Work Done

The Senate:

P:Adopted a resolution authorizing each member to employ an extra clerk for the remainder of the present session--the clerk's pay to come out of the Senate's contingent fund.

P: Debated the House's tax bill for five days, piled on new taxes

The House:

P:Passed the Johnson bill forbidding debt-defaulting nations from floating loans in the U. S.; sent it to the President.

P:Passed the Jones Sugar Control bill: 1) making sugar a "basic commodity" so that a processing tax can be imposed on it; 2) directing the Secretary of Agriculture to limit beet sugar, production to 1,550,000 short tons, cane sugar production in Louisiana and Florida to 260,000 tons; 3) authorizing him to quota sugar imports of Cuba and U. S. island possessions so that total domestic production and imports shall not exceed U. S. consumption; sent it to the Senate.

P:Passed by a vote of 337-to-1 a bill to guarantee the principal as well as interest of $2,000,000,000 of Home Owners Loan bonds and authorizing the expenditure of $200,000,000 for renovating homes; sent it to conference. Omitted from the bill as passed was an amendment sponsored by Senator Norris and approved by the President which would have put employes of the Home Loan Bank under Civil Service instead of leaving their jobs to the political spoils system.

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