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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... Panama Com- mission was advertising for 250 - ton cranes ? Admiral STANFORD . Yes , sir . Mr. BROWNING . For lifting what kind of machinery ? Admiral STANFORD . Lock gates ; presumably also other apparatus or fittings along the length ...
... Panama Com- mission was advertising for 250 - ton cranes ? Admiral STANFORD . Yes , sir . Mr. BROWNING . For lifting what kind of machinery ? Admiral STANFORD . Lock gates ; presumably also other apparatus or fittings along the length ...
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... Panama Canal , and capable of accommodating two of the largest battleships of the Navy , there be appropriated the sum of $ 3,000,000 : Provided , That said dry dock be so constructed with a middle gate or caisson that one or two ...
... Panama Canal , and capable of accommodating two of the largest battleships of the Navy , there be appropriated the sum of $ 3,000,000 : Provided , That said dry dock be so constructed with a middle gate or caisson that one or two ...
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... Panama - I was there only a short time the labor , in my judgment , was not of the best , the little time I had to observe , but I was impressed with the fact there that one good American laborer would do as much as three of the men ...
... Panama - I was there only a short time the labor , in my judgment , was not of the best , the little time I had to observe , but I was impressed with the fact there that one good American laborer would do as much as three of the men ...
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... Panama some buildings or sheds covered with galvanized corrugated iron which had been in place since early in the eighties , and the material was apparently in as good condition when I examined it as when it was first placed . Effort is ...
... Panama some buildings or sheds covered with galvanized corrugated iron which had been in place since early in the eighties , and the material was apparently in as good condition when I examined it as when it was first placed . Effort is ...
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... Panama , 100 at Guantanamo , over 200 at Honolulu , over 230 at Pekin , 105 at Guam , and so they are scattered all over the world . About 23 per cent on foreign service , not counting men en route or on expeditionary service , which at ...
... Panama , 100 at Guantanamo , over 200 at Honolulu , over 230 at Pekin , 105 at Guam , and so they are scattered all over the world . About 23 per cent on foreign service , not counting men en route or on expeditionary service , which at ...
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additional Admiral ANDREWS Admiral CONE Admiral CowIE Admiral STANFORD Admiral TWINING Admiral WATT amount appropriation Armor and armament authorized barracks BATHRICK battleships bill building Bureau of Equipment Bureau of Navigation Bureau of Ordnance BUTLER canal Capt cent CHAIRMAN CHAMBERS chief civilian clerks coal coast command commission Congress Construction and Repair contract cost crane cruisers destroyers dredging duty engine enlisted equipment estimates expenditures expenses explain that item feet fiscal fleet Foss GIBBONS GOETHALS Government GREGG guns HOBSON increase instructors labor land machinery maintenance Mare Island Marine Corps material MCCAWLEY MCKENZIE ment Naval Academy naval stations Navy Department navy yards necessary officers Ordnance Pearl Harbor Philadelphia plant present purchase purpose quarters recommended ROBERTS Secretary MEYER ships statement steam STOKES submarines supply tion tons torpedo boats Total transportation United States Navy vessels WINTERHALTER Yards and Docks
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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.