Work Done

The House: P: Passed (249-to-118) a $543,000.000 Independent Offices appropriation bill; sent it to the Senate. A substitute for the measure vetoed March 4 by President Hoover, the bill lopped $451,000,000 off veterans' payments and authorized the President to cancel Government contracts, furlough Army officers on half-pay, retire Federal employes after 30 years civil service and cut Army & Navy flying pay.

P:Defeated (227-to-115) a motion to consider a resolution by New York's Sirovich for an investigation of the cinema industry. The idea was howled down as "a joy ride to Hollywood to pose with movie stars." P:Adopted a conference report on the Farm Relief bill after rejecting (283-to-109) a Senate amendment to guarantee farmers the cost of production; sent the bill to the President (see p. 17).

The Senate:

P:Adopted (53-to-28) the conference report on the Farm Relief bill before receding (48-to-33) from its cost-of-production guarantee amendment (see above).

P: Began the impeachment trial of California's Federal Judge Harold Louderback on charges of abusing his judicial power in bankruptcy cases.

P: Passed a House bill to continue for another year the 1-c- per gal. gasoline tax, to reduce local postage from 3-c- to 2-c-, to authorize the President to adjust other postal rates as he sees fit; sent it to conference. The House bill transferred the 3% electricity tax from consumer to producer. The Senate bill put a 2% tax on the producer of commercial and domestic electricity, a i% tax on the industrial consumer.

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