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Last week the Senate:

>Had its dignity disturbed at a hearing of a Judiciary sub-committee when hefty Negro Communist Benjamin J. Davis Jr., a graduate of Harvard Law School, delivered a 15-minute tirade against the opponents of the Anti-Lynching Bill. Vice President Garner, said he, paraphrasing a familiar refrain, was an "evil old labor baiter." "Shameful" were the tactics of Committee Member Senator Tom Connally (Dem. Tex.). While Davis bellowed, the apopletic committee glared, jumped up & down, threatened to throw the witness out. Said Senator Van Nuys (Dem. Ind.), co-author of the bill: "You have done more harm than good. You may be excused."

>Plunged the House economy bloc into gloom, virtually wrecked the economy drive by adding to the Farm Bill, in the Appropriations Committee, $212,000,000 for "parity payments." Other additions by the Senate boosted the House bill by $309,793,584, put the farm fund close to one billion dollars.

Last week the House:

>Congratulated Sol Bloom (Dem. N. Y.) on his 70th birthday. Representative Bloom, awakened in the morning by a flood of singing telegrams, objected to the way the telegraph girls sang: "Happy Birthday, Mr. Bloo-oom," made them change it to "Happy Birthday, dear Solly." That sounded better, said Songwriter Bloom.

>Passed a bill to make it easier for widows of ex-Presidents to use the mails free of charge. Present law requires their "written autograph signatures" on their envelopes. The new bill, which went to the Senate, would permit them to put their names on their envelopes with a rubber stamp.

>Added $500,000 to a $750,000 item on the Interior Department's supply bill for the Provo River Reclamation Project in Utah. Cut $1,000,000 from the President's item for the Bituminous Coal Division, passed the bill finally at $118,578,187, and sent it to the Senate.

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