Chapter 194. Making appropriations for fortifications and other works of defense, for the armament thereof, and for the procurement of heavy ordnance for trial and service, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1921, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 194.— An Act Making appropriations for fortifications and other works of defense, for the armament thereof, and for the procurement of heavy ordnance for trial and service, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1921, and for other purposes. May 21, 1920. [[H. R. 13555](/us/bill/66/hr/13555).] [[Public, No. 214](/us/pl/66/214).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the following sums areFortifications appropriations. appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise608appropriated, for fortifications and other works of defense, for the armament thereof, and for the procurement of heavy ordnance for trial and service, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1921, and for other purposes, namely:
FORTIFICATIONS AND OTHER WORKS OF DEFENSE. Engineer Department.engineer department. Gun and mortar batteries.For construction of gun and mortar batteries, $1,800,000. Emplacements.For modernizing older emplacements, $37,250. Preservation, etc.For protection, preservation, and repair of fortifications for which there may be no special appropriation available, and of structures for the torpedo defense of the United States and for maintaining channels for access to torpedo wharves, $300,000.
Plans.For preparation of plans for fortifications and other works of defense, $25,000. Supplies, etc., for electric plants.For maintenance and repair of searchlights and electric light and power equipment for seacoast fortifications, and for tools, electrical and other supplies, and appliances to be used in their operation, including the purchase of reserve lights, $60,000. Submarine mine structures, etc.For construction of mining casemates, cable galleries, torpedo storehouses, cable tanks, and other structures necessary for the operation, preservation, and care of submarine mines and their accessories, and for providing channels for access to torpedo wharves, $150,000.
Sites.For procurement or reclamation of land, or rights pertaining thereto, needed for site, location, construction, or prosecution of works for fortifications and coast defenses, $49,000. Land defenses.For the construction of land defenses in the United States, including the procurement of equipment and materials required therefor, the construction and repair of roads required for military purposes, and the procurement and installation of searchlights, $100. Installing electric plants, searchlights, etc.For the installation and replacement of electric light and power plants at seacoast fortifications in the United States; the purchase and installation of searchlights for seacoast defenses in the United States, including searchlights for antiaircraft defenses and accessories therefor; and for salaries of electrical experts, engineers, and other employees necessary to procure and install the same, $566,250.
Sea walls.For construction of sea wall and embankments, $20,500. Galveston, Tex., defenses.For the repair and restoration of sea walls, retaining walls, and fill, and for urgent repairs to batteries in the defenses of Galveston, Texas, $10,000. Construction expenses.For contingent expenses incident to the construction of seacoast fortifications and their accessories, under the Engineer Department, $50,000. Coast Artillery.under the chief of coast artillery. Fire-control stations, etc.For construction of fire-control stations and accessories, including not to exceed $48,755 for the purchase of lands and rights of way, purchase and installation of necessary lines and means of electrical communication, including telephones, dial and other telegraphs, wiring and all special instruments, apparatus, and materials, coast-signal apparatus, subaqueous, sound and flash ranging apparatus, including their development, and salaries of electrical experts, engineers, and other necessary employees connected with the use of Range finders.coast artillery; purchase, manufacture, and test of range finders and other instruments for fire control at the fortifications, and the machinery necessary for their manufacture at the arsenals, $770,000.
War instruction supplies, etc.For maintenance of Coast Artillery war-instruction matériel at Coast Artillery posts., including necessary material and labor therefor609and for extra-duty pay to soldiers necessarily employed for periods not less than ten days, $1,685. under the chief signal officer.Signal Service. For operation and maintenance of fire-control installations atOperating fire-control installations. seacoast defenses, $165,000. armament of fortifications.Armament. For purchase, manufacture, and test of mountain, field, and siegeMountain, field, and siege cannon. cannon, including their carriages, sights, implements, equipments, and the machinery necessary for their manufacture, $1,500,000.
For purchase, manufacture, maintenance, and test of ammunitionAmmunition. for mountain, field, and siege cannon, including the necessary experiments in connection therewith, the machinery necessary for its manufacture, and necessary storage facilities, $1,600,000. For purchase, manufacture, and test of seacoast cannon for coastSeacoast cannon. defense, including their carriages, sights, implements, equipments, and the machinery necessary for their manufacture, $2,000,000. For purchase, manufacture, and test of ammunition for seacoastAmmunition, etc. cannon, and for modernizing projectiles on hand, including the necessary experiments in connection therewith, and the machinery necessary for its manufacture, $1,000,000.
For purchase, manufacture, and test of ammunition, subcaliberAmmunition, etc., for practice. guns, and other accessories for seacoast artillery practice, including the machinery necessary for their manufacture, $200,000. For alteration and maintenance of seacoast artillery, including theAltering, etc., seacoast artillery. purchase and manufacture of machinery, tools, materials necessary for the work, and expenses of civilian mechanics and extra-duty pay of enlisted men engaged thereon, $1,000,000.
