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15. COMPRESS, SENATE, Committee IN APAYARIATIONS

-1924-

HEARINGS

BEFORE THE

SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE
COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS

UNITED STATES SENATE

SIXTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS

FOURTH SESSION

ON

H. R. 13793

A BILL MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE MILITARY AND
NONMILITARY ACTIVITIES OF THE WAR DEPARTMENT
FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1924,

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JAMES W. WADSWORTH, JR., New York, Chairman.

WESLEY L. JONES, Washington.

HOWARD SUTHERLAND, West Virginia.
SELDEN P. SPENCER, Missouri.

IRVINE L. LENROOT, Wisconsin.

GILBERT M. HITCHCOCK, Nebraska.
WILLIAM J. HARRIS, Georgia.
ROBERT L. OWEN, Oklahoma.

EX-OFFICIO MEMBERS FOR CONSIDERATION OF APPROPRIATIONS FOR RIVERS

BERT M. FERNALD, Maine.
CHARLES L. MCNARY, Oregon.

HARBORS.

DUNCAN U. FLETCHER, Florida.

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KENNEDY F. REA, Clerk.

WAR DEPARTMENT APPROPRIATION BILL, 1924.

MONDAY, JANUARY 22, 1923.

UNITED STATES SENATE,

SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS,

Washington, D. C.

The subcommittee met at 10.30 o'clock a. m. Present: Senators Wadsworth (chairman), Jones of Washington, Spencer, Fletcher, and Harris.

The subcommittee thereupon proceeded to the consideration of the bill (H. R. 13793) making appropriations for the military and nonmilitary activities of the War Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1924, and for other purposes.

The CHAIRMAN (Senator Wadsworth). We have the annual War Department appropriation bill before us. I have taken the liberty in advance of consulting with General Walker, the Chief of Finance of the Army, and requesting him to marshal the witnesses. He is here, and some other officers are here, and we are sure the committee will be glad to go ahead in the way suggested by General Walker. General WALKER. General McGlachlin will be the first on the pro

gram.

Senator WADSWORTH. Very well; we will hear General McGlachlin. STATEMENT OF MAJ. GEN. EDWARD F. McGLACHLIN, JR., COMMANDANT OF THE ARMY WAR COLLEGE.

ARMY WAR COLLEGE.

General MCGLACHLIN. I have asked to appear before the committee. because of a reduction below the Budget estimate in the appropriation bill passed in the House. The appropriation for 1923 for the support of the Army War College was $70,380.

Senator SPENCER. What page is that?

General WALKER. Page 7.

General MCGLACHLIN. We voluntarily cut that in the estimate to $65,300-a cut of a little over $5,000. The amount 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 accounted for by the elimination by the Committee on Appropriations of 1 clerk at $1,600, 1 clerk at $1,400, 1 clerk at $1,200, 2 watchmen at $720 each, 1 fireman at $720, and 1 messenger at $720. The Budget estimate provided for 53 civilian employees, while the number caried in the House bill is 46, a loss of 7. The report to accompany the bill made no mention as to the

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