...and no clerk or employee of any department, branch or bureau of the executive, judicial, or military or naval service of the United States, shall, directly...solicit or receive, or be in any manner concerned ill soliciting or receiving, any assessment, subscription, or contribution for any political purpose...

...services from money derived from the Treasury of the United States, to directly, or indirectly solicit, receive, or be in any manner concerned in soliciting...contribution for any political purpose whatever, from any other such officer, employee, or person. (Amended Feb. 28, 1925, § 312, 43 Stat. 1073.) (US C, Title...