amount, if any, is in justice, equity, and fairness due and owing to the said McClinticMarshall Construction Company from the Isthmian Canal Commission for work and labor done and materials furnished in connection with the construction and erection of lock gates and appurtenances for the Panama Canal, and in connection with or incidental to the doing of the work and furnishing of the materials provided for in a certain contract between the Isthmian Canal Commission and said McClintic-Marshall Construction Company, dated June twenty-first, nineteen hundred and ten, taking into consideration the claim of the contractors that the work was done under requirements as to character and finish not fairly within the meaning of the specifications.

The said Colonel George W. Goethals, Governor of the Canal Zone, is further authorized and empowered, either personally or through such commission as he may appoint, to investigate such claims and the various items thereof in such manner as to him may seem best, and either personally or through such commission is hereby empowered to administer oaths and affirmations to witnesses, and to issue subpoenas and to compel the attendance of witnesses. He shall report in detail to the Congress of the United States his findings.

Approved, June 24, 1914. [38 Stat., 388.]

An Act Making appropriations for the Diplomatic and Consular Service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fifteen.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and they are hereby severally appropriated, in full compensation for the Diplomatic and Consular Service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fifteen, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the objects hereinafter expressed, namely:

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RELIEF AND PROTECTION OF AMERICAN SEAMEN.

Relief and protection of American seamen in foreign countries, and shipwrecked American seamen in the Territory of Alaska, in the Hawaiian Islands, Porto Rico, the Panama Canal Zone, and the Philippine Islands, $20,000.

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Approved, June 30, 1914. [38 Stat., 452.]

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An Act Making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fifteen, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and they are hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the naval service of the Government for the year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fifteen, and for other purposes:

That the sum of $104,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be expended, on the approval and authority of the Secretary of the Navy, for entertaining the officers and crews of foreign fleets which may be sent to attend and participate in the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in consequence of the invitation of the President of the United States, extended in pursuance of the authority contained in the joint resolution of Congress approved February fifteenth, nineteen hundred and eleven, and of the authority contained in the Act making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and twelve, and for other purposes, approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and eleven, and for defraying such other expenses incident to the visit of the said foreign fleets as the Secretary of the Navy may deem proper, and the said sum shall be available until November fifteenth, nineteen hundred and fifteen.

That the tolls that have been or may be prescribed by the President, in pursuance of the authority contained in the Panama Canal Act, approved August twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and twelve, to be levied by the Government of the United States for the use of the Panama Canal shall not be assessed against nor collected from any war vessel of any foreign nation which may pass through the Panama Canal en route to or in returning from the Panama-Pacific International Exposition: Provided, That such vessel has been sent by its Government to attend and participate in the said exposition in consequence of the invitation of the President of the United States, extended in pursuance of the authority contained in the joint resolution of Congress approved February fifteenth, nineteen hundred and eleven, and of the authority contained in the Act making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and twelve, and for other purposes, approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and eleven.

The Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized and empowered to define and establish suitable anchorage grounds in Hampton Roads, Virginia, and the adjacent waters for the combined fleets of the United States and foreign Governments which may rendezvous there prior to proceeding to the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, to be held at the city and county of San Francisco, California, in the year nineteen hundred and fifteen, as well as to define and establish suitable anchorage grounds in the Bay of San Francisco and the approaches and waters adjacent thereto during the continuance of the said Panama-Pacific International Exposition, and the Secretary of the Navy is hereby further authorized to make such rules and regulations regarding the movements of all vessels in all of the waters named as may be necessary in order to insure the proper and orderly conduct of such features as may be planned for the combined fleets and to provide for the safety of the vessels participating therein; and such rules and regulations when so issued and published shall have the force and effect of law.

Toward the purchase and preparation of necessary sites, purchase and erection of towers and buildings, and the purchase and installation of machinery and apparatus of high power radio stations (cost not to exceed $1,000,000), to be located as follows: One in the Isthmian Canal Zone, one on the California coast, one in the Hawaiian Islands, one in American Samoa, one on the island of Guam, and one in the Philippine Islands, $400,000, to be available until expended.

