Committee Document. Date: July 1951; Report No.: Pamphlet 120; Report by: United States Civil Service Commission; Content: "Refer to page 15" handwritten on cover. Refers to: "Section 6 of the act of August 24, 1912 (37 Stat. 555), provides that 'the right of persons employed in the civil service of the United States, either individually or collectively, to petition Congress, or any Member thereof, or to furnish information to either House of Congress , or to any Committee or Member thereof, shall be denied or interfered with.'