SHIPS 3. The ships to be maintained in commission and not in commission will be in approximate accordance with an operating force plan to be promulgated at an early date. The organization of the fleets and the assignment of ships will continue approximately as at present. All capital ships allowed by the treaty for the limitation of naval armament will be kept in full commission, together with other combatant craft so organized as to form a nucleus for expansion, and for training in the major forms of fleet work, in so far as may be possible under other limitations. Auxiliary ships, vessels of the train and of the naval transportation service will be maintained in commission in sufficient numbers to supply the current needs of the fleet; to form a nucleus for expansion; and to provide for training and development. All freight and passengers will be moved in commerical carriers where regular commercial lines are in operation or where commercial facilities can properly be utilized. New ships, as completed, will be placed in commission. Certain ships will be assigned in the operating force plan to the training of naval reservists. The ships of the fleet will carry on their normal schedule of annual training, including gunnery exercises, steaming exercises, inspections, etc., together with combined maneuvers, and probable schedules will be shown in a fleet employment plan to be promulgated. The material maintenance and improvement plan, showing the proposed distribution of vessels to yards for upkeep, etc., will be promulgated. Estimates for repairs and alterations of vessels should be based on probable expenditures for routine overhauling plus expenditures for such contemplated improvements as can reasonably be effected during periods at yards. AIRCRAFT 4. The operation of aircraft will be in approximate accordance with the operating force plan to be promulgated. The use of aircraft afloat will be extended, and the major part of operations of aircraft will be in connection with the fleet and in the training of units which are to take their place in the fleet upon the installation of catapults and the completion of aircraft carriers. DISTRICT CRAFT 5. The number of district craft maintained in service will be in approximate accordance with an operating plan to be promulgated and will be limited to those necessary to meet the current needs. Their assignment will remain practically as at present, with minor changes as may be necessary. SHORE STATIONS 6. The operation of shore stations will be in accordance with an operating plan to be promulgated. Priority in maintenance will be given to those stations of the greatest strategical importance, and those most needed for the support of the fleet in time of national emergency. 7. Development will be given to the shore establishment in accordance with the naval base development program to be promulgated, and preliminary estimates will be made up in the approximate sum of $7,000,000. 8. Under the five-power treaty the department will maintain Guam and Manila Bay as in the status quo. REGULAR SERVICE PERSONNEL 9. The estimates will provide for the officers of the line at present on the active list, plus the graduates from the Naval Academy in the class of 1924, less retirements and casualties, and such other changes as may be authorized by the Secretary of the Navy. 10. The enlisted force of the Navy will be 80,000 men, including 6,000 apprentices. The complements of ships in commission are to be kept filled and should not be allowed to run below the following percentages: 11. The enlisted force of the Marine Corps will be as provided for in the fiscal year 1924. RESERVE PERSONNEL 12. The estimates will provide for the training of 2,170 officers and 10,000 men of the Reserve Force, to be trained in ships specifically assigned to the training of the Reserve Force. All expenses for this project will be made up separately and embodied in one item. CIVIL PERSONNEL 13. Civil personnel will be maintained to perform the necessary work, except at Pearl Harbor, which has been covered in separate instructions. Salaries of the civil personnel will be based on the classification provided by the classification act of March 4, 1923. The "from-and-to" details in the department will be adjusted so that civil personnel will be carried by the office where employed. BUILDING PROGRAM 14. Estimates will consist of three parts: (a) The completion of ships already under construction. (b) The modernization of battleships (if same authorized in present session of Congress). (c) New construction as may be authorized during present session of Congress. Money should be included in the estimates for the completion of vessels under construction and for such moneys for the modernization of battleships and for new construction as can profitably be utilized during the fiscal year. MISCELLANEOUS 15. The reserve stocks of food and clothing will be maintained. 