Hearings Before the Committee on Rules
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Excerpt from Hearings Before the Committee on Rules: House of Representatives Sixty-Fifth Congress, Third Session on H. Res; 484; December 28, 1918 The committee met at 10.30 o´clock a. m., Hon. Edward W. Pou (chairman) presiding. Statements Of Hon. Newton D.Baker, Secretary Of War; Mr. Benedict Crowell. Assistant Secretary Of War; Mr. Edward R. Stettinius, Director Of Munitions; Mr. Goldthwaite H. Dorr, Assistant Director Of Munitions; And Lieut. Col. F. W. N. Cutcheon. The Chairman. Mr. Secretary, we have before us H. R. 13274, and as there seems to be a desire for some explanation, we will be obliged to you for any comments you may care to make. Secretary Baker. Thank you, Mr. Chairman, very much. As I understand this hearing, it is to determine whether the exigencies are such as to give this measure priority of consideration by a rule of the committee. At the time the armistice intervened the War Department was, of course, busy both on this side of the ocean and the other in accumulating supplies of all kinds in anticipation of the continuance of the war. The number of contracts outstanding was very great, and in addition to those which had been formally executed there were very large numbers of contracts in process of execution, some of them more or less formalized and some of them quite informal, all of them in the process of making. Those contracts consisted of things like this, verbal or letter orders to manufacturers or merchants or producers that they should produce and supply to the department certain types of equipment or supplies. The practice of the department, in order to expedite production and to cut red tape as far as possible, was to call the manufacturer in, agree with him on what he was to do, and tell him to go ahead and start, and after he had gone to work, the formal contract would be reduced to writing, signed by the Government, and sent to him for execution; and sometimes his work had gone a considerable distance before the actual written contract was tendered to him for signature. This is true in Europe just as it is here. Gen. Pershing´s supply officers would work out an arrangement with a manufacturer that he should produce certain things, and tell him to go ahead and start doing it, and in order not to lose time, they would start him off before the actual written contract was made, and then the written contract would follow. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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