THE CONGRESS: Work Done, Feb. 1, 1932

The Senate: ¶Adopted the conference report on the Reconstruction Finance Corp.; sent the bill to the President; passed the House's bill appropriating $500,000,000 as R. F. C.'s initial capital, sent it back to the House for concurrence in a minor amendment.

¶Adopted a resolution by Michigan's Couzens ordering the Interstate Commerce Commission to investigate a six-hour-day for railroad employes; sent it to the House.

¶Received from Virginia's Glass a bill, a year in the making, to limit the use of Federal Reserve credit by speculators; to increase branch banking; to create a...

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