Amendment No. 17 increases the number of clerks by two, and the House recedes with an amendment making an increase of one clerk over the House provision. Amendment No. 18 increases the number of clerks by five, and the House recedes with an amendment making an increase of two clerks over the House provision. Amendment No. 19 increases the number of clerks by six, and the House recedes with an amendment making an increase of two clerks over the House provision. Amendment No. 20 increases the number of clerks by two, and the House recedes with an amendment making an increase of one clerk over the House provision. Amendment No. 21 increases the number of messengers by 11, and the House recedes with an amendment making an increase of five messengers over the House provision. Amendment No. 22 changes the total. Amendment No. 23 provides that in the future length of service for retirement for double time for foreign service shall not be given to those who hereafter enlist, and the House recedes with an amendment providing that nothing in this provision shall be construed to diminish the time of any soldier who has already received the benefit of the law as it now is. Amendment No. 24 provides that the superintendent of the Nurse Corps shall receive allowance of quarters, subsistence, and medical care, and the House recedes. Amendment No. 25 reduces the amount appropriated by the House for contract surgeons from $18,000 to $13,000, and the House recedes. Amendment No. 26 provides that the age limit for the retirement of Army paymasters' clerks shall be the same as the age limit for the retirement of commissioned officers of the Army, and the House recedes. Amendment No. 27 provides $500,000 for commutation of quarters to commissioned officers and others on duty without troops, being $30,000 more than the House appropriated, and the Senate recedes. Amendment No. 28 provides for $900,000 for travel allowance for enlisted men on discharge, being $100,000 more than the House appropriated, and the Senate recedes. Amendment No. 29 provides that hereafter an enlisted man on discharge shall be entitled to transportation in kind and subsistence from the place of his discharge to the place of his enlistment. Or in lieu of such transportation and subsistence he shall receive, if he so elects, 2 cents per mile for sea travel. And the House recedes with an amendment which puts this provision of law into effect at once. It is computed by the Pay Department that this provision will save $500,000 annually. Amendments Nos. 30 and 31 strike out quotation marks, and the House recedes on both. Amendment No. 32 provides $266,000 for additional 10 per cent increase of pay of officers on foreign service, and the House recedes. Amendment No. 33 provides for $750,000 additional 10 per cent increase on pay of enlisted men on foreign service, and the House recedes with an amendment providing that hereafter the laws allowing increase of pay to officers and enlisted men for foreign service shall not apply to service in the Canal Zone, Panama, Porto Rico, and Hawaii. Amendment No. 34 provides that section 3602, Revised Statutes, as amended by the act of Congress of February 27, 1877, shall not be construed as precluding Army paymasters from drawing checks in favor of persons or institutions designated by indorsement made on his monthly pay account by an officer of the Army who is stationed beyond the continental limits of the United States, or in Alaska, or the Canal Zone, Panama, and the House recedes with an amendment which will include all officers of the Army wherever stationed. Amendment No. 35 strikes out the appropriation for encampment and maneuvers, Organized Militia, because this appropriation has been provided for by a joint resolution. Amendment No. 36 provides an appropriation for dummy guns and mortars and other appliances, and the House recedes with an amendment striking out the appropriation of $275,000 and providing that the unexpended balance of the appropriation made for this last year be reappropriated. Amendment No. 37 proyides $8,988,867.42 for the purchase of subsistence supplies, etc., being $383,594.42 more than was appropriated by the House, and the House recedes with an amendment reducing the appropriation by $191,787. Amendment No. 38 provides that the provisions of section 5 of the act of June 30, 1906, shall not apply to the Subsistence Department, and the House recedes. Amendment No. 39 provides for $7,865,688 for regular supplies for the Quartermaster's Department, being $408,915 more than the House appropriated, and the House recedes with an amendment reducing the appropriation made by the Senate by the sum of $308,915. Amendment No. 40 increases the appropriation for the equipment of officers' schools from $400,000 to $600,000, and the House recedes. Amendment No. 41 provides $2,000,000 for incidental expenses, Quartermaster's Department, being $263,663 more than the House appropriated, and the House recedes with an amendment reducing the amount appropriated by the Senate by the sum of $114,000. Amendment No. 42 provides for $300,000 for horses for Cavalry, Artillery, etc., being $25,000 more than the House appropriated, and the House recedes