Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-05-21
SENATE INSISTS CAPITAL
SHIPS SHALL Be BUILT
Naval Appropriation Bill Is Com
pletcd by Naval Affairs
Committee.
BUY 1000 ACRES AT QUANTICO
Provides for Construction OF Rail-
road to Indian Head Proving
Ground, Which Is First Link Of
Washington-Newpo News Line.
BUY 1900 ACRES AT QUANTICO
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total OF s1.5S7. 100000. or s2o2'S4o.oco
more than provided by the House. the
naval appropriation bill was completed
day by the Senate Naval Committee
and will be reported to the Senate to-
morrow.
Tho measures total is S63.0o3.l27 less
than was appropriated for the navy
for this fiscal year In the regular naval
bill and in deficiency measures.
The Senate committee redrafted to
make most emphatic the provision in
the House bill for the beginning OF
work on the three-year building pro-
gram by July. 1919. Construction of
the great fleet Of super Dreadnoughts
and battle cruisers provided in the
1916 naval bill has been held in abey-
anco in order that the building of
destroyers to battle German subma-
rines might be rushed.
PROVIDES PERMANENT
INCREASE IN PERSONNEL
To man the capital fleet when It
is completed. the Senate provided for
Il permanent increase in the enlisted
personnel OF tho navy to 1880. nearly
three times tho number of men in tho
navy before the war. The President
also would be authorized to increase
that strength by $4,000 men for the
war.
New projects added TO the House bill
by tho committee included:
Construction. at a cost OF Sa,150.0o0,
Of nitrate plant at Indian Head, Nd.
for the manufacture OF nitrate for ma =
val explosives.
Purchase, for $4,000. OF 1900 acres
Of land at the marine corps training
station at Quantico. Va.
Erection OF new buildings at the Ma
val Academy to provide room for addi-
tional midshipmen. $4,000. 900.
Reserve supply OF equipment for the
marine corps to replace material de-
stroycd by fire or otherwise, Sl6.s77. 200.
EQuipping navy yards for ship con-
struction. sG.0oo.ooo.
Mine depot. 100000
Other amendments by the Senate
committee provide:
That members OF the dental CORPS
may attain the rank as high as com
mander. and pay as high as captalo
That State naval volunteer forces OF
1900 men be transferred to the naval
reserve.
ENLARGED RECOGNITION
FOR MAXINE CORPS
That the commandant OF the marine
corps receive the rank and pay OF
a lteutenant-gene-al in the army and
that marine corps also have one ma
jor- general permanently and two for
the period OF the war.
The Increases made in the bill by the
committee include:
Aviation. sso34o.15o: new batteries
for ships. si5.537.712; ammunition. ,34.
'3o,350: torpedoes and appliances. $40.
100000; reserve ordnance supplies. s.3.-
100000; Boston Navy-Yard, 1000. 900
New York Navy-Yard, 100000; Wash
'ngton NavyYard. $500. 900; submarine
base, Key West. s2.5oo.O 900: Mare Island
Cal. Navy-Yard. $4,000: Puget Sound
Nary-fard, ssa5.o0o; naval provino
ground Indian Head, Md. (railroadl
>52'.ooo: torpedo station. Newport. u
j. 100000: naval fuel depot, San Diego.
Cal. $4,000.
Depots for coal. fuel oil base
Chesapeake Gay. $4,000. and naval
operating base. Hampton Roads. Va
$500. 900.