Omaha daily bee., 1907-01-26
ITEMS OF ARMY PAY BILL
Thirteen Thousand Five Hundred Dollars
for General Top Salaries
MUCH INTEREST IN LOCAL CIRCLES
Measure Makes Raise All Along
the Line, Taking I'm All
from the Bottom
60 Top.
CHI INTEREST IN LOCAL CIRCLES

Considerable interest is being manifested
in regular army circles over the army pay
bill, House Roll 2SlO9 introduced in con-
gress by Representative Calderhead of KAN
sas, and which is now under consideration
by the committee on military AFFAIRS The
bill raises salaries and provides the follow
ing pay schedules:
General S1S,5OO lieutenant general Sli,OO0
major general 5000 brigadier general $1,000
5000, captain mounted S. 400, not mounted
ZOO. first lieutenant mounted 81 500, not
mounted N,70O second lieutenant mounted
100 not mounted $l,600. battalion sergeant
major of engineers and quartermaster SER
geant of engineers $40 per month, sergeant
majors of all branches of the service regl-
mental $3S per month, junior sergeant
major of artillery, color sergeant of cavalry
and infantry, battalion sergeant major OF
infantry squadron sergeant major of cav
airy, each $50 per month; sergeant first
class signal corps $45 per month, sergeant
of engineers, ordinance and signal corps $40
per month; quartermaster sergeant eugi-
neers $36 per MONTH first sergeant engineers
tSS per month, first sergeants of all other
branches OF service so per month, cor
S4 per month; cook, engineers and signal
corps so per month; sergeant of artillery,
cavalry and infantry s4 per month; COOK,
artillery, cavalry and infantry so per
month; quartermaster sergeant artillery.
cavalry and infantry $4 per month:
mechanic .,S coast artillery s ~ per
tillery sA per month; private first
class engineers, ordnance and signal corps,
80 per month; artificer field artillery and
infantry, SIS per month; farrier, black
smith and saddler cavalry, SIS per month;
corporal artillery, cavalry and infantry, so
per month; wagner cavalry, S15 per month;
trumpeter cavalry, SIS per month; musician
artillery, engineers and infantry, SIS per
month; private cavalry, artillery, infantry
and signal corps, Sl5 per month"; chief
musician, so per MONTH, drum major, $50
per month; chief trumpeter artillery and
cavalry, SO per month; principal musician,
SOS per month: band sergeant, &4 per month.
Band cooks corporals and privates to re-
ceive the same pay as in other branches
Of the services. Post ordinance, commits
sary and quartermaster sergeants, $40 per
month. Sergeant f1rst-class hospital corps
$45 per month; sergeant, $50 per month;
corporal S24 per month; private first-class,
$50 per month; private, SIS per month.
Privates and Enlisted.
The pay of private soldiers and other
enlisted men shall continue as herein given
during the first and second years of service
and shall be increased 81 per month during
the third year of service, 50 per month
during the fourth, fifth and sixth years of
continuous service and thereafter 81 per
month for each succeeding period Of three
years Of continuous service, beginning with
the seventh year of service.
Provision is also made in the bill for
extra compensation to officers serving on
the STATS of the lieutenant general, major
generals and brigadier generals to acting
quartermasters and commissaries. 500 In
addition to the pay Of their regular rank.