THE CONGRESS: Work Done, Apr. 11, 1932

The Senate: ¶ Passed (42-10-30) the House bill transferring tariff flexibility from the President to Congress, suggesting a world economic conference and creating a "consumer's counsel" before the Tariff Commission; sent it to conference. President Hoover was expected to veto. ¶ Ratified, with six minor reservations, a League of Nations treaty to regulate the manufacture and distribution of narcotic drugs.

¶ Confirmed Charles Edwin Winter of Wyoming to be Attorney General of Porto Rico.

The House:

¶ Passed the tax bill (see col. 3) ¶ Passed (306-10-47) a bill by South Carolina's Pare granting independence to the Philippines in eight years; sent it to the Senate.

¶ Defeated (203-10-132) a motion to bring out of committee a $100,000.000 drainage and irrigation relief bill. ¶ Swore in Russell Elzey as a new member from Mississippi vice Percy Edwards Quin. deceased.