Work Done

The House:

P: Accepted (243-to-154) a White House compromise on pension cuts in the Independent Offices Appropriation bill (see p. 13).

P: Adopted a conference report on the National Recovery bill (see p. 14).

P: Passed (287-to-84) a $3,459,480,908 deficiency bill to finance the President's recovery program; sent it to the Senate.

P: Passed (237-to-119) a bill to permit the President to appoint a nonresident to be Governor of Hawaii; sent it to the Senate.

P: Passed a bill to permit municipalities to use the Bankruptcy Act for debt relief; sent it to the Senate.

P: Adopted a conference report on the emergency railroad bill; sent it to the President.

The Senate:

P: Passed (57-to-24) the National Recovery bill; sent it to conference. P: Adopted a conference report on the $2,000,000,000 home mortgage relief bill; sent it to the President. Only on homes valued at $20,000 or less will the Government help to refinance mortgages. P:Adopted a resolution by Alabama's Black appropriating $25,000 to investigate air and ocean mail contracts. P: Received a report from its Military Affairs Committee on the purchase of 200,000 kits at $1.40 each for the Civilian Conservation Corps after supersalesman Richard B. Bevier had visited Roosevelt Secretary Louis McHenry Howe. Said the report: "We find no evidence that would sustain a charge of corruption or improper motive. However we find that lower prices could have been obtained for articles of a quality sufficient to meet all requirements."

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