The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-31
FINAL REVIEW 0F THE PLANS FOR NAVY ARE .G| V E N COMMITTEE Secretary Daniels Adds Sev- eral Items to Programme
 Already Outlined URGES A FEDERAL
 MUNITIONS PLANT Raises Estimate for Laboratory to Million and Half-Would Have
 Civilian Instructors At
 West Point

Washington, March 30-A final review Of the administrators navy plans was given the House naval committee today by Secretary Daniels, who added in sev- eral respects to the programme he had mapped out in estimates previously sub- mitted.
 Secretary Daniels recommended gov ernment plant to manufacture navy pro- jectiles; raised the estimate for the pro- posed research laboratory from s1. .Ooo, ,OOO to Sl,5OO,0O0, asked for about 15oOO addi- tional men instead of 10000 and proposed that civilian educators be placed at the head of the nonmiitary department of the naval academy to release line officers for active service.
 Requesting that all provisions for air service be stricken out of the five-year building programme, MT. Daniels urged an appropriation of $2,OOO,O00 for aircraft this year. He explained that there was no way of determining what expenditure would be necessary in the future
 CRITICISM IS FORECAST
 Criticism of Secretary Daniels admin lstration of the department foreshadoweo by the course of certain committees mem bers in examining previous witnesses. probably will materalize tomorrow. The secretary was allowed to proceed without interruption today, taking up the items in the programme one by one He will conclude his statement tomorrow and be questioned by the committeeman.
 Questions of new construction, of bat tleship versus battle cruisers of the size and speed of future submarines and other subjects much debated during the pro- longed hearing were not reached today. Mr. Daniels statements. outside of those relating to personnel, had to do almost wholly with industrial problems of the service.
 An outline of the departments plan for building up an adequate reserve force for the navy. presented by the secretary. provide for five classes of reservists. The first, to be known as the fleet reserve, would be composed of former officers and enlisted men; the second, or naval reserve. of officers and men of the sea going profession for service on fighting ships in war; the third, or naval auxiliary reserve. of shipmates and seamen en- rolled for war time duty on the auxiliary fleets; the fourth, or naval coast defense reserve of residents on or near the coa st capable of serving aboard mining craft. patrol vessels. torpedo boats, aircraft and the like for duty on the coasts and in their respective districts, and the fifth. or colunteer naval reserve. of men who would have no duty in peace times, but as owners of yachts, power boats or other craft could render efficient aid in war times.
 WANTS ARMOR PLATE
 Secretary Daniels urged the commit- tee to report favorably the armor plate factory bill which recently passed the Senate and which will be taken up m the House next Tuesday.
 A projectile plant. he declared, was vitally important Prices, he said. were going up and European orders had made it virtually impossible to ob- tain what the navy must have, He added that a government plant wcui1 make it possible to guard against iil- ventions gettingeinto the hands of the possible enemy powers as was now dl- most certain to be the case.
 '"rhe conditions in the United Statc1,'' said the secretary. lis briefly as fnl lows: The navy wants armor piercing projectiles but it does not want an iD- ferior quality such as the manufac- turers are willing to sell as such. IT e manufacturers. although they have ample capacity and although they know that projectiles in accordance with the requirements can be produced, are un- willing to undertake their production but are endeavoring to force the navy
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