Omaha daily bee., 1908-02-16
AGREE ON ARMY PAY ROLL
House Committee Places Both
Branches on the Same
Footing.

WASHINGTON. Feb. 15-The house
committe on military affairs, today agreed
to report the army appropriation bill, hav-
ing completed its amendment increasing the
pay of enlisted men Of the various grades
Of service The bill as Il will be reported
to the house, will carry SS5, 49, O66, which
is S1491S,Sn less than the estimates sum-
mitted. The amendment increasing the pay
OF enlisted men is intended to place the
army service on a footing comparable 70
the naval service. The scale agreed upon
Is as follows:
Master electricians master signal efec-
tricians, SIS; engineers, $65; regimental
sergeants major, regimental quartermaster
sergeants, regimental commissary SER
geants, sergeants major senior grade coast
artillery. battalion sergeants major Of en-
gineers, post quartermaster sergeants, post
commissary sergeants, post ordnance SER
geants, battalion quartermaster sergeants
Of engineers sergeants first class, signal
corps and first sergeants, sergeants first
class hospital corps. electrician sergeants
first class, S45; battalion sergeants major
of infantry and field artillery, squadron
sergeants major, sergeants major Junior
grade coast artillery, battalion quartermas-
ter sergeants. second class, sergeants of
engineers, ordnance and signal corps, quar-
termaster sergeants of engineers and color
sergeants, $S6; sergesnts and quartermaster
sergeants OF cavalry and infantry, ser
geants Of the hospital corps, firemen and
cooks $50; and mess sergeants, Sc a month
in addition to their pay; corporals of en-
glneers, ordnance, signal corps and hos
pital corps, chief mechanics and mechanics
coast artillery. s24; corporals Of cavalry.
Inf rtr s,F aII
artillery, blacksmiths and farriers. saddlers,
wagoners and artificers. s24 privates, first
class of engineers, ordnance signal corps
and hospital corps, SIS; privates. hospital
corps, SIC; trumpeters, musicians of in
fantry, artillery and engineers, $15 privates
of cavalry artillery, infantry. signal corps
and privares second class engineers and
ordnance. SIS.
An honorably discharged soldier who has
served the period of his enlistment will be
entitled to continuous service pay IL he re-
enlsts within three months, on the follow
ing scale:
Three dollars monthly during the second
and third enlstments each for privates
cavalry, artillery, infantry. signal corps and
81 monthly during each subsequent enlist
ment up to and including the seventh, after
which there will be no further increases.
Soldiers qualifying as marksmen will re-
ceive additional pay of So per month; as
sharpshooters, 50 per month; as expert rifle
men, So per month; as second-class gunners,
81 per month; as first-class gunnors SO per
month; as gun pointers, gun commanders,
observers, second-class, chief planters and
chief leaders, 81 per month; as plotters, OBJ
servers. first-class, and casemate electric
ian, 80 per month.
No change of rates is made in rates of
increase for foreign service. The pay of
enlisted men of military bands, exclusive
of the band at the United States Military
academy. is fixed as follows: Chief musi-
clan, $75; principal musicians and chief
trumpeters, $40; sergeants and drum majors,
$50; corporals, $50; privates, $24, with con-
tinuous service pay. II is provided that
army bands or members thereof shall not
receive remuneration for furnishing music
outside the limits of military posts, when
the furnishing of such music places them
in competition with local civilian musicians.