Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 September 1878 — Pay of the Army. [ARTICLE]

Pay of the Army.

[From the Congressional Globe.J

Mr. Voorhees offered the following resolution, and moved the previous queation on its adoption: Whereas, The increased prices attached to all the commodities of life render the expense of living and of suopoiting families almost, if not quite, double what sufficed for such purposes at the commencement of the war in which we aie now engaged; therefore, Be it ? esotoeef, That the Committee on Military Affairs be instructed to prepare ami report, at as early a day as practicable, a bill providing for the increase of the pay of the white private soldiers now or hereafter In the Ar ny of the UnitedJStates to the sum of twenty five dollars per month; >l- - providing for the increase of the pay of all commissioned and noncommissioned officers and musicians, now or hereafter in said army, forty per cent, on the amount now paid them by law; and also providing for the payment to the soldiers who have heretofore been enlisted including those who have been honorably discharged by reason of disability or other cause, of an amount of bounty money equal to to the highest amount now beiug paid by the Government for volunteers.” Mr. Stevens—l ask the gentleman from Indiana to amend his resolution by directing the Committee on Military Affairs to inquire into the expediency of reporting such a bill. It ought to be so in all these cases.— There will be no objection to the resolution. Mr. Voorhees—l accept tie modification The<resolution was modified accordingly. The previous question was seconded, and the main question ordered, and under its operation the resolution was adopted.