Page images
PDF
EPUB

L.

Page.

Laborers, hire of, for mounts, reason of..

Laundries:

Operation of, cost for..

Post, in competition with commercial laundries.
Post, what are.

Lawton, Fort, Wash., band barrack, addition to, estimate for.

Lazear, Mable H., payments to...

Leavenworth, Fort, Kans., band barracks, addition to, estimate for..

Legislation, recommended by Chief of Staff, draft of......

Letterman General Hospital, California, buildings, estimate for...

236

198

156

155

488

102

488

833

488

[blocks in formation]

Invention of, not offered to Government so far as records show.

Not manufactured by Col. Lewis...........

914

1020

910

[blocks in formation]

Appointed from civil life, should West Point graduates be commissioned
first..

732

Light:

Electric, cost at posts.

177

Purchase of...

Lighting systems, installation of, at posts, statement showing.

Lime, hypochlorite of, purchase of...

Line officers:

Additional pay for service, estimate for...........

Detail of, to Staff Corps, discussion as to....

Number in Army at present time.

Shortage in.

176

183

406

13

748

6.7

Pay of, estimate for.

[blocks in formation]

Mackenzie, Fort, Wyo., band barracks, addition to, estimate for....

Madison Barracks, N. Y., barracks, additions to, estimate for...

Maintenance, Army War College, estimate for...

Major general, line, to be appointed from brigadier general of line.
Mann, Gen. W. A., statement of..

Manufacture of arms, estimate for..

Manufacturers, President can require precedence for our business if war is
threatened..

[blocks in formation]

5

9,667

5

401

664

489

596

533

489

489

578

857

1094

876

881
1082

171

88, 1055

596

1058

[blocks in formation]

Hospital train, use of..

1055

National Guard, officers, paid as lieutenants although commissioned as

captains....

1046

[blocks in formation]

Publications, purchase of.

1069

Reserve Officers, Training Corps, supplies, estimate for.

Stable sergeant-

1062

[blocks in formation]

Medical Reserve Corps, officers in, being transferred to Officers' Reserve Corps.. 1036

[blocks in formation]
[blocks in formation]

Military Affairs, Committee on, has jurisdiction over buildings costing not more
than $20,000.

[blocks in formation]

Change in, recommended because of history of other nations..

General Staff's opinion as to a proper...........

Inadvisable to say whether change in, should be made..

[blocks in formation]

Recapitulation of estimate for.

Military service, universal. (See Universal military training.)

Military surveys and maps, estimate for.

Military training:

Bill for, of Mr. McKellar...............

[blocks in formation]

Detail of officers to duty at.

Discussion as to success of.

Employees of firms attending.

Law requires attendants to obligate themselves for service.

Medical supplies, estimate for.

No enlistments as result of...

[blocks in formation]

Per capita cost of attendants..

Regulations being prepared will provide term of enlistment..

Regulations of War Department...

Uniform of attendants....

Universal, foreign countries, cost of training men..

596

905, 907

596

96

95

94

[blocks in formation]

Militia Bureau:

Chief of, statement of...

Clerks, transferred to legislative bill...

Stationery, etc., purchased from appropriation in legislative bill..
Militia. (See National Guard.)

[blocks in formation]

Should be enlisted men..

Mitchell, Maj. William, statement of..

Monroe, Fort, Va., Coast Artillery School, expenses of, estimate for..

Monterey, Cal., training camp, number of persons attended, 1916..
Moore, Maj. D. T., statement of...

Moore, Hon. J. Hampton, statement of..

[blocks in formation]

Motor cycles:

Yellow fever, breeding places of.

Engineer Department, purchase of..

Ammunition carriers, number contemplated to purchase..

Machine gun, number contemplated to purchase...
Quartermaster Corps, purchase of, estimate for..

Motor-propelled vehicles, Corps of Engineers, law to permit purchase of..

[blocks in formation]

Page.

1094

1145

1146

710

710

989

701

615, 690

733

843

1075

1057, 1074

1075

929

1081

929

358

1089

290

291

288

292

290

291

291

292

289

289

292

465

288

287

288, 354

291

291

291

291

292

287

825

532

289

463

464

289

477

335

462

464

461

854

N.

National defense, report on by Mayor Mitchel's committee..
National defense act:

Amendments for changes in, to be submitted by Chief of Staff..
Appropriations as a result of, whether will continue to be large.

Beneficial legislation..

Changes in recommended by Chief of Staff, draft of.

Effect of, as shown by estimates..

Navy League says it is failure....

Ultimate strength of Army under..

Provision in restricts promotion to major general in line to officers in line..

National Defense, Council of, expenses of, estimate for..

National Guard:

[blocks in formation]

Page.

1164

831

87

733

833

87

698

857

895

623

715

1159

.399, 1130

938, 943

944

943

1094, 1156

1094, 1156

1097

1096

Appropriations for-

By States since national defense act approved, no record in Militia
Bureau...

[blocks in formation]

Men did not come into service under national defense act.
Called out for duty not anticipated...

819

712

Chief of Staff-

Criticism of based on experience before national defense act effective.
Objects to system of volunteers..

[blocks in formation]

Cost of to complete equipment when called into service..

428

Duty of Regular Army to see that it was on hand

1108

In possession of when called into service, table showing.

[blocks in formation]

Deductions of Chief of Staff as to, based on analysis of reports..

Deficiencies-

Alleged, should show specific cases.

Appropriations, amount of if continued in service.

Dependent families of members of, payments to..
Difficulties of at time of mobilization..

1118

791

718

760

1109

4, 154

661, 662

712, 719, 724, 726

Discharges from, number of applications for, not known.

765

« PreviousContinue »