and additional funds for carrying the program forward are carried in the accompanying bill. Work will go forward in 1932 on all vessels now authorized except the three cruisers above referred to, and on 12 destroyers, 1 transport, and 1 Neff submarine authorized by the naval appropriation act for the fiscal year 1917. The committee has omitted from the bill the provision heretofore carried favoring Government navy yards and arsenals in the award of work which they are in a position to perform. NAVY DEPARTMENT There follows a comparison of the appropriations for the current fiscal year for the Navy Department proper, as distinguished from the field service, with the Budget estimates and the amounts proposed in the accompanying bill for the fiscal year 1932: Salaries.-The Budget increase for salaries is made up largely of $51,380 on account of the Brookhart Act, and $28,840 for promoting employees who are receiving salaries below the average of their grades. The latter sum has been eliminated completely. The Budget also includes $2,660 to cover the pay of positions which have been reallocated; adds $3,500 for one new position in the Bureau of Ordnance to be filled by a technicist as an understudy to the civilian expert in charge of gun designing in such bureau, who will become eligible for retirement in 1933, and adds $5,240 for three employees in the Secretary's office required to handle the additional work occasioned by the comptroller's decision requiring per diem classified employees to be placed in a per annum status. There are approximately 6,500 employees involved and the work of effecting the change and the additional work which it will impose thereafter will be considerable. The changes made by the committee in the estimate for salaries are as follows: (1) $28,840 has been deducted, which was intended for promotions; (2) $5,000 has been added to the estimate for salaries of Hydrographic Office employees to take care of reallocations already made; and (3) $12,000 has been added to the salary estimate for the Bureau of Engineering to meet a demand for additional technical assistants growing out of a reorganization of the bureau that should promote efficiency and economy. Contingent expenses.-The estimate for contingent expenses is $44,160 in excess of the current appropriations. This is a net figure. Certain nonrecurring expenses partly offset the additional expense of approximately $4,000 for the new branch hydrographic office at Honolulu, authorized by the act of June 24, 1930, and an item of $50,000 to provide in part for the purchase and installation of equipment, utilities, and appurtenances for astrographic and research work and modernization of the astronomical plant of the Naval Observatory, as authorized by the act of July 11, 1930. This project will cost $160,000, apart from the construction of the new astrographic laboratory, authorized by such act, the appropriation for the construction of which is carried in the accompanying bill under "Public Works." Printing and binding.-The Budget and bill provide $50,000 less for printing and binding than the appropriation for the current year, which was increased by such amount to meet a special need for training manuals for issue to enlisted men. LIMITATIONS AND LEGISLATIVE PROVISIONS The following limitations on expenditures or legislative provisions, not heretofore enacted in connection with any appropriation bill, are recommended: On pages 25 and 26, in connection with the number of commissioned line officers and the pay of surplus graduates of the Naval Academy: Provided, That the appropriation "Pay, subsistence, and transportation, Navy, 1931," shall be available for the pay and allowances of not to exceed five thousand four hundred and ninety-nine commissioned officers of the line on the active list, exclusive of officers designated pursuant to law as additional numbers, and shall be available to pay one year's sea pay to surplus graduates of the Naval Academy, as provided by law. On pages 26 and 27, in connection with midshipmen appointed from enlisted men of the Navy: Provided further, That no part of this appropriation shall be available for the pay of any midshipman appointed from enlisted men of the Navy for admission to the Naval Academy in the class entering in the calendar year 1932 who has not served aboard a vessel of the Navy for at least nine months prior to such admission. On page 29, in connection with the purchase of fuel oil of foreign production: Provided further, That no part of this appropriation shall be available for the purchase of or payment for any kind of fuel oil of foreign production, except by or for vessels in a foreign port. On page 32, in connection with the intermittent employment of engineers and architects under the Bureau of Yards and Docks: and part time or intermittent employment in the District of Columbia, or elsewhere, of such engineers and architects as may be contracted for by the Secretary of the Navy, in his discretion, at a rate of pay not exceeding $20 per diem for any person 80 employed, On page 39, in connection with the employment of commissioned line officers above the grade of lieutenant commander on aviation duty: Provided further, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended in any manner whatsoever by or for the use of a total number of commissioned line officers of the Navy above the grade of lieutenant commander which exceeds the total number of such officers assigned to aviation duty on February 9, 1931. On page 47, in connection with procurements abroad: No appropriation contained in this act shall be available for the purchase of any raw materials of foreign production or any manufactured articles or supplies of foreign production or containing materials of foreign production except (1) for experimental purposes, (2) raw materials not produced in kind or requisite quantity or quality in the United States, and (3) requisite manufactured materials or articles not procurable in the United States. Increase (+) or de- NAVY DEPARTMENT APPROPRIATION BILL, FISCAL YEAR 1932 Comparative statement of the amounts appropriated for the fiscal year 1981, the Budget estimates for the fiscal year 1932, -$1,860. 00 |