The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-10-26

is now provided that the pay of each snail
be that prescribed by law for officers and
soldiers of the regular army of the United
States. Under this law a colonel of in.
fantry receives 1912 per day.
Lieutenant Colonel .............$S "a per day
Major ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. b 81 per DAY
Captain ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS . OO per Gay
First lieutenant ................. II per daY
Second lieutenant ............... 80 per day
First sergeant ................... s. per day
| Other Sergeants .................. 60 per DAY
Corporal ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. so per day
| Private ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 43 per day
While this is not too much for officers
| il is more than the state in a period of
hard times and high taxes can afford TO
nay, and more indeed than the gallant Of
| fcers of the state troops who serve the
| state from motives of patriotism and not
| for money, demand AT the same time the
| paltry forty-three cents paid to the private
| soldier who is most frequently young
| man of slender means working for sal
ary or for daily wages, which stop the
moment he responds to the call of the
| state to put down a mob or quell an insur-
| rection, to say nothing of the danger ne
| incurs of losing his place and the inconNe-
! nience il gives his employer, is compensd-
| ton so niggardly that the state should not
| however hard the times, ask her defenders
! to accept il. This scale of wages was
| adopted when the state seldom or never
| had TO call on her military to aid the civil
! authorities in enforcing the law. Now
however, it is different, and there IS
| scarcely a month in which it is not neces-
sary for some part of the military to be
| called out for this purpose
| I therefore recommend, and in this I
only voice the recommendation of the mill
| tary advisory board, that the law be
! so changed and amended as to pay all
| field officers of all arms of the service
four dollars a day All captains Of al
| arms of the service SO. 90 a day. All lieu
tenants of every arm of the service so
a day All regimental nom commissioned
| officers 81 so a day. All other non-commls-
stoned officers SIPS a day, and all priva es
81 90 a day besides quarters and subsist-
ence when in actual service in resisting
rnobs or querling riots. In computing the
lime twenty-four hours should be counted
a day, and every fractional part of twenty
four hours should be counted as whole
day
The experience of the recent past has
demonstrated that as aids 10 the civil au-
thorities in enforcing the law, companies
and not regiments are needed. OF all the
| several occasions in which it has been
necessary TO can on the military fer as
| sistance during the last year, there has
| been but one in which more than two
companies were necessary, usually mere
detachment of one company is suftic ent.
! That one was in quelfng the recent insur-
rection in Mcintosh county, of which
have already spoken, for which the entire
! First Regiment of Infantry and several
detachmenis of cavalry were necessary.
This experience seems to warrant The con-
clusion that the military fund should be
apr lied to the cultivation of companies, by
paying their armory rent and supplying
them with uniforms, rather than
in paving the expenses of reginlental en>
campments, as now provided bylaw.
1 therefore recommended this change In
the law, and the further change that the
expenses of the state troops including sub
sistence, transportation, compensation,
etc, when called out to put down riots,
and 10 aid the civil authorities, be paid
out of the military fund instead of the
contingent fund upon which so many other
| drafts must necessarily be made. AT
ready the extraordinary drafts upon this
! fund only 900 peT~annum for the pur-
pose of arresting the spread of smallpox
and to pay the expenses of the military
when necessarily called into service 10
ouch riots or prevent lynehings, have ex-
hausted about half of the appropriation.
Deficiency Appropriation.
To supply the deficiency in the contin-
gent fund occasioned by drafts upon it TO
prevent the spread of smallpox and to de-
fray the expenses of the military when
employed in the suppression of mobs and
. / in AIDING InG civil dullOIillGa III the tll-
forcement of the law, an appropriation of
IS 900 will be necessary, while to supply
the deficiency in the printing fund occa-
stoned by reprnting Supreme Court re-
ports, will require $500 more.
1 respectfully suggest that appropria-
tons be made to supply these deficiencies.
Office of Adjutant General.
The adjutant generals Office is the head
quarters of the military of the state. From
| Il issue all orders affecting the state
troops. and as well their comfort as their
efficiency In serving the state when need
ed depends on the efficient working Of
that office.
Under our law the Adjutant General re-
/ ceives no salary for his military services,
but he is by virtue of Office keeper OF
public buildings and grounds, and for his
service as such he receives salary OF
+ 5000. He has no clerk or other assistant
The present incumbent, Brig Gen. John
NJ Kell was appointed In 1885, not only
on account of his ability but in recogni-
ton of his splendid services to the South
in the civil war. and in recognition OF
these services he has been retained in the
Office through each succeeding admins.
tration up to this time Notwithstanding
his advanced age, his failing health and
his consequent inability to discharge the
duties of the Office. Up to the beginnine
of the Spanish-American war no serious
inconvenience resulted to the pubic serv.
ice from his constantly increasing in1rm-
ity, because there was up TO that tins
detailed from the regular army of the
United States an officer paid by the gen
eral government as an assistant to tbs
Adjutant General of each state. This as
sistant performed all the duties of the OF.
flee during the absence or disability Of the
Adjutant General. But at the beginning
of the war with Spain the United States
needed all her military officers for service
in the field, and the galant Capt. Brown
was Withdrawn from this special service