Show The llissisfcippl Commission WASHINGTON Sept 22In reply to a question ques-tion from the War Department for an opinion opin-ion as to whether the salaries of the Mississippi Missis-sippi Commission can be paid out of the appropriation for the improvement of rivers Congress having failed to make a specific appropriation to pay them the Acting AttorneyGeneral finds that many of the duties of the Commission are permanent und decides that the salaries of the members of the Commission from civil life can no more be paid out of the appropriation than can the salary of the Secretary of War or those of the officers of the Geodetic Surveyor Survey-or of the Engineer Corps of the Army who are members of the Commission The Commission Com-mission desires to meet and begin work at once but under this decision its members will have to serve without receiving their salaries until provision for their payment shall be made by the next Congress and it 1S questionable whether they are able or willing to do so |