DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE ( HEARINGS BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES EIGHTY-FOURTH CONGRESS SECOND SESSION SUBCOMMITTEE ON DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS GEORGE H. MAHON, Texas, Chairman ERRETT P. SCRIVNER, Kansas GERALD R. FORD, JR., Michigan GLENN R. DAVIS, Wisconsin CORHAL D, ORESCAN, Staj Director to the Subcommittee Printed for the use of the Committee on Appropriations UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 73177 WASHINGTON : 1956 .A COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS CLARENCE CANNON, Missouri, Chairman GEORGE H. MAHON, Texas JOHN TABER, New York HARRY R. SHEPPARD, California RICHARD B. WIGGLESWORTH, Massachusetts ALBERT THOMAS, Texas BEN F. JENSEN, Iowa MICHAEL J. KIRWAN, Ohio H. CARL ANDERSEN, Minnesota W. F. NORRELL, Arkansas WALT HORAN, Washington JAMIE L. WHITTEN, Mississippi GORDON CANFIELD, New Jersey GEORGE W. ANDREWS, Alabama IVOR D. FENTON, Pennsylvania JOHN J. ROONEY, New York JOHN PHILLIPS, California J. VAUGHAN GARY, Virginia ERRETT P. SCRIVNER, Kansas JOHN E. FOGARTY, Rhode Island FREDERIC R. COUDERT, JR., New York ROBERT L. F. SIKES, Florida CLIFF CLEVENGER, Ohio ANTONIO M. FERNANDEZ, New Mexico EARL WILSON, Indiana PRINCE H, PRESTON, Georgia GLENN R. DAVIS, Wisconsin OTTO E, PASSMAN, Louisiana BENJAMIN F. JAMES, Pennsylvania LOUIS C. RABAUT, Michigan GERALD R. FORD, JR., Michigan SIDNEY R. YATES, Illinois EDWARD T. MILLER, Maryland FRED MARSHALL, Minnesota CHARLES W. VURSELL, Illinois JOHN J. RILEY, South Carolina T. MILLET HAND, New Jersey ALFRED D, SIEMINSKI, New Jersey HAROLD C. OSTERTAG, New York FRANK T. BOW, Ohio KENNETU SPRANKLE, Clerk and Staff Director (11) DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS FOR 1957 TUESDAY, JANUARY 24, 1956. GENERAL STATEMENTS WITNESSES HON. CHARLES E. WILSON, SECRETARY OF DEFENSE INTRODUCTORY STATEMENTS Mr. MAHON. Gentlemen, the committee will come to order. We will begin our hearing on the $35 billion defense budget for the coming fiscal year. I would like to say something for the record at this point. The majority members of the subcommittee are George H. Mahon, of Texas, chairman; Harry R. Sheppard, of California; Robert L. F. Sikes, of Florida; W.F. Norrell, of Arkansas; Jamie L. Whitten, of Mississippi; George W. Andrews, of Alabama; John J. Riley, of South Carolina; Charles B. Deane, of North Carolina ; and Daniel J. Flood of Pennsylvania. The minority members of the subcommittee are Richard B. Wigglesworth, of Massachusetts; Errett P. Scrivner, of Kansas; Gerald R. Ford, Jr., of Michigan; Edward T. Miller, of Maryland, Harold C. Ostertag, of New York; and Glenn R. Davis, of Wisconsin. Generally all members are present at all times. At times some members for reasons of great urgency are absent temporarily. Under the rules of committee procedure which follow the rules of seniority I am privileged to first interrogate each witness, and then recognize in order each member of the majority side. We then proceed to the members on the minority side who are recognized in order, beginning with Mr. Wigglesworth and concluding with Mr. Davis. Under the procedure Mr. Davis is the last man of the 15-man subcommittee to be recognized for questioning witnesses. Members of the committee with less seniority are entitled to a lot of credit for their patience and loyalty to the country in sitting through these long hearings without having an adequate opportunity to ask questions until most subjects have been covered and the witnesses are about exhausted or perhaps are called to other meetings. The first 2 or 3 committee members ordinarily develop from the witness the major testimony sought-perhaps all the testimony required—and it would be a disservice to the witness and the committee for other members to pointlessly rehash what has been presented to the committee. (1) |
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