The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-05-11
BOUTNY FOR DEWEY'S MEN

| New YORK, May N-A QlSpaICu 10 tii'
Times from Washington says: Rear Ad
miral Dewey and his men will not have
| been fully rewarded for their victory a.
! Manila when they receive the thanks Of
congress and the menda1s ordered struck
for them. Under the law they have be-
come entitled TO a rich bounty. Unless
the numerical Importance of the feet Of
| Admiral Montejo has been overestimated
and It's losses overstated, the officers and
men Of the Asiatic squadron will be en-
titled to share among them something like
! SIS. 900 bounty money.
| Section 4,635 of the revised statutes OF
| the United States provides:
"a bounty shall be paid by the United
| States for each person on board any YES
sci or ship Of war belonging TO an enemy
at the commencement of an engagement
which is sunk or otherwise destroyed in
such engagement by any ship or vessel
belonging to the United States or which
It may be necessary TO destroy in con-
! sequence Of injuries sustained in action;
of 500, II the enemy's vessel was OF in
ferior force, and of $500 If of equal or SUI
perfor force. TO be divided among the Off
GERS and crew In the same manner as
prize money; and when the actual num-
Der OF men on board any such vessel can
not be satisfactorily ascertained, it shall
be estimated according to the compleme nt
allowed to vessels of its class in the
navy Of the United States, and there shall
be paid as bounty to the captors Of any
vessel OF war captured from an enemy,
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or which is imediately destroyed for the
public interest, but not in consequence of
injuries received IN action. $50 for every
person who shall be on board at the time
of such capture
According to the reports from Manila.
the Spanish feet consisted of ten or eleven
gunboats. cruisers and torpedo boats.
with crew amounting in all to 1872 men.
Admiral Monteto was increasing the
bounty fund with every vessel he sank,
and Spain will undoubtedly have to pay
for those losses in making up the in
demnity at the close of the war.
At 800 for each man in the naval force,
the amount to be divided among the
American sailors win be s1S7. 200. The yes
sells of the United States were If any,
thing, undermined. The numbers will
be under rather than over 1873.
The $1S7 200 will be distributed to the
fleet under section 1881 of the revised
statutes. relating to prize money. Ad-
miral Dewey will get one-twentieth Of the
whole amount Of bounty awarded to his
command That will give him $1,000. II
he has a fleet captain, or what passes for
one the latter will have a share of some
thing like $500. There will be left to be
distributed to the vessels Of the feet, ac-
cording to their payrolls about $4,000.
This will go to seven ships. and in about
the following shares: Olympia. $4,000;
Baltimore, $4,000: Boston. s25, 900; Raleigh,
So 900; Concord, $1,000; Petrol. $1,000;
50 600.
To the commander Of each single vessel
there will go one-tenth of the amount
assigned TO be distributed TO that vessel.
After the amounts mentioned have been
deducted, the residue will bedistributed
to the other officers and seamen of the
ships in proportion TO their rates of pay
on the day OF the engagement. The
amount of each seaman. It Is believed,
will he in the reirhborhood of $50