The Senate:
¶Adopted a resolution authorizing each member to employ an extra clerk for the remainder of the present sessionthe clerk's pay to come out of the Senate's contingent fund.
¶ Debated the House's tax bill for five days, piled on new taxes
The House:
¶Passed the Johnson bill forbidding debt-defaulting nations from floating loans in the U. S.; sent it to the President.
¶Passed the Jones Sugar Control bill: 1) making sugar a "basic commodity" so that a processing tax can be imposed on it; 2) directing the Secretary of Agriculture to limit...