War Department Appropriation Bill, 1924, Hearings Before the Subcommittee of ... , 67-4 on H.R. 137931923 - 252 pages |
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... Artillery or anywhere where there are mounted troops you have to have a horse or you can not keep up with them ; you can not follow them . You could not use an automobile ; you have to be mounted . Senator HITCHCOCK . Let me ask a ...
... Artillery or anywhere where there are mounted troops you have to have a horse or you can not keep up with them ; you can not follow them . You could not use an automobile ; you have to be mounted . Senator HITCHCOCK . Let me ask a ...
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... Artillery regiment on road work as they have their own daily duties cut out for them . Senator HITCHCOCK . That is something they would have to do in the case of real war . General WELLS . We are trying to have this road built so they ...
... Artillery regiment on road work as they have their own daily duties cut out for them . Senator HITCHCOCK . That is something they would have to do in the case of real war . General WELLS . We are trying to have this road built so they ...
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... artillery over the rough terrain , and in time of war the engineer regiment over there would not be able to carry out its combat functions . General WELLS . Senator , that engineer regiment has been used- and is being used right now in ...
... artillery over the rough terrain , and in time of war the engineer regiment over there would not be able to carry out its combat functions . General WELLS . Senator , that engineer regiment has been used- and is being used right now in ...
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... Artillery , too . in the handling of supplies and fatigue duties of various kinds . The reports of both the inspector and chief of Infantry , which I have read , and also the annual report of the commanding general are all to that ...
... Artillery , too . in the handling of supplies and fatigue duties of various kinds . The reports of both the inspector and chief of Infantry , which I have read , and also the annual report of the commanding general are all to that ...
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... artillery posts ? General HEINTZELMAN . Yes , sir ; Portland . Boston Harbor , New York . Senator WADSWORTH . I notice the Eighth Infantry is ordered to Charleston . General HEINTZELMAN . Yes , sir ; to be stationed on those islands ...
... artillery posts ? General HEINTZELMAN . Yes , sir ; Portland . Boston Harbor , New York . Senator WADSWORTH . I notice the Eighth Infantry is ordered to Charleston . General HEINTZELMAN . Yes , sir ; to be stationed on those islands ...
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Air Service ALIFAS allowed amendment amount appropriation bill arsenal asked barges Budget buildings Bureau Captain CHAPPELL Captain MACKAY carry Chairman Chief Colonel BOGGS Colonel HAMMOND Colonel LOCKE Colonel WADSWORTH Colonel WALTON committee Congress construction Corps Area cost Department division Engineers enlisted equipment estimate expenses Field Artillery fiscal year 1924 FLINT Fort Benning Fort Myer funds Government Hawaiian Islands HEINTZELMAN increase Interstate Commerce Commission JONES of Washington June 30 LASSITER maintenance matériel ment mileage military posts month National Guard necessary Ohio River operation Organized Reserves Panama Canal PATRICK present Quartermaster railroad reduced regimental repair Reserve Corps reserve officers revenue river and harbor salaries Secretary of War Secretary WEEKS Senator HARRIS Senator HITCHCOCK Senator JONES Senator SPENCER Senator WADSWORTH statement subsistence supplies TAYLOR tion transportation troops United WALKER War Department Warrior River WOOD
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Page 169 - No estimate or request for an appropriation and no request for an. Increase in an item of any such estimate or request, and no recommendation as to how the revenue needs of the Government should be met, shall be submitted to Congress or any committee thereof by any officer or employee of any department or establishment, unless at the request of either House of Congress.
Page 135 - Canal, any greater number of persons than are specified* in the notes submitted respectively in connection with the estimates for each of said appropriations in the annual Book of Estimates for said year, nor shall there be paid to any...
Page 83 - A reserve officer shall not be entitled to pay and allowances except when on active duty. When on active duty he shall receive [the same pay and allowances as an officer of the Regular Army of the same grade and length of active service, and] mileage from his home to his first station and from his last station to his home, but shall not be entitled to retirement or retired pay.
Page 72 - ... New York, the health officer is not a medical man; he is a doctor of philosophy, and is an admirable officer, who has had one term of office. So the movement is not in any sense a movement by the medical profession or by any particular school in the medical profession. There is one other point that I would like to speak of, and that is in regard to the advisability of having the head of this department a cabinet officer. We have the feeling, not merely in the medical profession, but in the scientific...
Page 30 - 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.
Page 169 - Act shall be available for the salary or pay of any officer, manager, superintendent, foreman, or other person having charge" of the work of any employee of the United States Government while making or causing to be made with a stop watch or other time-measuring device a time study of any job of any such employee between the starting and completion thereof, or of the movements of any such employee while engaged upon such work; nor shall any part of the appropriations made in this Act be available...
Page 96 - For travel of officers and noncommissioned officers of the Regular Army in connection with the National Guard.
Page 107 - For the purchase, manufacture, and test of mountain, field, and siege cannon, including their carriages, sights, implements, equipment, and the machinery necessary for their manufacture...
Page 57 - It may be added that the Director of the Bureau of the Budget advises that the expenditure contemplated by the proposed legislation is not in conflict with the financial program of the President.
Page 135 - July, nineteen hundred and seventeen ; 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 nineteen hundred and nineteen.