Work Done

The House:

P: Passed a Senate bill providing for a Federal railroad coordinator, repeal of the recapture clause, a new rate-making basis and I. C. C. control of holding com--panies; sent it to conference. P: Adopted (177-10-54) a resolution to investigate the Civil Service Commission's apportionment of jobs on the basis of State populations, as required by law. P: Passed a Senate bill creating a Federal Employment Service with an office in every State and appropriating $17,500,000 for its operation over five years; sent it to conference.

P: Passed a bill by Oklahoma's Hastings repealing an old Indian Territory statute which prevents Oklahoma from having 3.2% beer; sent it to the Senate.

The Senate:

P: Passed (48-10-20) the House joint resolution to outlaw the gold payment clause in all public and private debt contracts; sent it to the President. P: Confirmed (56-10-21) the nomination of Kansas' Guy Tresillian Helvering to be Commissioner of Internal Revenue. He was hotly opposed by Republicans on the ground that as an ex-Congressman he had wangled many a tax case out of the Treasury. Michigan's Couzens denounced him as a man of "shifty eyes and shifty methods." Kansas' Senator Capper declared that, though always opposed to him politically, he thought Appointee Helver-ing was an honest man. P: Passed the Independent Offices Appropriation bill, after adopting (43-10-42) an amendment limiting pension cuts by the President to 25%; sent it to conference.

This file is automatically generated by a robot program, so reader's discretion is required.