The House:
¶ Passed (252-110) a resolution authorizing the President to proclaim and enforce an embargo on arms as a means of stifling foreign wars; sent it to the Senate.
¶ Passed (387-10-12) a $2,000,000,000 farm mortgage, relief bill after defeating (19640-43) a proposal to finance the measure by currency inflation; sent it to the Senate where a similar bill was pending as an amendment to the three-way farm relief bill (see below).
The Senate:
¶ Set May 15 for the impeachment trial of California’s Federal Judge Harold Louderback.
¶ Received petitions from Louisiana citizens calling for the ousting of Senator Huey Pierce Long.
¶ Debated the Roosevelt farm relief bill; adopted (47-10-41) against the President’s wishes an amendment authorizing the Secretary of Agriculture to fix farm prices to meet the cost of production; haggled long over radical amendments to innate the currency as the only adequate means of farm relief; defeated (43-10-33) an amendment to remonetize silver.
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