Joint Resolution Extending appropriations for the necessary operations of the Government and of the District of Columbia under certain contingencies.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all appropriations for the necessary operations of the Government and of the District of Columbia which shall remain unprovided for on the thirtieth day of June, nineteen hundred and fourteen, are continued and made available for and during the first half of the month of July, nineteen hundred and fourteen, unless the regular appropriations provided therefor in bills now pending in Congress, shall have been previously made for the service of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fifteen; and a sufficient amount is appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to carry on the same: Provided, That no greater amount shall be expended for such operations than as the sum of one twenty-fourth of the appropriations made for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen bears to the whole of the appropriations of said fiscal year: Provided further, That the total expenditures for the whole of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen under the several appropriations hereby continued, and under the several appropriation bills now pending, shall not exceed in the aggregate the amounts finally appropriated therefor in the several bills now pending, except in cases where a change is made in the annual, monthly, or per diem compensation or in the numbers of officers, clerks, or other persons authorized to be employed by the several appropriations hereby continued, in which cases the amounts authorized to be expended shall equal one twenty-fourth of the appropriations for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen, and twenty-three twenty-fourths of the appropriations contained in the several bills now pending when the same shall have been finally passed, unless the salary or compensation of any office shall

be increased or diminished without changing the grade or the duties thereof, in which case such salary or compensation shall relate to the entire fiscal year and run from the beginning thereof:

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Approved, June 30, 1914. [38 Stat., 773.]

Joint Resolution To continue the provisions of a joint resolution approved June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, entitled "Joint resolution extending appropriations for the necessary operations of the Government and of the District of Columbia under certain contingencies.'

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the provisions of a joint resolution entitled "Joint resolution extending appropriations for the necessary operations of the Government and of the District of Columbia under certain contingencies," approved June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, are extended and continued in full force and effect for and during the last half of the month of July, fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen; and to continue during the last half of the month of July, fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen, the operation of the Interstate Commerce Commission, in securing a valuation of the several classes of property of carriers, subject to the Act to regulate commerce, authorized by the Act of March first, nineteen hundred and thirteen, a sufficient amount is appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, not to exceed the sum of $65,000, together with any unexpended balance of a similar sum appropriated for the first half of said month of July. Approved, July 16, 1914. [38 Stat., 774.]

An Act Making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fifteen, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, in full compensation for the service of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fifteen, for the objects hereinafter expressed, namely:

The head of every executive department and other Government establishment shall transmit to Congress, on the first day of its next session, a statement showing, for the first three months of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen, the following relative to typewriting machines purchased during that period: The model, character, contract price, and make of each machine purchased; the relative cost of repairs and supplies for such makes of typewriters; the model, character, amount allowed, and make of each machine given in exchange; total number purchased and total number given in exchange; aggregate cost, aggregate allowance on exchanges, and aggregate net cost of all machines. And there shall be submitted to Congress, on the first day of the session following the close of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen, statements of all of the foregoing facts for the entire period of that fiscal

year.

SEC. 5. No appropriation made in this or any other Act shall be available for the purchase of any motor-propelled or horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicle for the service of any of the executive departments or other Government establishments, or any branch of the Government service, unless specific authority is given therefor, and after the close of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen there shall not be expended out of any appropriation made by Congress any sum for purchase, maintenance, repair, or operation of motor-propelled or horse-drawn passengercarrying vehicles for any branch of the public service of the United States unless the same is specifically authorized by law, and in the estimates for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen and subsequent fiscal years there shall be submitted in detail estimates for such necessary appropriations as are intended to be used for purchase, maintenance, repair, or operation of all motor-propelled or horse-drawn passengercarrying vehicles, specifying the sums required, the public purposes for which said vehicles are intended, and the officials or employees by whom the same are to be used.

An Act For the relief of Mary E. Goodley.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the Treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated, to Mary E. Goodley, mother of William Goodley, the sum of $1,000 to compensate her for the death of her son, the said William Goodley, who was killed on October eighth, nineteen hundred and eight, while in the discharge of his duty as a cranesman on the Panama Canal in the employ of the Isthmian Canal Commission.

Approved, July 17, 1914. [38 Stat., 1306.]

An Act Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fifteen, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, for the objects hereinafter expressed, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fifteen, namely:

Field expenses: For surveys and necessary resurveys of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the United States, including the coasts of outlying islands under the jurisdiction of the United States: Provided, That not more than $25,000 of this amount shall be expended on the coasts of said outlying islands, and the Atlantic entrance to the Panama Canal, $65,000;

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PANAMA-PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION.

