Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1922-06-12

| graph wass amended on a compromise
tasis so as to retain so civilians The
Senate bill stipulates that officers
may not be detailed for duty at An
| uapClis whenever the number of civ
| liam professors or instructors en-
| Dloyed in such duties shall lie less
| han So"
Force OF so Provided
Therefore, Admiral Wilson may re-
luce his civilian force to so, Tut if it
goes below that figure the force can
lot be augmented by assignment of
| naval officers to teaching duties.
Hearings on the naval budget, made
| public, show that Admiral Wilson
| would have gone further than this
He was ready to reduce the civilian
| instructors to the pre-war number,
on the theory that most of these civ
ilian teachers came in during the war
and since when naval officers were
not available tecause of sea duties
| No injustice would be done, he said
by letting these civilians go and re-
turning to the old system.
Indian Head Loses Out
Reporting the Naval Appropriation
| bill TO the Senate Saturday, the APP
he House measure the amendment OF
Representative Sydney L. Mudd for
| the abandonment of the Dahlgren
(Va.) Proving Ground and the con-
centration of naval proving ground
activities at Indian Head Md. The
Senate committee says it would be
inwise to abandon Dahlgren, which
| makes possible tosts of longer range
md that site should be developed
rather than eliminated. Dahlgren
came into use during the war and
al out $2,O0O.000 has been expended
| upon it.
Senator Glass was member of the
subcommittee framing the naval
budget and put up determined fight
'or the retention of Dahlgren, in
which he was joined by Senator
| Swanson. Representative Mudd and
Senator France. will carry the Mudd
amendment to the conference COM
nittee, but the Senate is expected to
hold out for continued use of Dahl
| gren.
Increase Over House Bill
AS reported by the Senate commit
tee the Naval ill carries s294,275, 244,
as compared with 1881 .269,797 as the
bill passed the House, an increase of
approximately $43,000,000.
Total appropriation for the Naval
Academy, in the Senate bill amounts
to $2.129,461, as compared with ST.
154., 461 in the House bill.
Strikes Out Middies Provision
The Senate committee struck from
| the House bill the provision reduc-
ing the number Of midshipmen to lie
commissioned in 1922 to 200. The
Senate committee says all the mid
shipmen graduated should be commits
stoned, and if there is to be a reduc-
ton in young officer force it should
be governed by admissions to the
academy rather than by Withholding
| commissions after graduation.
/ Regarding the Dahlgren Proving
Ground, the committee reported as
follows:
THE conditions existing at Indian
Head and the available range from
that point make it impossible to fire
projectiles at high elevation and long
range.
Dahlgren's Long Range
AT Dahlgren an excellent long
range is available Two million dol
lars already has been invested at
Dahlgren in buildings and miscel-
laneous equipment essential to the
work of firing and testing artillery
The Government has acquired 1,446.7
acres of land excellently situated.
at has been suggested that the
testing of guns for short range should
be continued at Indian Head, and for
long range should be carried on at
Dahlgren. The committee, however,
deems it inadvisable that there should
be two establishments, with conse-
! Quent two organizations and over