The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-02-16
PAY FOR
THE SOLDIERS
House Committee on Military
Affairs Agrees Upon Army
Appropriation Bill.
SCALE APPEARS LIBERAL
ELECTRICIANS HEAD THE LIST
AT SIS.

Washington, Feb. 15.-The house
committee on military affairs today
agreed to report the army appropria-
ton bill, having completed its amend
mends, increasing the pay of enlisted
men of the various grades of service
The bill, as it win be reported to the
house, will carry $S5, 255, O66, which is
$9,41S,OS1 less than the estimates sub
mitted. The amendment increasing
the pay of enlisted men is intended to
place the army service on a footing
comparable 10 the naval service. The
scale agreed upon is as follows:
New Scale of Pay.
Master electricians, master signal
electricians, $75; engineers, $50; regi-
mental sergeant majors, regimental
quartermaster sergeants, regimental
commissary sergeants, sergeant ma
jors senior grade, coast artillery, bat
TALON sergeant majors of engineers.
post quartermaster sergeantS, post
cOmmissaTy sergeants, post ordnance
sergeants, battalion quartermaster
sergeants of engineers, sergeants.
first class, signal corps, and first ser
geants, sergeants, first class, hospital
corps, electrician sergeants, first class,
S45; battalion sergeant majors OF in
fantry and field artillery, squadron
sergeant majors, sergeant majors jul
Nor grade, coast artillery, battalion
quarter master sergeants second class,
sergeants of engineers, ordnance and
signal corps, quartermaster sergeants
of engineers and color sergeants. S36;
sergeants and quartermaster seggeants
of cavalry, artillery and infantry, SER
nf m
and cooks, $50; and mess sergeants Sc
a month in addition to their pay; cor
pOralS of engineers, ordnance, signal
corps and hospital corps, chief me-
chan1cS and mechanics coast artillery,
$24; cOrporals of cavalry, artillery and
infantry, mechanics of field artillery.
blacksmiths and farriers, saddlers.
wagOners and artificers, S24; privates,
first class, of engineers ordance. sig
nal corps and hospital corps, SIS: pri-
Yates, hospital corps, SIC; trumpeters,
musicians of infantry, artillery and
engineers, SIS; privates of cavalry, ar
tillery. infantry, signal corps and pri-
Yates, secOnd-class engineers and ord
nance, SIS.
Continuous Service Pay.
An honorably discharged soldier who
has served the period of his enlist
ment will be entitled to continuous
service pay if he re-enlists within
three months, on the following scale:
Three dollars monthly during the
second and third enlistments each for
privates, cavalry. artillery, infantry.
signal corps, and 81 monthly during
each subsequent enlistment up to and
including the seventh, after which
there Will be no further increases.
Soldiers qualifying as marksmen
will receive additional pay of 81 per
month; as sharpshOOters, SO per
month; as expert riflemen, 50 per
month; as second-class gunners, 81
per month; as first-class gunners. SO
per month; as gun pointers, gun COM
manders. observers, second class,
chief planters and chief leaders. 81
per month; as plotters, observers of
the first class and casemate electri-
clans. 50.
No change is made in rates of in
crease for foreign service The pay
of enlisted men on military bands, ex-
elusive of the band at the United
States military academy, is fixed as
follows:
Chief musicians. $75; principal musi-
clans and chief trumpeters, $40; ser
geants and drum majors, S36; corpo-
rails, $50, and privates $24. with con-
tinuous service pay. 1t 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