Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1842-06-21

n tans eutenants, surgeons &c Rations are commut
at ~ cents each Compensation is drawn for servan
tor servants clothing, for forage for horses, &c.
many instances, understand where neither servan
nor horses are actually kept. have been intorme
that more than 100 horses daily paid for at the Sc
{ OF Government alone while probably, not one IN t@e
W or perhaps in forty is actually kept If we add
these regular extras the long catalogue of iTregnd
j. extra emoluments such Us brevet pay, double ration
), allowances for services in than Office at t
u same time, &C., which depend, under modern usag
on the mere caprice of the Secretary of War, for.c
by the sanction of the President is difficult to est
mate the actual compensation which officers Of the
o my do receive.
The sum Of SlO3 $50 allowed, on account of bre
vel pay and emouments, between 4th March, l63.
: and LIST January 1919 The present commander in
ch'ef received S6,629 CD from March 4, 1887 to Jun
10, ISL; General Gaines 81 900 06 from the pc
Rod to November 30, 34 Gen Jones' tunder speciu
act OF Congress, passed March 3d. 1890 81 206 e0
:: Both September, 1871; Gen. Gibson SO I5S 81 fror
March 3, 1898, October 81, 1885, General Wool 50
02i "a from March 4, 1887, 10 August 81, 1885, and
on through the whole list of brevet officers Thes
hrevei allowances were made various =
tons of the net of April lG, 1915 That as-iu. re
them to officers only "when on duty, and having com
mand according TO their brevet rank Let see wha
sort ofduty, and what command of the officers had
who received these allowances Gen Jones was in com
mund OF The Adjutant. Generals department; Gen. Glib
son Of tie Subsistence department; Gen Gratot Of The
Engineer Department. all at the city Of Washington,
each being in a of eighteen by twenty feet
with due assortment of chairs, desks, and other fur
niture and perhaps half.dozen clerks, nkstands
and steel pens General Wool received brevet pay from
May &C. 1889, to August q, 1889, while he pres
dent of court of inquiry. 1t seems that General
Wool not only construed to be ION Duty and hav
ing command according TO his brevet rank while pre-
siding court ofnquy to Try others; but while he
was arragned before court OF inquiry TO answer
charges preferred against himself S. Cooper acting
Secretary of War, on the 9TH May 1888, he Capt
Cooper of the 4h artillery, who received $3.50 40 Tor
acting as chief clerk of the War Department, from
March 10, 1897, 10 July O. 1885, and received, during
the same Time, 81 ,203 IA captain of artillery,)-
Capt. Cooper, chef clerk and temporarily acting Sc
creary of War, thus sums up and decides Gen. Woors
case:
crloUens from Isl July to M September, 1885, command
ing officer , nation appear, that Col Lindsay
General Wool attending court Of inquiry 10 answer charges
asans, Wool that Notwithstanding
the circumstance his his post Secretary
War informed hun that his brevet emnnments should be
nued until the court Of inquiry was closed and on this state
WOOL the acting Secretary of War endorses
thus: 'Allowed.s Cooper, Acting secretaryof War;
General Brady, General Armisead, Col. Wabach,
and Major Whiting, were allowed brevet pay while
serving on courts inquiry or cours-martial. Col
To,en received Sl,2i0 5S while in charge Of public
works at Forts Adams, Hamilton, &c Colonel Tacott
So $50 10 while commanding hired men equal to two
companies" Col. Albert 1894 II while in command of
the Typographical Bureau here at the seat of Govern
men and engaged surveys for the defences of the
Kennebec, and the Chesapeake and Ohio canal. Ma.
