Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-03-16
congress GIVES
STRONG SUPPORT
.TOlVAVfPROGRAM
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ICED in the two naval appropriation
bills an entire division Of five dread
noughts which will each cost in the
neighborhood OF fifteen million dol
lafsi three sea-going submarines
which will cost $1,500,0O0 each: %
submarines which will cost about $500,
600 each; IL torpedo boat destroyers
averaging in cost about $500, 600 each,
and q fuel ship to cost 81 900, 900. The
total appropriation for increase OF the
navy authorized by the Sixty third
Congress Is SSS,145,535, showing an
increase ever the sixty-second Con
gress by the sixty-third, Congress OF
E$3g,250, 1862 for additional ships for
the navy. To this should be added
81 ,090, 900 for aviation and $500, 900 for
Submarines reappr opfiated from saw.
ings erected IN exp nditures ashore
'oyefa thes last tfiseal year. ~ This
IN, SEQ, goo OF money feappro priated
Ebtr reason Of economies effected
should be qadded to the sS6, 145, 551
making $50, SAB SGT FOR new coHstfuc'
3iunsa 'i,r gtdESt eco - > 80, III !'s'sEt
2 The real progress srt that viii Be made
by the navy as result Of its liberal
and intelligent treatment by THIS
cannot be EXPRESSED by dol
lars ana cents. Any person Or any
Congress can spend money! but no
other Congress has gone so far to see
that IT'S appropriation was applied
where most vitality needed and with.
out regard to merely political sconsid.
CREATIONS. Everything has been sub.
ordinated' to the battle fleet and dts
efficiency. The haphazard and some
times prodigal appropriations OF
previous Congresses for unnecessarily
costly buildings at navy yards, which
has been so justly criticized by form
err Secretary of the Navy Meyer in
the public press, has been done away
with. Expenditures ashore have been
reduced to an absolute minimum and
in this connection It IS pleasant to
record the cheerful cooperation of the
Democratic members Of Congress
frem navy yard districts who have
patriotically risen to the occasion and
cheerfully acquiesced I'm the desire OF
the department to first OF all increase
the strength and efficiency OF the
fleet. OF perhaps even greater event
uaI Importance than the mere physi-
cal additions to the feet are the steps
which have been taken towards in.
creasing the personnel and modern
izing the military organization of the
navy. The "Plucking Beard" which
A-A-&" A.. \ a. ,,t,cP,,i,, go 4 hoe haon
abolished and a system of promotion
to take its place will bs- one of tie
first things taken up by thesnew Con.
gress when It assembled ysf.
Comparison Of EstsTsteI and Appro.
priations.
A comparison Of the prqvisions OF
the bill with the decentralization in
the annual fsliprt bf the secretary of
the navy for the fiscal year 1914, and
the accompanying estimates for the
fiscal year 1856. shows how closely
Congress followed the thought and
reasoning of this report. The building
program recommended by the secre-
tary was: si<> l.=.-
2sdreadnoughts. = ..>:. = =. :.
6 destroyers. ,''f's4.t a ,,'s....s@
! 5 submarines or rnoress I tobe of
seagoing, and Z or more of coast de-
Tense type with a supplementary
Recommendation for a larger increase
in submarine craft "appropriating
generously therefor without reducing
the appropriation for other classes"
and $1,oo0,0o0 for aviation.e = 7.
& / gunboat. -:
oiler. .:~.: IL.
s The building program passed by
Congress is as follows: $3.50 .,
2 dfeadnoughts.
6 destroyers .-
2 seagoing submarines. g.:
is smaller submarines, 49,.
/ oiler. tss - 49, =. + ,-.....
/ million dollars for; aviation.
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