Smyrna times., 1938-01-13
WASHING TON
FROM OUR CONGRESSMAN
WILLIAM r. ALLEN
Accomplishments of the
10Th Congress During 1887

January s. seventy-ffth Con
gress convened.
January O. President Roosevelt
read his message to Congress. Con.
gress passed neutrality resolution
barring war shipments to Spain.
January President Roosevelt
asked for $79O,OOO,OOO for WPA
until July /.
January 12- Congress received
Presidents plan for reorganizing
Administrative branch of Govern
ment.
! January 15-Senate voted two
and one-half years extension of
RFC and subsidiaries.
January Congress extended
for two and one-half years Presi-
dents control of stabilization fund
and dollar valuation.
January 20 Franklin D. Roose-
velt inaugurated for second term
as President
January % House extended
RFC and loaning subsidiaries to
June 80, 1889.
January 20 House passed $780,
900, 900 flood relief bill.
January 81 Senate passed house
bill appropriating $5O,OOO,OOO for
seed and crop loans.
January % House voted to put
first, second and third postmasters
under civil service.
February g. President Roosevelt
submitted to Congress a 5 billion
6-year public works program.
House passed bill appropriating
81 100000 for Federal offices and
agencies. Senate passed $948,OOO,-
900 deficiency bill.
February 10 House passed bill
for voluntary retirement
Of Supreme Court Justices at sew
enty On full pay.
February 11-Bill creating Dis
asters Loan Corporation passed BY
Congress.
February Reciprocal Trade
Treaties Act extended three years
BY Congress.
February 26 Senate passed
House bill for voluntary retirement
IF Supreme Court Justice at seven
ty.
February n President Roose-
Velt asked States tO enact soil con
laws.
March Neutrality extension
resolution adopted BY Senate.
March II - House passed new
Iuffey coal control bill.
March Senate passed S512,-
347 ,808 naval appropriation bill.
March 20 Supreme Court up-
leld the Washington minimum
wage for women act, the railway
abor act and the new Frazier
4emke farm mortgage moratorium
let.
April s. Senate passed Guffey
.oal control bill.
April Senate passed concur
ent resolution condemning sit
own strikes and the industrial
py system.
April 12-Supreme Court upheld
Wagner labor relations act in five
ecisions.
April IA House passed bill re-
ealing long and short haul
lause of interstate commerce act.
April Is -Anti-lynching bill pass
d by the House.
April 20 President Roosevelt
ent message to Congress revising
is budget estimates for 1888 fiscal
ear and asking billion and half
0r relief.
April 23-House passed twenty
even million dollar agriculture de-
artment bill.
April 27-House voted repeal of
w for publication of incomes of
$4,000 and over.
April 28-House passed S79, ,200,-
DO second deficiency bill.
April 29-House passed war de-
bill carrying 16,40O,-
10.
May President Roosevelt sign
! the neutrality Act.
May 12-HouSe extended CCC
IT two years. Senate passed ag-
culture department bill of nine
inbred millions.
May Supreme Court upheld
t restricting refund of AAA pro-
.ssing taxes. House passed $115,- A
70, 900 Department of Interior bill.
May 20 Senate makes CCC per-
anent. =,
May 24-Supreme Court upheld -
d age pensions and unemploy- n
ent insurance provisions of So {,
al Security Act, and Alabama a
nployunent insurance law. Presi- ;,
mt asked Congress for legislation :
ting up wage and hour stand :,
ds for industry. g
June House passed billion and =,
half relief bill. 8,
June 3+PreSident asked Con- ,