Expenditures Exceeding $5,000 in Time of War: Hearing Before the Committee on Military Affairs, United States Senate, Seventy-seventh Congress, Second Session on S. 2151, a Bill to Suspend the Operation of the Act of May 12, 1917 (40 Stat. 74), as to the Requirement of Submitting Detailed Estimates, for the Approval of the Secretary of War, of Expenditures Exceeding $5,000 Upon Any Building Or Military Post Or Grounds about the Same. January 9 and 16, 1942 |
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40 Stat approval areas without established ARMY Colonel STRONG bill building or military Chief of Engineers Colonel Watt COMMITTEE ON MILITARY construction in theaters Corps of Engineers D. C. The committee December 18 Department detailed estimates submitted enacted established theaters expenditure exceeding $5,000 gentlemen gested amendment hereafter no expenditure interior interpretation island JOHNSON of Colorado MASTER CORPS MILITARY AFFAIRS military post national emergency declared necessity of waiving need this kind officers operations commander pertaining post or grounds present proposed legislation Provided further question record rescinded restriction Reynolds chair Secretary Secretary of War Senator AUSTIN Senator CHANDLER Senator HILL Senator HOLMAN Senator JOHNSON Senator LEE Senator THOMAS Senator TRUMAN interposing Senators Reynolds chairman STATEMENT OF FREDERICK substitute suggestion suspend the act theaters of operation thing think Senator TRUMAN Thomas of Idaho tion UNITED STATES ARMY UNITED STATES SENATE unlimited national emergency War Department word hereafter
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Page 7 - That the provisions of the Act of May 12, 1917 (40 Stat. 74), reading: "Provided further. That hereafter no expenditure exceeding $5,000 shall be made upon any building or military post or grounds about the same without the approval of the Secretary of War, upon detailed estimates submitted to him," shall be, and the same are hereby, amended to read : "Provided further.
Page 7 - That, in time of war, in established theaters of operations approval of any expenditure exceeding $5,000 for the purpose in question, without regard to detailed estimates, may be granted by such commanders as may be designated by the Secretary of War, or by such officers as may be designated by commanders.
Page 10 - The CHAIRMAN. The committee will now go into executive session. (Whereupon the committee went into executive session...