The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-04-17
WILL GET THEIR WAR PAY.
SOLDIERS ARE NOT TO BE PAID on
THE PEACE BASIS.


paents ut the Rate They Have Been
Paid since They Have Been in the
Service-New Y orE Regiment Miss
ed the Benefit of the Revocation
of the First order by 81 Few Hours.
Checks VIII BE Sent From WASH
fngton After the PnYrOIIs Are Re-
cefved at the DepaFfn en1-Pay-
masters Here Are TO BE Mustered
Out-LOoLs as If They VIII Not
Get the Customary Thirty Days
Freedom From Work.
Enlisted soldiers will get pay on the war
instead of the peace basis after all. Or
ders have been received to that effect, and
when the regiments now here line up 10
go before the paymasters who will be as
signed to the duty OF paying them off they
will get money at the same rate for their
services as that they have been receiving
since they have formed part Of the army.
The original order has been rescinded.
Instructions were received by telegraph
from the acting chief paymaster of the
department of the Gulf, who in turn had
been instructed by the paymaster general.
The Instructions came to the senior Of the
paymasters here, and will be followed in
the payment of the troops
But few of the officers or enlisted men
knew of the revocation OF the order yes
terday This will be the first news of The
event 10 many. 1t is thought the protests
of commanding officers of volunteer regi-
ments were effectual in bringing about the
change IN the plan, though one of the pay
masters said he believes it was more
through the people at the capital having
come to their senses and appreciated the
injustice of what they proposed to do lie
has been a warm advocate of the men get
ting their pay at the increased rate. and
now that il has been decided to allow 1t
for them he is well pleased.
The men will receive not only the two
months extra pay at the increased rate,
but also that for the time they will have
been in the service since April TO- when the
copies of the treaty of peace were ex-
changed.
Several of the colonels here lost no time
in getting the wires in operation after
learning that the 20 per cent. had been
ordered Off, and it cannot be doubted that
their protests must have Influenced the de-
partment in coming to a different con-
greatly exercised over it, but they scarce
ly hoped to see the order rescinded.
The Two Hundred and Second New York
Regiment was mustered out just a few
hours too soon 10 admit of the men get
ting all they should have received. How
ever that will not initiate against them,
for after the rolls reach Washington ev-
cry man will have a check sent him for
the amount due under the 20 per cent. in
IL q k. Oft
day before yesterday, the senior paymas-
ter received a telegram instructing that
the regiment be paid at the increased
rate, but it was then too late, as the men
had been mustered out
Acting Chief Paymaster ]. c. Mullen
berg of the department of the Gulf was in
the city yesterday, having come down from
Atlanta 10 give personal attention TO the
matter of the troops pay and getting it
Teadjusted upon the war basis He had
a conference with the seven paymasters
who are here, and thorough understand
In; was reached.
Maj. Weiss Maj. May and Maj. Dallam
will pay off the Second Louisiana Regi-
ment tomorrow. They are now busy ex-
tending their rolls They are making the
third extension. as the rolls were first
made up on the basis followed in time OF
peace. That was done under the protest
officer was determined TO make them out
for the amounts due the soldiers at the
same rate OF pay they had been receiving.
He had received no instructions to do So
but he saw the justice of 1t, and thought
the department would decide the volun.
teers were entitled to the full pay until
they could be mustered out.
After the rolls had been so extended the
oruer came Tor the troops to be paid at
the reduced rate, and that meant the
rolls of the two or three regiments thar
had been extended under the increased
rate mad 20 be re-extended to conform 10
the order Accordingly the paymasters got
down TO work in good earnest, and a great
ueai OF labor was expended in getting their
rolls in shape. In the ACCOMPLISHMENT az
their purpose the paymasters ana tbeir
clerks In many instances defaced the for-
mer amounts they had made up as dne
the men, and their first work will there
1ore not do for the new extension sbo,,
have 10 make under the revoeafion Of ~,
order reducing the pay.
The seven paymasters now at Savannah
are all TO be mustered out of the service
Ihey are Maj Weiss, Mai. Nav. Mai nal
lam, Maj. Dwight, Maj Wallace Nj
Huston and Maj. Arnold. They havo
twelve clerks, who will leave the service
at the same time. The notice for tho ,nue
tci out OF Nhe pdymasterS was posted Anril
Is, but they did not learn of ii untu a ,lav
or two ago. They find themselves in an
anomalous position. Under the rules ard
custom of the service ii is usually The cas-
tnat a paymaster gets thirty days from the
Tune ne is ordered mustered out in which
20 arrange his accounts. 1t seems. how
ever that the paymasters will not enjoy
thirty days immunity from work, for they
will have to pay off the volunteers that
viii leave the service here.
IL is not understood why some ASSIGN
ment of paymasters 10 Savannah to take
the place of those now here has NOT baen
made. one of them said that they hardly
know whether TO continue their work
though Il is here for some one to under
take. The officer had just received SIS 600
to pay Off one OF the regiments, and said
he was moi sure whether he was reaNy
under obligation to do so. 1t is not likely
the paying Off and disbandng of regiments
are to be interfered with by paymasters
through lack of paymasters. however.
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