CONGRESS: The House Week Dec. 17, 1928

Work Done. Last week, the U. S. Representatives :

¶Received and read messages from the President.

¶ Passed a bill authorizing $14,800,000 to elevate guns on and otherwise improve the U. S. SS. Pennsylvania and Arizona; sent it to the Senate.

¶Passed a bill authorizing $10,000,000 for improvements at seven naval stations; sent it to the Senate.

¶ Debated, amended and passed the first of the routine supply bills, appropriating some 1.1 billions to run the Treasury and Post Office Departments* in fiscal 1929; sent it to the Senate.

*The Post Office share was some 813 millions, most of which will be paid...

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