"11. Coast and Geodetic Survey. "12. The Coast Guard, including life-saving service, lighthouses, lightships, and ocean derelicts. "13. The United States Coast Guard and Merchant Marine Academies. "14. Weather Bureau. "15. Except as provided in paragraph (c), the Panama Canal and interoceanic canals generally. "16. Inland waterways. "17. Fisheries and wildlife, including research, restoration, refuges, and conservation. "18. Bureau of Standards including standarization of weights and measures and the metric system. "(k) Committee on the Judiciary, to consist of thirteen Senators, to which committee shall be referred all proposed legislation, messages, petitions, memorials, and other matters relating to the following subjects: "1. Judicial proceedings, civil and criminal, generally. "2. Constitutional amendments. "3. Federal courts and judges. "4. Local courts in the Territories and possessions. "5. Revision and codification of the statutes of the United States. "6. National penitentiaries. "7. Protection of trade and commerce against unlawful restraints and monopolies. "8. Holidays and celebrations. "9. Bankruptcy, mutiny, espionage, and counterfeiting. "10. State and Territorial boundary lines. "11. Meetings of Congress, attendance of Members, and their acceptance of incompatible offices. "12. Civil liberties. "13. Patents, copyrights, and trade-marks. "14. Patent Office. "15. Immigration and naturalization. "16. Apportionment of Representatives. "17. Measures relating to claims against the United States. "(1) Committee on Labor and Public Welfare, to consist of thirteen Senators, to which committee shall be referred all proposed legislation, messages, petitions, memorials, and other matters relating to the following subjects: "1. Measures relating to education, labor, or public welfare generally. "2. Mediation and arbitration of labor disputes. "3. Wages and hours of labor. "4. Convict labor and the entry of goods made by convicts into interstate commerce. "5. Regulation or prevention of importation of foreign laborers under contract. "6. Child labor. "7. Labor statistics. "8. Labor standards. "9. School-lunch program. "10. Vocational rehabilitation. "11. Railroad labor and railroad retirement and unemployment, except revenue measures relating thereto. "12. United States Employees' Compensation Commission. "13. Columbia Institution for the Deaf, Dumb, and Blind; Howard University; Freedmen's Hospital; and Saint Elizabeth's Hospital. "14. Public health and quarantine. "15. Welfare of miners. "16. Vocational rehabilitation and education of veterans. "17. Veterans' hospitals, medical care and treatment of veterans. "18. Soldiers' and sailors' civil relief. "19. Readjustment of servicemen to civil life. Committee on "(m) Committee on Public Lands, to consist of thirteen Senators, Public Lands. to which committee shall be referred all proposed legislation, messages, petitions, memorials, and other matters relating to the following subjects: 1. Public lands generally, including entry, easements, and grazing thereon. "2. Mineral resources of the public lands. "3. Forfeiture of land grants and alien ownership, including alien ownership of mineral lands. "4. Forest reserves and national parks created from the public domain. "5. Military parks and battlefields, and national cemeteries. "6. Preservation of prehistoric ruins and objects of interest on the public domain. "7. Measures relating generally to Hawaii, Alaska, and the insular possessions of the United States, except those affecting their revenue and appropriations. "8. Irrigation and reclamation, including water supply for reclamation projects, and easements of public lands for irrigation projects. "9. Interstate compacts relating to apportionment of waters for irrigation purposes. "10. Mining interests generally. "11. Mineral land laws and claims and entries thereunder. "12. Geological survey. "13. Mining schools and experimental stations. "14. Petroleum conservation and conservation of the radium supply in the United States. "15. Relations of the United States with the Indians and the Indian tribes. "16. Measures relating to the care, education, and management of Indians, including the care and allotment of Indian lands and general and special measures relating to claims which are paid out of Indian funds. "(n) The Committee on Public Works, to consist of thirteen Senators, to which committee shall be referred all proposed legislation, messages, petitions, memorials and other matters relating to the following subjects: "1. Flood control and improvement of rivers and harbors. "2. Public works for the benefit of navigation, and bridges and dams (other than international bridges and dams). "3. Water power. "4. Oil and other pollution of navigable waters. "5. Public buildings and occupied or improved grounds of the United States generally. "6. Measures relating to the purchase of sites and construction of post offices, customhouses, Federal courthouses, and Government buildings within the District of Columbia. 