Excerpt from Further Additional Urgent Deficiency Bill, 1916: Hearing Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, United States Senate, Sixty-Fourth Congress, First Session Senator underwood. How does this item come in as a 1915 deficiency? Admiral harris. Because we wanted the appropriation up to July 1. It is not really a deficiency yet, because we will see to it that there will not be any deficiency. This is the 1916 deficiency. This is a prospective deficiency that we will incur up to July 1, unless we curtail our work and stop. Senator underwood. This is a copy of the estimate and it is stated here as a deficiency of last year. 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.