War Department Appropriation Bill, 1924: Hearings, Sixty-seventh Congress, Fourth Session H.R. 13793U.S. Government Printing Office, 1923 - 252 pages |
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... carried in the appropriation bill as reported to the House , and I think as it was passed , was $ 58,220 , a reduction of $ 7,080 below the estimate , or a little over $ 12,000 below the present year's appropriation . This reduction is ...
... carried in the appropriation bill as reported to the House , and I think as it was passed , was $ 58,220 , a reduction of $ 7,080 below the estimate , or a little over $ 12,000 below the present year's appropriation . This reduction is ...
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... carried elsewhere ? General WALKER . It is in other items of the bill throughout - for instance , surveys and maps . Senator SPENCER . That is included in the $ 600,000 in line 5 ? General WALKER . Yes , sir . Senator WADSWORTH . The ...
... carried elsewhere ? General WALKER . It is in other items of the bill throughout - for instance , surveys and maps . Senator SPENCER . That is included in the $ 600,000 in line 5 ? General WALKER . Yes , sir . Senator WADSWORTH . The ...
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... carry on the present service . General WALKER . Mr. Chairman , that there may be no misunder- standing , the Bureau of the Budget did not fix a limit in figures , but in the particular items of the appropriation . In collaboration with ...
... carry on the present service . General WALKER . Mr. Chairman , that there may be no misunder- standing , the Bureau of the Budget did not fix a limit in figures , but in the particular items of the appropriation . In collaboration with ...
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... carry on the activities provided for by this item , of which my office is the principal one . Senator SPENCER . Is ... carried into the restrictive provision which states that not more than $ 34,980 shall be expended for the payment of ...
... carry on the activities provided for by this item , of which my office is the principal one . Senator SPENCER . Is ... carried into the restrictive provision which states that not more than $ 34,980 shall be expended for the payment of ...
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... carry that force up to June 30. My estimate provides for an average of 29 em- ployees for next year . That means if we start with an annual rate of $ 48,000 to decrease to an average of $ 40,000 for the year actually , at the end of the ...
... carry that force up to June 30. My estimate provides for an average of 29 em- ployees for next year . That means if we start with an annual rate of $ 48,000 to decrease to an average of $ 40,000 for the year actually , at the end of the ...
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Alaska ALIFAS allowed amendment amount arsenal asked bonus Budget estimate building Bureau CALIFORNIA LIBRARY Captain CHAPPELL Captain MACKAY carry cent Chairman Chief of Engineers clerks Colonel BOGGS Colonel HAMMOND Colonel LOCKE Colonel STEESE Colonel WALTON committee Congress construction Corps Area cost Department divisions eliminated employees Engineers enlisted equipment expenses Field Artillery figures fiscal year 1924 FLINT funds Government Hawaiian Islands HEINTZELMAN House bill included increase June 30 LASSITER maintenance matériel ment mileage military National Guard necessary Ohio River Organized Reserves Panama Canal PATRICK posts present Quartermaster quarters question railroad recruiting reduced regiment repair Reserve Corps reserve officers retired river and harbor road salaries Secretary of War Secretary WEEKS Senator HARRIS Senator HITCHCOCK Senator JONES Senator SPENCER Senator WADSWORTH statement submitted supplies TAYLOR tion transportation troops United UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA WALKER War Department
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Page 231 - ... 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 to pay any premiums or bonus or cash reward to any employee in addition to his regular wages, except for suggestions resulting in improvements or economy in the operation of any Government plant...
Page 181 - ... persons shall be fixed by the President, or by his authority, until such time as Congress may by law regulate the same, but salaries or compensation fixed...
Page 231 - 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...
Page 191 - ... 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 17 - An Act for making further and more effectual provision for the national defense, and for other purposes," approved June 3, 1916, as amended, be.
Page 180 - Zone, including expenses of their deportation when practicable, the purchase of artificial limbs or other appliances for persons who were injured in the service of the Isthmian Canal Commission or the Panama Canal prior to September 7, 1916...
Page 170 - How much do you intend to expend from the mouth of the Missouri River to the mouth of the Ohio River on the Mississippi ( General TAYLOR.
Page 92 - ... 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 38 - 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 231 - States 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...