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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... guns for ships of the Navy : For the purchase and manufacture of reserve guns for ships of the Navy , four hundred and ninety thousand dollars . " Admiral MASON . No appropriation was asked for under this head last year , as enough ...
... guns for ships of the Navy : For the purchase and manufacture of reserve guns for ships of the Navy , four hundred and ninety thousand dollars . " Admiral MASON . No appropriation was asked for under this head last year , as enough ...
Page 97
... guns up to 200 rounds . Mr. PADGETT . What is the life of the 12 - inch gun ? Admiral MASON . As to the 12 - inch gun , until we reduced the veloc- ity a little bit and put in a broad band , and so forth , it commenced to deteriorate at ...
... guns up to 200 rounds . Mr. PADGETT . What is the life of the 12 - inch gun ? Admiral MASON . As to the 12 - inch gun , until we reduced the veloc- ity a little bit and put in a broad band , and so forth , it commenced to deteriorate at ...
Page 98
... gun of different characteristics in many ways . It is a better gun than ours . It is not advisable to have the Army and the Navy and the Marine Corps using different guns , or guns with dif- ferent kinds of ammunition . The CHAIRMAN ...
... gun of different characteristics in many ways . It is a better gun than ours . It is not advisable to have the Army and the Navy and the Marine Corps using different guns , or guns with dif- ferent kinds of ammunition . The CHAIRMAN ...
Page 99
... guns that the navy has . You are going to teach them to shoot , and you are going to call on them in an emergency , and when you call on them and they come out you do not want them to be in the condition that the militia were in during ...
... guns that the navy has . You are going to teach them to shoot , and you are going to call on them in an emergency , and when you call on them and they come out you do not want them to be in the condition that the militia were in during ...
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... guns in continuous aim . In rough water it is still less efficient , even to such a degree as to make it a matter of the greatest impor- tance to install more efficient controllers . Two other systems of control for electric gun ...
... guns in continuous aim . In rough water it is still less efficient , even to such a degree as to make it a matter of the greatest impor- tance to install more efficient controllers . Two other systems of control for electric gun ...
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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 gun per minute 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 thousand dollars tion torpedo Total transports TRUMAN H U. S. Marine Corps U. S. Navy vessels 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...