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Extra duty pay-Continued.

Disciplinary barracks guard-
Estimate for....

Object of.....

Rates of pay provided..

Enlisted men, Washington-Alaska cable and telegraph system.

Mess stewards, recruit depots..

Switchboard operators-

Interior posts...

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247

236

234

93

250

93

92

870, 891

955, 961

941

Government, cost to enlarge sufficiently to manufacture all arms and
ammunition..

Ordnance-

Bonus system, doing away with, has interfered with work..

Cost for manufacturing at, includes overhead charges..
Operating full capacity on two-shift basis...

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Ammunition, proportion of high-explosive sheel being increased.

Enlisted men in, statement showing..

Extreme range of fire of heavy pieces.

For National Guard-

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Headquarters company, increase in strength of, recommended.

Material, comparison in cost of manufacturing and purchasing...
Officers-

Number of, statement showing..

Pay of, estimate for..

Officers' Reserve Corps, members of, number.

Pieces in use and in contemplation, size of..

Strength proposed by General Staff.

Field clerks, Quartermaster Corps:

Quarters, heat, and light, commutation of, estimate for..

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Ration, cost of, last five fiscal years....

Ford machines, use of for transportation of machine guns.

Foreign nations, training of soldiers in......

Foreign service:

Discussion of...........

Enlisted men, pay to, estimate for.

Officers, pay to, estimate for...

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487

172

659

Benet-Mercie gun used in aeroplanes..
Casualties to June 1, 1915...

Lewis gun used in aeroplanes..

Long range guns of..

Training of soldiers in.

Front Royal, Va., riding hall, estimate for..

Fuel, purchase of for heating purposes, estimate..

Funds, accounting for when obtained on memorandum receipt.

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Foreign armies, number of officers attached to..
Limitations placed on when bill was in conference.
Officers-

Additional number required....

604

291

728, 865, 924, 949

742

744

756

Each arm of service should be represented with one of high rank..
Increase in recommended....

746

743,746

823

756

742

Problems studied by without direction of Congress..

Redistribution of duties of, under National Defense Act.....

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Men not required to service in Army if they have dependent mothers....

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Needed for protection of Government plants.

No efficient ones on hand..

Some being manufactured..

To be located at Government plants..

Coast Artillery, effectiveness of.....

Field, ammunition for, character being purchased.

3, 4.7 and 6 inch, use either shrapnel or high explosive shell.

Machine-

Ammunition used by America and England, interchangeability of ...
Appropriation for purchase of...

60

5.59
59,828

997

776

892

935

909

809

770

1005

1005

1005

1061

1035

731

596

257

886

887

886

885

885

885

704

948

936

965

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Board reports Vickers most efficient..

969

Charge that Ordnance Department has turned down excellent ones
groundless...

916

Colt Arms Co. can manufacture Vickers...

970

Colt Arms Co. only manufacturer of, that will take American ammu-
nition...

923

Government has manufactured Benet-Mercie..

Reason for purchase of, for National Guard.

Light type, tests to be made..

Location of, on June 1, 1916...

Discussion as to whether it is good policy to buy large number.
Extracts from reports of board on tests of..

Fire of, equal to 100 rifles....

Government does not contemplate manufacturing at present.

Heavy, man can not carry.

History of subject presented by Secretary of War...

Lewis-

Col. Squier's opinion of..

Cost of.

(See also Lewis gun.)

Light type may be invented for men to carry.

Manufacturers of, should be given business so they can be of assistance

917

968

869

912

919, 960

1096

964

1020

910

902

906

966

919

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Policy, change in, as to number each regiment should have.

Reason not being manufactured..

920

960

920, 960

Report on board on, confidential.

967

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Summary of report of board convened to determine best type.

Tests of various makes, dates of..............

Transportation of, discussion as to whether by mules or truck..

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H.

Page.

Hanna, Capt. Matthew E., relief of......

824

Hanson, B. M. W., report of, on capacity of Colt Arms Co. to manufacture

970

Vickers gun...

Harris, L. W., claim of..

596

Harvard University, students to attend training camps...

694

Hawaiian Islands:

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Army field clerks, commutation of......

Field clerks, Quartermaster Corps, commutation of..
Officers, commutation of...

Honolulu, Hawaii, wharf, transfer of from Navy.

Horses for Cavalry, Artillery, and Engineers:

Employees, estimate for..

Estimate for...

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543

58

58
89

543

476

461

476

465

465

463

214, 462, 469

469

464

464

464

477

462

Price of those purchased for border service..

Purchase of for border service..

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Experimenting with large pieces.

Heavy, use of in European war..

Huachuca, Fort, Ariz., barrack addition to, estimate for.

467

464

466

461

466

461

1041

464

1065

88, 1055

566, 1055

1056

1055

555, 1050

556, 1053

556, 560, 1050

934

935

936

935

933

944

945

487

I.

Ice machines, installation of..

Incidental expenses:

Clerks, hire of, estimate for..

Deficiency in, if National Guard continued in service.

Estimate for..

Laborers, hire of, estimate for.

Recapitulation of, estimate for.

Indian scouts, number of....

Infantry:

Enlisted men in, statement showing...

Machine guns, number required for each regiment..

Officers-

Pay of, estimate for...

Statement showing number of..

Officers' Reserve Corps, members of, number.

Supply company-

Cost of increase recommended.........

Increase in strength of, recommended.

President should have authority to increase strength of..

Information, military:

Bill to restrict publication of, draft of......

Law to prohibit publication of......

Inspector General's Department:

Officers-

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Jay, Fort, N. Y., band barrack, addition to, estimate for.

Jeffersonville, Ind., quartermaster depot at:

Articles manufactured at.

Enlargement of, cost...

Enlargement of, proposal for.

Reservation, size of.

Judge Advocate General, opinion of:

Construction work, Panama.

Title to clothing issued to National Guard..

Judge Advocate General's Department:
Military laws, revision of, estimate for..
Officers-

Additional pay for service, estimate for..
Officers in, statement showing..
Number estimated for...

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Pay of, estimate for...

K.

Kansas:

Horses, sale of pair in.............

464

Road from Fort Riley to Fort Leavenworth.

1084

Kissinger, John R., payments to..

102

Kitchens, material for, difficulty in obtaining.

401

Klusman, John H., claim of.....

596

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