Congress Week

Last week the Senate:

P: Decided the Judiciary Committee should look into every phase of the Government's seizure of Montgomery Ward (see p. 11).

P: Passed the Murray-George Bill, which guarantees that "businessmen shall be paid speedily the fair compensation which is due them" as soon as war contracts are terminated. When organized labor clamored that the bill ignored "the human side of demobilization," Senators promised soothingly that more reconversion legislation would be forthcoming.

P:Learned from Tennessee's Kenneth Mc-Kellar that U.S. spending abroad thus far --including Lend-Lease--adds up to $30 billion (71% of Lend-Lease to the British Empire, 2% to China).

P: Heard Alabama's cotton-conscious Bankhead rail against the menace of rayon ("We can't let 3,000,000 families in the South face starvation"). P: Decided to decline, with regret, an invitation to Congressmen to visit the British Parliament. Foreign Relations Chairman Tom Connally said he would ask for a "rain check."

The House:

P: Voted another $6,700,000 (to an already appropriated $23 million) to help finance babies (average delivery cost: $71.31) born to wives of servicemen.

P: Voted 300-10-60 to stage a Montgomery Ward investigation of its own.

P: Voted 385-to-0 to simplify individual income taxes. If the Senate concurs, some 30,000,000 taxpayers earning less than $5,000 a year and subject to the withholding tax, will be excused from making out returns.

P: Received from President Roosevelt a request for a new $3,450,000,000 Lend-Lease appropriation, which, added to unexpended balances, will make $7,188,000 available for the coming fiscal year.

P:Celebrated the 153rd anniversary of Poland's first Constitution with a few oratorical blasts at the Soviet Union.

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