Hearings Before Subcommittee of House Committee on Appropriations, Consisting of Messrs. Cannon, Hemenway, Moody, M'Rae, and Allen in Charge of Sundry Civil Appropriation Bill for 1901 |
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Admiral BRADFORD Amount appropriated Arsenal authorized balance bill BOWERS BUFFINGTON building under present Bureau Bureau of Equipment Captain PERRY cent CHAIRMAN charts Chief of Engineers Chinese chronometers clerks Coast Survey Colonel CLAY Colonel MACKENZIE complete Comptroller CONGRESS THE LIBRARY construction contract deficiency district dredge ending June 30 engineers expenditure expenses fiscal year ending Government harbor Hawaiian Islands HEMENWAY HERMANN House Hydrographic Office increase January 18 JOHNSON June 30 laborers Lake Lake Michigan land LIBRARY OF CONGRESS light Light-House limit of cost LUDINGTON Major BERMINGHAM Major HOXIE Major LUSK Marine-Hospital MCRAE MERRIAM months MOODY naval Navy Department necessary Original limit plant post-office printing PRITCHETT public buildings purchase recommended repairs respectfully RICHARDSON River salaries Secretary statement submit sundry civil superintendent TAYLOR tion TRACEWELL Treasury Department United VANDERLIP vessels WALCOTT Washington WYMAN
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Page 232 - Until Congress shall provide for the government of such islands all the civil, judicial, and military powers exercised by the officers of the existing government in said islands shall be vested in such person or persons and shall be exercised in such manner as the President of the United States shall direct ; and the President shall have power to remove said officers and fill the vacancies so occasioned.
Page 311 - That penstocks or other similar facilities adapted to possible future use in the development of hydroelectric power shall be installed in any dam herein authorized when approved by the Secretary of War upon the recommendation of the Chief of Engineers and of the Federal Power Commission.
Page 334 - An Act making appropriations for the construction, repair, and preservation of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes...
Page 232 - The municipal legislation of the Hawaiian Islands, not enacted for the fulfillment of the treaties so extinguished, and not inconsistent with this joint resolution nor contrary to the Constitution of the United States nor to any existing treaty of the United States, shall remain in force until the Congress of the United States shall otherwise determine.
Page 231 - The President shall appoint five commissioners, at least two of whom shall be residents of the Hawaiian Islands, who shall, as soon as reasonably practicable, recommend to Congress such legislation concerning the Hawaiian Islands as they shall deem necessary or proper.
Page 230 - That in every case where an alien is excluded from admission into the United States, under any law or treaty now existing or hereafter made...
Page 431 - The Chief of the Weather Bureau, under the direction of the Secretary of Agriculture, on and after July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, shall have charge of the forecasting of weather, the issue of storm warnings, the display of weather and flood signals for the benefit of agriculture, commerce, and navigation, the gauging and reporting of rivers...
Page 100 - That whenever the proper authorities of a State shall surrender to the United States the use of the buildings and disinfecting apparatus at a State quarantine station the Secretary of the Treasury shall be authorized to receive them and to pay a reasonable compensation to the State for their use, if in his opinion, they are necessary to the United States. SEC. 9. That the act entitled "An act to prevent the introduction of infectious or contagious diseases into the United States and to establish...
Page 232 - There shall be no further immigration of Chinese into the Hawaiian Islands, except upon such conditions as are now or may hereafter be allowed by the laws of the United States; and no Chinese, by reason of anything herein contained, shall be allowed to enter the United States from the Hawaiian Islands.
Page 431 - Agriculture, has charge of the forecasting of weather; the issue of storm warnings; the display of weather and flood signals for the benefit of agriculture, commerce, and navigation; the gauging and reporting of rivers; the maintenance and operation of seacoast telegraph lines, and the collection and transmission of marine intelligence for the benefit of commerce and navigation...