Excerpt from Hearing Before the Committee on Military Affairs: House of Representatives on H. R. 7117; A Bill to Increase the Efficiency of the Engineer Corps of the United States Army Colonel abbot. General Marshall was very anxious that General Mackenzie should be heard first. Otherwise, I am the Acting Chief of Engineers. 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.