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1 Final Report of the Commission on Naval Reorganization 1 (1909)

handle is hein.prescomm/flrtotecno0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 60TH CONGRESS, SENATE. J DOCUMENT 2d Session. 1 No. 743. FINAL REPORT OF THE COMMISSION ON NAVAL REORGANIZATION. MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, TRANSMrTING THE FINAL REPORT OF THE COMMISSION ON NAVAL REORGANI- ZATION, WITH ACCOMPANYING LETTER FROM MR. JUSTICE MOODY. FEBRUARY 27, 1909.-Read; referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs, and ordered to be printed. To the Senate and House of Representatives: I send you herewith the final report of the Commission on Naval Reorganization, which outlines a new departmental system. Ac- companying is the letter from Mr. Justice Moody sent to me in transmitting the report. I have expressed to Justice Moody and his associates my profound sense of obligation for the admirable work they have done. I invite your attention to the sound and conservative character of this report. It is in full accord with American policy, for it recog- nizes the Complete supremacy of the civil power as regards the mili- tary no less than the civil or manufacturing side of naval adminis- tration. Nothing drastic is recommended as to the bureaus or other agencies by means of which the purely business affairs of the Navy Department are now administered. These are simply coordinated and brought under the general control of the Secretary in such man- ner as to secure unity of effort and action. The recommendation for the creation of the two councils, the Secretary's General Council and his Military Council, are based upon the fundamental and all-essential proposition that a navy exists and ought only to exist for wa and for war alone; for the efficacy of the navy in securing

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