some things with which it has no business, and other bureaus are in the same situation.

The CHAIRMAN. If you will turn to the increase in the Navy you will see there is no definite form submitted for the increase in the Navy, and I am going to ask you to put in the hearing a statement showing the cost in your bureau of one ship of each type mentioned in the report of the General Board and also commented on in the report of the Secretary, so that we can have what would be, from the different bureaus, the cost of one ship of each type mentioned. Mr. WITHERSPOON. Do you mean by that question one ship complete?

The CHAIRMAN. From each bureau. I have asked each bureau to put that in so we can get the total cost.

Mr. WICKERSHAM. The total cost when it is completed and on the ocean, including the equipment and everything.

Mr. ROBERTS. What you want is the amount to be appropriated for the next fiscal year.

The CHAIRMAN. The amount of the cost and the appropriation. Now, then, under construction and machinery, outfitting of vessels, etc., part of that cost comes under your bureau?

Admiral CONE. We have part roughly, about 40 per cent.

The CHAIRMAN. I would be glad if you would state how much is in your bureau and what it is for.

Admiral CONE. The following joint letter from the several bureaus to the Secretary of the Navy shows the total cost by appropriations for each type of vessel, also the amounts required for the first year. JOINT LETTER OF BUREAU OF CONSTRUCTION AND REPAIR (C. AND R. No. 945-A. 224, CM); BUREAU OF STEAM ENGINEERING (S. E No. 79786-604); AND BUREAU OF ORDNANCE, NOVEMBER 5, 1912. From: Chief of Bureau of Construction and Repair, Chief of Bureau of Steam Engineering,

Chief of Bureau of Ordnance.

To: Secretary of the Navy (Division of Material).
Subject: Building program.

1. References: General board letter, September 25, 1912, No. GB 420-2; department indorsement, October 4, 1912, No. 8557-116.

2. As directed in the department's indorsement, the bureaus submit the following estimates of cost for one vessel in each class mentioned in the General Board's letter:

BATTLESHIP.

(Based on General Board characteristics of modified Pennsylvania-C. & R. No. 15272-A. 2, Sept. 25, 1912.]

BATTLE CRUISER.

[Based on characteristics submitted to department by Bureau of Construction and Repair and not yet approved. 15272–A. 2 (AP), Oct. 19, 1912.]

[Based on characteristics of General Board for which sketch has been submitted by Bureau of Construction and Repair, but which has not yet been approved (Construction and Repair No. 15272-A.2).]

[Based on characteristics of General Board (Construction and Repair No. 15272-A.2).]

[Based on General Board characteristics (Construction and Repair No. 15272-A.2).}

2,328,750

AMMUNITION SHIP.

[Based on characteristics received unofficially from Aid for Material, dated Oct. 2, 1912.]

[Based on characteristics same as for 1913 program. If these are changed as Bureau of Construction and Repair has recommended, amount should be increased to $650,000 for Increase of Navy, construction and maintenance, 8-hour day.]

[Based on characteristics of General Board (Construction and Repair No. 15272-A. 2.]

[Based on characteristics received unofficially from Aid for Material dated Oct. 1, 1912.]

[Based on General Board characteristics (Construction and Repair No. 15272-A. 2).]

3. The estimates include royalties on patents for submarines if built at a navy yard, but it has been construed that the eight-hour law would not apply to purchased articles of equipment.

4. No estimate is submitted for a dry dock, as by regulations this is a matter that should be estimated on by the Bureau of Yards and Docks.

5. The estimate for submarine testing dock is not here included, having been included as an item in the Construction and Repair annual estimates by verbal direction of the department.

6. The matter of the conversion of the Prometheus and Baltimore is not properly a part of the increase of the Navy appropriations, but should be provided for under the annual appropriations of the several bureaus. If the department desires these included in the annual estimates the bureaus request instructions.

WATT.

H. I. CONE.
N. C. TWINING.

The CHAIRMAN. What is the progress made at the School of Marine Engineering since its inception?

Admiral CONE. In order to provide an opportunity of acquiring a more extensive knowledge of marine engineering and in order to give student officers the facilities for research work along engineering line, the School of Marine Engineering was established at the Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md., in 1909, in accordance with the provisions of General Order No. 27, of June 9, 1909.

EXHIBIT A.

GENERAL ORDER
No. 27.

NAVY DEPARTMENT, Washington, June 9, 1909.

1. The department hereby establishes a school of marine engineering at the Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md.

2. The Superintendent of the Naval Academy will be the military head of the school while it is in session at Annapolis.

3. He will establish regulations, subject to the approval of the department, that will secure ample use of the educational plant of the Naval Academy to students and instructors of the school without interfering with the instruction of midshipmen.

4. The Chief of the Bureau of Steam Engineering will issue such orders as will secure the use of the engineering experiment station at Annapolis by the school. 5. The course of instruction in the school will not exceed two years.

6. The Bureau of Steam Engineering will prepare and submit to the Bureau of Navigation, for the approval of the department, a curriculum for the school. This will include, in part, the study of design of marine machinery at the Bureau of Steam Engineering; the study of shop practices and management at such private engineering establishments as may be willing to allow the facilities of their plant for this purpose, and of experimental engineering and testing machinery and other mechanical appli

ances.

7. Instructors while at the school will be directly subject to the authority of the Superintendent of the Naval Academy, but they will not be connected with its academic work.

8. Ten line officers will be detailed annually to the course of instruction at the school. 9. Selection for this detail will be made by the department from officers who are recommended for this duty and who request it. They must have performed not less than three years' service at sea, and except those selected for the first class must be below the grade of lieutenant commander. They will be selected on their records and reports of fitness, including letters from their commanding officers and from the engineer officers under whom they have served.

10. After completion of the course at the school of engineering, the student officers will, if practicable, be ordered to engineering duty on shore for a short time and then to engineering duty with the fleet.

11. Applications for permanent duty as designing engineers will be considered by the department from graduates of the school and from other officers especially well qualified, but applications from graduates will not be considered until after two years from the date of their graduation. The selection of such applicants for duty as designing engineers will depend upon their records and recommendations.

12. Normally, officers will be selected for permanent engineering duty at the rate of about two per annum, but this number may be subject to variation from year to year according to the desirability of the candidates.

13. No one will be selected except at his own request. Not more than 20 officers in the Navy shall be at one time borne on the list of this special duty, and those selected after 1912 shall have taken a course of instruction at the school of marine engineering. 14. Officers selected as designing engineers will be given facilities for perfecting themselves as such, and will be detailed at all times for engineering duties.

15. Special examinations for promotion will be given those officers who specialize as designing engineers, as their fitness for promotion will depend upon their engineer ing knowledge. These officers will be promoted in regular order, retaining their present precedence.

16. Of the graduates of the school of marine engineering, those selected for permanent duty as designing engineers will not be detailed to command at sea. All other graduates of this school will be available for detail to any duty.

17. Applications from officers eligible under this order for detail as students in the school of marine engineering are invited. Commanding officers will accompany each application with a specific recommendation as to the desirability of the applicant for this special duty and will immediately forward all applications direct to the depart ment through the Bureau of Navigation. When such applications can not be received by mail at the department before August 15, 1909, commanding officers are directed to transmit by cable the names of the applicants for this duty whose applications have received their favorable indorsement. It is desired that all applications for this duty be received before August 15, 1909, in order that the school shall begin its first term in October, 1909.

18. Officers below the grade of commander having had engineering experience desiring permanent assignment under paragraph 11 as designing engineers will immediately forward their applications to the Navy Department.