THE CONGRESS: Clock

Working days left: 19. Essential bills to enact if a special session is to be avoided: 10. Essential bills enacted last week: 1.

House Work Done. The House of Representatives last week:

¶ Sustained (278-to-10) President Hoover's veto—first this session—of a bill to compensate Homer N. Horine for Spanish War services which the War Department records do not confirm.

¶ Adopted a conference report on the First Deficiency Appropriation bill; sent it to the Senate.

¶ Passed the District of Columbia Appropriation bill; sent it to the Senate.

¶ Passed a bill providing for a $5,000,000 dirigible base for the Navy on the Pacific coast; sent it to the Senate.

¶ Passed a Senate bill to create a Federal Board for Employment Stabilization.

¶ Passed a bill for the $100,000,000 Public Building Program; sent it to the Senate.

¶ Passed a bill—with a unanimous rising vote of tribute to its author, Wisconsin's Cooper, 80, House Dean—to rename B Street (from the Capitol to the Arlington Memorial Bridge) Constitution Avenue.

Senate Work Done— The Senate of the U. S. last week:

¶ Adopted the conference—report on the First Deficiency Appropriation bill, sent it to the President.

¶ Passed a bill fixing wages on Government construction jobs at prevailing local wage levels; sent it to the House.

¶ Passed a House bill for the $100,000,000 Public Building Program; sent it to conference.

¶ Reconsidered and rejected (40-to-33) the nomination of George Otis Smith to be Chairman of the Federal Power Commission; ordered special counsel to start a quo warranto court action to test Chairman Smith's tenure of office over the Senate's objection.

¶ Rejected (47-10-24) a conference report on the Treasury-Post Office Appropriation bill because of questionable post office leases.

¶ Confirmed David Burnet of Ohio to be Commissioner of Internal Revenue.