APPROPRIATION BILL FOR 1932 HEARING BEFORE SUBCOMMITTEE OF HOUSE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS CONSISTING OF MESSRS. BURTON L. FRENCH (CHAIRMAN) 561 776 7127 V.2 NAVY DEPARTMENT APPROPRIATION BÍLL, 1932 HEARINGS CONDUCTED BY THE SUBCOMMITTEE, MESSRS. BURTON L. FRENCH (CHAIRMAN), GUY U. HARDY, JOHN TABER, WILLIAM A. AYRES, AND WILLIAM B. OLIVER, OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, IN CHARGE OF THE NAVY DEPARTMENT APPROPRIATION BILL FOR THE FISCAL YEAR 1932 ON THE DAYS FOLLOWING, NAMELY: WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 14, 1931. STATEMENT OF HON. CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS, SECRETARY OF THE NAVY, ACCOMPANIED BY REAR ADMIRAL RIDLEY MCLEAN, BUDGET OFFICER; REAR ADMIRAL F. T. CHAMBERS (C. E. C.), DIRECTOR OF THE NAVAL PETROLEUM RESERVES; AND REAR ADMIRAL Y. S. WILLIAMS, AIDE FOR NAVY YARDS ESTIMATES FOR 1932 AND APPROPRIATIONS MADE 1921-1931 Mr. FRENCH. To-day we meet to consider the estimates for the Navy Department for the fiscal year 1932, and we have with us the Secretary of the Navy. Before calling upon the Secretary for any statement he may be prepared to present, I wish to have appear in the hearings at this point a table showing the direct and indirect appropriations for the Naval Establishment from the year 1921 down to and including 1931, together with the estimates for 1932. Secretary ADAMS. That will be supplied. (The table referred to is as follows:) |