Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1860-01-05
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP.

INCREASE OF THE PAY OF NAVY OFFICERS
The bill introduced In the Senate by Senator NAL
lory, chairman Of the Committee on Naval 4 fairs
To increase and regulate the pay of the Navy"
adds to tue pay established by the act of 1885 -
For Captains. one per cent per annum for each
year IF sea service, shown by the records of the
Navy Department.; Commanders, Lieutenants,
Masters in the line Of promotion and medical of.
fcers, each, two per cent. per annum for every
year OF sea service; Engineers, two per cent per
annum for each year of service, In addition to
the pa now authorized by law
To give an example or two, the operation of
the provisions of this bill would be thus:
Captains now receive for service pay 80 500
Tor waiting orders, 81 500. Their average of sea
service may be assumed at twenty years. and one
per cent. per annum for service would give
them twenty per cent. on their salaries respect
lively. On utythey would receive 80 ,5OO-twenty
per cent. s7OO-or 81 ,2cU
Commanders, their average service being six
teen years, receiving two per cent per annum. or
thirty-two per cent on 81 SEQ sea pay, would be
equal to So, 200.
Lieutenants their average sea service being thir-
teen years receiving by this bill two per cent per
annum, or twenty-six per cent. on their 81 500
duty pay, would he entitled to a yearly paw Of
81 $50.
The bill I" to modify the sea service pay Of Pur-
sers In the Navy gives to each of those officers
when attached TO vessels for sea service For the
first five years after the date of their omissions
81 $780, for the second five years 81 4OO after ten
years service, 1900. Their leave Of absence, "
= waiting orders,' and q other duty pay, to re-
main as provided In the act Of 1872
SIGN1F CANr.-The declaration made Yesterday
afternoon in the House hall by MI Etheridue
that If there is any member who not having So
Tar voted for the Helper book platform candidate
Mr.. Sherman, intends voting for that gentleman
hereafter, he should be ashamed of himself, or
something to the same purpose, is taken here as a
virtual declaration that Mr. 5. can, under no cir
cumstances, get single South American vote
not even that of Mr.. II. Winter Davis Asst il
well known that there are a, least three anti-Le
coinPtonltes and Mr.. Briggs, who never will vote
for him, it Is now rendered certain that he never
can be elected by majority vote; and further,
that vote upon the proposition to adopt the plu-
raiity rule never can be obtained. Yet were the
Republicans willing to drop their Heiper-book-
platform candidate and sustain some gentleman
OF their side not Identified or sympathiziny with
Helper doctrines. Mr.. Corwin, for instance. we
feel sure that they could elect him on the very first
ballot.
But the presence of party opinion st home is
driving them to the more ultra-advanced Abolition
position Of pushing on their ''rrepressible con-
hict' principles in this contest They fight, now.
only for the future supremacy of those principles
In the organization of the House. So they are
grazing the point Of revolution through the pro-
traction OF non-organizariOn, if that be necessary
to secure the triumph of their Helper-book ideas