Work Done

The Senate:

P: Defeated (34-to-32) an Interior Department appropriation bill rider by Michigan's Vandenberg authorizing the President to reorganize the executive departments for economy's sake.

P: Passed a bill by California's Johnson denying Department of Commerce permits to small craft used to ferry fun-seekers to gambling and drinking resorts aboard ships anchored outside the three-mile limit; sent it to the House.

P: Passed a House bill instructing the Interstate Commerce Commission to investigate the six-hour day for railway labor; sent it to the President.

P: Heard Kansas' McGill make his maiden speech in behalf of an emergency road building bill.

P: Confirmed Frank Evans of Utah, William Frank Schilling of Minnesota and Samuel H. Thompson of Illinois as members of the Federal Farm Board.

P: Passed its first supply bill, a measure appropriating $188,000,000 for the Department of Agriculture; sent it to conference.

P: Passed a bill awarding St. Paul's Episcopal Church of Selma, Ala. $5,680 for damages done by Union soldiers during the Civil War.

P: Passed a bill by North Dakota's Frazier to tighten Prohibition enforcement on Indian reservations; sent it to the House.

Committees of the Senate:

P: Approved the promotion of Secretary of State Stimson to the rank of brigadier general in the Army reserve.

P: Approved a bill by Nebraska's Norris, once vetoed by President Hoover, for government operation of the Muscle Shoals power and fertilizer plants.

The House:

P: Debated the tax bill (see p. 9).

P: Passed (363-to-13) a bill by New York's LaGuardia to curb injunctions in labor disputes and outlaw "yellow-dog'' contracts; sent it to conference (see p. 11 ).

P: Passed five bills designed to increase postal revenues by $11,750,000 per year by upping registered mail fees, C. O. D. fees, domestic money order fees, opening parcel post to publications in bulk and charging publishers a second-class entry fee of $100.

P: Passed a bill by Missouri's Cochran to punish kidnappers and blackmailers who use the mails for extortion with a $5,000 fine, 20 years imprisonment; sent it to the Senate.

P: Completed a "committee discharge'' petition on bringing to a vote a bill providing $100,000,000 for irrigation, drainage and special levee construction.

Committees of the House:

P: Decided that Democrat Stanley H. Kunz was entitled to the House seat of the 8th Illinois district now occupied by Republican Peter C. Granata.

P: Agreed that the U. S. S. Akron showed no poor workmanship or faulty materials (see p. 25).

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