Building to install the Government exhibit at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition: For the construction of a suitable building in that part of the reservation of the United States known as the Presidio of San Francisco, State of California, in which the Government Exhibit Board, created by the sundry civil appropriation Act, approved June twenty-third, nineteen hundred and thirteen shall install, display, and safeguard the exhibit of the Government of the United States at the Panama Pacific International Exposition, $500,000: Provided, That the said building shall be so located and planned and shall be of such a permanent character as will make it available and useful for military purposes of the United States after the close of the said exposition, and shall be on such general plan and design and in such location as shall be approved by the Secretary of War: Provided further, That the said building shall be erected under the authority of the Secretary of War, by contract or otherwise, as he may direct: Provided further, That not exceeding $50,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, may be expended from the appropriation made herein, on the approval and authority of the Secretary of War, for entertaining the officers and representatives of foreign governments who may attend and participate in the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in consequence of the invitation of the President of the United States, extended in pursuance of the authority of Congress. The provisions contained in the Act entitled "An Act making appropriations for the sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fourteen," which provides for the participation of the United States in the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, be amended as follows: Under the head of "To provide for the participation of the United States in the Panama-Pacific International Exposition," the paragraph on page eighty-one, which reads as follows: "The President of the United States is authorized to detail three civilian officers or employees from the executive departments as members of a commission which is hereby constituted as the National Exposition Commission, one of said commissioners, who shall be the chairman of said commission, shall be detailed from the Department of State. Vacancies in said commission shall be filled in the same manner as original appointments. Each commissioner shall receive in addition to his original compensation his actual necessary traveling expenses and an allowance

of $10 per day in lieu of subsistence. Said commissioners may appoint a secretary at $2,500 per annum, and the sum of $15,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, may be expended for clerical, office, and other necessary and actual expenses of said commission," and insert in lieu thereof the following: "The President of the United States is authorized to detail two civilian officers or employees from the executive departments, also one to be appointed from civil life, as members of the commission which is hereby constituted as the National Exposition Commission; one of said commissioners, who shall be the chairman of said commission, shall be detailed from the Department of State, the commissioner appointed from civil life to receive a salary at the rate of $5,000 per annum until the exposition closes. Vacancies in said commission shall be filled in the same manner as original appointments. Each commissioner detailed as aforesaid shall receive, in addition to his original compensation, necessary traveling expenses and an allowance of $10 per day in lieu of subsistence while on duty in San Francisco. Said commissioners may appoint a secretary at $2,500 per annum, and the sum of $15,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, may be expended for clerk hire and actual expenses of said commission." Copyright and patent branch office, Panama-Pacific International Exposition: To defray all the expenses connected with the establishment, equipment, and maintenance (including necessary printing) of the branch office at San Francisco, California, provided for in section two of the Act approved September eighteenth, nineteen hundred and thirteen (Public, Numbered Fourteen), $30,000, of which sum $15,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, shall be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, and $15,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, shall be expended under the direction of the Librarian of Congress, each of whom is authorized to pay to the Public Printer the cost of any portion of such printing and binding required for the said branch office which may be ordered by him from the Government Printing Office; to designate from among the employees of the Patent Office and Copyright Office, respectively, such employees as may be actually necessary for the service of the respective divisions of the said branch office, one of the employees so designated from each of said bureaus to act as his disbursing officer; and to select and employ from time to time at San Francisco such additional persons as the exigencies of the work there may require. All persons from the Patent Office and Copyright Office thus designated for service at San Francisco shall receive no compensation other than their regular salaries, but while absent from Washington, District of Columbia, and engaged upon the business of the aforesaid branch office, shall be allowed their actual and necessary traveling expenses, together with a per diem allowance in lieu of the cost of subsistence to be fixed by the Secretary of the Interior or Librarian of Congress designating such persons, not to exceed $3 per day. The Government Exhibit Board, for which provisions was made in the sundry civil Act approved June twenty-third, nineteen hundred and thirteen, shall, after consultation by correspondence or otherwise with the heads of the executive departments and the Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, the Isthmian Canal Commission, the Interstate Commerce Commission, the Civil Service Commission, the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, the American National Red Cross, the Commission of Fine Arts, the Librarian of Congress, the Public Printer, the Governor of Porto Rico, the Governor of Alaska, the Governor of Hawaii, and the United States Geographic Board, determine the nature, character, and extent of the exhibits of the United States Government to be made at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, to be held at San Francisco, California, in nineteen hundred and fifteen, and shall be charged with the selection, purchase, preparation, safe-keeping, exhibition, and return of such articles and materials as said board may decide shall be exhibited; and the said board is empowered to select, purchase, and exhibit articles or materials representing the activities of any department, office, commission, or organization named in this paragraph.

To continue the construction of the Panama Canal, to be expended under the direction of the President, in accordance with an Act entitled "An Act to provide for the construction of a canal connecting the waters of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans," approved June twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and two, and Acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto:

First. For salaries of officers and employees of the Panama Canal, including assistant purchasing and shipping agents, and all other employees in the United States, $150,000;