CONGRESS RECESS
FORCED BY INSURGENTS Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. WASHINGTON, June 17. A carefully plotted bi-partisan plan to have_ Congress complete the session and adjourn failed late last evening, when, through parliamentary devices, some insurgents created a “ legislative snarl,” and forced a recess until Monday.
From 9 o’clock on Saturday morning until 11.30 in the evening both Houses were in continuous session, passing dozens of Bills, and made haste to finish the work. The huge Appropriation Bill, providing over 1,500,000,000 dollars for relief, including 500,000 dollars for drought sufferers, was pushed through as was the recentlydrafted Labour legislation, giving the President power to create boards to arbitrate in industrial disputes. The Bill to finance on a wide scale home construction and renovation was ready to be passed, but the recess blocked it
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Evening Star, Issue 21749, 18 June 1934, Page 9
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131CONGRESS RECESS Evening Star, Issue 21749, 18 June 1934, Page 9
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