CONGRESS: The House Week Jun. 9, 1930

Work Done. The House of Representatives last week:

¶Passed the Senate's Muscle Shoals bill so amended that the original plan of Government operation was changed to authorize leasing the site to private interests (196-to-114).

¶ Passed District of Columbia bills: 1) reducing school children's streetcar fares to 2¢; 2) regulating operation and insurance of motor vehicles; 3) regulating sale, use, possession of dangerous weapons.

¶ Passed a bill reducing the cost of passports from $10 to $5 and extending a passport's life from two years to six.

¶ Followed the Senate in overriding (298-to-14) the President's veto...

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