The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1866-08-24
Soldiers Pay 1.-THE Soldiers
Fricnd."

Soldiers Pay --'The Soldiers
Friend"
The Proclamation that peace is restored
throughout all the States, brings back the
pay Of soldiers in the Army to the old
standard of eleven dollars per month and
rations as the increased pay only lasted as
specially provided by the statute, during
the continuance of the war for the suppress
sion of the rebellion.
Officers pay is also considerably affected
by the law of the last session, through the
reduction in the Communication price of ra-
tions. A dispatch from Washington says
that many officers there regard 1t as decid-
edly unjust for CoNGREssMEN TO increase their
o,on pGy-meaning the voting into theirpri
vate pockets $4,000 more than the stipula-
ted salary-while at the same time they
cut doloR the pay Of army Qdicersl
This is an arrow drawn upon SCHENCk,
member from the Ohio Maryland district
pathetically posted, when preparing to ad-
dress his scattered constituency, as "he
soldiers friendl'
SCHESCK. beyond voting for nigger bu-
reaus, nigger white-washing, tariifplunders
and the like, did little else. during the en-
tire late session. than tinker up an army
BILL which. after a lengthy discussion. re-
commitments, amendments, to such COM
plex degree that its original identity was
lost, finally was cast away as waste paper.
to give place to the one which was finally
adopted. and which is now causing his fell
low-oiiicers to grumble so loudly at the big
sonled magnanimous services extended so
lavishly by 'the soldiers .tiiendr'
What patriotic record "the Soldiers
.frieRd' could plead, for a leading place-
Chairman especially-On some National
RetrenchneHt Committed Bringing for
ward that he had brought the soldiers
down to the specie standard of ELEVEN DOL
LARS PER MoNTH-with "hard-tack and SOW
belly" thrown in, of course that he had
cut into the perqusites largely of the pam
pered epaulettes and straps-and that when
it was proposed to make nice cash present
from UNCLE SANS bountiful iron chest to
the rank and file of the army, he had put
them all of with promise of one hundred
dollars for two or three years service, but
adroitly had so worded the promise that a
long. indefinite time must elapse before
one of them, however sick, or hungry, or
ragged. can draw cent If eUer-and when
so gotten. must accept the green-back dol
lar while gold is 81 so; we say, how glori-
ously patriotic this would sound and read
THE WATCHDOG Of the TfeasuTyl'-if he
had not indiscreetly COTTON his name on the
record for such squanderings, as to the
Freedmen's Bureau, Observation-Disclosures s 1000 OOC
National Bank interest 200C1 D. OW
Increased 1arin, ........... .......-.. 800 DO
Education Bureau, au,...................... 5000 00(
Montana Scheme (vetOed) ............-. % )0U
North Pacific Railroad, ,............... 10000 0Oi
Farms for Niger Orphans 3. .......... 100 10 on
Indemnity for "Loyai" Slaves, ......... 100010G
As well as scores of other such grab
games to deplete the Treasury, pamper rad
zeal thieves and plunderers increase the
public debt and pile up still higher on the
shoulders of the wealth-producing classes
the farmers and mechanics of the nation
taN-burthen which looms far above that
evere borne by any people in any era o.
the worlds history.
But, had he have escaped such an OBJ
noXious record, he fixed himself by one o.
his latest acts. 'The soldiers friend" per-
petrated fatal Jau1 pdu1. That was:
VOTING FOR HIMSELF Two THOUSAND DOL.
LARS YEAR, MORE THAN THELAws ALLOWED
UNDER WHICH HE WAS ELECTED And sneak
ingly so votiug, as 10 is pretended, that tn
'poor soldier" might be sure Of his little oNI
HUNDRED!
All in all, the aforesaid General ROBERT
C. SCHENcK, member of Congress from thu
Maryland-Ohio District, chairman of tn,
War Committee in the House, ''the soldiers
friend" and all that, must plead guilty to
very bad record.
PosTsCRIPT:
1t is our duty to note, that about the las
act performed by Congress before it brok,
up in its drunken spree. was the adoption
ofaresolutiOn on RETRENCHMENTl on
scoreJor Seheneki Three retrenched cheers fO
ScheRckl BULLY FOR SCHENcKl
E8-The congressional salary grab, say
the New York Tribune was IA very unwise
cowardly, mprineipled act.' Is not til,
Tribune a trife too severe upon its radica
dsunion c-olaborers in Congress2 Does /
at all consider that such illusions ar,
personal hits? What has General Bon
ScnESCK done 10 the Tribune. that he should
be so stigmatized by the leading Radiea
organ of the whole country? We protes
against such unkindness, after such faith
ful service as his in the cause. Did its effect
reach only to the Maryland part of hi
district, it might not be so mischivouess bu
the Tribune is patronized largely and rea
closely and believed religiously in the Obi
division ofhis district, where his constitu
ents will not feel comfortable to hear thei
illustrious Representative branded as hav
ing done "A VERY UNwIsE, cowARDLY, UN