The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-05-10
DEWEY'S MEN GET
A LARGE BOUNTY,
Wa. Make Sone Coin ~ 4 .Result Of
Their Brilliant Feat In Ma
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Wiz Make Some Coin ~ sReault Of
Their Brilliant Feat In Ma
ntia Bay.
NEW YORK, May IA dispatch to
the Times from Washington says: Rear
Admiral Dewey and his men will not have
fully beer awarded for their victory at
Manila when they receive the thanks of
congress and the medals ordered to be
struck for them. Under the law they have
become entitled to rich bounty. Unless
the numerical importance Of the fleet Of
Admiral Montejo has been overestimated
and Its losses overstated. the officers and
men OF the Aslatic squadron will be enti-
tied 20 share among them something like
tlS,00 bounty money. Section ass5 Of the
statutes OF the United States provides:
"A bounty shall be paid by the United
States for each person on board OF any
ship o. vessel Of war belonging to an en-
envy al the commencement of an engage
fnent. which is sunk or otherwise destroy
ed In such engagement by any ship or
vessel belonging TO the United states, or
which !; may be necessary 10 destroy In
consequence OF injuries sustained in ar
ton, of 800 If the enemy's vessel was OF
inferior force. and OF $500 If equal or sune-
rtor force. 20 be divided among the Of
fcers and crew III the same manner as
prize money: ald when tie actual num-
Der of men on board such vessel cannot
be satisfactorily ascertained. IL shall he
estimated according TO the complement
allowed to vessels OF IT'S class in the navy
of the United States: and there shall be
paid as bounty TO the captain for any
vessel captured from an enemy. which
they are instructed TO destroy. or which
Is Immediately destroyed for the public
interest. but not In consequence OF in1u-
ries received I'm actor. $50 for every per-
son who shall be on board at the time OF
such capture"
According to the reports from Manila,
the Spanish feet destroyed by the Amer
leans consisted of ten or eleven cruisers,
gunboats and torpedo boats. with crews
amounting to 1.s72 In ALL At 500 for each
man OF the Spanish naval force. the
amount to be divided among the Ameri-
can sailors vii! be $is7 100. The vessels of
the United States were If anything un-
dermanned. The numbers win be under
rather than over i73s.
The Sls7 200 will be distributed to the
feet under section 1881 Of the revised
statutes felatlnS 10 prize iuphes- <huhHs-
raj Dewey will get one-twentieth of the
whole amount OF bounty awarded 10 his
command. That will give him &,Se IL
he has fleet captain, or what passes for
one. the latter will have share Of some
thing like $,soe. There viii be left TO be
distributed to the vessels OF the fleet. ac-
cording TO their pay-roi!s, about $4,000.
This will 60 &c seven ships. and In about
the following shares: Olympia. $4,000:
Baltimore. $4,000. Boston. $4,000; Raleigh.
see.oco: Concord. s200o; Petrol, $1,000:
McCuiIoch. $500.
To the commander OF each vessel there
will go one-tenth Of the amount assigned
to that vessel. After the amounts mea-
toned have been deducted. the residue
will hc distributed TO the lesser officers
and seafaen OF the ships In proportion to
their rates OF pay on the day Of the en-
angement. The amount 10 each seaman.
II is believed. VIII be In the neighborhood
OF SO