Work Done

The Senate:

P: Adopted an emergency House resolution to appropriate $500,000 for the Government Printing Office to save the Congressional Record and all other Congressional printing from sudden suspension.

P: Debated the tax bill.

P: Heard Virginia's Glass charge that Chicago bankers had hired a Congressman, now deceased, to oppose branch-banking legislation.

Committees of the Senate:

P:Approved a resolution to ratify the World Court protocol.

P: Heard Margaret Sanger plead for birth

control legislation (see p. 22).

P: Revised and expanded the House omnibus economy bill.

The House:

P: Heard Chicago's Britten denounce Senator Glass's charge (see col. 2) as a "dastardly lie" (later changed to "deliberate misstatement" in the Record).

P:Approved (14140-135) a provision of the War Department appropriation bill to reduce the Army's officer personnel by 2,000, thus saving $3,814,823 per year.

P: Passed a bill to change the spelling of Porto Rico to Puerto Rico, the Island's Spanish name.

P: Sustained (166-10-187) the President's veto of its tariff bill.

Committees of the House:

P: Approved a resolution of New York's Somers recommending that the President call an international monetary conference to up the price of silver.

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