Fortifications Bill: Hearings Before Subcommittee on House Committee on Appropriations... in Charge of the Fortifications Appropriation Bill, Sixty-third Congress, Second Session |
Common terms and phrases
3-inch guns additional allotted ammunition amount appro appropriation armament Army bill asking batteries BURR Caballo Island cable CALDER carriages Chairman Coast Artillery committee completed concrete condition Congress connection consider construction contemplated contract cost course Diamond Head Engineer Department equipment estimate expended fact facture field artillery figures fire fire-control fire-control system FITZGERALD forgings Fort Monroe fortifications Frankford Arsenal funds give going hand Harbor Hawaiian Islands hoists howitzer increase Infantry installation insular possessions land defenses maintenance manu material matériel ment militia mortar battery mortars Navy necessary number of guns officers Philippine Islands plant powder practically private manufacturers procured projectiles purchase purposes question reason Regular Army repair reserve Rock Island Arsenal rounds SCRIVEN seacoast defenses searchlights Secretary GARRISON SHERLEY interposing shrapnel statement supply thing tion troops unallotted balance United Watervliet Arsenal WEAVER WOOD
Popular passages
Page 203 - ... of necessary lines and means of electrical communication, including telephones, dial and other telegraphs, wiring and all special instruments, apparatus, and materials, coast signal apparatus, and salaries of electrical experts, engineers, and other necessary employees, connected with the use of coast artillery ; for the purchase, manufacture, and test of range finders and other instruments for fire control at the fortifications, and the machinery necessary for their manufacture at the arsenals,...
Page 179 - For the alteration and maintenance of the mobile artillery, including the purchase and manufacture of machinery, tools, and materials necessary for the work and the expenses of the mechanics engaged thereon, fifty thousand dollars.
Page 197 - For purchase, manufacture, and test of ammunition for seacoast cannon, Including the necessary experiments in connection therewith, and the machinery necessary for its manufacture at the arsenals, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Page 74 - For the construction of mining casemates, cable galleries, torpedo storehouses, cable tanks, and other structures necessary for the operation, preservation, and care of submarine mines and their accessories...
Page 64 - For tools, electrical and other supplies and appliances, to be furnished by the Engineer Department for the use of the troops for maintaining and operating gun and mortar batteries — In the Philippine Islands, two thousand five hundred dollars.
Page 106 - ... the purchase, manufacture, and test of mountain, field, and siege cannon, including their carriages, sights, implements, equipments, and the machinery necessary for their manufacture lit the arsenals, three hundred thousand dollars.
Page 45 - ... communication, including telephones, dial and other telegraphs, wiring and all special instruments, apparatus, and materials, coast signal apparatus, and salaries of electrical experts, engineers, and other necessary employees, connected with the use of coast artillery ; for the purchase, manufacture, and test of range finders and other instruments for fire control at the fortifications, and the machinery necessary for their manufacture at the arsenals, nine hundred thousand dollars.
Page 72 - Preservation, jfor protection, preservation, and repair of fortifications for which there may be no special appropriation available, and of structures for the torpedo defense of the United States and for maintaining channels for access to torpedo wharves, $250,000.
Page 13 - ... we have neither guns nor ammunition sufficient to give any general commanding an army in the field any assurance of success if attacked by an army of equal size which is supplied with its proper quota of field artillery. The fire of modern field artillery is so deadly that troops can not advance over terrain swept by these guns without prohibitive losses. It is therefore necessary to neutralize the fire of hostile guns before our troops can advance, and the only way to neutralize the fire of...
Page 85 - For protection, preservation, and repair of fortifications, including structures erected for torpedo defense, and for maintaining channels for access to torpedo wharves, $15,000.