The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1884-03-20
QUE NAVY.
Secretary Chandier's Recommendations for
Additional Appropriations.
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WASHINGTON, March 19.--The Appro-
pria,ions Committee OF the Senate agreed
to-day to make public the communication
tary OF the Navy recommending appro-
priaticns for the naval service additional 10
those contained In the naval appropriation
bill as II passed the House. In this COM
munication the Secretary OF the Navy asks
that individual items in the House bill be
increased as follows: Pay miscellaneous,
from s375. 900 TO $4,000; Bureau OF Nav
igation, from $4,000 10 SiS1 900; contin-
gent navy expense, from S15, 900 TO $4,000;
Bureau Of Equipment and Recruiting,
from S507, 900 to 5000, 600; Bureau OF Med
icine and Surgery, from Si0, 900 10 $4,000;
Bureau Of Construction and Repair, from
si,020, 900 to SI,750, 900; Bureau OF Steam
Engineering, from 100000 TO 81 100000,
OF which increase il is suggested that
500, 900 should be applied to the completion
OF machinery, boilers, &C., OF the steamer
New York, at the New York yard.
He asks that the appropriations OF the Bu-
reau OF Ordnance be made rs follows:
General appropriation, including the civil
establishment, Si92,234; miscellaneous
items. $4,000; purchase OF torpedo-boat
and working drawings OF same, $4,000;
for macbipe-cannon, Calling guns, maya
zine rifles, and machIne.to0ls, S273,2lO;
and for additional steel breech-loadiDg
guns. $500. 400: and states that the sum OF
A2OO. GOO appropriated by the House bill for
Che Bureau OF Yards and Docks is mani
testify inadequate 10 meet the requirements
of that bureau. Each OF the requests for
additional appropriations is accompanied
by statement from the chief OF the bureau
for which II is asked setting forth the ne
cessity for such al increase. Other addi-
tional appropriations recommended by the
Secretary Of the Navy are as follows: Com
plotting batteries OF new cruisers, $685.
992; completing four doub!e-turretted
monitors and for ordnance for the same,
100000. 1t is suggested that authority
be given for their completion and for pro-
curing their armament. Ii is also recon-
mended that 90 per cent. OF the amounts
appropriated for the completion Of the
cruisers and their machinery should be
made available Immediately ia order to
meet payments on contracts which are
likely TO become due before July 18th,
1884, and that there be appropriated 81
5oc.U00 toward the construction OF one
cruiser OF 1850 tons displacement, one
cruiser OF 1900 tons, one dispatch vessel OF
I,JUU IONS, TWO DeaNlly-aTUeU RuliDOuts W
1900 tons each, one light gunboat OF $50
tons, one gunboat not to exceed 900 tons,
one steel ram, one cruising torpedo-boat,
and two harbor torpedo-boats as provided
In Senate bin COS passeJ by the Senate,
and that the construction Of these vessels
be authorized. The Secretary says, in
connection with the latter recommendation,
that il is desirable to correct some
of the erroneous statements that have
obtained more or less crodence with
reference to the new cruisers recommend
ed and the cruisers now under construc-
ton Of the same general type, and he states
that, although it has been asserted that
there can De no real competition for the
construction OF steel vessels by private
parties because only one or two ship-build-
ing firms can do the work, this assertion
Is entirely without foundation for the
cruisers now under consideration. Thir-
teen firms have furnished the Department
with the necessary evidence Of their abil-
ty TO undertake the work, and of these
thirteen eight were actual bidders on one
or more OF the vessels.