War Department Appropriation Bill, 1923: Hearings Before the Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations United States Senate, Sixty-seventh Congress, Second Session, on H.R. 10871, a Bill Making Appropriations for the Military and Nonmilitary Activities of the War Department for the Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 1923, and for Other Purposes. Printed for the Use of the Committee on AppropriationsU.S. Government Printing Office, 1922 - 953 pages |
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Air Service ammunition amount appropriation Artillery barracks BRENT Budget cable CARSON cent Chairman chaplains Chief of Engineers clerks Colonel ASHBURN Colonel BOGGS Colonel DAVIS Colonel GRIFFIN Colonel ROCKENBACH Colonel WADSWORTH Colonel WOLFE committee Congress CONNOR construction Corps Area cost course defense Department depots duty Engineer enlisted estimate expenses fiscal Fort Gibson funds Government guns HARBORD hospital hostess House bill increase IRELAND JONES of Washington LASSITER maintenance Major BENEDICT Major BROWNE Major DALY Major MACKAY ment military National Guard necessary operation ordnance Organized Reserves Panama Canal PEIRCE personnel Philippine Philippine Scouts posts Quartermaster railroad RECKORD reduced Regular Army repair RICKARDS River road Secretary Secretary of War Senator HARRIS Senator HITCHCOCK Senator JONES Senator LENROOT Senator REED Senator SPENCER Senator SUTHERLAND Senator WADSWORTH storage supplies thing tion troops United War Department warrant officers
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Page 45 - For interment or preparation and transportation to their homes of the remains of civilian employees of the Army in the employ of the War Department who die abroad, in Alaska, in the Canal Zone, or on Army transports, or who die while on duty in the field, or at military posts within the limits of the United States,
Page 257 - (Whereupon, at 1.30 o'clock pm, a recess was taken until 2.30 o'clock pm) AFTER RECESS. The subcommittee met, pursuant to the taking of the recess, at 2.30 o'clock pm, Senator
Page 802 - and except for the permanent operating organization under which the compensation of the various positions is limited by section 4 of the Panama Canal act"— there shall not be employed at any time during the fiscal year 1923, under
Page 910 - of the Government of the United States free from any toll or other charges whatever, for any property of the United States, or persons in their service, passing through the same.
Page 802 - nor shall there be paid to any such person during that fiscal year any greater rate of compensation than was authorized to be paid to persons occupying the same or like positions on July 1, 1921.
Page 46 - ••including civilian employees of the Army in the employ of the War Department who die abroad, in Alaska, in the Canal Zone, or on Army transports, or who die while on duty
Page 742 - This amount is required for the actual and necessary expenses of officers of the Army on duty abroad for the purpose of observing the operations of armies of foreign States at war, to be paid upon certificate from the Secretary of War that the
Page 802 - and all employments made or compensation increased because of emergencies or conditions so arising shall be specifically set forth, with the reasons therefor, by the governor in his report for the fiscal year 1923.
Page 632 - Military posts, Panama Canal: For continuing the construction of barracks, quarters, storehouses, and other buildings necessary for accommodating the mobile Army troops to be stationed in the vicinity of the Panama Canal, including all appurtenances thereto (submitted)
Page 919 - the poltroon, are worthless to stop wrongdoing. Wrongdoing will only be stopped by men who are brave as well as just, who put honor above safety, who are true to a lofty ideal of duty, who prepare in advance to make their strength effective, and who shrink from no hazard—not even the