THE CONGRESS: Legislative Week: Mar. 24, 1924

The Senate:

¶ Adopted a resolution offered by Senator Couzens for an investigation of the Bureau of Internal Revenue.

¶ Defeated the Norbeck-Burtness bill for making loans to wheat farmers to help them diversify their crops (see Page 4).

¶ Ratified a treaty with Great Britain to give British vessels the right to bring liquor into American ports under seal in exchange for the privilege of seizing rum runners anywhere within "an hour's sailing distance of our shores" (see Page 6).

¶ Debated a proposed constitutional amendment for setting forward the date...

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