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 73d CONGRESS. SESS. II. CHS. 139, 140 . AP RIL 14, 1934 . 591 190 of the Revised Statutes of the United States (U .S .C ., title 5, sec . R.S..'pp . 4?474, 475 . 99), or in any other Act of Congress forbidding officers or employees u .s .c ., p. 35 . p .30. or former officers or employees of the United States from acting as counsel, attorney, or agent for another before any court, department, or branch of the Government or from receiving or agreeing to receive compensation therefor, shall be deemed to apply to attorneys or counselors to be specially employed, retained, or appointed by the Attor ney G enera l or unde r aut hori ty of the Depar tmen t of Justi ce to assist in the prosecution of the case of United States of America against Weirton Steel Company, and/or any other case or cases, civil or criminal, involving said company, its officers or agents, aris- ing under the National Industrial Recovery Act or any code of fair competition adopted pursuant thereto. Approved, April 14, 1934. [CHAPTER 140 .1 JOI NT RESOLUTION April 14, 1934. Authorizing necessar y funds to conduct i nvestigation regardi ng rates charged 	[S .J .R es. 74 .]	 for ele ctri cal ene rgy and to prep are rep ort the reon. [Pub. Res ., No. 1s.] Whereas accurate and comprehensive information regarding the rates charged for electrical energy and its service to residential, Electrical energy. rur al, co mmerci al, an d indu strial consu mers th rougho ut the Unite d States is required by the Congress and other governmental age ncies ; and Whereas no compilation of such rates and charges has been made by any official body : Therefore be it Resolved by the Senate and House o f Representatives o f the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Federal Power Rate investiga tion by Fed era l Pow er Co m- Commiss ion be, and it is hereby autho rized a nd dir ected to inv esti- missi on di rect ed. gate and compile the rate charged for electric energy and its service to residential, rural, commercial, and industrial consumers through- out the United States by private and municipal corporations and to report such rates, together with al l analysi s thereof, to the Congress Report to Congress. at the ea rliest pr acticable date. SEC. 2. That for the of this investigation the Federal Records of Statepub- pu rpose s b lic service commissions Power Commission is authorized and directed to utilize, as far as to be util ized . may be practicable ., information relating to electric rates and rate schedules filed with the public service commissions of the several States and shall have power to require, by general or special orders, corporations engaged in the sale of electricity to file with the Com- mission, such form as the Commission may prescribe, schedules of Powers to require fil- l yh ing of rate schedules, rates c harged to al l clas ses of consu mers an d to s ubmit to the Com- reports, and answers. mission reports, or answers in writing to specific questions, furnish- ing such information as the Commission may require relative to the sale of electrical energy and its service to consumers. Such reports O ther info rmati on. and answers shall be made under oath, or otherwise, as the Com- mi ssion may pr escrib e, and shall be fi led wit h the Commis sion w ithin such reasonable period as the Commission may prescribe, unless additional time be granted in any case by the Commission. The E xamin atio n of rea Commission, or its duly authorized agent, or agents, shall at all ords of sales, etc . reaso nable time s ha ve ac cess to, for t he pu rpose of exami natio n, and the right to co py any docum entary eviden ce rel ative to the sale of electrical energy or its service to consumers by any corporation en gaged in the sale of electr icity. SEc. 3. That the President of the United States is hereby author- Funds available for ized to make available from the funds which have been or may be expenses.