Miscellaneous Public Bills: Hearings Before the Committee on Military Affairs, House of Representatives, Sixty-eighth Congress, Second Session, on Various Bills and Resolutions. [March 18, 1924].U.S. Government Printing Office, 1925 - 99 pages |
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ABERNETHY acres Alexandria amendment ANTHONY appropriation Army bank battle fields building Camp Humphreys CATON Chairman and gentlemen CHUMBLEY Coast Guard COLLIER Colonel BRYSON Colonel COLEMAN Colonel MARKEY Commander AUSTIN COMMITTEE ON MILITARY committee proceeded committee this day Comptroller consideration corporation cost Court creditors CRUPPER ernment Farm Loan Board favor field duty fought Fredericksburg FROTHINGHAM Governor TowNER HAYDEN HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES HULL insular government JULIUS KAHN jurisdiction land lease levee longevity pay Major MUNROE matter McKenzie acting chairman MCSWAIN ment MILITARY AFFAIRS military reservation monument MOORE National Guard officers Navy Orleans Association plant Porto Rico Potomac River President provides purpose quarters receive road Rock Island Arsenal sea duty Secretary of War sell Senate session Southern Pacific Railroad SPEAKS Spotsylvania Spotsylvania Courthouse STATEMENT Thereupon tion transfer Treasury Department understand United Virginia WAINWRIGHT War Department WURZBACH
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Page 82 - That each commissioned officer on the active list, or on active duty below the grade of brigadier general or its equivalent, in any of the services mentioned in the title of this Act, shall be entitled at all times, in addition to his pay, to a money allowance for subsistence, the value of one...
Page 79 - Every officer paid under the provisions of this section shall receive an increase of 5 per centum of the base pay of his period for each three years of service up to thirty years : Provided...
Page 20 - Inlet, be, and the same is hereby, ceded to the United States of America for the purpose of erecting a fort thereon for the defense of the said port and harbor.
Page 44 - ... deep water. Mr. MCKENZIE. Well, we will take the matter up. (Thereupon, at 12.55 o'clock pm, the committee adjourned.) COMMITTEE ON MILITARY AFFAIRS, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Saturday, April 26, 1924. The committee met at 10 o'clock am, Hon. John C. McKenzie (acting chairman) presiding. Mr. MCKENZIE. The committee will come to order. Congressman RATHBONE, of Illinois, is present this morning, and would like to make a short statement to the committee in connection with HR 8689, which he has introduced....
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Page 82 - ... allowance to be determined by the President for each fiscal year in accordance with a certificate furnished by the Secretary of Labor showing the comparative retail cost of food in the United States for the previous calendar year as compared with the calendar year 1922.
Page 79 - ... those of colonel, lieutenant colonel, major, captain, first lieutenant, and second lieutenant of the Army shall receive the pay of the sixth, fifth, fourth, third, second, and first periods, respectively, unless entitled to the pay of a higher period under the provisions of section 14 of this Act.