The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1916-06-30
Gable Message From Washing
ton To Headquarters Announces
One Cent Raise
FROM PLACE DISCHARGED
TO PLACE OF ENLISTMENT
Only Honorably Dismissed Men
Entitled To 1t, Under Pro-
visions of Act

OF particular interest to enlisted men
of the army is n cable message receiv-
ed at headquarters of the Hawaiian
Department yesterday. 1t informs that
on and after July !, enlisted men who
are discharged or who are furlOughed
to the reserve are entitled to travel
pay at the rate of three and half
cents per mile from the place of dis
charge TO the place where they were
accepted for enlistment in the regular
army. VT
The law docs not contemplate the
payment of mileage for travel by sea,
but instead allows transportation and
subsistence while en- route to the home
port. Sea travel is not construed TO
include travel in the Philippine Islands,
the Hawaiian Islands, the home waters
of the United States, or travel between
the United States and Alaska, but such
travel is to be paid for at the rate
of three and half cents per mile. Men
discharged from the service by way of
punishment for an offense are not en-.
titled to travel pay.
Travel Allowance Small
Formerly enlisted men we're allowed
four cents per mile as travel pay, but
several years ago this allowance was
cut down to two cents per mile, and
has been the cause of such ,dissatisfac
ton. Enlisted men have been striving
to have the old rate of travel pay re
established, and point to the fact that
the allowance for the travel of en-
listed men is the smallest allowance Of
that nature granted to any person a.
a travel allowance.
The cablegram also contains the in
formation that the enlisted men Of
the Hospital Corps became, on june
3, enlisted men of the medical de
partment, and that the pay Of ser
| geants, medical department would b,
increased from thirty dollars per mont
to thirty. six dollars per month, from
June 3, the date of the approval o
the new national defense law. Me-
enlisting in the medical department, o
men who. have been transferred there
to, as privates, since June will re
ceive only fifteen dollars per month
while those who were members of tn
Hospital Corps, as privates, prior t
the passage of the new law will re
ceive sixteen dollars per month unit
Only Reduction Made
| 1t Is pointed out that this reductio
of one dollar per month in the pay q
a private Of the medical department
is the only reduction in pay that
made by the new army bill, and thi
reduction will not affect any one |
service on the date of the passage @
the bill. The reduction equahzes tn
pay of privates of all classes of Sc
vice, as heretofore, priVates of the hO
pital corps, have been receiving on
dollar a month more than privates {
other branches of the service on FRI
enlistment
To offset this reduction, hOweve
the medical department has been faVo
ed with several rated positions NJ
, heretofore open to enlisted men of thu
department There have been create
the positions of master hospital Sc
geant and hospital sergeants, wine
will open mp an avenue to promote
for fifteen men in each thousand.
In addition, the rated positions
dispensary assistant, carrying ext
pay Of two dollars a month, of nurs
carrying an extra three dollars p
e month, and Of surgical assistant, carr
, ing an increase of five dollars p
month, have been created, and "
probably more than offset the loss
enlisted men of the medical departing
3 caused by the reduction in the numb
>. Of Grst-class privates that may be n
n pointed.