RULE XXV. *

STANDING COMMITTEES.

1. The following standing committees shall be appointed at the commencement of each Congress, with leave to report by bill or otherwise:

A Committee on Additional Accommodations for the Library of Congress, to consist of five Senators.

A Committee on Agriculture and Forestry, to consist of thirteen Senators.

A Committee on Appropriations, to consist of thirteen Senators. A Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate, to consist of five Senators, to which shall be referred all resolutions directing the payment of money out of the contingent fund of the Senate or creating a charge upon the same. A Committee on Canadian Relations, to consist of nine Senators.

A Committee on the Census, to consist of eleven Senators. A Committee on Civil Service and Retrenchment, to consist of nine Senators.

A Committee on Claims, to consist of fourteen Senators. A Committee on Coast and Insular Survey, to consist of nine Senators.

A Committee on Coast Defenses, to consist of eleven Senators. A Committee on Commerce, to consist of seventeen Senators. A Committee on Conservation of National Resources, to consist of fifteen Senators.

A Committee on Corporations Organized in the District of Columbia, to consist of five Senators.

A Committee on Cuban Relations, to consist of ten Senators.

As amended by Senate Resolution of March 22, 1909, Sixty-first Congress, first session.

A Committee on Disposition of Useless Papers in the Executive Departments, to consist of three Senators.

A Committee on the District of Columbia, to consist of thirteen Senators.

A Committee on Education and Labor, to consist of nine Senators.

A Committee on Engrossed Bills, to consist of three Senators, which shall examine all bills, amendments, and joint resolutions before they go out of the possession of the Senate.

A Committee on Enrolled Bills, to consist of three Senators, which shall have power to act jointly with the same committee of the House of Representatives, and which, or some one of which, shall examine all bills or joint resolutions which shall have passed both Houses, to see that the same are correctly enrolled, and, when signed by the Speaker of the House and President 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 Senate.

A Committee to Examine the Several Branches of the Civil Service, to consist of seven Senators.

A Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Agriculture, to consist of five Senators.

A Committee on Expenditures in the Interior Department, to consist of five Senators.

A Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Justice, to consist of five Senators.

A Committee on Expenditures in the Navy Department, to consist of five Senators.

A Committee on Expenditures in the Post-Office Department, to consist of five Senators.

A Committee on Expenditures in the Department of State, to consist of five Senators.

A Committee on Expenditures in the Treasury Department, to consist of five Senators.

A Committee on Expenditures in the War Department, to consist of five Senators.

A Committee on Finance, to consist of fourteen Senators.

A Committee on Fisheries, to consist of nine Senators, to which shall be referred all matters relating to fish and fisheries. A Committee on the Five Civilized Tribes of Indians, to consist of five Senators.

A Committee on Foreign Relations, to consist of fourteen Senators.

A Committee on Forest Reservations and the Protection of Game, to consist of nine Senators.

A Committee on the Geological Survey, to consist of seven Senators.

A Committee on Immigration, to consist of thirteen Senators. A Committee on Indian Affairs, to consist of fifteen Senators. A Committee on Indian Depredations, to consist of eleven Senators.

A Committee on Industrial Expositions, to consist of thirteen Senators.

A Committee on Interoceanic Canals, to consist of fourteen Senators.

A Committee on Interstate Commerce, to consist of thirteen Senators.

A Committee to Investigate Trespassers on Indian Lands, to consist of three Senators.

A Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation of Arid Lands, to consist of thirteen Senators.

A Joint Committee on the Revision of the Laws of the United States, to consist of five Senators.

A Committee on the Judiciary, to consist of fifteen Senators.

A Committee on the Library, to consist of eight Senators, which shall have power to act jointly with the same committee of the House of Representatives.

A Committee on Manufactures, to consist of seven Senators. A Committee on Military Affairs, to consist of fourteen Senators.

A Committee on Mines and Mining, to consist of ten Senators. A Committee on the Mississippi River and its Tributaries, to consist of seven Senators.

A Committee on Naval Affairs, to consist of eleven Senators. A Committee on Pacific Islands and Porto Rico, to consist of eleven Senators.

A Committee on Pacific Railroads, to consist of nine Senators. A Committee on Patents, to consist of seven Senators.

A Committee on Pensions, to consist of thirteen Senators.

A Committee on the Philippines, to consist of fourteen Sena

tors.

A Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads, to consist of fourteen Senators.

A Committee on Printing, to consist of eight Senators, which shall have power to act jointly with the same committee of the House of Representatives.

A Committee on Private Land Claims, to consist of six Senators.

A Committee on Privileges and Elections, to consist of thirteen Senators.

A Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, to consist of fifteen Senators, which shall have power to act jointly with the same committee of the House of Representatives.

A Committee on Public Expenditures,* to consist of thirteen Senators.

A Committee on Public Health and National Quarantine, to consist of ten Senators.

A Committee on Public Lands, to consist of fifteen Senators. A Committee on Railroads, to consist of eleven Senators. A Committee on Revolutionary Claims, to consist of three Senators.

A Committee on Rules, to consist of eight Senators.

A Committee on Standards, Weights, and Measures, to consist of five Senators.

A Committee on Territories, to consist of eleven Senators. A Committee on Transportation Routes to the Seaboard, to consist of nine Senators.

A Committee on Transportation and Sale of Meat Products, to consist of five Senators.

A Committee on the University of the United States, to consist of eleven Senators.

A Committee on Woman Senators.

Suffrage, to consist of five

2. The Committees to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate, on Printing, and on the Library, shall continue and have the power to act until their successors are appointed.

RULE XXVI.

REFERENCE TO COMMITTEES; MOTIONS TO DISCHARGE, AND REPORTS OF COMMITTEES TO LIE over.

1. When motions are made for reference of a subject to a select committee, or to a standing committee, the question of

*The chairmen of the Committees on Appropriations, Finance, Military Affairs, Naval Affairs, Post-Offices and Post-Roads, Agriculture and Forestry, and Indian Affairs are ex officio members of the Committee on Public Expenditures, and the chairman of the Committee on Appropriations will be the acting chairman of this committee.