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 "For the Passamaquoddy tidal-power project, Maine, not to exceed $9,000,p00:
Provided, That the total estimated capital coat of such project shall not exceed
$4,000,000, including all funds previously allotted thereto.
 "The members of the boards herein authorized to be appointed shall receive
compensation at the rate of $50 per day for each day of service, including
Sunday and holidays, together with their necessary traveling expenses, and
each board is authorized to employ and fix the compensation of such personnel
as it mnay find necessary to assist in the performance of its functions without
regard to civil-service laws and regulations or the Classification Act of 1923,
as amended, and to pay their necessary traveling expenses The expenditures
authorized by this section shall be paid from funds heretofore or hereafter
appropriated for examinations, surveys, and contingencies of rivers and
harbors.
 "The Secretary of War and the Administrator of the Federal Emergency
 Administration of Public Works shall make available to the boards herein
 authorized all reports, records, plans, estimates, or other data and information
 in their possession which in any manner relate to the two projects hereinbefore
 mentioned and shall render such aid and assistance as said boards may request
 'in connection with the duties imposed upon them by this joint resolution."
 Mr. ADAYs. Mr. President, the chairman of the subcommittee in charge of the
 deficiency bill, throughout consideration of the bill, had to perform the some-
 what disagreeable duty of making points of order. A good many proposals have
 come before our subcommittee which the subcommittee declined to put upon the
 bill, regardless of their merit, because they constituted what we regarded as
 legislation on an appropriation bill. We have endeavored to apply that rule
 uniformly. By reason of the direction contained in the rules of the Senate
 Appropriations Committee and by reason of the rules of the Senate, I feel
 obliged to raise what I regard as a point of order against the amendment. It
 seems to me that it is legislation upon an appropriation bill. Further, it seems
 to me that it is not germane to the section to which it is applied.
 Let me illustrate what I mean. The amendment opens with the provision:
 "That the President of the United States is authorized to appoint two boards of
 three members each."
 The amendment describes their duties and their functions. It seems to me
 that is clearly legislation. In years past appropriation bills were subject to
 many abuses. In many instances the necessity for the passage of the appro-
 priation bills led to the coercion of Congress into acceptance of amendments.
 General legislation not dealing directly with the appropriation was placed upon
 appropriation bills. The result was that the Senate, in the course of a long
 experience, out of its wisdom, provided rule XVI, which forbids the inclusion of
 new or general legislation in an appropriation bill and provides that no amend-
 ment may be made which is not germane.
 No one is more reluctant than am I to make points of order against various
 matters which have come before the committee; but, in view of the fact that
 points of order were made against project after project, against amendment
 after amendment, it seems to me I am obliged to make a point of order in the
 present case; and I therefore make a point of order against the pending
 amendment.
 Mr. RoB seoN. Mr. President, it is recognized that the Senator from Colorado
 has full right to make the point of order. However, I point out the fact, which
 appears to me to be incontrovertible, that the point of order is not well taken.
 for the reason that the committee has inserted in the bill a provision of general
 legislation which my amendment seeks to amend or modify.
 Mr. CLrx. Mr. President, will the Senator yield?
 Mr. RoaxsoN. I yield.
 Mr. CraG. Does the Senator take the position that the adoption of an
 amendment by a committee invalidates the rule of the Senate-in other words,
 that a committee can make an amendment in order on a general appropriation
 bill which would otherwise not be in order?
 Mr. ROBNeoN. No, Mr. President; certainly not. However, the Senator
 from Colorado has not make the point of order to the committee amendment.
 Mr. CLA=E. I was about to say, if the Senator will permit me, that the
 amendment which the Senator from Arkansas has offered seems to me one of
 the most remarkable ever presented to the Senate, because it is not only in
 contravention of the ordinary rule of the Senate against legislation on an
 appropriation bill, but it is even legislation in the second degree. In other
 words, I think clearly the committee amendment is subject to a point of order