Salt Lake Telegram | 1921-02-02 | Page 1 | Budget for U. S. Navy is High

BUDGET FOR U. S, If IS HIGH House . Appropriations Hnrnmitfee Estimates Outlay at Nearly Half Billion for Building WASHINGTON, Feb. 2. Nearly half a billion dollars dol-lars will be required to complete the pre at naval building program embarked upon in 1916. the the house . appropriation! committee estimated today In reporting the annual an-nual naval appropriation bill for the fiscal year 1932. Thw committee said that while the total cost of completing com-pleting the program was originally placed f t $544,700,000, Increased cost of materials and labor probably would Increase the total cot to $972,911,000. of which $538,270,090 haa been appropriated. ap-propriated. The bill reported today, which carries car-ries a total of $395,504,444.23, provides $90,000,000 for continuing construction next year. "This amount," the accompanying .report stated, "will allow the work to be prosecuted durlnsr the coming fiscal year about as rapidly as It has been possible to proceed thus far in the current fiscal year." The 191 program authorised KC shipe. Many of these hnve been completed. com-pleted. ut seventeen battleships and battle cruisers and a number nf auxiliaries still are under construction. LESS THAN YEAR AGO. The bill as It renched the house today carried $37,775,129.77 less than the amount appropriated a vear ago and 284.011.287.24 If" than the amount requested by the nay department. de-partment. . Resides ttie-cut tn the entisted personnel of the navy from 143 000 to 100,000 heretofore announced, the committee also cut the marine corns from 27,400 to 20,000 enlisted men. No reduction, however, will be made In the number rt officers in either branch of service. A force of 100.000 men. the com- j mltee said, would le sufficient to keep at least 384 vessels In operation. J or thirtytwo more than were in j th entire navy in 1916. The total appropriation for aviation' Is $013,431. a reduction of I2R.0S S9 from estimates and $13,086 000 less than mas appropriated for, this year. FOR BOTH COASTS. An appropriation of $r50,000 for work on ynrds nnd stations on the i Atlantic and gulf coasts is recommended, recom-mended, while $4,907,000 Is proposed for ysrds on the Pacific coast nnd in Hawaii. Among the' Provisions f-r expenditures on the Pacific coast and fn Hawaii are $325,000 fnr ft'e M.ire Inland. Cal.. navv ynrd: $1.45.000 for he 1neet 8otmd. Wssh., navy yard : 81- 025. S0 for the nnvnl station and 81 77.000 for an ammunition depot Pearl Harbor. Hawaii; $100,000 for a similar depot at Mare Island and 825.000 for one on Puget sound; 8200.000 for the naval base at San Diego, Sal.: $40,000 for a submarine base at Ooro folo, Panama car. si xone. and 8150.000 for a simHsr base at Pearl Harbor.. Hawaii. The committee com-mittee recommended an appropriation of $200,000 for the naw yard nt Philadelphia, as compared with $1.-200.000 $1.-200.000 appropriated for this year; cut th appropriation for the Norfolk. Va.. - navy . yard from $520,000 to $250,000. and made no provision for navy yards at Washington. D. C, or Portsmouth. X. H. No provision wss made for a naval station at Guam, for which the nary department recommended a $1,499,000 appropriation.