CONTINGENT EXPENSES, NAVY DEPARTMENT. Mr. JOHNSON. This is for the purchase of professional and technical books, etc. You are getting a pretty good library up there, are you not? Mr. CURTIS. Yes, sir; but we have not enough money. We can hardly get the technical books we require for the various bureaus. Mr. BURLESON. How much are you spending a year for the library? Mr. CURTIS. I think $2,000. Mr. BURLESON. I wish you would put in the hearings a detailed statement showing the books you bought last year with that $2,000. Mr. CURTIS. Yes, sir; I will do so. Contingent expenses, Navy Department: For professional and technical books and periodicals, law books and necessary reference books, including city directories, railway guides, freight, passenger, and express tariff books for department library, $2,000. EXPENDITURES FOR FISCAL YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1912. Contingent expenses, Navy Department: For professional and technical books and periodicals, etc.-Continued. EXPENDITURES FOR FISCAL YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1912- -Continued. Contingent expenses, Navy Department: For professional and technical books and periodicals, etc.-Continued. EXPENDITURES FOR FISCAL YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1912-Continued. |