The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-16
INCREASED PAY
 FOR ENLISTED MEN While Bill Is Cut Down the Pay
 VIII Be Raised AN ADVANCE ALL AROUND Private Soldiers Are To Receive An Increase of $2 Per Month, While
 Others Receive Even
 Larger Pay.
AN ADVANCE ALL AROUND

Washington, February 15.-The House committee on military affairs today agreed to report the army appropriation bill having completed it's amendment in creasing the pay of enlisted men of the various grades of service. The bill as it will be reported to the House will carry $s5, ,255 o66, which Is s9,41S,0S1 less than the estimates submitted.
 The amendment increasing the pay of enlisted men is intended to place the army on footing comparable to the naval service.
 The scale agreed upon is as follows:
 Master electricians and master signal electricians, s75; engineers. s65; regimen- tai sergeans major, reginental quarter master sergeants, regmental commits sary sergeans. sergeants major, senior grade, coast artillery, battalion sergeans major of engineers, post-qaurtermaster sergeants, post commisary sergeans post ordinance sergeans, battalion quartermas- ter sergeants of engineers, sergeants, first class; signal corps and first sergeans, sergeants, first class, hospital corps; cleo trician sergeants, first class, s45 battalion sergeants major of infantry and field ar tillery squadron sergeants major of in- fantry and field artillery, battalion quarter master sergeants, second class sergeants of engineers, ordinance and signal corps. quartermaster sergeants of engineers and color sergeants, $s6; sergeants and auartermaster sergeants of cavalry, artil- luery and infantry sergeants of the hos pital corps. firemen and cooks, s90; and mess sergeants, s6 a month in addition to their pay; corporals of engineers ord nance, signal corps, and hospital corps
 chief mechanics and mechanic coast ar
 tillery, s24; corporals of cavalry, artil- lery and infantry, mechanics of field ar-
 tillery, blacksmiths and farriers, saddlers.
 wagoners and artificers, s24; privates.
 first class, of engineers, ordnance. signal corps and hospital corps, SIS. privates.
 hospital corps, $l6; trumpeters, musicians
 of infantry. artillery and engineers. sl5: privates of cavalry, artillery, infantry. signal corps and privates second class, en- gineers and ordinances, sl5. An honorably discharged soldier, who has served the period of his enlistment, will be en- l titled to continues service pay if he re-en- ! lists within three months. on the fol- | loging scale:
 l Three dollars monthly during the sec I ond and third enlistments each for l priyates, cavalry, artillery. infantry, sig ] nal corps, and s1 monthly during each subsequent enlistment up to and includ- ] ing the seventh, after which there will I be no further increase
 1 Soldiers qualifying as inarksmen will receive additional pay of $2 per month; | as sharpshooters B per month: as expert i rifemen, 5 per month; as second class I gunners, E per month: as first class gun I ners, s per month: as gun pointers, gun 1 commanders. observers. second class 1 chief planters and chief ioaders, g per l month: as plotters, observers, first class l and cassmate electricians, g.
 | No change is made In rates of increase ] for foreisp service. The pay of enlisted