16. The reserve stocks of torpedoes will be built up. 17. The reserve stock of fuel oils will be built up. 18. The naval supply account fund will be gradually reduced. 19. The department will submit estimates for activities under the following special heads: (d) Government of West Indian Islands. (e) State marine schools. (f) Care of lepers, Guam. (g) Office of Naval War Records. (h) Experimental and Research Laboratory. (i) Hydrographic Office, including the production of charts to make United States independent of foreign sources. (j) Ocean and lake surveys. (k) United States Naval War College. (1) United States Naval Observatory. (m) Nautical Almanac Office. (n) Engineering Experiment Station, Annapolis. (0) United States Academy. (p) Postgraduate School. (q) Naval communication service, closing such minor stations as are not required for present service. : CURTIS D. WILBUR. NAVY DEPARTMENT, From: Budget officer, Navy Department, To: Bureaus and offices of the Navy Department. Subject: Budget, 1926. Washington, April 29, 1924. Reference: (a) Secretary of Navy letter April 25, 1924, No. 109-14:2. 1. In the mimeographed copy of reference (a), change paragraph 10, page, 3, to read as follows: "The enlisted force of the Navy will be 86,000 men, including 6,000 apprentices." W. R. SEXTON (By direction). SIZABLE NEW ITEMS All items of appropriation in the present estimates are included under the same appropriation titles as for the fiscal year 1925. Some of the public works items are, however, new ones and those that amount to $100,000 or over are shown herewith. Under temporary government, West Indian Islands, toward a permanent water supply system for the towns of St. Thomas, Christiansted, and Frederiksted___ $125,000.00 Under public works, Bureau of Yards and Docks: Navy Yard, Boston, Mass. Improvement to water front 150,000.00 Replacement of circulating loop. 125,000.00 Navy Yard, Philadelphia, Pa., dredging, to continue... Navy Yard, Puget Sound, Wash., repair and fitting out pier, to continue... 150,000.00 400,000.00 Naval Station, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Improvement to water front, industrial section...... 200,000.00 100,000.00 Naval Station, Cavite, P. I., moving Dry Dock Dewey from Olongapo...... 400,000.00 Naval training station, California. Naval training station, Rhode Island- Naval training station, Hampton Roads Organizing Naval Reserve Force Naval War College.. Contingent and miscellaneous expenses, Hydrographic Office. Grounds and roads, Naval Observatory. Aviation Current and miscellaneous expenses, Naval Academy. Pay, Marine Corps- Maintenance, Quartermaster Department, Marine Corps....... Reserves set up and allowed to lapse in 1924 appropriations Pay, miscellaneous Transportation, Navigation.... Contingent, Bureau of Navigation. Naval War College, Rhode Island. Contingent and miscellaneous expenses, Hydrographic Office..... 45,000.00 25,000.00 100,000.00 2, 730.00 18, 405, 00 150,000.00 150,000.00 $6,000.00 250, 000, 00 1,000,00 2, 645.00 3,000,00 Unobligated balances of continuing appropriations as of November 1, 1924 (ex clusive of public works) Torpedoes and appliances. Projectile plant, Navy Ammunition for ships of the Navy Armor plant, Navy Batteries for merchant auxiliaries_ Increasing facilities for proof and test of ordnance material, Navy. Increase of the Navy (ordnance allotment) High power radio station. Machinery plant, naval station, Cavite Reserve supplies, Marine Corps.. Naval hospital, Fort Lyon, Colo Bounty for destruction of enemies' vessels. Bounty for destruction of enemies' vessels (C. C.)1 Claims for damages by collisions with naval vessels. Claims for damages, Navy Department Claims reported by Court of Claims under Bowman and Tucker Indemnity for