The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-04-07
NOT BENEFITED.
Worcester Soldiers to
Receive No Ex-
ira Pay.
APPROPRIATION BILL.
Gen. Corbin Interprets It's
Application to the
Local Boys.

The local effect of the appropriation
bill for soldiers which passed March g.
was decided yesterday, when Ser
geant C. w. Lansing of the
recruiting office received a let
ter from Adjutant Gen. Corbin explain
ing the application of the bill to Wor-
cester soldiers. BY an act Of January
u soldiers in foreign service were ehti-
tied to two months extra pay upon
their discharge, provided they had
served faithfully. One months extra
pay was to be allowed those who re-
NAMED In this country in camps.
No Worcester members of volunteer
regiments will be benefited by the APP
preparation bill. Those who enlisted in
! the Twelfth United States regiment will
receive the extra pay allowed by the
bill because they had no furlough. The
Second and Ninth regiments were both
furloughed for two months previous to
receiving their final discharge papers.
They received regular pay and were al
lowed rs cents per day for rations.
There has been considerable discus
sion among local military men as to
whether the Worcester members Of vol
unteer companies would receive the two
months pay for service in foreign
country. The stand taken by officials
of the war department is that a SOL
der who has served in Cuba up to the
present time without furlough is en-
titled to some recognition for his SER
vices.
The two months furlough granted
the Second and Ninth regiments gave
the men an opportunity to seek work
and remain under government pay.
Sergt. Lansing interprets the commun-
ication received yesterday to mean that
mo soldier who has had the benefit of
furlough and who received pay during
the time with the Communication allow
ance of 25 cents a day shall be entitled
to extra pay on his re-enlistment. Of
ficers and enlisted men of the regular
army, holding commissions in the vol
unteer service and being discharged
from that service, return to duty rank,
and pay in the regular service, are
not entitled to extra pay as they are
not discharged from the service of the
United States.
An extract of the letter from Adjt.
Gen. Corbin to Sergt. Lansing follows:
1.-THE extra pay provided for by the
act of January u, 1899, was in lieu of
the furlough, therefore, any officer or
enlisted man who had the benefits of
said furlough, although he may have
been mustered out with his organization
after January II, 1899 is not entitled to
extra pay under the act.
but officers and enlisted men who
were held to actual service during the
entire furlough period, received none OF
the furlough benefits, and am of the
opinion that such officers and men on
muster out and discharge with their
regiments or companies on or after Jan
uary II, 1S99 have the same right to ex-
ira pay under the act of Jan IL, that
they would have had if no members
of the organization to which they be-
longed had been furloughed.
III. G. Corbin.
''AdJt. general"
Ten men applied for enlistment at the
recruiting office in the Walker building
yesterday, but Sergt. Lansing found
seven of them to be understood or ply
sically incapable. Three were examln-
ed by the regimental surgeon and re-
jected. The men of the 5th and sth
Mass. regiments will be presented with
two months extra pay unless they are
furloughed previous to receiving their
final discharge papers which does not
appear probable.