Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-05-26

ora phical divisions and departments shall,
as soon as practicable after the passage of this
act and before the first of September next for
ward through, and for remarks of, tAe general
of the army to the secretary of war, a list of
officers serving in their respective commands
and departments, deemed by them unit from
any cause whatever for the proper and efficient
discharge of their duty, setting forth fully and
especially in each case the cause of such un-
fitness. The secretary Of war is hereby author
lied and required on or before the LIST of Octo-
Der next to constitute board to consist OF |
three major generals on the active list, to which
board said lists shall be referred for examina-
ton, and said. board shall report to the
President such officers as it shall recon-
| mend to be placed on the retired list and to be
mustered out of service, and the President
| shall thereupon grant leave OF absence to such
! officers and them to be placed on the re-
| tired list or to be mustered out of service on
the first Of July, 1879; and if the number so
recommended to be mustered out OF service
| shall not be equal to the number OF officers re-
naming on the supernumerary list on the LIST Of
January, 1879, the President shall forthwith
transmit to Congress at its next session list OF
officers in excess of the number to be mustered
out for such further action as shall be deemed
necessary.
No amendments were offered to section 16 or
II, which limit the number of major generals
to one and OF brigadier generals to three after
those figures shall be reached.
Mr.. Foster moved to strike out section 10,
which limits the number of aids-de-camp as
follows: The general, four; lieutenant general,
three; major generals, two each, and brigadler-
generals, one each, and limits their staff rank
to one grade above their lineal rank. The mo-
ton to strike out was defeated
point Of order was made and sustained
against section nineteen, which prohibits the
promotion of officers unless recommended by a
board OF examining officers, and the section
was struck out.
Section twenty-one, which provides for the
appointment of second ieutenants from the
graduates of the military academy and by the
non-commissioned officers was amended on
motion. of Mr.. Keifer by adding the words
s'and also from able bodied, honorably dis
charged officers and soldiers Uuited States
volunteers and regulars
point of order was made and sustained
against section %, which prohibits the detail
to staff appointments of officers who have serv-
ed less than five years, and the section was
, struck out.
Section 81, abolishing the grade Of company
, wagner, was also struck out.
point of order made against section
! 20, which provides that all military head
quarters shall be established and maintained
only at points where the government owns
buildings and barracks. and prohibited the
, payments of rents for any military head
quarters. The point of order was overruled:
Mr. Harrison then argued against the section
+ as one that would promote not economy but
:, expense in making necessary the erection OF
t barracks and headquarters. He moved to strike
: out the section referred to.
Y Mr.. Schleicher moved the amendment ex
S cepting military headquarters of troops ir
, Texas or on the Indian border. Rejected.
! The thirtieth section having been read, which
f fixes the pay of army officers, MIR. Hewitt IN
W moved to amend the item by making tn
C pay of storekeeper $1,000, and by excepting
: the storekeeper at the armory at Springfield
r Mass, who is to receive the pay and allowance
It of major. Agreed to.
d Mr.. Reagan moved to amend the section b,
If reducing the pay fixed in the bill, as follows
); General Of the army from $685. to $4,000
l. lieutenant general from $11, 900 to $8, 600
major general from So, 500 to $4,000; Brigade
e general from s5, 500 to $4,000; colonel from
3 49, 500 to SO, 000 lieutenant colonel from 49, 90
to so, 700; major from 800 to 2,400. II
y contrasted the pay for civil officials in thi
le country and of foreign armies with that Q
s. American officers, to show the disproportlonat
S, pay of the latter. He denied he was prompte
m by any hostility toward the army.
o. MIR. McCook suggested that members of Cor
es gress should reduce their own pay before a
1e lacking the pay of officers of the army.
N MIR. Reagan's reply was to the effect thu
members of Congress, having such high an
important duties to perform, and their vot'
and acts touching the most vital interests
the country, were not too highly paid.
III Mr.. Foster intimated that a Foster and
e Reagan, a Finley and Springer were hard
lie entitled to as much pay as brigadier genera
e. MIR. Banning-They don't get it.
Mr. Foster remarked that no one denied tn.
the pay of the general and lieutenant gener
u was high, but it had been fixed as rewa1
to for distinguished services of those officers
no putting down the rebellion, and he was sOrl
that q gentleman who had been connected wi
the confederate government should have mov'
Nc to reduce the pay of those two officers G
OF pecially.
mt bIr. Banning remarked that the confedera,
knew the need Of economy.
he MIR. Garfield-Do you speak for it?
ny Mr.. Banning-Yes, speak for it in that 7
spect and for your government too.
ro- MIR. McCook-call it ours.
N, Mr.. Foster-The people will consider the
for duction of pay all can't unless you take no
ng of your own salaries and reduce them.
ID MIR. Harrison-The gentleman is less partic
The lar as to the salary of members since the
he distributing of Ohio Laughter
as Mr.. Regain replied to Mr.. Fosters intim
ley ton about the confederacy and claimed
he members were on the same footing and had t
his same rights and duties.
nd Mr.. Bragg moved to amend by fixing the p
of general at $4,000; of the lieutenant gene
Tue at $4,000; of major general So, 600.
tn Mr.. Williams, of Michigan. argued again
1ch any reduction below the sums fixed in the bi
mt MIR. Banning read from the testimony
as General Sherman of 1876, to the effect tt
nd on an equality the pay of army officers mig
len be reduced fifteen or twenty per cent.
hen have, continued Mr. Banning, made the gre
18th back equal to the gold dollar.
ast sob, no, said Foster.
he ''He did not mean it., said Garfield in
of undertone to Foster abiding to some rerns
as of Banning's.
rm, 'sHe did not mean it?'' said Banning, cat
of ing at the remark and applying it different
pro- ''The general will not be guilty of saying t
ON that distinguished officer said anything VIII
of he did not mean"
tire Garfield merely said you did not mi
anything by your insolence.
the Mr.. Banning-You mean your impuder
L it My insolence is not equal to that. Laught
The salaries are too large. They are out OF
was proportion. They wese established when c
the rency was thirty, forty and fifty per cent.
the low par, and a gentleman who. shakes
val bloody shirt in the face of member beca
and he has served the confederacy resorts to
list worthy argument The country is tired of
ex- What the people want is reduction of exp
rtil- dltures.
sion Mr. Foster repeated that the people wo
| be not approve of this QUITTING down of the pa.
rary army officers unless the Democrats would
,ior- down their own salaries. zsit ~ a 50