CONGRESS: The House Week Feb. 11, 1929

Work Done. The House of Representatives last week:

¶Passed a bill authorizing $25,000 to be spent policing the Hoover inauguration. ¶Passed a bill authorizing additional appropriations for vocational education. ¶Passed a bill transferring certain Indian claims in Idaho, Kansas and Oregon to the U. S. Court of Claims for settlement. ¶Passed a bill covering settlement by Interior Department of damage claims from Federal irrigation works on Indian-owned land.

¶Passed many a minor Indian Affairs bill.

¶Disagreed to the Senate amendments to the First Deficiency Appropriation bill and voted, 240 to 141, to send...

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