Work Done

Last week the Senate: > Finishing fighting over Cordell Hull's authority to negotiate trade agreements (TIME, April 8), downed a final attempt to limit extension to one instead of three years, sent the bill unamended to President Roosevelt. Final vote: 42-10-37.

> In committee, continued to forget Economy, gobble 1940 pork. Items: $25,000,000 for some 50 flood-control projects (upping the War Department's total for civil functions $70,000.000 above those voted by the House); a $231,000,950 authorization for future flood-control projects (the House had voted only $73,620,100).

> Put on (with the House) a better show at the National Press Club than at the Capitol. Kentucky's Alben Barkley. whose forte is singing Wagon Wheels, sang it solo for the guests at a Congressional beefsteak dinner; also sang a duet with his onetime foe, Kentucky's junior Senator "Happy" Chandler.

Last week the House: > Trimmed the Army's 1940-41 supply bill $68,357,660 to $784,999,094, sent it to the Senate.

> Received from Mary Norton's Labor Committee four compromise Wagner Act amendments: 1) to increase NLRB from three to five members, depriving Chairman J. Warren Madden and Member Edwin S. Smith of majority control; 2) to require NLRB to certify craft unions where a majority of affected workers so desire (thus pleasing A. F. of L., displeasing C. I. 0.); 3) to write into law the present NLRB practice which allows employers to petition for Board elections to settle rows between opposing unions; 4) to leave bargaining contracts in force for at least a year after they are signed.

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