...be expended by the Engineer Department. For the purchase of submarine mines and necessary applinnces to operate them for closing the channels leading to...principal seaports, and continuing torpedo experiments, one hundred thousand dollars; this sum and the unexpended balance from the sum of seventeen thousand...

...building for assembling and storing artillery ammunition, thirty thousand dollars. SUBMARINE MINES. For the purchase of submarine mines and necessary...to operate them for closing the channels leading to onr principal seaports, and continuing torpedo experiments, including extra-duty pay to soldiers necessarily...

...building for assembling and storing artillery ammunition, thirty thousand dollars. SUBMARINE MINES. For the purchase of submarine mines and necessary...principal seaports, and continuing torpedo experiments, including extra-duty pay to soldiers necessarily employed for periods not less than ten days on work...

...NECESSARY APPLIANCES. Mr. SMITH. I would like to call your attention especially to the item on page 22, " For the purchase of submarine mines and necessary...to operate them for closing the channels leading to the principal seaports of the insular possessions, $205,440." How much of this amount is for Manila?...

...appropriation on page 16. Mr. SMITH. What is the language that covers explosives? Captain MOOBE. " For the purchase of submarine mines and necessary...appliances to operate them for closing the channels leading toour principal seaports." You can not operate them without explosives. Mr. SMITH. It says "appliances."...

...OF SUBMARINE MINES, ETC., INSULAR POSSESSIONS. Mr. SMITH. Now turning to page 27, we find the item, "For the purchase of submarine mines and necessary...to operate them for closing the channels leading to the principal seaports of the insular possessions, $472,000." This item covers what places? General...

...Ordnance Bureau on ordnance construction, eighteen thousand seven hundred dollars. SUBMARINE MINES. For the purchase of submarine mines and necessary...leading to our principal seaports, and continuing tor|iedo experiments; for the purchase of the necessary machinery, tools, and implements for the repair...

...expenses of the civilian mechanics, and extra-duty pay of enlisted men engaged thereon, $60,000. For purchase of submarine mines and necessary appliances...to operate them for closing the channels leading to seaports in the insular possessions, $40,000. • v For maintenance of the submarine mine matériel...

...materials necessary for the work, and the expenses of the mechanics engaged thereon, five thousand dollars. For the purchase of submarine mines and necessary appliances to operate them for closing1 the channels leading to the principal seaports of the insular possessions, two hundred and...

...sir. SUBMARINE MINES. ( See also p. 153. ) Mr. SHERLEY. On page 19 of the bill there is an estimate " For the purchase of submarine mines and necessary...principal seaports, and continuing torpedo experiments; for the purchase of the necessary machinery, tools, and implements for the repair shop of the torpedo...