The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-02-28
GORGEOUS STAFF.
HHAT IT COSTS TO ORNAMENT
THE ARMY.
Facts BrOugh Out by the Military Com
mittee-SOft Places in Washington.
Staff Officers Who Live Like Cen
eraIs-RevelatiOns as to Paw.
Pasture and Per
qufsites.

Pasture and Per
qu1sites.
The thorough investigation Of the staff
OF the Army, instituted by the Military
Committee of which General Banning Isl
e hailman, has developed some very inter
esting facts concerning the pay, rations and
of th-t ornamental adjunct
of the War Department, when engaged in|
the peaceful pursuit of happiness and things
ln the malarious atmosphere of the National
Capital. It lends interest to these fact
that General Bragg's close questioning of
reluctant witnesses has brought to the SUR
Face, TO know that heretofore it has been al
matter Of impossibility to get anything like
accurate information Of the kind from the
Var Department or the heads Of the differ
ent bureaus of that expensive branch of our
beloved Government.
Thus fer, the Surgeon Generals Depart
nent only has been probed, and if the
thers pan out az much richness as this ar
lone, the taxpayers will realize, before the
Military Committee get through, that the
.amey little Volunteer General, from Wis
,onsin, is rendering quits as valuable ser
7ice in Congress as he rendered on the bat
| :Ie-feli. From the testimony of Surgeon
General Barnes, Chief Medical Purveyor
Col. Baxter, and Assistant Surgeon-Gen-
.ral Mayor Woodward we extract the follow
ne points:
The pay proper of Surgeon General is
s453 per month, or at the rate Of S5,43t
Der year. In addition to this our munif-
cent Government allows him 500 per month
IT 81 $50 per year for house rent. To en-
sble him to attend properly to his multi
arious duties outside. the General is allow
ID four horses, for which the Government
provides forage and stabling, which ma,
De fairly estimated at $50 per month. Fue
s also furnished by the Government at ,
cost of about 5000 per year. The exercis
# little arithmetical talent will enable tn.
leader 10 discover exactly what this gorgeous
commander of the Hospital Brigade cost,
he Government yearly. We make it ST.
|336. or nearly as much as that of q Cab
net Minister.
DR.. Baxter, the Medical Purveyor, rank,
Is Colonel. and receives, of course, the pay
md Communication of that rank. This en-
nent buyer of epicac, quinine, syrup
quilts, syringes, ETC., for the healing o.
'ur diseased defenders, receives as pay prop
n SO, 500. In addition to this he is allow
d 1854 per year for house rent, forage 70,
lis horses, and fuel, etc., amounting in al
20 sum sufficient to make his whole pa,
md allowances amount to the snug sum 0
So, 80 per year, including "fogy' or long
witty additions of ten per cent, for each fvt
ears of service. This, it will be seen, il,
more than the pay of a member of Congress
But then, of course. everybody knows thai
trequires much higher order of ability
o purchase pills than to make laws. Mer,
ani;tie;o-s Jan De touuu ~ perform the Ias
'er service for even less than the sum now
ixed by law. In this connection it may b,
veil enough to call the attention Of th,
staff to Section IL of the Revised Stat
ltes, which expressly provides that il "n,
,ase shall the pay Of a Colonel exceed th
'um of $500"
This seems to be another case of tina
peculiar construction of law for which mi
tary magnates are famous, and which find
It's most frequent application IN the Ad-
jutant-G Generals office.
The Doctors testimony as to his paw an
allowances reduced the committee to q stat.
IF mute establishment, but he soon arouse,
hem by the insertion, as it were, of hi.
'calpel under their hair, with the sta temen
that he ran, in connection with his depart
nent. free apothecary shop in which war
not by any means a "beggarly army oil
'mpty bottles On the contrary, it wa.
iled with the choicest and purest drugs il
NJ the land, which it was his habit to DEAL
tut without money and without price til
Ulcers and their families, to soldiers andE
heir families, to lauudressess and theirs
antilles, to employers and their families
nd almost everybody else and his familie g
'ho has the slightest connection with the
army, or any one connected Herewith :
Assistant Surgeon-General Woodward. B
no ranks as Major, testified tina, his pay,
rage, 'fogies,' &C., amounted in all to
4,oI5 w per year, or pretty nearly as muc s.
that of one of the sweating solons, who g
rye their country in the Senate Chamber e
be gentlemen from Wisconsin, who may b
Try appropriately, be termed the Inter. S
'gation Point of the committee exhibited 81
consuming desire to know all about The s.
rvices performed by the numerous horse &
r the feeding of which the Government
as compelled to pay so roundly The
iestions drew from General Barnes the 81
atement that he used one of the fou,
,rses allowed him himself, his son use, q
lother. and the other two were at the dis 81
'sition of his family. 81
DR.. Baxter seemed rather staggered byE
e question concerning the use to whicl 81
: horses were put, and asked time to an 81
FER the question. lie finally replied, how ia
er, that they were used, generally, fora
ling and driving purposes, and instapcedH
e case of the one that had just hauled him 81
the Capitol, in answer to the summons d
the committee, which he thought had S
stormed public service to that extent ala
list. al
The ingenious statement of Dr.. Wood 81
ard was 10 the effect that Re believed hi,Es,
rises had not performed any public serviceE
the past three years; that they were5