For alteration and maintenance of the mobile artillery, includingAltering, etc., mobile artillery. the purchase and manufacture of machinery, tools, and materials necessary for the work and the expenses of the mechanics engaged thereon, $2,000,000. For purchase, manufacture, and test of ammunition, subcaliberAmmunition, etc., for field, etc., artillery practice. guns, and other accessories for mountain, field, and siege artillery practice, including the machinery necessary for their manufacture, $205,800. proving grounds.Proving grounds.
For current expenses of the ordnance proving grounds, comprisingCurrent expenses. the maintenance of rail and water transportation, repairs, alterations, accessories, and service of employees incidental to testing and proving ordnance and ordnance matériel, hire of assistants for the Ordnance Board, purchase of instruments and articles required for testing and experimental work, building and repairing butts and targets, clearing and grading ranges, $350,000. submarine mines.Submarine mines.
For purchase, manufacture, and test of submarine-mine matériel,Accessories, etc., for practice. and other accessories for submarine-mine practice, including the machinery necessary for their manufacture, $9,233. For maintenance of submarine-mine and submarine-net matérielMaintenance of supplies, etc.Fort Totten, N. Y., depot. within the limits of continental United States; purchase of necessary machinery, tools, and implements for the repair shop of the torpedo depot at Fort Totten, New York; extra-duty pay to soldiers necessarily employed for periods not less than ten days in connection610with the issue, receipt, and care of submarine-mine materiel at the torpedo depot; and for torpedo depot administration, $50,900.
Barracks and quarters.barracks and quarters. Minor structures for seacoast defenses.Barracks and quarters, seacoast defenses: For minor structures in connection with the adopted project for seacoast defenses, including the installation therein of plumbing and of heating and lighting apparatus, to be expended as in the judgment of the Secretary of War may be necessary, $50,000. Insular possessions.FORTIFICATIONS IN INSULAR POSSESSIONS. Engineer Department.engineer department. Preservation, repairs, etc.For protection, preservation, and repair of fortifications, including structures for torpedo defense, for which there may be no special appropriation available, and for maintaining channels for access to torpedo wharves, at the following localities:
Hawaiian Islands.Hawaiian Islands, $15,000; Phillipine Islands.Philippine Islands, $50,000. Searchlights.Philippine Islands.For the purchase and installation of searchlights for the defenses of most important harbors in the Philippine Islands, $2,000. Hawaiian Islands.For purchase and installation of searchlights for the defenses of most important harbors in the Hawaiian Islands, $50,000. Electric plants, etc.For maintenance and repair of searchlights and electric light and power equipment for seacoast fortifications and for tools, electrical and other supplies, and appliances to be used in their operation at the following localities:
Hawaiian Islands.Hawaiian Islands, $7,000; Philippine Islands.Philippine Islands, $25,000. Submarine mines.Structures, etc.,Philippine Islands.For the construction of mining casemates, cable galleries, torpedo storehouses, cable tanks, and other structures necessary for the operation, preservation, and care of submarine mines and their accessories, and for providing channels for access to torpedo wharves at the defenses of the Philippine Islands, $55,000. Land defenses, Hawaiian Islands.For land defenses in the Hawaiian Islands, including the procurement and installation of searchlights and the acquisitions of land and rights of way, $130,000.
Sites, etc., Hawaiian Islands.For procurement or reclamation of land, or rights pertaining thereto, needed for the site, location, construction, or prosecution of works of fortifications and coast defenses in the Hawaiian Islands, $25,760. Plans, Hawaiian Islands.For preparation of plans for fortifications and other works of defense in the Hawaiian Islands, $3,000. Fort Mills, Philippine Islands.For the construction of engineer wharf, Fort Mills, Philippine Islands, $75,000. Seacoast batteries.For construction of seacoast batteries, as follows:
Hawaiian Islands.In the Hawaiian Islands, $50,000; Philippine Islands.In the Philippine Islands, $67,000. Signal Service.under the chief signal officer. Operating fire-control installations.For operation and maintenance of fire-control installations at seacoast defenses, $25,000. Ordnance Department.ordnance department. Seacoast cannon.For purchase, manufacture, and test of seacoast cannon for coast defenses, including their carriages, sights, implements, equipments, and the machinery necessary for their manufacture at the arsenals,611$250,000: *Provided*, That the Secretary of War is authorized to enter*Proviso*.Contracts authorized. into contracts or otherwise to incur obligations for the purposes above mentioned not to exceed $300,000 in addition to the appropriation herein made.
