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Working days left: 56. Essential bills to enact if a special session is to be averted: 13. Essential bills enacted last week: o.

House Work Done. The House of Representatives last week:

P: Passed a $68,554,000 appropriation bill for the Department of the Interior; sent it to the Senate.

P: Passed a $110,000,000 jobless relief bill; sent it to the Senate.

P: Passed a bill reducing postal working hours from 48 to 44 per week; sent it to the Senate.

P: Passed a bill providing for a 5-c- charge on inquiries as to the delivery of registered and insured mail; sent it to the Senate.

P: Recommitted a bill to allow railroads to transport mail by motor bus.

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

P: Passed a bill to loan drought-stricken husbandmen $60,000,000 for feed and food; sent it to the House (see below).

P: Passed the House jobless bill, after upping its total to $118,000,000; sent it to conference.

P: Received from President Hoover for ratification the World Court protocols embodying the Root formula (see p. 7).

P: Confirmed George Charles Butte as Vice Governor of the Philippines.

P: Adjourned respectfully at the death of North Carolina's 76-year-old Senator Lee Slater Overman (see p. 36).

P: Passed the Treasury-Post Office appropriation bill; sent it to conference.

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