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Working days left: 49. Essential bills to enact if a special session is to be averted: 11. Essential bills enacted last week: 2.

House Work Done: The House of Representatives last week: P: Passed a bill appropriating $150,000,000 for the Federal Farm Board's stabilization operations; sent it to the Senate. P: Adopted a Senate resolution for Drought Relief after cutting its total from $60,000,000 to $30,000,000; later agreed to a $45,000,000 conference report; sent it to the Senate (see p. 8). P: Agreed to the $116,000,000 Unemployment Relief conference report; sent it to it to the Senate (see p. 8). P: Passed the $213,043,702 Department of Agriculture appropriation bill; sent it to the Senate. P: Adopted a resolution seating Democrat Louis Ludlow of Indiana, whose election had been contested by Republican Ralph Eugene Updike. P: Adjourned until Jan. 5.

Senate Work Done: The Senate of the U. S. last week: P: Administered the oath of office to Cameron Morrison, who succeeded the late Lee Slater Overman as Senator from North Carolina. P: Adopted a resolution requesting its Committee on Appropriations to call on Chairman Arthur Woods of the President's Unemployment Commission and other Government officers for information regarding the seriousness of the Depression.

P: Adopted a resolution asking the Secretary of the Treasury to report on the taxes paid by the New York Stock Exchange and its individual members. P: Passed the $150,000,000 Farm Board appropriation bill; sent it to the President.

P: Agreed to the $45,000,000 Drought Relief conference report; sent the bill to the President.

P: Agreed to the conference report on the $116,000,000 Unemployment Relief bill; sent it to the President. P: Confirmed the appointment to the Federal Farm Board of Floyd Reed Harrison.

P: Ratified: 1) a Hague convention modifying the rules of the International Union for the Protection of Industrial Property: 2) a Pan-American pact for protection of trademarks and commerce. P: Confirmed the nominations of Joshua Reuben Clark to be Ambassador to Mexico, of Hoffman Philip to be Minister to Norway, of Nicholas Roosevelt to be Minister to Hungary, of Joshua Butler Wright to be Minister to Uruguay, of Charles Edwin Mitchell to be Minister Resident in Liberia. P: Adjourned until Jan. 5.

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