For purchase, manufacture, and test of ammunition for seacoastAmmunition. cannon, including the necessary experiments in connection therewith, and the machinery necessary for its manufacture, $250,000. For alteration and maintenance of the seacoast artillery, includingAltering, etc., seacoast artillery. the purchase and manufacture of machinery, tools, and materials necessary for the work, and expenses of the civilian mechanics, and extra-duty pay of enlisted men engaged thereon, $125,000.
For purchase of submarine mines and nets and necessary appliancesSubmarine mines. to operate them for closing the channels leading to seaports in the insular possessions, $82,400. For maintenance of the submarine mine material in the insularMine supplies. possessions, $6,530. barracks and quarters.Barracks and quarters. For continuing construction of the necessary accommodations forConstruction. the Seacoast Artillery and for temporary cantonments for oversea garrisons at the following localities:
In the Philippine Islands, $102,100;Philippine Islands. In the Hawaiian Islands, $6,200.Hawaiian Islands. under the chief of coast artillery.Coast Artillery. For construction of fire-control stations and accessories, includingFire-control stations, etc. purchase of lands and rights of way, purchase and installations of necessary lines and means of electrical communication, including telephones, dial and other telegraphs, wiring and all special instruments, apparatus and materials, coast signal apparatus, subaqueous, sound and flash ranging apparatus, including their development, and salaries of electrical experts, engineers, and other necessary employees connected with the use of coast artillery; purchase, manufacture, andRange finders. test of range finders and other instruments for fire control at the fortifications, and the machinery necessary for their manufacture, at the following localities:
In the Philippine Islands, $125,000;Philippine Islands. In the Hawaiian Islands, $50,000.Hawaiian Islands. AIR SERVICE.Air Service. For the purchase, manufacture, maintenance, operation, and repairPurchase, operation, etc. of airships and other aerial machines, buildings for equipment, and other accessories necessary in the Air Service for use in connection with the seacoast defenses in the following localities: Philippine Islands, $100;Philippine Islands. Hawaiian Islands, $100.Hawaiian Islands.
For the establishment, construction, enlargement, or improvementAviation stations.Construction, etc.,Hawaiian Islands. of aviation stations for use in connection with the seacoast defenses of the Hawaiian Islands, including the acquisition of land or any interest in land by purchase, lease, condemnation, or otherwise, and the preparation necessary to make the same suitable for the purpose intended, $1,300,000. PANAMA CANAL FORTIFICATIONS.Panama Canal. For fortifications and armament thereof for the Panama Canal:Fortifications.
For maintenance of clearings and trails, $30,000;Clearings and trails 612 Preservations, etc.For protection, preservation, and repair of fortifications, of the Panama Canal, including structures erected for torpedo defense, and for maintaining channels for access to torpedo wharves, $25,000; Electric plants, etc.For maintenance and repair of searchlights and electric light and power equipment for fortifications, and for tools, electrical and other supplies, and appliances to be used in their operation, $20,000;
Seacoast batteries.For the construction of seacoast batteries on the Canal Zone, $20,000; Reserve equipment.For reserve engineer equipment for the fortifications of the Panama Canal, $7,500; Land.For the purchase or reclamation of land required for the defenses of the Panama Canal, $6,250; Fire-control stations, etc.For the construction of fire-control stations, the purchase and installation of accessories therefor, and for subaqueous, sound and flash ranging apparatus, including their development, $474,000;
Operating, etc., fire-control installations.For operation and maintenance of fire-control installations at seacoast defenses, $15,000; Ammunition, seacoast, etc., cannon.For the purchase, manufacture, and test of ammunition for seacoast and land defense cannon, including the necessary experiments in connection therewith, and the machinery necessary for its manufacture, $1,000,000; Altering, etc., seacoast artillery.For the alteration and maintenance and installation of the seacoast artillery, including the purchase and manufacture of machinery, tools, and materials necessary for the work, and expenses of civilian mechanics, and extra-duty pay of enlisted men engaged thereon, $104,546;
Submarine supplies.For alteration, maintenance, and repair of submarine mine materiel, $4,138; Barracks and quarters.Construction.For continuing the construction of barracks, quarters, storehouses, and other buildings necessary for accommodating the Coast Artillery troops to be stationed in the vicinity of the Panama Canal, including water, sewer, and electrical systems, roads, walks, and so forth, $40,000; Purchases directed from Army surplus stock.The Governor of the Panama Canal, so far as the expenditure of appropriations contained in this Act may be under his direction, shall purchase needed materials, supplies, and equipment from available surplus stocks of the War Department;
Air service.Expenses.For the purchase, manufacture, maintenance, operation, and repair of airships and other aerial machines, buildings, for equipment, and other accessories necessary in the Air Service for use in connection with the seacoast defenses of the Panama Canal, $100;. France Field, aviation station.Expenses of establishing, etc.For the establishment, construction, enlargement, or improvement of the aviation station at France Field, Canal Zone, for use in connection with the seacoast defenses of the Panama Canal, including the acquisition of land or any interest in land by purchase, lease, condemnation, or otherwise, and the preparation necessary to make the same suitable for the purpose intended, and for the acquisition and improvement of emergency landing fields in the Canal Zone, $239,000.
