Work Done

The Senate:

P:Confirmed the appointment of Marriner Stoddard Eccles of Utah to be governor of the Federal Reserve Board. Purposely absent when the Banking & Currency Committee took its final vote was Governor Eccles' warm foe. Carter Glass of Virginia, who mortally hates the Eccles plan for tightening Government control of the Federal Reserve System.

P:Received from its Finance Committee, which had voted down the Patman (greenback) and Vinson (Legion) bonus bills, the Harrison (compromise) bonus bill (TIME, April 29).

P:Returned to committee, with instructions that it be reported back by May 12, the Bankhead Farmers' Home Corporation bill for creation of a $1,000,000,000 Government corporation to help tenants and sharecroppers buy farms. Said Virginia's Byrd: "This is the most loosely and crudely drawn measure ever submitted to the Senate."

P:Debated for five solid days whether to consider the Costigan-Wagner anti-lynching bill. Senator Smith of South Carolina, who said lynching was necessary to protect "the sanctity of our womanhood,." was called to order by Mrs. Jessie Daniels Ames of Atlanta's Commission on Interracial Cooperation. Said she: "I am opposed to the Costigan-Wagner bill, but I am even more opposed to Southern Senators using Southern white women as a defense of lynching." Other Southern Senators, arguing not against the rape of women but against the rape of states' rights, remained adamant.

The House:

P:Overwhelmed a motion to keep the Navy from raising its forces to treaty strength, then passed without a record vote a naval appropriations bill of $457,805,261. Largest since 1920, the bill calls for construction of 24 ships and 555 airplanes, addition of 11,667 officers & men. P:Rejected, because the Post Office Department had not sanctioned it, a Senate amendment to the Treasury-Post Office supply bill providing $2,000,000 for airmail service from San Francisco to Canton, China. Post Officers declared the service would cost the Department $1,820,000 per year, bring in only $600,000 per year.

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