Hearings Before the Committee on Naval Affairs of the House of Representatives on Estimates Submitted by the Secretary of the Navy, 1909U.S. Government Printing Office, 1909 - 949 pages |
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... authorized to change those names to better designate the work that is being done at these estab- lishments . The naval laboratory when the navy was very small was only one building in New York City . We have found that it is to the ...
... authorized to change those names to better designate the work that is being done at these estab- lishments . The naval laboratory when the navy was very small was only one building in New York City . We have found that it is to the ...
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... authorize . We could probably spend advantageously $ 2,000,000 to to $ 3,000,000 at the New York yard on these ... authorized $ 60,000 for a prison I was the civil engineer at the yard and we put up the main building ; put three ...
... authorize . We could probably spend advantageously $ 2,000,000 to to $ 3,000,000 at the New York yard on these ... authorized $ 60,000 for a prison I was the civil engineer at the yard and we put up the main building ; put three ...
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... authorized at the present time . In other words , it would dock , with the middle gate out , a vessel over 1,000 feet long . At the same time it would dock by the use of the middle gate a battle ship 564 feet long and a battle ship 536 ...
... authorized at the present time . In other words , it would dock , with the middle gate out , a vessel over 1,000 feet long . At the same time it would dock by the use of the middle gate a battle ship 564 feet long and a battle ship 536 ...
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... authorized ? Admiral HOLLYDAY . Congress will be asked , and if they do not authorize it the plans are such and the bids will be received in such a shape , that we can immediately let a contract for the one that is authorized . Mr ...
... authorized ? Admiral HOLLYDAY . Congress will be asked , and if they do not authorize it the plans are such and the bids will be received in such a shape , that we can immediately let a contract for the one that is authorized . Mr ...
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... authorized . It enumerates a number of vessels which we have not yet touched , and which we can not touch during this fiscal year . Fortunately , some of them will not be home in time . We have already begun work on the Baltimore and ...
... authorized . It enumerates a number of vessels which we have not yet touched , and which we can not touch during this fiscal year . Fortunately , some of them will not be home in time . We have already begun work on the Baltimore and ...
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ACTING CHAIRMAN Admiral CAPPS Admiral CowLES Admiral EVANS Admiral HOLLYDAY Admiral MASON Admiral PILLSBURY amount appropriation armor army ashore barracks battle ships bill blue jackets board ship building Bureau of Navigation BUTLER Captain BADGER Captain HELM Captain MARSHALL Captain WINSLOW cent Chief Civil Establishment clerks colliers Colonel DENNY Colonel LAUCHHEIMER Colonel WALLER Commander FULLAM Commander GRIFFIN Commander SIMS Congress contract cost detachment draftsman dredging duty efficiency ELLIOTT enlisted estimate feet fiscal fleet force GEORGE EDMUND Foss hits per gun HOBSON increase KITCHIN land LOUDENSLAGER marine officer masters at arms ment military naval stations Navy Department navy-yards necessary ordnance PADGETT Paymaster-General ROGERS question Rear-Admiral PILLSBURY ROBERTS sailors seamen Secretary NEWBERRY shore Special laborer Steam target practice thousand dollars tion torpedo Total transports TRUMAN H U. S. Marine Corps U. S. Navy vessels Washington yard
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Page 395 - Marine Corps shall be liable to do duty in the forts and garrisons of the United States, on the seacoast, or any other duty on shore, as the President, at his discretion, may direct.
Page 709 - Navy, and by him referred to and approved in his letter to the chairman of the Committee on Naval Affairs...
Page 241 - That, for the purpose of further increasing the Naval Establishment of the United States, the President is hereby authorized to have constructed...
Page 225 - That no part of this sum shall be applied to the repairs of any wooden 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...
Page 225 - That the Secretary of the Navy shall hereafter report to Congress, at the commencement of each regular session, the number of vessels and their names upon which any repairs or changes are proposed which in any case shall amount to more than two hundred thousand dollars...
Page 337 - June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, shall not exceed sixty thousand dollars; and that the Secretary of War shall each year, in the annual estimates, report to Congress the number of persons so employed, and the amount paid to each.
Page 793 - Corps, without having first received a discharge from the regiment, troop, or company in which he had previously served, shall be removed in all cases where it shall be made to appear to the satisfaction of the Secretary of War, from such rolls and records, or from other satisfactory testimony, that such re-enlistment was not made for the purpose of securing bounty or other gratuity that he would not have been entitled to had he remained under his original term of enlistment...
Page 74 - Provided, That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy for chemists...
Page 584 - We are not going to work for 75 cents a day." The CHAIRMAN. They do not have the Wagner Act over there. Mr. HILL. Nor the Taft-Hartley Act, either. Now, we are right where we started. The CHAIRMAN. Does that conclude your statement, Mr. White? Mr. WHITE. That concludes my statement. Thank you. The CHAIRMAN. Are there any questions from members of the committee? Mr. GATHINGS. Mr.
Page 225 - ... 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...