In all, specifically for fortifications and armament thereof for the Panama Canal, $1,985,534. Sec. 2. Material to be of American manufacture. That all material purchased under the provisions of this Act shall be of American manufacture, except in cases when, in the judgment of the Secretary of War, it is to the manifest interest of the United States to make purchases abroad, which material shall be admitted free of duty. Sec. 3. Limit on price paid for purchases. That except as expressly otherwise authorized herein no part of the sums appropriated by this Act shall be expended in the purchase from private manufacturers of any material at a price in excess of 25 per centum more than the cost of manufacturing such613material by the Government, or, where such material is not or has not been manufactured by the Government, at a price in excess of 25 per centum more than the estimated cost of manufacture by the Government.
Sec. 4. That expenditures for carrying out the provisions of thisArsenals operations not to be restricted. Act shall not be made in such manner as to prevent the operation of the Government arsenals at their most economical rate of production, except when a special exigency requires the operation of a portion of an arsenal’s equipment at a different rate: *Provided*, That no part*Proviso*.No pay to officers, etc., using time-measuring devices on work of employees. of the appropriations made in this Act shall be available for the salary or pay of any officer, manager, superintendent, foreman, or other person having charge of the work of any employee of the United States Government while making or causing to be made with a stop watch or other time-measuring device a time study of any job of any such employee between the starting and completion thereof, or of the movements of any such employee while engaged upon such work.
Sec. 5. That no part of the moneys appropriated in each or anyRestriction of purchases at other than arsenals. section of this Act shall be used or expended for the purchase or acquirement of any article or articles that at the time of the proposed acquirement can be manufactured or produced in each or any of the Government arsenals of the United States for a sum less than it can be purchased or procured otherwise. Sec. 6. That all orders or contracts for manufacture of materialConsideration of manufacturing orders for fortifications, at Government establishments. pertaining to approved projects, which are placed with arsenals or other ordnance establishments and which are chargeable to armament of fortifications appropriations, shall be considered as obligations in all respects in the same manner as provided for similar orders placed with commercial manufacturers.
Sec. 7. That whenever any Government bureau or departmentFunds of bureaus purchasing stores, etc., from another, to be subject to requisitions of latter. procures, by purchase or manufacture, stores or materials of any kind, or performs any service for another bureau or department, the funds of the bureau or department for which the stores or materials are to be procured or the service performed may be placed subject to the requisitions of the bureau or department making the procurement or performing the service for direct expenditure: *Provided*, That*Proviso*.Available for two years. funds so placed with the procuring bureau shall remain available for a period of two years for the purposes for which the allocation was made unless sooner expended.
Sec. 8. That the following unexpended balances, or portions of theUnexpended balances covered in. unexpended balances, or combined unexpended balances, or portions of combined unexpended balances of appropriations for fortifications and other works of defense, as set forth in this section, shall be carried to the surplus fund and covered into the Treasury immediately upon the approval of this Act, namely: Supplies for seacoast defenses, $40,000;Supplies. Sites for fortifications and seacoast defenses, $88,292.88.Sites.
Electrical and sound-ranging equipment, and so forth, $2,260,050.69.Electrical equipment, etc. Sea walls and embankments, $7,785.67.Sea walls. Contingent expenses, seacoast fortifications, $49,985.36.Contingent expenses. Fire control at fortifications, $1,376,008.Fire control. Coast Artillery war instruction, $724.14.Artillery instruction. Armament of fortifications, $786,264,146.97.Armament. Submarine mines, $312,635.01.Submarine mines. Barracks and quarters, seacoast defenses, $2,050,000.Barracks and quarters.
Fortifications in insular possessions, $5,077,699.58.Insular possessions.Fortifications. Aviation, seacoast defenses, insular possessions, $302,046.89.Aviation. Sea walls and embankments, Panama Canal, $3,000.Panama Canal.Sea walls. Submarine mine structures, $15,200;Mine structures. Armament of fortifications, Panama Canal, $2,306,481.73.Armament. 614 Submarine mines.Submarine mines, Panama Canal, $231,082.21. Board of Ordnance and Fortifications.Board of Ordnance and Fortifications, $230,000.
Total appropriations to be covered into the Treasury, fortifications and other works of defense, $800,615,139.13. Approved, May 21, 1920.