Chapter 235. Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for support of the Army for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 235.— An Act Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for support of the Army for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and for other purposes. May 4, 1898. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * *Post*, p. 772.Army.Deficiencies appropriations for. That the following sums be, and they are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and for other objects, namely:
MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT. office of the chief signal officer. Signal service.For the expenses of the Signal Service of the Army, as follows. Purchase, equipment, and repair of field electric telegraphs, signal equip- FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 235. 1898. 391 ments and stores, binocular glasses, telescopes, heliostats, and other necessary instruments, including necessary meteorological instruments for use in target ranges; war balloons; telephone apparatus (excluding exchange service) and maintenance of the same; electrical installations and maintenance at military posts; maintenance and repair of military telegraph lines and cables, including salaries of civilian employees, supplies, and general repairs, and other expenses connected with the duty of collecting and transmitting information for the Army by telegraph or otherwise, twenty-one thousand dollars. pay department.Pay.
For pay of volunteers under Act approved April twenty-second, eighteenVolunteers.*Ante*, p. 361. hundred and ninety-eight, namely: For fifteen light batteries of artillery, one hundred thousand eight hundred and ten dollars; For twenty heavy batteries of artillery, one hundred and fifty-two thousand one hundred and eighty-nine dollars and thirty-three cents; For two regiments of cavalry, one hundred and eight thousand six hundred dollars; For twenty-eight troops of cavalry, one hundred and fifteen thousand eight hundred and sixty-four dollars;
For two squadrons of cavalry, thirty-three thousand one hundred and six dollars; For one hundred and nine regiments of infantry, four million eight hundred and seventy-nine thousand one hundred and thirty-eight dollars; For eight battalions of infantry, one hundred and twenty-seven thousand eight hundred and twenty-five dollars; For pay of regimental staff for one hundred and ten separate companies, thirty-eight thousand four hundred and ninety-six dollars; For pay of officers of the line (staff), one hundred and thirty-three thousand one hundred and thirty-three dollars and thirty-three cents;
For pay of contract surgeons, five thousand dollars; For mileage to officers, twenty-five thousand dollars;Mileage. For fifty paymasters, additional, majors, twenty thousand eight hundred and thirty-three dollars and thirty-three cents; For fifty paymasters’ clerks, additional, at the rate of one thousand four hundred dollars per annum each, eleven thousand six hundred and sixty-six dollars and sixty-six cents; For traveling expenses of paymasters’ clerks, fifteen thousand dollars; in all, five million seven hundred and sixty-six thousand six hundred and sixty-one dollars and sixty-five cents.
For pay of the Army under Act approved April twenty-sixth, eighteenLine officers.*Ante*, p. 364. hundred and ninety-eight, as follows: For pay of officers of the line, namely: For fifty majors, twenty thousand eight hundred and thirty-three dollars and thirty-three cents; For fifty captains, not mounted, fifteen thousand dollars; For fifty first lieutenants, not mounted, twelve thousand five hundred dollars; For fifty second lieutenants, not mounted, eleven thousand six hundred and sixty-six dollars and sixty-six cents;
For twenty-eight second lieutenants, mounted, seven thousand dollars; For fifty-six second lieutenants, not mounted, thirteen thousand and sixty-six dollars and sixty-six cents; in all, eighty thousand and sixty-six dollars and sixty-five cents. For pay of the line, including recruits, namely:Enlisted men. For two sergeant-majors, ninety-two dollars; For two quartermaster-sergeants, ninety-two dollars; For two chief musicians, two hundred and forty dollars; For four trumpeters and principal musicians, one hundred and seventy-six dollars;
For seventy-six first sergeants, three thousand eight hundred dollars; 392 FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 235. 1898. For four hundred and forty-eight company quartermaster-sergeants, sixteen thousand one hundred and twenty-eight dollars; For one thousand four hundred and seventy-one sergeants, cavalry, artillery, and infantry, fifty-two thousand nine hundred and fifty-six dollars; For twenty-eight veterinary sergeants, one thousand and eight dollars; For four thousand and thirty-one corporals, cavalry, artillery, and infantry, one hundred and twenty thousand nine hundred and thirty dollars;
