Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1909-02-13


required In the Philippine Bureau of
Health. These positions will carry
salaries of $1,000 or $4,000, and It is
I, quisite that the appointees have a
thorough knowledge of medicine, and
H. is preferred that they also have a
knowledge Of sanitation and of the
Spanish language. They will be as
signed to work in different parts OF
the archipelago under the Bureau of
Health, and II Is the desire OF the
Government to secure through the
Especial civil service examination to
be held shortly men of the best type.
The Bureau has requested the Civil
Service Commission to hold as soon
Us practicable an examination for the
purpose of securing veterinarian ell
ligibles to flll n number of places In
the Philippine Islands. The entrance
salary will be $1,000 and the chances
of promotion for competent men are
considered good As the positions are
under civil service, they can only be
filled by transfer from the United
States service or by the appointment
10: those passing the civil service test.
In a brief submitted to the U. s.
Court of Claims. Geo. A. and VIM. Is.
King. of Washington, d. C., attorneys
for Washington Bowie, Jr., argued In
support of the contention that officers
OF the National Guard or Organized
Militia, below the rank of brigadier
general, when engaged In encamp-
ment maneuvers and field instruction.
under Sec. Is, Act OF Jan. 81, 1903, are
entitled to ten-per-cent. increase of
pay for each lustrum or period Of Ave
years service rendered in the Or
ganized Militia. The claimant as an
officer Of the Maryland National
Guard took part in the exercises at
the Mount Gretna (Pa.) Camp of In
struction in 1906. He did not receive
longevity pay, which. he asserts, is
provided for by Sec. 1862, Revised
Statutes. In the state camps OF In
struction he and other officers of the
NJ. n. G. received longevity pay. Prior
to the Mount Gretna Camp he had
served fifteen years two months and
siA days In the Guard. The ]. A. G.
rendered an opinion, dated Oct. 10,
1904, Par. 1868, Manual Pay Depart
ment, U. S. A., holding that officers of
the organized militia are not entitled
to longevity pay for service In the
militia. This decision, says the brief,
would be correct in case of an Army
officer asking credit for militia ser
vice, but to apply II to an officer of
the organized militia would be to de-
priye him of any pay whatever unless
IL be for service in the Army" The
claimant based his claim not on Army
Statutes primarily, but upon the Act
of June q, 1908, which, he holds, in
tended to assimilate the pay OF the
organized militia to the pay of the
Army In the case of the Marine
Corps, Navy and Revenue Cutter Ser
vice, officers have received the same
pay as officers OF the Army and have
been credited with the service they
had rendered In their own particu-
lar branch. Likewise, the militia are
entitled to credit for service in their
branch.
The statutes affecting the pay OF
the Marine Corps, Navy and Revenue
Gutter Service are similar In phrase
olosy TO the statute relating to mill
tia pay. They all provide pay as
simulated to the pay OF the Army.
None of them assimilates the service
to the service of the Army" The con-
tention OF the j. A. G. that the SER
vice OF guardsman is not constant,
but Is rendered In the form of weekly
drills, etc, is met In the brief with
this quotation from the speech OF
General Oliver, Asst, Secy. of War, at
the convention of the National Guard
Association in January, 1908: Now
! do not think that many of the Ma
tional Guardsmen realize that the,
are exactly on the same plane as tn,
Regular Army II war occurred to
morrow. Every National Guardsman
the day he signs his enlistment paper
or every officer OF the National Guard
whenever he takes his oath, enlists
; FOR war. Do you realize that? There
has been SO much talk some loose
talk, on the question of whether the
National Guard was in the first line
or the second line, or whether preced.
erce would be taken by the volun.
teors, that / should like to have you
all take that In. Gentlemen, you are
In the first line, and you have volun.
teered The thing is done" The A
u. OF Maryland is quoted as certify
Ing that the claimants service in the
National Guard OF Maryland was
continuous, he being at all times
subject to military discipline and
duties" Later decisions OF the j. A..
o. Department, 1t is held in the brief,
are against the decision used as au-
thcrity in the pay manual and the