7. Measures relating to the Capitol building and the Senate and House Office Buildings. "8. Measures relating to the construction or reconstruction, maintenance, and care of the buildings and grounds of the Botanic Gardens, the Library of Congress, and the Smithsonian Institution. Committee on Public Works. Committee од Rules and Adminis tration. Examination of bills, etc. "9. Public reservations and parks within the District of Columbia, including Rock Creek Park and the Zoological Park. "10. Measures relating to the construction or maintenance of roads and post roads. "(o) (1) Committee on Rules and Administration, to consist of thirteen Senators, to which committee shall be referred all proposed legislation, messages, petitions, memorials, and other matters relating to the following subjects: "(A) Matters relating to the payment of money out of the contingent fund of the Senate or creating a charge upon the same; except that any resolution relating to substantive matter within the jurisdiction of any other standing committee of the Senate shall be first referred to such committee. "(B) Except as provided in paragraph (n) 8, matters relating to the Library of Congress and the Senate Library; statuary and pictures; acceptance or purchase of works of art for the Capitol; the Botanic Gardens; management of the Library of Congress; purchase of books and manuscripts; erection of monuments to the memory of individuals. "(C) Except as provided in paragraph (n) 8, matters relating to the Smithsonian Institution and the incorporation of similar institutions. "(D) Matters relating to the election of the President, Vice President, or Members of Congress; corrupt practices; contested elections; credentials and qualifications; Federal elections generally; Presidential succession. "(E) Matters relating to parliamentary rules; floor and gallery rules; Senate Restaurant; administration of the Senate Office Building and of the Senate Wing of the Capitol; assignment of office space; and services to the Senate. "(F) Matters relating to printing and correction of the Congressional Record. "(2) Such committee shall also have the duty of examining all bills, amendments, and joint resolutions after passage by the Senate; and, in cooperation with the Committee on House Administration of the House of Representatives, of examining all bills and joint resolutions which shall have passed both Houses, to see that the same are correctly Presentation to enrolled; and when signed by the Speaker of the House and the Presi dent of the Senate, shall forthwith present the same, when they shall have originated in the Senate, to the President of the United States in person, and report the fact and date of such presentation to the Sen President. ate. Such committee shall also have the duty of assigning office space in the Senate Wing of the Capitol and in the Senate Office Building. "(3) Each standing committee shall continue and have the power to act until their successors are appointed. "(3) Each standing committee is authorized to fix the number of its members (but not less than one-third of its entire membership) who shall constitute a quorum thereof for the transaction of such business as may be considered by said committee, subject to the provisions of section 133 (d) of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946. "(4) Each Senator shall serve on two standing committees and no more; except that Senators of the majority party who are members of the Committee on the District of Columbia or of the Committee on Expenditures in the Executive Departments may serve on three standing committees and no more." APPROPRIATIONS SEC. 103. Rule XVI of the Standing Rules of the Senate is amended to read as follows: 71-440 0-66-5 "RULE XVI "AMENDMENTS TO APPROPRIATION BILLS "1. All general appropriation bills shall be referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and no amendments shall be received to any general appropriation bill the effect of which will be to increase an appropriation already contained in the bill, or to add a new item of appropriation, unless it be made to carry out the provisions of some existing law, or treaty stipulation, or Act, or resolution previously passed by the Senate during that session; or unless the same be moved by direction of a standing or select committee of the Senate, or proposed in pursuance of an estimate submitted in accordance with law. "2. The Committee on Appropriations shall not report an appropriation bill containing amendments proposing new or general legislation or any restriction on the expenditure of the funds appropriated which proposes a limitation not authorized by law if such restriction is to take effect or cease to be effective upon the happening of a contingency, and if an appropriation bill is reported to the Senate containing amendments proposing new or general legislation or any such restriction, a