THE CONGRESS: Clock

Working days left: 13. Essential bills to enact if a special session is to be avoided: 9. Essential bills enacted last week: 1.

House Work Done. The House of Representatives last week:

¶ Passed a $348,820,952 Naval Appropriation Bill, after refusing to limit officers to 5,499; sent it to the Senate.

¶ Adopted the conference report on the Interior Department Appropriation Bill, including a $20,000,000 Drought Relief fund (see col. 3); sent it to the President.

¶ Adopted a conference report on the $100,000,000 Public Buildings Bill; sent it to the President.

¶ Passed (363-to-37) a bill to up the Soldier Bonus loans, sent it to the Senate (see p. 12).

¶. Defeated (167-to-163) a Senate bill to increase the salary of the Governor of Alaska from $7,000 to $10,000.

¶ Agreed to Senate amendments to three omnibus Civil War pension bills; sent them to the President.

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

¶ Passed the Legislative Appropriation Bill; sent it to conference.

¶Passed the $1,053,000,000 Independent Officer Appropriation Bill; sent it to conference.

¶ Adopted the conference report on the Interior Department Appropriation Bill, including a $20,000,000 Drought relief fund; sent it to the House. C. Passed a bill to bridge San Francisco Bay.

¶Heard Utah's Reed Smoot eulogize Abraham Lincoln.

¶. Passed a House bill for a 44-hour-week in the Postal service; sent it to the President.

¶ Passed a bill to grant a $5,000 per year pension to Eleanora Emma Anderson Bliss, widow of Chief of Staff Tasker Howard Bliss U. S. A.; sent it to the House.

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