Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1922-04-20
PERSONNEL $4,000; VOTE
ON MEASURE 279 TO 7s
AMENDMENT TO NAVY BILL
WHICH RETAINS CIVILIAN
INSTRUCTORS


amendment 10 the Naval Appro-
priations bill. offered by Con-
gressman Dennison. of Illinois.
and sponsored by Congressman
Mudd. of Maryland and others.
under which the corps of civil
ian instructors at the Naval
Academy was retained:
NO part. or any sum in this
Act, appropriated, shall be ex-
pended in the pay or allowances
OF any commissioned officer OF the
Navy detailed for duty at the
United States Naval Academy to
perform duties which were per-
formed by civilian professors and
instructors on January l, 1922
Breaking away from its own
leadership and standing behind
President Harding. the House OF
Congress last night passed the
Naval Appropriations bill, with
the amendment fixing the enlist
ed personnel at $4,000 which was
the subject of a bitter contest a
few days ago. The fight waged
by Maryland Congressmen was
largely responsible for saving 7S
civilian instructors at the Naval
A c d m Y, their positions.
Amendments providing for their
salaries and enjoining their dis
missal were adopted following
speeches by Congressman sgd
ney +. Mudd, and J. Charles
Linthicum and others.
Wilson Urged Dropping IS
Rear-Admiral Henry B. Wilson.
Superintendent OF the Academy, and
other naval authorities. appeared be-
fore the Naval Affairs Committee re-
Gently and testified that the Academy
could dispense with rs Of its corps OF
1l3 instructors, and supplant them by
officers of the line. The amendment
proposed by Representative Denison,
of Illinois, provided that the sum ap-
propriated for civilian professors
should be s421 800, instead OF $346,-
500, an increase of $4,000. This was
adopted. 1t is provided that not more
than $4,000 should be spent for in
struction in swordmanship and ath-
letics.
In other words the action indicates
there will be no cutting OF the num-
ber OF civilian instructors, as the ap-
propriations are virtually the same as
last year.
Vote Was 279 To rs
With the fighting section out OF the
way the bill was put on its passage
and went through, 279 to rs. AS
amended. the measure carried a total
OF s251 .269. 900, or s1S,O00,OOO more
than the total fixed by the Appro-
priations Committee which framed It.
II goes now to the Senate, with the
charge by Chairman Kelley or the
Naval Appropriations subcommittee,
that many millions will be added and
which the House would have been
asked to add, had not the big Navy
men changed front at the last"
The House adopted an amendment
increasing the appropriation for the
pay OF civilian professors and IN
structors at the Naval Academy from
s346. 500 to s421, 500. The amendment
was sponsored by Representative sgd
ney E. Mudd, OF Maryland, chairman
of the Naval Academy subcommittee
of the House Naval Committee. Rep
resentative J. Charles Linthicum OF
Baltimore, also urged adoption OF the
amendment.
How Tutors Are Divided
| For several years the course OF in
struction at the Academy has been
about evenly divided between COM
missioned officers and civilian pro-
fessors. The naval authorities appear
| ing before the Appropriations Com
mittee this year recommended tnat tne
total amount for pay OF professors
and others should be decreased III
view of the fact that they believed that
7s of the civilian instructors could pe
dismissed from the Academy ana
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