The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1911-06-27
MORE MONEY FOR
THE VOLUNTEERS
SENATOR WOULD GIVE TRAVEL
PAY TO THOSE WHO sERv-
ED IN PHILIPPINES.

i. +. Twomey Of this city, who served
in tho Philippines with the famous First
California regiment, Of which James F.
Smith, aftelward governor general of
the Philippines, was colonel, has recent
ly received letter from Washington
telling Of extra money coming to volun-
teer Off ,ers and soldiers.
Senator Wesley L. Jones, chairman of
the committee on fisheries and member
of the committee on military affairs, on
May 10, introduced into the senate his
bill entitled, ga bill for the relief of
volunteer officers and soldiers who serv-
cd in the Philippine Islands beyond the
period of their enlistment.
The bill provides that all officers
and soldiers who served in the islands
beyond their period of enlistment shall
be entitled to travel pay and commuta-
tion Of subsistence from their port of
.mbarkation in the Philippines to the
place in the United States where their
muster out took place.
Seven Millions.
Estimates by the war department are
that this bill will call for the disburse-
ment of seven million dollars, and this
is an objection it makes to the passage.
The war department claims that as
transportation and subsistence were
furnished these soldiers there is no
special merit in the contention that
they should receive travel pay.
Senator Jones has written a personal
letter to the former officers and non
CONS now alive and to many of the
soldiers who would be affected by the
passage of the bill asking for sugges-
tions.
Besides the large number of men who
served in the volunteers and are now in
civil life, great many who after mus
ter out joined the regular establishment
would be affected by the bill, and it
has an interest for practically the whole
army as well as a large number of
civilians.
As presented in the senate and read
twice before being referred to the com
mittee on military affairs the bill reads:
"a bill for the relief of volunteer
officers and soldiers who served in the
Philippine Islands beyond the period of
their enlistment.
"Be it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the United
States of America in Congress as
sembled,
'That all officers and soldiers in the
volunteer service of the United States
who were serving in the Philippine Is
lands at the time they were entitled
under the law to muster out of service
and who continued in the service il
said islands after said period and were
thereafter transported at the expense
of the United States to their country
and here were mustered out, shall be
entitled to receive travel pay and com
mutation of subsistence from the port
of embarkation in the Philippine Islands
to the place in the United States where
their muster out took place at the same
rate and to the same extent that of
ficers and soldiers of the regular army
would receive such allowance if dis
charged in the Philippine Islands by
reason of the expiration of their tern
of service of otherwise:
provided, That the actual cost tt
the government of conveying and sub
sisting such volunteer officers and sol
diers ON government transports from tn,
said Philippine Islands and the monthly
pay allowed them for the period Will,
in transit shall be deducted from tn,
allowance provided by this act.
"See. .. That the proper accounting
officers of the government shall deter
mine the cost of conveying and sub
sisting the several volunteer organiza
tions affected by this act from the Phil
ippine Islands to this country, and shal
prOrate equitably between the members
of said organizations, and on the bash
of the amount of travel pay and sub
sistence due TO each person, the cost ot
such transportation and subsistence
and charge the same against the amount
due each individual, and shall ascertain
and find all other facts necessary to de
termine the amount due the several in
diyiduals in said organizations undei
this act, so that the same may be pait
to them directly ON their own applica
tion on forms to be furnished by sale
accounting officers
"Sec. 3. That there is hereby ap
propriated out of any money in tn,
treasury not otherwise appropriated,
sufficient sum of money to carry ou
the provisions of this act. /"
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