point of order may be made against the bill, and if the point is sustained, the bill shall be recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations. "3. All amendments to general appropriation bills moved by direction of a standing or select committee of the Senate, proposing to increase an appropriation already contained in the bill, or to add new items of appropriation, shall, at least one day before they are considered, be referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and when actually proposed to the bill no amendment proposing to increase the amount stated in such amendment shall be received; in like manner, amendments proposing new items of appropriation to river and harbor bills, establishing post roads, or proposing new post roads, shall, before being considered, be referred to the Committee on Public Works. Increase of appropriation; new items. posing new legisla tion, etc. Amendments pro River and harbor bills, post roads, etc. Amendment not relevant to subject matter, "4. No amendment which proposes general legislation shall be received to any general appropriation bill, nor shall any amendment etc. not germane or relevant to the subject matter contained in the bill be received; nor shall any amendment to any item or clause of such bill be received which does not directly relate thereto; nor shall any restriction on the expenditure of the funds appropriated which proposes a limitation not authorized by law be received if such restriction is to take effect or cease to be effective upon the happening of a contingency; and all questions of relevancy of amendments under this rule, when raised, shall be submitted to the Senate and be decided without debate; and any sh amendment or restriction to a general appropriation bill may be laid on the table without prejudice to the bill. "5. No amendment, the object of which is to provide for a private claim, shall be received to any general appropriation bill, unless it be to carry out the provisions of an existing law or a treaty stipulation, which shall be cited on the face of the amendment. "6. (a) Three members of the following-named committees, to be selected by their respective committees, shall be ex officio members of the Committee on Appropriations, to serve on said committee when the annual appropriation bill making appropriations for the purposes Bubmission of ques tions of relevancy to Senate. Private claim. Ex officio members of Committee on Ap propriations. specified in the following table opposite the name of the committee is being considered by the Committee on Appropriations: Name of Committee Purpose of Appropriation Committee on Agriculture and For- For the Department of Agriculture. estry. Committee on Civil Service_-___- Committee on the District of Columbia. For the Post Office Department. For the Department of War; for the For the District of Columbia. For the Diplomatic and Consular "(b) At least one member of each committee enumerated in subparagraph (a), to be selected by his or their respective committers, shall be a member of any conference committee appointed to confer with the House upon the annual appropriation bill making appropriations for the purposes specified in the foregoing table opposite the name of his or their respective committee. "7. When a point of order is made against any restriction on the expenditure of funds appropriated in a general appropriation bill on the ground that the restriction violates this rule, the rule shall be construed strictly and, in case of doubt, in favor of the point of order." PART 2-RULES OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES STANDING COMMITTEES OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES SEC. 121. (a) Rule X of the Rules of the House of Representatives is amended to read as follows: "RULE X "STANDING COMMITTEES "(a) There shall be elected by the House, at the commencement of each Congress, the following standing committees: "1. Committee on Agriculture, to consist of twenty-seven Members. "2. Committee on Appropriations, to consist of forty-three Members. "3. Committee on Armed Services, to consist of thirty-three Members. "4. Committee on Banking and Currency, to consist of twenty-seven Members. "5. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service, to consist of twenty-five Members. "6. Committee on the District of Columbia, to consist of twentyfive Members. "7. Committee on Education and Labor, to consist of twenty-five Members. "8. Committee on Expenditures in the Executive Departments, to consist of twenty-five Members. "9. Committee on Foreign Affairs, to consist of twenty-five Members. "10. Committee on House Administration, to consist of twenty-five Members. "11. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, to consist of twenty-seven Members. "12. Committee on the Judiciary, to consist of twenty-seven Members. "13. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, to consist of twenty-five Members. |