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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... tion the bulk of this amount of $ 45,000 is for the printing of the annual report of the Chief of Engineers , and also for the printing of these numerous reports of examinations and surveys of rivers and harbors which are required by ...
... tion the bulk of this amount of $ 45,000 is for the printing of the annual report of the Chief of Engineers , and also for the printing of these numerous reports of examinations and surveys of rivers and harbors which are required by ...
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... tion June 30 , will then not - the last appropriation ? Colonel DAVIS . No , sir ; my idea will be to try to cut out wherever I can any overhead and make a proportionate deduction in the different divisions of the office and a ...
... tion June 30 , will then not - the last appropriation ? Colonel DAVIS . No , sir ; my idea will be to try to cut out wherever I can any overhead and make a proportionate deduction in the different divisions of the office and a ...
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... tion within the limits fixed by the Secretary of War for the total amount of money fixed by him , and they found that the cemeterial division could not efficiently conduct their work for the next fiscal year for the $ 50,000 originally ...
... tion within the limits fixed by the Secretary of War for the total amount of money fixed by him , and they found that the cemeterial division could not efficiently conduct their work for the next fiscal year for the $ 50,000 originally ...
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... tion here was to clear up exactly in the minds of the committee as to how we got started in this appropriation . Senator LENROOT . Yes ; but was not this limitation of $ 150,000 put on from the start ? General IRELAND . No , sir ; I ...
... tion here was to clear up exactly in the minds of the committee as to how we got started in this appropriation . Senator LENROOT . Yes ; but was not this limitation of $ 150,000 put on from the start ? General IRELAND . No , sir ; I ...
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... tion they want . I have not the exact figures , but I am certain over two - thirds of the grain from the Middle West and Northwest went through Montreal . Senator SPENCER . Because they could not get the transportation ? Colonel ASHBURN ...
... tion they want . I have not the exact figures , but I am certain over two - thirds of the grain from the Middle West and Northwest went through Montreal . Senator SPENCER . Because they could not get the transportation ? Colonel ASHBURN ...
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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.