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...Received and debated the $43,162,904 Interior Department appropriation bill. Its total was $2,891,025 below the budget estimate. $23,990,780 below the current appropriation...
...good speakeasies. After long hearings and solemn consideration the committee had concluded that no one could get drunk on such a beverage, that therefore it was a non-intoxicant under the 18th Amendment. Ostensibly H. R. 13,312 was put forward as a new tax bill to raise additional budget-balancing revenue. Its real purpose, however, was to carry out the V. S. electorate's Wet mandate of Nov. 8?a mandate more potent to Congress than the Constitution...
...retain all regular employes on its rolls notwithstanding the continued shrinkage of mail volume. . . . Much more harm than good would result from throwing great numbers of postal workers into the ranks of unemployed. Resort should not be had to further rate increases as a means of balancing the postal budget. ... It is recommended that legislation be enacted to restore the 2-cent rate to local or drop letters...
...four billion dollars on which to run the Government during fiscal 1934. Unless these are all enacted before March 4 a special session of the 73rd Congress is inevitable. Later the House will vote on a beer bill and perhaps knock together a special revenue measure to balance the Budget. If it gets that much done in the next two and one-half months it will pat itself on the back and think it has established a "lame duck" record...
...Columbia bills to close local barber shops one day per week and to allow Capitol attaches Congressional automobile tags. ¶ Received from the Appropriations Committee the first supply bill-Treasury & Post Office. Its total, $961,416,597, had been cut $32,912,304 under President Hoover's Budget estimate. Into this measure the House sank its teeth, went seriously to work. ¶ Meanwhile the Ways & Means Committee heard many a witness in favor of a 2.75% beer bill carrying a $5 per bbl. tax. Special Session. President-elect Roosevelt, if he can help it, does not want to begin...