Work Done

The Senate:

P: Debated a bill embodying Franklin Roosevelt's plan for reorganizing the executive branch of the Federal Government.

P: Confirmed the appointment of Robert Houghwout Jackson as U. S. Solicitor General.

P: Confirmed the appointment of Adolph Augustus Berle as Assistant Secretary of State.

The House:

P: Completed action on the $250,000,000 Deficiency Relief Bill (see p. 15).

P: Began debate on the new tax bill, which contains provisions for modifying capital gains and undistributed profits taxes, imposing a 20% surtax on closely held corporations whose capitalization exceeds $1,000,000, revoking the Treasury Department's right to publish lists of salaries over $15,000 a year.

P: Heard Pennsylvania's Republican Robert Fleming Rich shout during the debate preceding passage of the $125,086,690 Interior Department Appropriation Bill: "That man [Franklin Delano Roosevelt] does not know what he is doing . . . never worked a day in his life . . . could not run any kind of business."

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