Work Done

The Senate: P:Adopted a resolution by Washington's Jones providing for a mixed commission to study reorganization of the executive government.

P:Held funeral services for William Julius Harris, deceased Senator from Georgia.

P:Received from Louisiana's Long a resolution to tax out of existence all incomes over $1,000,000 per year, all estates over $5,000,000.

P:Debated the Bankhead-Heflin contested election in Alabama.

P:Received from Secretary Mills a protest against cutting the Treasury Department's appropriation by 10%.

Committees of the Senate:

P:Approved a bill by New York's Wagner to establish a Federal employment system. A similar bill was vetoed last year by President Hoover. P:Continued investigating short sales on the New York Stock Exchange (see p. 55). P:Completed public hearing on the House tax bill.

P:Rejected (7-10-4) a bill by Connecticut's Bingham to legalize 4% beer.

The House:

P:Voted (268-10-42) to accept the Senate's 10% cut in the Interior Department appropriation bill.

P:Debated the $327.000.000 Naval appropriation bill, after refusing to decrease the number of Navy bands or increase the $14,000,000 allowed for battleship modernization.

P:Passed (86-to-18) a bill by New York's Dickstein excluding mediocre alien actors under the contract labor clause of the immigration law.

P:Received from Missouri's Barton a bill to pay Missouri 43-c- expended on a National Guardsman. Estimated cost of printing and passing the measure: $20. P:Eulogized Iowa's Haugen, senior member of the House in point of continuous service (33 years).

Committees of the House: P:Continued hearings on the Soldier Bonus (see p. 12).

P:Approved a bill by Maryland's Goldsborough ordering the Federal Reserve to raise and maintain wholesale commodity prices at pre-Depression levels by stabilizing the dollar. Democratic leaders made the bill a party measure. P:Completed drafting an omnibus economy bill to save $263,277.000 by: 1) cutting all Federal wages over $1.000 by 11%; 2) consolidating the Army & Navy into one department; 3) reducing the compensation paid hospitalized veterans; 4) abolishing the Army & Navy transport service. The President would be empowered to consolidate but not abolish overlapping executive boards & bureaus.

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