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shall not apply to the following: En-
ployes paid from the postal revenues
and sums which may be advanced
from the Treasury to meet deficiencies
in the postal revenues; employees OF
the Panama Canal on the Canal Zone:
employees OF the Alaskan Engineering
Commission in Alaska; employees paid
from lump-sum appropriations in bu-
reaus. divisions. commissions or any
other governmental. agencies or en-
ployments created by law since Janu-
ary j, 1916; employees whose duties
require only portion OF their time,
except charwomen, who shall be in
cluded; employees whose services are
utilized for brief periods at intervals:
persons employed by or through cor
porations, firms, or individuals acting
for or on behalf Of or as agents Of the
United States or any department or
Independent establishment Of the
Government Of the United States In
connection with construction work or
the operation of plants; employees who
receive q part of their pay from any
outside sources under cooperative
arrangements with the Government
Of the United States or the District Of
Columbis; employees who serve volun-
or receive only a nominal com
pensation. and employees who may be
provided with special allowances be-
Cause of their service In foreign coun-
tries. The provisions Of this section
shall not apply to employees Of the
railroads taken over by the United
States, and nothing contained herein
shall be deemed a recognition of the
arnnlAvaa nf raiIPnada
ployes OF the United States.
Section six of the legislative, ex-
ecutive and judicial appropriation act
approved May 10, 1915, as amended
by the naval appropriation act ap-
proved August %. 1915. shall not op-
crate to prevent anyone from receiv-
ing the additional compensation pro-
yfded In this section who otherwise Is
entitled to receive the same.
"Such employees as are engaged on
piecework, by the hour, or at per
diem rates, IL otherwise entitled to
receive the additional compensation
shall receive the same at the rate to
which they are entitled In this sec
tion when their hxed rate OF pay for
the regular working hours and on the
basis of three hundred and thirteen
days in the said fiscal year would
10 e-rOUO or 1889 FTONIucu,
That this method Of computation
shall not apply to any per diem en-
pioyes regularly paid a per diem for
every day in the year"
Salaries Commission.
The commission on salaries is pro-
yided for as follows:
That a joint commission is created
to be known as the Joint Commission
on Redistribution OF Salaries which
shall consist of hVe Senators, who
will be members Of the Sixty-six th
Congress, 10 be appointed by the
President of the Senate, and five
Representatives, who will be MEM
bers OF the Sixty-sixth Congress, to
be appointed by the Speaker. Va
csncies occurring in the membership
OF the commission shall be flIed in
the same manner as the original ap,
pOintmentS.
at shall be the duty of the commits
sion to investigate the rates Of COM
pensation paid 10 civilian employees
by the municipal government and the
various executive departments and
other Government establishments in
the District Of Columbia except the
navy yard and the postal service, and
report by bill or otherwise. as soon
as practicable, what recIassifis:at ion
and readjuStmeRt OF compensation
should be made so as to provide uni q.
FORM and equitable pay for the same
character of employment throuahout
the District Of Columbia in the setv-
ices enumerated
The commission Is authorized to
sit during the sessions or recess OF
Congress, to send for persons and ps-
psrs. to administer oaths, to summen Il
ana compel the attendance Of wit
nesses, and to emp such personal
services and incur n expenses as
may be necessary carry out the
purposes OF this secti5n."
An appropriation Of S56,O Is pro-
Vlded for the proposed commission.
sI2e Raise Not Enoush.
That the present $50 a wear in
crease OF pay is wholly INADEQUATE for
the Government employees, that inves-
tisations into the cost OF living show
the inadequency of many of the Gov
eminent salaries, that an increase for
All OF 1850 q year show be allowed,
ana that the Government suffers
great economic loss from labor tufn-
over. were among the statements
made recently to the House sue-
eonmittss in charge Of the lesisla
tive BIZ! by President Luther c. Stew
ara or the National Federation of
Federal Employees.