The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1918-03-21
CHARLESTON GIVEN BIG sun.
New Dry Dock, Deeper Channel, Quar-.
termaSter Storage Plant.

Washington. March 14.--A ST.,
100000 appropriation for the
naval service for the next fiscal year
but Immediately available in the
navy departments discretion is pro
vided in the annuaY naval budget
completed today by the house naval
committee.
The bill includes lump sum appro-
priatiOnS to add to the naval facili-
ties in the overseas programme, con-
tinues the three year programme OF
construction and Increases the navy
personnel and the number of officers
in the marine corps.
A S9,000,0O0 dock and channel
project for Charleston is included in
the bill under vote of the committee
today.
A direct appropriation of S1,000,-
900 was made for dredging the chan
mel at Charleston.
The bill appropriates 100000
for aviation. 1t authorizes an enlarg-
ment of the naval proving grounds
at Indian Head, Nd. including ac-
QUESTION Of land on the Virginia side
of the Potomac for enlargement of
the testing facilities for big guns, the
total appropriation for this purpose
being s1,000,000.
Authorization for expenditure of
100000 for dry dock and channel
at Charleston and action by the ship
ping board today to authorize the
construction of y 5000 ton ships
at the Charleston shipyards will make
that port one of considerable activi-
ty. Representative Whaley, of South
Carolina, who fought for the Charles
ton yard item in the naval bill, also
announced today that the army has
decided to establish quartermaster
storage plant on the Cooper river,
just above Charleston.
The dock authorized today by the
naval committee" said MIR. Whaley,
will accommodate the largest ships
afoat, battle cruisers, battleships or
anything else in the way of naval
craft. 1t makes Charleston a capital
ship yard.''
The naval bill carries an appropria-
tion of S1,150,000 to construct a l.
900 foot dry dock, with 40 foot sill,
at Charleston, hinder a limit of cost
of dock fixed at s4,000,000, and au-
thorizes s5,00o.O00 to dredge a 40
foot channel to deep water and in the
basin at Charleston. The committee
made the dock proposition contingent
upon the enactment of the channel
proposition so that if congress should
fail to provide the necessary appro-
priation for deepening the channel
the dock appropriation will not be
available
The committee voted down pro-
posal for a second dock at Norfolk.
There is already one large dock at
Norfolk.
A 1OO,O0O,0O0 lump sum would
be appropriated Ito enable the presi-
dent to secure the more economical
and expeditions delivery of materi-
ais, equipment and munitions and to
secure the more expeditions construc-
tion of ships
1--WE do not want to publish to the
world" explained Chairman Padgett
of the committee, 'how many de-
stroyers and submarine chasers and
other craft We have, are building or
expect to build, but we have put this
lump sum in the bill so as to let the
president use it for such purposes as
he thinks best
The bill provides for this final
years authorization of annual plans
ships, three scout cruisers, nine fleet
ships, three scout cruisesrs, nine fleet
submarines, two fuel ships, one trans
port, one destroyer tender, one am
munition ship and one gunboat.
DAYLIGHT Saving Bill.