the 8th Illinois District and to seat Stanley H. Kunz, Democrat, in his place. House lineup: Democrats, 221; Republicans, 211; Farmer-Labor, 1; vacancies, 2.

P: Passed a bill appropriating $987,000,000 for independent executive offices, after refusing (152-to-23) to abolish the Farm Board. For veterans of all wars the bill carried a total of $949,000,000.

Committees of the House:

P:Began hearings on bills to pay off the Soldier Bonus at once and in full.*

P: Approved a bill vesting copyright in an author instead of a publisher, extending the term of copyright to 56 years.

*To the Capitol last week marched 1,200 lobbying War veterans to present to House & Senate leaders 20 packing cases in which they said were petitions signed by 2,240,030 persons asking for Bonus legislation.

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