House Week

Work Done. The House of Representatives last week:

D/Passed a Senate Bill for a $150,000 survey of a canal route across Nicaragua.

D/Agreed to the Senate's change in continuing the Federal Radio Commission to Dec. 31, 1929, instead of March 15, 1930.

D/Adopted a conference report on the Interior Department appropriation bill (see above).

D/Passed a Senate Bill to increase Civil Service retirement annuities for some 400,000 U. S. workers.

D/Adopted a resolution to investigate U. S. District Judge Grover M. Moscowitz of Brooklyn on charges of bankruptcy irregularities.

D/Heard a formal impeachment of U. S. District Judge Francis Asbury Winslow (TIME, March 4) by New York's La Guardia.

D/Passed a senate bill to increase penalties for Volstead Act violations (see below).

D/Passed Senate bills granting $5,000 a year pensions to Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, Mrs. Leonard Wood.

D/ Passed a Senate bill liberalizing the judicial retirement law whereby Chief Justice Taft becomes immediately eligible to retire.

D/Adopted (190 to 152) a resolution to postpone the effective date of the national origins quota system of immigration until July i, 1930 (see p. 18).

D/Adopted compromise conference reports on the first and second deficiency bills (see above).