lost property, naval service 2 Judgments, bounty for destruction of enemies' vessels Judgments, Court of Claims.. Payment of certain claims arising under the Navy Department 3 Payment of Japanese award 4. Prize money, Battle of Manila Bay. Prize money to captors. Prize money to captors, Spanish War Refund of stolen deposits of enlisted men of the Navy and Marine Corps Reimbursement of enlisted men for clothing and bedding destroyed Relief of owners American schooner Walter B. Chester Judgment, owners barkentine Mabel I. Meyers 8_ Relief of Perry E. Dorcheis Reimbursement to certain persons for loss of private funds while patients at naval hospital, naval operating base, Hampton Roads, Va- Reimbursement to Gus Potter... Reimbursement to Netherlands Government_ Relief of William H. Lee.. Reserve material, Navy.. Improving and equipping navy yards for the construction of ships. $167, 800.00 23, 325. 56 13, 310. 59 487, 364. 14 3, 476. 31 30. 53 9, 525, 000. 00 3, 262. 47 30, 159. 94 1, 361, 306. 63 4, 782. 36 52, 280. 80 56 405. 21 712.92 649. 22 249.00 59, 368. 67 100, 471. 49 2, 372. 59 21. 15 28, 492. 18 32, 413. 34 429, 301. 55 26, 723. 89 648.62 147.51 269.64 1, 058. 83 346. 45 105.00 113.00 36. 59 828. 29 728, 010. 45 Appropriations, Bureau of Yards and Docks This small balance has been standing since the fiscal year 1913. This balance has been standing since the fiscal year 1917. This balance has been unchanged since the fiscal year 1915. 4, 974. 16 This appropriation was made by the act of February 22, 1883, and the balance has been unchanged since the fiscal year 1902. This appropriation was made August 22, 1912, and the balance has been inactive since the fiscal year 1916. This appropriation was mde March 3, 1905, and the balance has been inactive since the fiscal year 1908. 1 Appropriation made February 18, 1911, $5,751.75. Claim was apparently settled for $5,482.11, leaving the above balance, which has been standing since the close of the fiscal year 1911. Amount appropriated July 11, 1919, $81,860.31. Claim apparently settled for $80,726.18, leaving the above balance, which has been standing since the close of the fiscal year 1921. Miscellaneous appropriations: Bridge, navy yard, Portsmouth, N. H. (limit of cost $500,000), acts July 11, 1919, and July 1, 1922 Experimental and research laboratory, to complete (limit of Naval training camps, acts Oct. 6, 1917, Mar. 28, 1918, July 8, Improvements at ordnance stations, acts Mar. 28, 1918, and Temporary storage facilities, Navy, acts July 1, 1918, and Naval air station site, Cape May, N. J., acts Oct. 6, 1917, and Depots for coal: Oil-proofing reservoirs, act July 11, 1919 For depots for coal and other fuel (contingent), act July 12, Hospitals and medical supply depots (contingent), act July 11, 1919 Annapolis, Md. (buildings and grounds, Naval Academy): Sea wall, act Aug. 29, 1916 Building for seamanship and navigation and other instruction $3, 816. 83 57, 069.55 3, 079.68 36, 992. 37 475, 248. 48 713.77 328, 430.00 4, 827. 53 334. 30 237, 337. 46 1, 639. 10 2, 517.76 Addition to power plant, act July 11, 1919 769.89 Water purification plant, act June 4, 1920. 400.00 Astoria, Oreg. (submarine and destroyer base, Columbia River), toward the development of a submarine and destroyer base, act June 4, 1920 75. 84 Improvement of central power plant, act July 1, 1918-- Additional facilities, Dry Dock No. 3, act May 28, 1924- act May 28, 1924_ Cavite, P. I. (naval station): Fuel-oil storage, act June 4, 1920... Moving power plant equipment from Olongapo and replacing Charleston, S. C. (navy yard): Railroad system extension, act July 1, 1918 Central power plant improvements, act July 1, 1918... Dover, N. J. (naval magazine, Lake Denmark, N. J.), acquisition Fort Mifflin, Pa. (naval magazine), acquisition of additional land, Great Lakes, Ill. (naval training station): To make compensation for land taken over, etc., act July 12, 1921 Shore protection and harbor improvement, act July 1, 1922--- Sewerage system, improvements, act 28, 1924. Railroad trestle, replacement, act May 28, 1924. Guam (naval station): Cold storage, act July 1, 1918- Repairing dredge, act Jan. 22, 1923. Fire protection, act May 28, 1924. Guantanamo, Cuba (naval station): Additional distilling facilities, act July 12, 1921 Fresh water tank, act May 28, 1924 4, 828. 91 |