For one hundred and forty-eight musicians and trumpeters, three thousand eight hundred and forty-eight dollars; For one hundred and fifty artificers, farriers, and blacksmiths, four thousand five hundred dollars; For twenty-nine saddlers, eight hundred and seventy dollars; For seventy-five wagoners, two thousand one hundred dollars; For thirty thousand three hundred and sixty privates, cavalry, artillery, and infantry, seven hundred and eighty-nine thousand three hundred and sixty dollars; in all, nine hundred and ninety-six thousand one hundred dollars. —engineer battalion.For engineer battalion, namely:
For five first sergeants, three hundred and forty dollars; For ten sergeants, six hundred and eighty dollars; For ten corporals, four hundred dollars; For two musicians, fifty-two dollars; For one hundred and sixteen first-class privates, three thousand nine hundred and forty-four dollars; For one hundred and nine second-class privates, two thousand eight hundred and thirty-four dollars; in all, eight thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. Signal Corps.For Signal Corps, namely:
For ten corporals, four hundred dollars; For one hundred first-class privates, three thousand four hundred dollars; For forty second-class privates, one thousand and forty dollars; in all, four thousand eight hundred and forty dollars. Increased pay, enlisted men.For twenty per cent increase on pay of enlisted men for two months, three hundred and forty-five thousand three hundred and twenty-nine dollars and ninety-one cents. Accounting.All the money hereinbefore appropriated under “ Pay Department” except for “Mileage to Officers” shall be disbursed and accounted for by the Pay Department as pay of the Army, and for that purpose shall constitute one fund.
Miscellaneous pay.To supply deficiencies in the appropriations for pay, and so forth, of the Army for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, including for additional pay for length of service of enlisted men; pay of enlisted men on the retired list; allowance for travel, retained and detained pay, clothing not drawn, and for interest on deposits, payable to enlisted men on discharge; pay of officers of the line; pay of officers for length of service, to be paid with current monthly pay; pay of enlisted men; pay of general staff; pay of retired officers; additional pay to retired officers for length of service; commutation of quarters to Additional artillery regiments.*Ante*, p. 261.officers on duty without troops; and including not exceeding one hundred and thirteen thousand one hundred and seventy dollars and fifty-six cents made necessary by Act approved March eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, providing for two additional regiments of artillery, one million and sixty thousand two hundred and nineteen dollars and seventy cents.
Mileage.For mileage to officers when authorized by law, thirty-five thousand dollars. subsistence department.Subsistence Department. Supplies.For purchase of subsistence supplies: For issue as rations to troops, civil employees when entitled thereto, hospital matrons, and general FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 235. 1898. 393 prisoners at posts, estimated for remainder of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight on the basis of ten million nine hundred and fifty-eight thousand five hundred and seventy-four rations; for sales to officers and enlisted men of the Army; for authorized issues of caudles; of toilet articles, barbers’, laundry, and tailors’ materials, for use of general prisoners confined at military posts without pay or allowances, and recruits at recruiting stations; of matches for lighting public fires and lights at posts and stations and in the field; of flour used for paste in target practice; of salt and vinegar for public animals.
ForPayments. payments: For meals for recruiting parties and recruits; for hot coffee, canned beef, and baked beans for troops traveling, when it is impracticable to cook their rations; for scales, weights, measures, utensils, tools, stationery, blank books and forms, printing, advertising, commercial newspapers, use of telephones, office furniture; for temporary buildings, cedars, and other means of protecting subsistence supplies (when not provided by the Quartermaster’s Department); for compensation of civilians employed in the Subsistence Department; and for other necessary expenses incident to the purchase, care, preservation, issue, sale, and accounting for subsistence supplies for the Army.
ForCommutation of rations. the payment of the regulation allowances for commutation in lieu of rations: To enlisted men on furlough, to ordnance sergeants on duty at ungarrisoned posts, to enlisted men stationed at places where rations in kind can not be economically issued, to enlisted men traveling on detached duty when it is impracticable to carry rations of any kind; to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War; in all, two million seven hundred and thirty-nine thousand six hundred and forty-three dollars and fifty cents. quartermaster’s department.Quartermaster’s Department.