because this sum is necessary, as the Cavalry is not to be reduced. Amendment No. 43 strikes out the House provision making immediately available $25,000 of the appropriation, and also strikes out the House provision as to expenditure of money at certain Army posts, and the House recedes with an amendment which provides that no part of the money appropriated in this act shall be spent at any Army post which the President has decided or may decide to abandon. This amendment also provides for the purchase of a part of the Fort Clark Military Reservation, Tex., by the State of Texas. Amendment No. 44 appropriates $10,000 for a building at Fort Leavenworth, Kans., and the House recedes. Amendment No. 45 strikes out the provision as to brigade and regimental posts, and the House recedes. Amendment No. 46 provides $11,250,000 for the transportation of the Army and its supplies, being $526,472 more than the House appropriated, and the House recedes with an amendment reducing the amount appropriated by the Senate by the sum of $400,000. Amendment No. 47 provides for $994,600 for roads, walks, and drainage, and the House recedes with an amendment reducing the amount by $69,250. Amendment No. 48 strikes out certain Army posts therein mentioned and the House recedes from that part of the amendment. This amendment also provides for the appropriation of $70,000 for the purchase of certain land near Fort Sam Houston, Tex., and the Senate recedes from that portion of the amendment. This amendment also provides $66,000 for two roads on Government property through the Arlington Reservation, and for the purchase of not to exceed 4 acres of land in order to extend said roads through said reservation; it also appropriated $25,750 for a target range for Vancouver Barracks, Wash., and $3,600 for completing roadway between the city of Vancouver and Vancouver Barracks; and the sum of $30,000 for draining and filling swamps within the Government reservation on Constitution Island, West Point, N. Y.; and $50,000 for filling ponds and lowlands of the Fort Taylor Military Reservation at Key West, Fla., and the House recedes. Amendment No. 49 strikes out the House provision as to the expenditure of money at certain military posts, and the House recedes; it also provides for the expenditure of $1,000 for improvement of the Crow Creek Target and Maneuver Reservation, Wyo., and the House recedes. Amendment No. 50 provides $125,000 for the construction and maintenance of military and post roads, bridges, and trails in Alaska, and the House recedes. Amendment No. 51 provides for $600,000 for barracks and quarters in the Philippine Islands, being $150,000 more than the House appropriated, and the House recedes, with an amendment cutting down the amount appropriated by the Senate by the sum of $100,000. Amendment No. 52 provides for $5,431,700 for clothing and camp and garrison equipage, being $628,426 more than the House appropriated, and the House recedes, with an amendment reducing the amount appropriated by the Senate by the sum of $431,700. Amendments Nos. 53, 54, and 55 provide for the payment of certain claims against the Government of the United States, making in all $50,862. These claims are due entirely to damages to and loss of private property occasioned by heavy gunfire and target practice of troops and for damages to private property during maneuvers and other military operations for which the Government is responsible. A part of this amount is due to Indians for the value of improvements made by them upon lands afterwards included in the Fort William H. Seward Military Reservation, and another part of the amount is due to an officer and certain enlisted men of the Army for the money value of clothing worn out by them in the summer of 1910 while fighting forest fires in the Northwest. Amendment No. 53 also provides for the ascertainment and adjustment of amounts which may become due on all claims for damages to and loss of private property when the amount of claim does not exceed the sum of $1,000, occasioned by heavy gunfire and target practice and other military operations for which the Government is responsible, and the House recedes from all of these amendments. Amendment No. 56 is the insertion of a comma, and the House recedes. Amendment No. 57 corrects the spelling of a word, and the House recedes. Amendment No. 58 is the insertion of certain words left out by mistake in the item for the equipment and maintenance of the school at Washington Barracks, and the House recedes. Amendment No. 59 is the same as amendment No. 57, and the House recedes. Amendment No. 60 provides $337,118.30 for ordnance service, and the House recedes, with an amendment reducing the amount by $37,000. Amendment No. 61 provides $350,000 for ordnance stores, ammunition, and the Senate recedes. Amendment No. 62 provides $875,000 for small-arms target practice, being $135,000 more than the House appropriated, and the House recedes with an amendment cutting down the appropriation made by the Senate by the sum of $75,000. Amendment No. 63 provides for $700,000 for the manufacture of arms, being $100,000 more than the House appropriated, and the Senate recedes. Amendment No. 64 provides for $750,000 for ordnance stores and supplies, being $50,000 more than the House appropriated, and the Senate recedes. Amendment No. 65 provides for $200,000 for automatic machine rifles, being $100,000 more than the House appropriated, and the House recedes with an amendment cutting down the appropriation of the Senate by the sum of $50,000. Amendment No. 66 provides for $1,250,000 for field artillery for the Organized Militia, being $480,000 more than the House appropriated, and the House recedes with an amendment cutting down the amount appropriated by the Senate by the sum of $250,000. Amendment No. 67 strikes out the words "immediately available," and the House recedes. Amendment No. 68 provides $500,000 for ammunition for the Organized Militia, and the House recedes with an amendment providing $100,000 for this purpose. Amendment No. 69 appropriates $33,000 to reimburse the government of the District of Columbia for the site acquired for a reformatory, the title of which is now in the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, and giving to the Commissioners of the District of Columbia the use of certain clay deposits, etc., and the House recedes with an amendment providing that the title to this site be transferred to the Secretary of War for such purposes as may be hereafter specifically authorized by Congress and striking out the two provisos in the Senate amendment. The conferees agreed to this amendment because of the representations made to them by the regents of the Mount Vernon Association. Amendment No. 70 struck out the provision of the House providing for a term of enlistment in the Army of five years, and the House recedes with an amendment providing that after November 1, 1912, the term of enlistment shall be seven years, four years of which shall be with the colors and three years in the reserve. Amendment No. 71 struck out the provision of the House which repealed the laws authorizing increase of pay of commissioned officers and enlisted men for foreign service, and the House recedes. Amendment No. 72 struck out the provision of the House providing for a Quartermaster Corps, and the House recedes with sundry amendments, as follows: Providing that there shall be 1 major general, 2 brigadier generals, 12 colonels, 18 lieutenant colonels, 48 majors, and 102 captains in the Quartermaster Corps, and providing further that regimental. battalion, and squadron quartermasters and commissaries shall not be required to account for property when they are ordered away with their commands, and that after January 1, 1917, the chief of the corps may be selected from the detailed as well as the permanent officers of the corps; and providing for the promotion of six captains in the Commissary Department. Amendment No. 73 struck out the provision of the House for a service corps, and the House recedes with an amendment, on page 67, line 18, by inserting after the word "clerks" the words "civil service" and after the word "employees" the words "and employees." Amendment No. 74 struck out the provision of the House providing for the consolidation of the office establishments of The Adjutant General, Inspector General, and the Chief of Staff of the Army, and the House recedes, striking out all of section 6 and inserting in lieu thereof the amendment as it appears in the conference report. These changes provide that there shall be 4 colonels, 6 lieutenant colonels, 12 majors, and 12 captains or first lieutenants, in the General Staff Corps. And that Chiefs of Staff Corps may return to the position they would have held in their respective corps after they have served four years unless they shall be reappointed. Amendment No. 75 strikes out the provision of the House for the reduction of general officers, and cadet service in computing for any purpose the length of service of any officer of the Army, and the House recedes with an amendment providing that hereafter service as a cadet at West Point or Annapolis who may be hereafter appointed as such shall not be counted hereafter in computing length of service. Amendment No. 76 strikes out the provision of the House providing that the appropriation provided for for the several departments consolidated shall be available, and the Senate recedes. Amendment No. 77 strikes out the repealing clause of the bill, and the Senate recedes. The bill as it passed the Senate appropriated.... And the bill now carries... Amount appropriated for fiscal year 1912... $94, 128, 380. 98 4, 994, 977. 72 89, 133, 403. 16 92, 587, 785. 97 3, 454, 382. 81 Reduction over amount appropriated for fiscal year 1912...... Legislation is agreed to by the conferees which will result in a very large saving in the future. This legislation embraces a four-year term of enlistment, the consolidation of the Supply Departments, the Service Corps, the reduction of travel-pay allowances to enlisted men on discharge, the abolition of double time for purposes of retirement, and other minor features, which, it is conservatively estimated, will effect in the future an annual saving for the maintenance of the Military Establishment of not less than $10,000,000 annually. JAMES HAY, JAMES L. SLAYDEN, Managers on the part of the House. |