Work Done. Last week, the U.S. Representatives:
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¶ Passed a bill establishing two Federal farms for treatment of drug addicts among Federal prisoners; sent it to the Senate.
¶ Passed a bill authorizing the 1930 census ; sent it to the Senate.
¶ Passed a bill authorizing $4,500,000 for a memorial highway to Mount Vernon.
¶ Repassed over the President’s veto, by 319 to 42 and 319 to 46, two House postal-pay bills, benefiting nightworkers and fourth-class postmasters; sent the bills to the Senate. (President Coolidge’s objections had been, that night-working postal employes received ample raises in 1926; that fourth-class postmasters mostly keep stores or do other private business, to the overhead of which their postal duties add nothing.)
¶ Amended, passed and sent to conference the Senate bill liberalizing the immigration law to permit entry of aliens’ relatives.
¶ Passed and sent to the Senate two bills raising the pay of customs employes and immigration inspectors.
¶ Passed and sent to the Senate a bill permitting the use of Federal prisoners for roadbuilding.
¶ Adopted the conference report of Senate amendments to the House bill lowering postal rates. The bill went to the President.
¶ Repassed over the President’s veto, 245 to 101, the Senate’s retirement-pay bill for volunteer War officers. The Senate having overridden the veto, the bill becomes law.
¶ Voted 306 to 57, to adjourn at 5 p. m., May 27; sent the resolution to the Senate. (Republican Leader Tilson had carried the resolution for days in his pocket, awaiting a propitious moment to introduce it.)
¶ Debated the Boulder Dam bill; passed it; sent it to the Senate
¶ Sustained, 182 to 162, the President’s veto of the Senate’s $3,500,000 public roads bill.
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