THE CONGRESS: Work Done, Feb. 28, 1938

The Senate:

¶ Ended a six-week filibuster on the Anti-Lynching bill, first defeating (for the second time) a motion for cloture, then voting 58-10-22 to lay the bill aside.

The House:

¶ Passed a bill writing off as unrecoverable $2,500,000,000 (loans to railroads, banks, insurance companies and special State funds) from the books of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation.

¶ Passed a bill requiring the capital of the Commodity Credit Corporation to be maintained at $100,000,000, thereby obliging the Treasury to replenish its funds when they are less than that amount and obliging the CCC to turn over to the Treasury its surplus when it has one.

¶ Passed a deficiency bill providing $250,000,000 to provide relief to the end of fiscal 1938 (making the year’s total relief appropriations $1,750,000,000).

¶ Passed the $130,000,000 supply bill for the Departments of State, Justice, Commerce and Labor.