THE CONGRESS: Work Done, Mar. 28, 1932

The Senate:

¶ Recommitted the Interior Department appropriation bill with instructions to reduce its total of $50,000,000 by 10%.

¶ Adopted the conference report on the anti-injunction labor bill; sent it to the President.

¶ Confirmed Thaddeus Harold Brown to be a member of the Radio Commission.

¶ Received from Virginia's Glass a revised banking bill to check speculation on Federal Reserve credit and to liquidate closed banks.

Committees of the Senate:

¶ Received a subcommittee's report to legalize 4% beer to raise $347,000,000 in revenue, stimulate business, relieve unemployment.

¶Approved the nomination of Charles Hitchcock Sherrill to be Ambassador to Turkey.

The House:

¶ Debated the tax bill, upping normal and surtax rates above the Ways & Means Committee's figures (see p. 18).

¶ Adopted the conference report on the anti-injunction labor bill; sent it to the Senate.

¶ Received from the Immigration Committee a resolution to reduce all quotas by 90% and to apply the quota system to the Western Hemisphere,

¶ Voted (258-to-115) to empower its special economy committee now studying executive reorganization to prepare and bring legislation directly to the floor.

Committees of the House:

¶ Considered proposals to cut the Federal pay scale from 5% to 25%.

¶ Approved (15-to-2) a resolution by New York's Fish instructing U. S. delegates at the Geneva Arms Conference to propose an international agreement renouncing the sale and export of munitions of war.