THE CONGRESS: Work Done, May 23, 1932

The Senate:

¶ Adopted an emergency House resolution to appropriate $500,000 for the Government Printing Office to save the Congressional Record and all other Congressional printing from sudden suspension.

¶ Debated the tax bill.

¶ Heard Virginia's Glass charge that Chicago bankers had hired a Congressman, now deceased, to oppose branch-banking legislation.

Committees of the Senate:

¶Approved a resolution to ratify the World Court protocol.

¶ Heard Margaret Sanger plead for birth

control legislation (see p. 22).

¶ Revised and expanded the House omnibus economy bill.

The House:

¶ Heard Chicago's Britten denounce...

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