The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1875-12-16

reason for him aud for hi- pay and rations.
And we could never get beyond this; he
sustains the Marine Corps. Aud the ut
most possible that ran ~ said for the OIL
Gers of the corps is, that they command
the marines. That il tlc end OF II. Be
tween the beginning and the end. how
ever $GO1,Ol0 of the public money annu-
ally di~appcars.
The Navy Department Inns scented this
money. II likewise has surveyed the Mat
rino Corps, and found that IT. may form u
useful waste weir for unsailurlikc and
worthless cadet midShipmcu to overflow
into from the Annapolis Naval school. The
Secretary Of the Navy recommends to
Congress TO officer the Marine Corps here
after from that impossible nursery Of
sailors. And it is a very good-slzed waste
weir. The Marine Corps holds 1Oi COM
missioncd officers. 1t charms us as
economists to give list of them,
with the annual pay Of each for the
arduous service Of saying to marines:
"Stand at that cntel' "Stand az tins
door" The corps contains one brigndier-
general $500 Il year, one colonel $1,000,
two lieutenant colonies each $4,000, one
retired lirutcnant-colonel $1,000, four
majors each IS as. two majors retired
leach 81, tiS', one ndiutant and inspector.
one qunitermastcr. and one paymastcr
)S1O.io0 between the thrccl, two assistant
Qimrteimasters each $1,000. one assistant
quuricrmastcr retired s2,lOW, twenty cap
tams each S2.20jl, four captains retired
each s1Gjl, thirty first licutenants each
Sl,50l, thirty second lcutcnauts leach
slli0', two second hcutonants retired each
Sl.n5ul. In addition TO this very gontc,1
pay. of course there is communication of
quarters with forage for horses Marines,
being soldiers on shipNoard. have it,at
need Of horses. Tho feeding Of thc1ior. IS
OF the marine officers Will cost on, i'm
povcii-hod taxpayers tins curtcnt year
$4,000
Into this sleepy Hollow Of sinccurists the
Secretary OF the Navy has tie shameless
cffIontery to propose TO pour tue grtdu-
atcs OF the Naval Academy who 60 NOT
want 10 be sailors. There l. not moro
useless class of men on tbs continent than
those who compose this Marine Corps. We
shall not speak roughly of il, but TRUTH
fully, when we saN that one good street
payer on the Fifth avenue is OF more value
TO the country ut latg than all the officers
of the organization put together. The
payer makes. to the world Il valuable re-
turn for his living. They make no return.
But the Secretary OF the Navy and the old
bureau chiefs who advise him, may know
much better than we do the ina;ori there
i in the Annapolis school, and may think
that il is a great deal poorer than We think
II Is; and since we read the report al The
practice cruise Of the Constellation i'm 1874,
We have dcspaired of the future of tho
United States navy. But If either from
want Of room in the navy. or from want of
fitness for naval service in the majority of
the pupils In the Naval school, it is deemed
necessary TO make officers of marines out
Of them. this is "A confession of the failure
of the national school for sailors; ana such
II failure should abolish il.
Certainly the nation will not long endure
to be taxed for the education of naval off,
GERS. 10 be dropped into lazy sinecuri-ts
and elegantly fed and clothed Tor life for
the sole purpose Of posting marines at
| gates and d DIS.