THE CONGRESS: Work Done, Apr. 10, 1933

The House:

¶ Passed a Senate bill authorizing the President to put jobless men to work at reforestation, sent it to the President. ¶ Passed (299-to-29) a bill making it a crime to publish secret State documents deemed prejudicial to the safety or interest of the U. S.; sent it to the Senate. The measure, carrying a penalty of ten years in prison and $10,000 fine, was mysteriously rushed through at the request of the Administration, presumably to prevent publication by a onetime Government cryptographer of secret Wartime information. ¶ Passed (153-to-59) a Senate bill removing limitations on physicians’ prescriptions for whiskey; sent it to the President (see p. 32).

The Senate:

¶ Passed (55-to-17) a bill authorizing the R. F. C. to make outright gifts of $500,000,000 to states for unemployment relief; sent it to the House.

¶ Passed a House bill providing for 3.2% beer sales in the District of Columbia, after outlawing them from Federal buildings; sent it to conference. ½ Passed a bill authorizing the President to put jobless men to work in the woods; sent it to the House (see above). ¶ Received from the Judiciary Committee a favorable (11-to-3) report on a bill by Alabama’s Black establishing a five-day, 30-hour week for industry engaged in interstate commerce.