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1 Certain Needs of the Navy 1 (1909)

handle is hein.prescomm/cnnsoteny0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 60TH CONGRESS, SENATE. DOCUMENT 2d Session. No. 740. CERTAIN NEEDS OF THE NAVY. MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, TRANSMITTING TWO PRELIMINARY REPORTS OF THE COMMISSION APPOINTED TO CONSIDER CERTAIN NEEDS OF THE NAVY. FEBRUARY 25, 1909.-Read; referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. To the Senate and House of Representatives: On January 27, 1909, I addressed the following letter to Hon. William H. Moody; Hon. Alston G. Dayton; Hon. Paul Morton; Rear- Admiral S. B. Luce, U. S. Navy, retired; Rear-Admiral A. T. Mahan, U. S. Navy, retired; Rear-Admiral Robley D. Evans, U. S. Navy, retired; Rear-Admiral William M. Folger, U. S. Navy, retired; Rear- AdmiraljWilliam S. Cowles, U. S. Navy, retired: MT DEAR SIR: I have appointed you as a member of a commission to consider cer- tain needs of the navy. The organization of the department is now not such as to bring the best results, and there is a failure to coordinate the work of the bureaus and to make the department serve the one end for which it was created; that is, the develop- ment and handling of a first-class fighting fleet. With this proposition in view I will ask you to consider: 1. All defects in the law under which the Navy Department is now organized, including especially the defects by which the authority of chiefs of bureaus is made in certain respects practically equal to that of the Secretary or the President. 2. The division of responsibility and consequent lack of coordination in the prepara- tions for war and conduct of war. 3. The functions of certain bureaus, so as to see whether it is not possible to consoli- date them. 4. The necessity of providing the Secretary of the Navy with military advisers, who are responsible to him for coordinating the work of the bureaus and for preparation for war. 5. The necessity for economical allotment and disbursement of appropriations and for a system which will secure strict accountability. 6. Finally, I want your views as to how best to recognize and emphasize the strictly military character of the navy, so that preparations for war shall be controlled under the Secretary by the military branch of the navy, which bears the responsibility for the successful conduct of war operations. S D-60-2-Vol 22-14

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