Work Done

In the Senate:

> Their ephemeral zeal for economy already fading, Senate farm leaders settled back into their historic spend-now, save-later philosophy, concentrated on adding $200,000,000 for parity price payments to the Farm Appropriation Bill. Yet many a Congressman still felt self-conscious about tossing around the taxpayers' money. Commerce Committee Chairman Josiah William Bailey, of North Carolina, decided to cut the $412,638,600 Rivers-&-Harbors Authorization Bill in four parts, on the theory that this quartering would make the whole bill easier to swallow. Pork-hungry Senator Bailey sizzled defensively at the immediate insinuation that he was rolling out four pork barrels, let alone one.

> "Cowboy Carl" Hatch of New Mexico, author of the 1939 act barring Federal employes from active politicking, last week rammed through the Senate Elections committee a new bill spreading the ban to the 500,000 State employes who are partly paid by the U. S. Government. Squawks came from Indiana's Minton (chum of Paul V. McNutt); from Tennessee's "Crumpet" Stewart (stooge of Memphis' Boss Ed Crump) and Illinois' Lucas (collaborator with Chicago's mayor--Boss Ed Kelly).

In the House:

> "Immensely gratified" Secretary of State Cordell Hull by voting (216 to 168) to extend until June 12, 1943, his authority to make reciprocal trade agreements; sent his bill unamended to the Senate, where the Hull trade program will have loyal Democratic support.

> Out of the Banking & Currency committee, 18-5, at last came the bill doubling the Export-Import Bank's $100,000,000 capital--$20,000,000 of it to go to Finland, if there still is a Finland when the bill is signed.

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