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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... BUILDINGS , Mr. DRANE . No , sir . The new language that I suggested they very kindly put in in the House , allowing us to install certain things in Government - owned buildings - toilets , etc. Senator SPENCER . That is $ 55,000 less ...
... BUILDINGS , Mr. DRANE . No , sir . The new language that I suggested they very kindly put in in the House , allowing us to install certain things in Government - owned buildings - toilets , etc. Senator SPENCER . That is $ 55,000 less ...
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... building which destroyed many of them . Things of that sort are making it more difficult , as time passes , to make the audit sustainable . So that I think after five years time it will be of very small use ; and at the present rate it ...
... building which destroyed many of them . Things of that sort are making it more difficult , as time passes , to make the audit sustainable . So that I think after five years time it will be of very small use ; and at the present rate it ...
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... buildings or other improvements are damaged in consequence of the establishment of such public highways or roads , whether along section lines or elsewhere , such dam- ages , during the continuance of the tribal government , shall be ...
... buildings or other improvements are damaged in consequence of the establishment of such public highways or roads , whether along section lines or elsewhere , such dam- ages , during the continuance of the tribal government , shall be ...
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... building was constructed , from the roof into the colonnade and into the boxes and into the chapel below . They made an estimate of $ 25,000 , nec- essary to do this . The marble flooring will have to be taken up and waterproofing felt ...
... building was constructed , from the roof into the colonnade and into the boxes and into the chapel below . They made an estimate of $ 25,000 , nec- essary to do this . The marble flooring will have to be taken up and waterproofing felt ...
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... building , had given an opinion . Colonel PENROSE . There was an opinion . Mr. Gillen , engineer of the public buildings and grounds and a representative of Fuller , the contractor , and other experts , gave opinions . We 38 WAR ...
... building , had given an opinion . Colonel PENROSE . There was an opinion . Mr. Gillen , engineer of the public buildings and grounds and a representative of Fuller , the contractor , and other experts , gave opinions . We 38 WAR ...
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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 173 - For the purchase, manufacture, and test of ammunition for seacoast and land defense cannon, including the necessary experiments in connection therewith, and the machinery necessary for its manufacture at the arsenals, $1,600,000.
Page 189 - And the services of skilled draftsmen, civil engineers, and such other services as the Secretary of War may deem necessary, may be employed only in the office of the Chief of Engineers to carry into effect the various appropriations for rivers and harbors...
Page 47 - Army active list ; interment, or preparation and transportation to their homes, of the remains of civil employees of the Army in the employ of the War Department who die abroad, in Alaska, in the Canal Zone...
Page 190 - June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight, shall not exceed ten thousand dollars; and that the Secretary of War shall each year, in the annual estimates, report to Congress the number of persons so employed, their duties, and the amount paid to each.
Page 705 - ... under observation, general prisoners of war (including Indians held by the Army as prisoners, but for whose subsistence appropriation is not otherwise made', Indians employed with the Army as guides and scouts, and general prisoners at posts; for the subsistence of the masters.
Page 281 - Congress, and to issue from time to time to the National Guard, upon requisition of the governors of the several States...
Page 171 - For the alteration and maintenance of seacoast artillery, including the purchase and manufacture of machinery, tools, materials necessary for the work, and expenses of civilian mechanics and extra-duty pay of enlisted men engaged thereon, $300,000.
Page 299 - Whatever information you have, even upon the gentleman's own showing, is a letter from the secretary of war to the chairman of the committee of ways and means.
Page 251 - For maintenance and repair of searchlights and electric light and power equipment for seacoast fortifications, and for tools, electrical and other supplies, and appliances to be used in their operation, at the following localities: Hawaiian Islands, $7,000 ; Philippine Islands, $25.000.
Page 233 - We hope if we get a little growth at intervals that after a while it will spread, but up to the present time we have not been able to find anything that can be placed as cheaply as we think we can get if we continue these experiments.