The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-01-17


Nsw YoaK, Nov. a, 1856.
The undersigned, the immediate Commander Of the
Army, being charged BY General Regulations Nth
all that regards discipline and military control dee
II his duty, according to longcontinued usage, to abb
init annually, through the War Department. such viws
and suggestions may likely to increase without
sxtravsgancs in cost havpg regard to numbers), he
national WORTH the prowess, and efficiency of null
tary establishment.
In respect to the condition Of enlisted Tor the
rank and file Of the army recent acts Of C0ngresssn-
larging their monthly pay and giving them through The
grade of sergeant eligibility to commissions leave PER
haps want but time to work out every expected and
almost every desirable amedoratiou. And the addition
OF the four regiments WILL hoped. give sie
quate numbers to subdue the Indisns in actual hostility
and afford reasonable protection to every frontier against
their future depredAtiors
An Increase Of genera, officers Ia want very sensbly
tionai Major General sna two additional Brgaaisr Gene
rails to make with tie brigadrs of the hne already
% o h s's ss or the DE-
rails for chiefs Of the Adju'ant Generals department
corps Of Esneers tue corps Of Engineers
ence, and the Pay Departn mt respectively Justice
symmetry and the gcod Of the service appear equally To-
Several pts have been made in Congress to
improve the efficiency Of The body OF commissioned
ohcers generally by Iei ed list, well by augment
ed mpsnaa,io In the opinion Of the undersigned both
are measures Of demon, trasle necessity.
Some forty or fifty fice's mostly In the higher con-
missions rendered Effective by the inriies OF age
by wounds chronic dssases downward into
iathagy and then despair thrice the number Of juniors
who signing the rank which would, be-
fore they old increase the field Of distinguished
usefulness. How socn the unrersigned may himself b.
while vigor aims he will not to urge
remedy for the great ssfl In question.
The other ameliorauan afsc ing the commissioned Of
Ulcers of the amy much needed from the enhanced
cost Of all the necessaes and comforts Of lie, IL
responding increase Of such has already
l<av, pe1oA q <ksa
position will hardly be- disputed anywhere the mode and
scale Of increase alone remaies to be suggested.
Fixed salaries, aSc0rdng rank would generally by
persons in civil Ii ba ap ,led 10 military officers but
the experience of all armies, including own, has
forage. graduated according TO rank and circum-
stances in addii ian fixed pay for each grade, unver
sal and to smper with such experience would
and every allowance except one as established the un-
dersgned will first seek what approach 10
sonabe increase Of comp. nsation may be under
the head Of ratons al ue by making the number cumu-
atve according to the length OF each ocers SERVICE
and putting up the Communication to what has always
been allowed to naval officers TWEEN five cents u ration
The cumula iva principle first adopted in the
Of June &c. 1884 senon in behalf Of medical officers
only and next in the act Of July 1885, section IT, tn
every commissioned officer of the line staff exclu
sve OF general officers shall be entitled to receive ad
onal ration per lem for every five years he may have
served or shall in the army Of the United States
Provided That in certain cases where officers are en-
Ia this section shall not be included in the number to be
doubled.o
The undersigned cannot resist the temptation to say
this place. that he wrote the two sections in question,
and folio ved each before Congress- IN person and by
letter. final success that the exclusion OF gene
raj ofcers in the act war in the way Of oompro
ise offered BY bin after ne had fully discussed the sub
ect before the Mill airy Committee Of the House. He
respe ctly suggests the caaDge Of single word in the
section just quo'ed, SO that every five years. may, for
the failure, &c made to read .evsry three years"
To illustrate the proposed increase Of compensation,
taking the four middle classes # commissioners officers
say Of the artillery anu inGtntfythis table is sub
mitted-