Work Done

The Senate:

P: Passed the $111,793,000 appropriation bill for the Departments of State, Justice, Commerce & Labor, after arbitrarily cutting it 10%, below the House total.

P: Adopted a resolution by Minnesota's Shipstead appropriating $1,450,000, for grasshopper eradication in the Northwest.

P: Voted (39-10-29) to take up the Philippine Independence bill; action was blocked by New York's Copeland who filibustered with a speech on the virtues of Hot Springs (Ark.) water.

P: Declined (6440-18) to unseat John Hollis Bankhead in favor of James Thomas ("Tom-Tom") Heflin as Alabama's Senator (see below).

P: Swore in John Sanford Cohen as Senator from Georgia.

The House:

P: Agreed (202-to-171) to the Senate's amendments to the Democratic tariff bill which takes flexing from the President, suggests an international tariff conference; sent it to the White House for a veto.

P: Passed the $326,000,000 naval appropriation bill, after refusing to recommit it for a further 10%, cut.

P: Debated the omnibus economy bill (see p. 13).

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