THE CONGRESS: Work Done, Apr. 4, 1932

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The Senate:

¶ Voted (50-10-29) on motion of Tennessee's McKellar to recommit the $124,000,000 appropriation bill for the Departments of State, Justice, Commerce and Labor with instructions to cut its total 10% for economy.

¶ Rejected unanimously the nomination of Charles Andrew Jonas, North Carolina's Republican National Committeeman, to be U. S. District Attorney for western North Carolina because he had ''libeled'' the Senate's investigation of campaign expenditures in his State.

¶ Received from Utah's King a bill to abolish the Shipping Board.

Committees of the Senate:

¶ Heard bankers flay a revised bill by Virginia's Glass to curb speculation on Federal Reserve credit as "deflationary and unwarranted."

¶ Pondered a proposal to equip all Senators with lapel microphones to broadcast Senate sessions.

¶ Approved a bill by Kentucky's Barkley to waive the requirement that soldier bonus certificates must have been in force for two years before veterans may borrow 50% on them.*

The House:

¶ Continued consideration of the tax bill (see below).

¶ Bowed to a filibuster against a bill by Florida's Owen to establish a national park in the Everglades.

Committees of the House:

¶ Approved (13-10-8) a bill providing for public operation of Muscle Shoals in the event no private lessee could be found.

¶ Heard Postmaster General Brown defend present airmail contracts, flay lower bids by "independent and irresponsible operators."