The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1901-02-01
THE NAVY
CROWS.
Appropriation Bill
Greater Than
Before.
OVER $77,00O,OO0
ARE CALLED FOR
The Hawaiian Islands are Put
Down for the Sum OF
$I07.300.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 19.-The naval
appropriation bill was reported to the
House today with an elaborate state
ment Of it's plans by Chairman Foss OF
the Naval Committee. The bill carries
S77,O16,6S5 the largest ever reported to
the House from the Committee on Nav
al Affairs This is s11 ,S65,7lS above the
bill of last year and 1929, 1876 below the
estimates submitted by the Navy De-
partment.
Concerning new ships for the navy
the report says:
For the purpose of further increas-
ing the naval estimate of the United
States the committee recommends that
the President be authorized to have
built by contract two unsheathed sea-
going battleships, carrying the heaviest
armor and the most powerful ordnance
for vessels of their class, upon 4 trial
displacement Of about l4OUO tons each,
to have the highest practicable speed
and greatest radius of action and to
cost. exclusive or armor and armament.
not exceeding 50, $50 900 each, and two
unsheathed armOred cruisers carrying
the heaviest armor and most powerful
ordnance for vessels of their class, upon
a trial displacement of about $4,000 tons
each and to have the highest practic-
able speed and greatest radius of ac-
tion and to cost, exclusive of armor and
armament not exceeding $4,000, 900.
Maximum cost of the vessels herein
authorized. exclusive of armor and
armament, will be s15.700,000."
The bill provides that not more than
,l,,
be built In one yard or by one party
and the usual provision is made that
at least one and not more than two OF
the batteships and armored cruisers
shall be built on the Pacific Coast
OF the appropriations for the various
branches of the service the principal
item is $25, 100000 for the increase OF
the navy. The pay of the navy Is in
creased s2,4S9,3S7 over the appropria
lions for the same object last year and
Is accounted for by the authority grant
ed to the department to enlist 5000 ad-
.ditional seamen and fifty warrant ma
chinists to meet the necessity Of prop
erly manning the new ships soon to be
added to the navy.
To meet the emergency of the lack of
officers for the new ships the bin pro-
yides that the two classes now at sea,
which have completed their four-years
course at the naval academy, shall be
commissioned thereupon This Will pro-
vide for the new officers desired by the
department and in the judgment of the
committee will meet all the exlgencies
of the present situation.
The continued necessity for an emer-
gency fund is found to exist in the un-
settled state of affairs In the Far East
and enables the department to meet
contingencies which it Is impossible to
anticipate with sufficient accuracy to
specifically estimate for.
The following places receive appro-
priations for naval work:
Portmsouth. S37S. $50 Boston 1926 600:
New York 81 OO9 600: League Island.
s695.2S0 Washington, $3lS 2l0; Norfolk,
1894 2G0: Key West. t144, 600 Mare Is
land tSSl,6 eco; Puget Sound, S273.0OO:
San Juan. $4,000; Pensacola sil. 500:
Algiers $3.50 600 Dry Tortugas, $1,000
Hawaii. s1O7 800; Tutula, SOS OOo.
For the four new dry docks now
building at Portsmouth, Boston, League
Island and Mare Island 81 OOO, 600 Is pro
Vided. The committee recommends this
year an appropriation of $4,000 900 to the
rebuilding of the Naval Academy In
last years bin $3.50 600 was appropriat-
ed, prior to that time 81. 900 600 making
total appropriation of $3.50, 900 prior
10 the present bill.
The report saws in part as to armor:
Your committee also provides under
the increase of the navy an appropria-
ton of s400O.O0O for armor and arma-
ment for ships now under construction
1t will be remembered that CONGRESS-
wisely solved tn perpleXing question OF
providing armor plate for our ships last
year by the enactment of a provision
giving the Secretary of the Navy fun
power to buy armor at such price as
in his judgment might seem reasonable
and just. or build an nrmor plate fac
tory, toward which 100000 was appro-
priated. 1t ought TO be a matter of
general congratulatlon that the armor
plate question has been settled through
the skill nrmness and excellent judg-
ment OF the Secretary OF the Navy in
carrying out the evident purposes OF
Congress"