Show o DIVISION I V I S ION I I i Of NAVY p ASKE 0 i Amendment to Keep One Half Dalf of Navy on Pacific Coast a t Washington Feb 27 The senate today toller agreed to a n partial report of or ofHie O Othe the Hie confere on the tho naval nava appropriation tion bill 11 III The amendment authorizing authorizIng ing the President to divide the navy so o as to keep on the coast Is s still In dispute and the senate Instructed In Its to insist upon Ullon lie Hi retention In submitting the plan the tho President President dent says Nothing Ing drastic Is recommended os ns to the bureaus or other othe agencies by means of which the purely business I affairs of the time nay navy department aio aro aronow now Dow administered The Time plan outlined does docs not nol Imply any greater expendi expenditure tore ture of money mono than at present It provides merely that thal tho money should t be spent t wisely instead 01 oi as iS nt at present spending It so that a COI certain thin tain proportion Is wasted In useless work To supplement and finish the thc work of this ll s commission the President nt says ta s another commission must even oven eventually eventually bo be designated to take up the proposed plan and complete It H as to o details but no plan can c ln be bo satisfactory satisfactory Cac tory if I there is deviating from the essential military principles in tn this report The Tho bureau has been retained in Its ita entirety but with additional person perROn personnel nel nd The Tho commissions scheme is ia merely an illustration of or principles and not a digested plan It contemplates that tho the assistant secretary lie shall be a civilian a uman nina man ut of u affairs who shall hall be tho the Chief ot of of o the first division and shall rhall have charge of or the business of tho the bureau of yards ald and locks docks the tile bureau of supplies and the tho bureau of or medi medicine clime cine and surgery the employment t ot or r civilians and kindred subjects u The second or division of naval op operations operations orations whoso whose chief shall be a ling hag officer the principal military adviser to time the secretary to be lie without admin administrative adminIstrative functions but to be head of o the general hoard board and tho the board of Is to super viso iso war plans and amid the tho general policy and have hlo under his control the naval war college the officers ot or naval in intelligence and kindred subjects The third or division of personnel p whose chief chier shall he be a Hag flag officer to tobo tobo tobe bo be charged with the bust bus business ness of the time bureau on navigation all educational Institutions except The lime naval war colleges the marine corps corps tho time discipline of or the navy the of the time judge advocate general the time naval 1 observatory and kindred sub bub subjects The rho fourth or division of Inspection tion ion whose chief shall be a ting hag of officer 0 I shall shaH bo be charged with the duties pertaining to 10 tho timo trials of ships ship tho the inspection of o loots fleets squadrons and ships of u navy yards and stations ot of o sites for rOl naval stations station and kindred subjects The fifth firth or technical division whoso whose chief shall bo ho a flag officer a naval constructor or oi a civilian with witha a technical training shall shaH be lie a super supervisory I charge of till tho th business ot ut the tho lie court technical bureaus of construe tion ordnance engineering anti and ant equip equipment ment No chief of o a bureau whIle acting as such shall act as elite chief of a n divis division division ion The military members of the gen cn I oral counsel to be appointed by l r Limo tho with tho the advice and con consent consent consent sent of the senate for fOl three years and with tho the exception of tIo fI o chief of the division of or naval operations to tobo tobo tobo bo Ineligible for reappointment except after an Intervening period of three r years eara Tho Time declares that the bureau of supplies and accounts should be bo divided We e recognize says sas the time report In InI I order to make mako those recommendations effective It would necessitate consid consideration l and careful study given ex cx hUng laws and we wc suggest that tho time law Sec 4 Revised Statutes which gives a bureau cub equal nu nn with tho time secretary in his ah nb senco bo be repealed i |