jor Bache, Major Plympton, Major Wilcox, Major
Smith, Major Whiting, Major Garland and Maj Baker,
received brevet pay for experimenting Notifications,
commanding at recruiting depots, having charge of
public works in the harbor of New York, having charge
Of the clothing bureau, and commanding hired men or
day laborers The brevel rank for which the pay was
allowed indicates the nature and extent of the CON-
mand contemplated by the act of 1878 Those officers
who reported simply as having command equal to
their breve rank" may have been entitled to the pay
though is impossible TO Judge Of that unless could
know the actual service for which they were paid
N6St hf seTa Of tlesrU'Y seem to have been paid
thouph il would have been more satisfactory the iacls
could have appeared So with others VINO are
as IN command in Florida, and at other points where
there were troops TO command
Officers of the army detailed, or rather empioyeu'
on business having no connexon with their military
duties and sometimes these empoyments are very iu
cratve This is calculated TO impair the oIsc'Phne VI
the service by creating discomfort win ohicefs WHO
happen not to be favorItes at court ana oy oVei'ae
ba attention of those who fortunate enough to De
emnloyed from the great objects Of their commissions
will only cite the case OF Captain Swift, who appears
ON the Blue Book captain ottopograpn'cai engineers
and as ssdsbursing agent OF the coast survey. III
this latter capacity he receives 81 per oay anu w
half per cent on the disbursement OF about Sioo,-
600 wear, in addition, presume, to his pay as cap
The allowance of Traditional double ratons has
been found necessary where military oihcers are stu
TONED al sc parate posts subectng them to exlaofdha
~ expenses in extending those cv,ties and hospai-
ties which would he expected from their rank or rom
other circumstances. This allowance, however nus YEN
like that Of brevet pay, extended tar BEYOND 'ne 'e
ton of the law, as TO reach the cases Oh ailos.
crade in the army and under all conceiVaoie e''Iu
Stances IT has been made to many who nave nor nau
nd Of troops, such officers IN charge VI e
infant &c neras department, the Clothhg outeau' '"e
Ouartermaster's Department. The Subsistence uePai.
nrAn DO n Z
ment, the Engineer department, the Orohahce u.pa
mont the Paw department, &c, at Washington Guy; 10
officers experimenting the construction OF ior's
those supern,endng The Cumberland road, improve
ments in the Ohio river, military roads ano surveys, ~
officers at arsenals; to Judge advocate; anu h'a"
others These allowances have been recently extenaeo
=, tho officers in command of the national armores ii
Haruer's Ferry and Springfield, where there are no
troops and none but citizens employed as ar'nee' o
contract will call the attention OF the comnee ~
case where double ratlons were allowed 10 un on'
| .mnloved on an aaueduct the Potomac r'ver' III
This vicinity On the 2lst July, 1897 the secretary
of War thus states and decides this case u,,.u
"ny the regulations of September 1892 Captain Iurnpa
, ca,nIv bc entitled double raons FOR II says ii a
WOULD af III. ,opsapcai engineers charged with the con
structou any shall be entitled 10 nnbc and
~, ,vnrks and Withdrew allowance from sucn oeeis
permitted TO sreniedaa n ue waiSs connng egu
Ision TO such strictly military en- ~ rhe work
% IN nrncress for an aqueuct the Potomac tVel ea
regarded altogether private WORK, hr.r nm Officer
thph
brvs nm order he compelled rs nm oce n Untitled
on military duty be that duty what an" private or
Evil york "a il were public and military Ihe lac. ., r ,
IN. ordered To The duty renders military duy, , ,
InfnbnI j. entitled double rations under the i's'
a9t 10 which this abuse has been carried un-
dor Constructions Of the War Department will appear
from The fact that in 1895, there were 90 oiseis 70
whom 275 additional rations were allowed per aay
tmated at S2O075 per annum; and IN Ioii lheie
s7 ncprs receiving 7O4 additional rations per oay'
estimated at S5l 1892 per annum. ~. ,,mv
/, has been customary to allow officers OF Inc army
nav for more than one Office at the same 'me a"& @
at periods when, though the complement =.
@ or unemployed officers wa,n
ders T. Cross, stationed al Washnsson n COM uv
master received in tina. capacity s d IaG 's ths
80, 1885, to May "a, 1888, and s..~O geneTal-
iss Clark an assistant Of the aI@ sS
to april 30 1887 s9s 49, and ssl . % during a,
plorQ