Hearings Before Committee on Naval Affairs of the House of Representatives on Estimates Submitted by the Secretary of the Navy, 1913U.S. Government Printing Office, 1913 - 874 pages |
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... BUTLER . Is it contemplated that the naval service will need additional quarters ? Admiral CowIE . We have those quarters now , and this is just to cover them . Mr. BUTLER . This provision is to enable you to pay for them ? Admiral ...
... BUTLER . Is it contemplated that the naval service will need additional quarters ? Admiral CowIE . We have those quarters now , and this is just to cover them . Mr. BUTLER . This provision is to enable you to pay for them ? Admiral ...
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... BUTLER . What are the expenses that we have to meet ? Admiral CowIE . This is simply loss on bills of exchange . Mr. BUTLER . I understand ; but what was the occasion ? Admiral CowIE . To keep up the fleet . Mr. BUTLER . That is the ...
... BUTLER . What are the expenses that we have to meet ? Admiral CowIE . This is simply loss on bills of exchange . Mr. BUTLER . I understand ; but what was the occasion ? Admiral CowIE . To keep up the fleet . Mr. BUTLER . That is the ...
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... BUTLER . And also the difference in cost to the Government in the use of coal and fuel oil ? Admiral CowIE . I will be glad to furnish that , after consulting with the Bureau of Steam Engineering . At the present time a ship can steam ...
... BUTLER . And also the difference in cost to the Government in the use of coal and fuel oil ? Admiral CowIE . I will be glad to furnish that , after consulting with the Bureau of Steam Engineering . At the present time a ship can steam ...
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... has not been completed ? Admiral CowIE . That is from Matanuska . This coal is from the Bering River field , which is only about 25 miles from the coast of Con- troller Bay . Mr. BUTLER . As to the quality of the coal 7.
... has not been completed ? Admiral CowIE . That is from Matanuska . This coal is from the Bering River field , which is only about 25 miles from the coast of Con- troller Bay . Mr. BUTLER . As to the quality of the coal 7.
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... BUTLER . Have we any report on the experiments being made ? Admiral CowIE . They have not gotten the coal down yet . Mr. BUTLER . How soon will we have a report as to the experiments made ? Admiral CowIE . I can not say . The CHAIRMAN ...
... BUTLER . Have we any report on the experiments being made ? Admiral CowIE . They have not gotten the coal down yet . Mr. BUTLER . How soon will we have a report as to the experiments made ? Admiral CowIE . I can not say . The CHAIRMAN ...
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Page 33 - Department, and the authorized number of officers' horses, and for stabling of public horses, nineteen thousand two hundred dollars. COMMUTATION OF QUARTERS, MARINE CORPS: For commutation of quarters for officers serving with troops where there are no public quarters belonging to the Government, and where there are not sufficient quarters possessed by the United States to...
Page 47 - That the accounting officers of the Treasury are hereby authorized and directed to allow, in the settlement of accounts of disbursing officers involved, payments made under the appropriation u Contingent, Navy...
Page 34 - For travel allowance of enlisted men discharged on account of expiration of enlistment; transportation of enlisted men and apprentice seamen at home and abroad, with subsistence and transfers en route, or cash in lieu thereof...
Page 47 - Provided, That no part of this sum shall be applied to the repair of any wooden ship when the estimated cost of such repairs, to be appraised by a competent board of naval officers, shall exceed ten per centum of the estimated cost, appraised in like manner, of a new ship of the same size and like material...
Page 37 - ... services and materials in repairing, correcting, adjusting, and testing compasses on shore and on board ship; nautical and astronomical instruments and repairs to same...
Page 50 - ... stationery, books, and periodicals; transportation of indigent and destitute beneficiaries to the Naval Home, and of sick and insane beneficiaries, their attendants and necessary subsistence for both, to and from other Government hospitals; employment of such beneficiaries in and about the Naval Home as may...
Page 47 - That no part of this sum shall be applied to the repair of any other ship when the estimated cost of such repairs, to be appraised by a competent board of naval officers, shall exceed twenty per centum of the estimated cost, appraised in like manner, of a new ship of the same size and like material: Provided further, That nothing herein contained shall deprive the Secretary of the Navy of the authority to order repairs of ships damaged in foreign waters or on the high seas, so far as may be necessary...
Page 11 - ... vegetables, three gills of beans or pease; in lieu of the weekly allowance of one-quarter pound of macaroni, four ounces of cheese, one-half pint of vinegar or sauce, one-quarter pint of pickles, one-quarter pint of molasses, and one-eighth ounce of spices, three pounds of sugar, or one and a...
Page 41 - PROVISIONS, NAVY: For provisions and commuted rations for the seamen and marines, which commuted rations may be paid to caterers of messes, in case of death or desertion, upon orders of the commanding officers...
Page 425 - An act to establish the flag of the United States, ' approved on the 4th of April, 1818, reading as follows: "SECTION 1. Be it enacted, etc., That from and after the fourth day of July next the flag of the United States be thirteen horizontal stripes, alternate red and white; that the union have twenty stars, white in a blue field.