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Show : Washington Comment . June weil, lings and June graduations gradua-tions stole the spotlight considerably consider-ably from the official scene last week. At this writing, which -is on ithe Monday following a hot June Sunday session of the joint conference committees battling over the wage-hour bill, the hopeful hope-ful ones are predicting that the end will come on Tuesday; railroad reservations are being made on the strength of this promise, but nobody will be sure until the gavel falls for the final time in both houses. The Senate's legislative legisla-tive day began April 20, for although al-though in session since January 3, it has turned over only two leaves on its calendar, and it is having a frightful time ending this one! When, or if, the 75th congress adjourns on Tuesday, it will have ; broken the long-session record since 1929; it will have been in session 417 days, having first met January 3, 1937; the present con-J con-J gress' first term last year a-; a-; mounted to 229 days, adjourning in late August, only to be called back in special session November I 15, which carried over practically into the regular session and now stands at 186 days. The precea- ing congress, the seventy-fourth i one, worked only 306 days all told; ! the seventy-third one only 266, ana , the seventy-second 312. To date ; the seventy-first congress, which functioned under the original depression, de-pression, still holds the world-record, as it were, having remained in session 529 days. Good news from the Republican national committee was reported' to the clerk of the house of repre-senatives repre-senatives last week when acknowledgement acknow-ledgement was made of gifts amounting to $350,324.01 in a five-month five-month period since the beginning of 1938. The nnoney cash contributions con-tributions too, came from 10,-000 10,-000 persons, with 9,000 contributors contribu-tors giving $100 or less. A total (Continued on last page) Washington Comment (Continued from first page) of 568,515 has been pledged. The report showed that receipts since March 1 amounted to $252,527 while expenditures reached $235,-105. $235,-105. Disbursements included $63,-000 $63,-000 to the Republican congressional congress-ional campaign committee; $15y 000 to the Republican senatorial campaign .dommittee; $167,121.85 returned to 'Republican state committees com-mittees and $92,523.31 expended by committee headquarters. Amiong the larger individual contributors were W. L. Mellon,' Paul Mellon, and R. K. Mellon of the Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania industrial family. This is the beginning of the tourist season when the passport division of the state department puts on extra workers and is in a t-- gtneral hair-tearing rush ana bustle. It was believed this year that the prevalence of a war scare along most of the foreign fronts would cause a drop in American summer gadding, but this was apparently ap-parently a false alarm. The passport pass-port bureau is up to its neck in activity and, recession or no recession, re-cession, war or no war, the foreign traveller has taken to the open road again. , |