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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... cent higher than it was before the war . Senator SPENCER . You mean the price is now 25 per cent higher than before the war ? Mr. DRANE . Yes , sir . Senator HARRIS . It is a little lower than it was last year . Mr. DRANE . A trifle ...
... cent higher than it was before the war . Senator SPENCER . You mean the price is now 25 per cent higher than before the war ? Mr. DRANE . Yes , sir . Senator HARRIS . It is a little lower than it was last year . Mr. DRANE . A trifle ...
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... cent . Our estimate provided for 905 civilians for work in the field . Under the House provision we can employ but 715 civilians , a re- duction of 21 per cent both in cash and in individuals . We would like to have the original amount ...
... cent . Our estimate provided for 905 civilians for work in the field . Under the House provision we can employ but 715 civilians , a re- duction of 21 per cent both in cash and in individuals . We would like to have the original amount ...
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... cent . We have been able to accomplish by forcing out and reducing employees ' wherever possible a reduction of only 18.8 per cent . Extending the Army alone to June 30 , when it will drop under the present bill to 115,000 , the net ...
... cent . We have been able to accomplish by forcing out and reducing employees ' wherever possible a reduction of only 18.8 per cent . Extending the Army alone to June 30 , when it will drop under the present bill to 115,000 , the net ...
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... cent . Senator HITCHCOCK . Have you taken over the services of the duties formerly performed by some other branches of the service ? Major DALY . Yes , sir ; of supplies common to two or more bureaus . We are also handling certain ...
... cent . Senator HITCHCOCK . Have you taken over the services of the duties formerly performed by some other branches of the service ? Major DALY . Yes , sir ; of supplies common to two or more bureaus . We are also handling certain ...
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... cent per year on wooden boats and 5 per cent per year on steel boats . If it were capitalized at what it is worth , $ 5,000,000 , instead of taking off $ 126,000 depreciation in three months we would have taken off $ 63,000 , leaving ...
... cent per year on wooden boats and 5 per cent per year on steel boats . If it were capitalized at what it is worth , $ 5,000,000 , instead of taking off $ 126,000 depreciation in three months we would have taken off $ 63,000 , leaving ...
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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.