COMMITTEE ON NAVAL AFFAIRS FREDERICK HALE, Maine, Chairman

RODNEY E. MARSHALL, Clerk
C. H. SCHMIDT, Assistant Clerk

CONSTRUCTION OF CERTAIN PUBLIC WORKS

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1928

UNITED STATES SENATE, COMMITTEE ON NAVAL AFFAIRS, Washington, D. C.

The committee met, pursuant to call, at 10.30 o'clock a. m., in the room of the committee in the Capitol, Senator Frederick Hale presiding.

Present, Senators Hale (chairman), Steiwer, Swanson, Broussard, and Edwards.

The committee had under consideration the following bill, which is here printed in full, as follows:

[H. R. 13884, Seventieth Congress, second session]

AN ACT To authorize the Secretary of the Navy to proceed with the construction of certain public works, and for other purposes

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to proceed with the construction of the following-named public-works projects at a cost not to exceed the amount stated after each item enumerated:

Naval station, San Diego, California: One small floating dry dock, $425,000. Naval station, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii: Water-front development, $1,200,000; to continue improvements to harbor and channel, $500,000.

Submarine Base, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii: General facilities buildings, $290,000; officers' quarters, $100,000.

Naval air station, San Diego, California: Metal aircraft structures shop, $130,000; physical instruction, gymnasium, and welfare building, $150,000; seven land-plane hangars, $275,000.

Navy yard, Puget Sound, Washington: Accessories and crane, pier numbered 6, $1,310,000; equipment house, $100,000; paint and oil storehouse, $125,000. Naval air station, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii: Hangar, $224,000; torpedo storage and charging plant, $25,000.

Naval air station, Coco Solo, Canal Zone: Aircraft-overhaul shop, $90,000; bachelor officers' quarters, $120,000.

Naval training station, San Diego, California: Mess hall and galley for enlisted men, $173,500; barracks for enlisted men, $348,000.

Navy yard, Mare Island, California: Barracks and mess hall for submarine crews, $195,000; battery storage and overhaul building, $240,000.

Naval air station, Lakehurst, New Jersey: Barracks for enlisted men and marines, $250,000; gas cell shop and storage building, $200,000; quarters for married officers, $90,000.

Marine barracks, Quantico, Virginia: Barracks for enlisted men; roads; walks; and distributing systems, $1,450,000.

Marine Corps flying field, Quantico, Virginia: Filling and grading flying field, $500,000.

Navy Yard, Norfolk, Virginia: Purchase or condemnation of land and dredg ing, $65,000.

Naval Air station, Anacosta, District of Columbia: Offices and barracks and mess hall for two hundred and fifty men, $275,000; heating plant and dis tributing system, $25,000.

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Navy Yard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Storage facilities for gear, dry dock numbered 3, $10,000.

Naval base, Canal Zone: Commandant's quarters, $35,000, officers' quarters, $58,000.

Submarine base, Coco Solo, Canal Zone: Officers' quarters, $240,000.

Naval air station, Hampton Roads, Virginia: Administration building, $200,000.

Naval training station, Hampton Roads, Virginia: Barracks and mess hall, $600,000.

SEC. 2. That the Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to enter into contract, at a cost not to exceed $35,000, for the removal of certain private lines of poles supporting telegraph, power, signal, and telephone wires and cables located on private rights of way adjoining the Marine Corps flying fields at Quantico, Virginia, and for the placing of said wires and cables underground; for providing additional ducts and laying of cables for the Government's power and telephone service at said flying fields, and for the construction of the necessary manholes for the separate or joint use of all interested parties; the contract to be placed with such party or parties, with or without competition, and on such terms and conditions as the Secretary of the Navy may in the interests of the Government, deem most advantageous.

SEC. 3. That the Secretary of the Navy be, and he hereby is, authorized to acquire on behalf of the United States by purchase or condemnation, after au appropriation of the necessary funds has been made therefor, the site of the Marine Corps flying field at Reid, Quantico, Virginia; and for that purpose a sum not in excess of $15,000 is hereby authorized to be appropriated and made available in addition to the amount of $20,000 made available by section 6 of the act of March 4, 1925, under the appropriation “Aviation, Navy, 1924."

SEC. 4. That the Secretary of the Navy be, and he hereby is, authorized to acquire on behalf of the United States by purchase or condemnation, after an appropriation of the necessary funds has been made therefor, the site of the naval air station at Sumay and the naval station at Piti, Guam; and for that purpose a sum not in excess of $9,000 is hereby authorized to be appropriated and made available.

SEC. 5. That the Secretary of the Navy is authorized, when directed by the President, to transfer to the city of San Diego, California, free from all encumbrances and without cost to said city of San Diego, all right, title, and interest. to so much of the property now constituting the site of the submarine and destroyer base, San Diego, California, together with any improvements thereon helonging to the United States, as lies to the north of a line running due east from station 300 on the United States bulkhead line as established in 1918, in consideration of the transfer to the United States by said city of San Diego, free from all encumbrances and without cost to the United States, of all right, title, and interest to the following-described property, together with any improvements thereon, now belonging to the said city of San Diego: Beginning at station 300 on the United States bulkhead line, as established in 1918; thence south forty degrees thirty-eight minutes thirty-six seconds east along said bulkhead line, a distance of eight hundred and ninety-nine and thirty-eight onehundredths feet to the southwest corner of that tract of land conveyed by the city of San Diego to the United States of America for a dry-dock station or similar purposes, by deed dated September 3, 1919; thence north sixteen degrees no minutes east along the westerly line of said tract a distance of seven hundred and nine and ninety-three one-hundredths feet to a point; thence due west seven hundred and eighty-one and forty-nine one-hundredths feet to the point or place of beginning.

SEC. 6. That the Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to establish boundary lines of the United States property constituting Governors Island, in Boston Harbor, Massachusetts, as follows: Beginning at a point in the pierhead and bulkhead line established by the Secretary of War December 1, 1921, in latitude south two thousand one hundred and forty-seven and two-tenths and longitude east twelve thousand six hundred and twenty-five and six-tenths; thence running north thirty-three degrees fifteen minutes fifty-five and sixtenths seconds east two thousand feet to a point in latitude south four hundred and seveny-five and longitude east thirteen thousand seven hundred and twenty-two and six-tenths; thence south fifty-six degrees forty-four minutes four and four-tenths seconds east two thousand five hundred feet to a point in latitude one thousand eight hundred and forty-six and three-tenths south