For regular supplies, namely: For regular supplies of the Quartermaster’sRegular supplies. Department, including their care and protection, consisting of stoves and heating apparatus, required for heating offices, hospitals, barracks, and quarters, and recruiting stations; also ranges and stoves, and appliances for cooking and serving food, and repair and maintenance of such heating and cooking appliances; of fuel and lights for enlisted men, including recruits, guards, hospitals, storehouses, and offices, and for sale to officers; for post bakeries; for the necessary furniture, text-books, paper, and equipments for the post schools and libraries; for the tableware and mess furniture for kitchens and mess halls, each and all for the enlisted men, including recruits; of forageForage, etc. in kind for the horses, mules, and oxen of the Quartermaster’s Department at the several posts and stations and with the armies in the field, and for the horses of the several regiments of cavalry, the batteries of artillery, and such companies of infantry and scouts as may be mounted, and for the authorized number of officers’ horses, including bedding for the animals; of straw for soldiers’ bedding, and of stationery, including blank books for the Quartermaster’s Department, certificates for discharged soldiers, blank forms for the Pay and Quartermaster’s departments; and for printing Department orders and reports, one millionAmount. dollars.
For incidental expenses, namely: For postage; cost of telegrams onIncidental expenses. official business received and sent by officers of the Array; extra pay to soldiers employed on extra duty, under the direction of the Quartermaster’s Department, in the erection of barracks, quarters, and storehouses, in the construction of roads, and other constant labor for periods of not less than ten days, and as clerks for post quartermasters at military posts, and for prison overseers at posts designated by the War Department for the confinement of general prisoners; for expenses of expresses to and from frontier posts and armies in the field, of escorts to paymasters and other disbursing officers, and to trains where military escorts can not be furnished; expenses of the interment of officers killed in action or who die when on duty in the field, or at military posts or on the frontiers, or when traveling under orders, and of noncommissioned officers and soldiers; authorized office furniture; hire of laborers 394 FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Ch. 235. 1898. in the Quartermaster’s Department, including the hire of interpreters, spies, or guides for the Army; compensation of clerks and other employees to the officers of the Quartermaster’s Department, and incidental expenses of recruiting; for the apprehension, securing, and delivering of deserters, and the expenses incident to their pursuit, and no greater sum than ten dollars for each deserter shall be paid to any officer or citizen for such services and expenses; for a donation of five dollars to each dishonorably discharged prisoner upon his release from confinement, under court-martial sentence involving dishonorable discharge; and for the following expenditures required for the several regiments of cavalry, the batteries of light artillery, and such companies of infantry and scouts as may be mounted, the authorized number of officers’ horses, and for the trains, to wit:
Hire of veterinary surgeons, purchase of medicines for horses and mules, picket ropes, blacksmiths’ tools and materials, horseshoes and blacksmiths’ tools for the cavalry service, and for the shoeing of horses and mules, and such additional expenditures as are necessary and authorized by law in the movements and operation of the Army, and at military posts, and not expressly Amount.assigned to any other department, seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Purchase of horses.For horses for cavalry and artillery, namely:
For the purchase of horses for the cavalry and artillery, and for the Indian scouts, and for such infantry and members of the hospital corps in field campaigns as may be required to be mounted, and the expenses incident thereto, one million five hundred thousand dollars. Barracks and quarters.For barracks and quarters, namely: For barracks and quarters for troops, storehouses for the safe-keeping of military stores, for offices, recruiting stations, and for the hire of buildings and grounds for summer cantonments, and for temporary buildings at frontier stations, for the construction of temporary buildings and stables, and for repairing public buildings at established posts, including the extra-duty pay of *Proviso.*Not available for commutation, etc.enlisted men employed on the same: *Provided,* That no part of the money so appropriated shall be paid for commutation of fuel, and for quarters to officers or enlisted men, three hundred thousand dollars.
Transportation.For transportation of the Army and its supplies, namely: For transportation of the Army, including baggage of the troops when moving either by land or water, and including also the transportation of recruits and recruiting parties heretofore paid from the appropriation for “Expenses of recruiting”; of supplies to the militia furnished by the War Department; of the necessary agents and employees; of clothing, camp, and garrison equipage, and other quartermaster’s stores, from army depots or places of purchase or delivery to the several posts and army depots and from those depots to the troops in the field; of horse equipments and subsistence stores, from the places of purchase and from the places of delivery under contract to such places as the circumstances of the service may require them to be sent; of ordnance, ordnance stores, and small arms, from the foundries and armories to the arsenals, fortifications, frontier posts, and army depots; freights, wharfage, tolls, and ferriages; the purchase and hire of draft and pack animals and harness, and the purchase and repair of wagons, carts, and drays, and of ships and other seagoing vessels and boats required for the transportation of supplies and for garrison purposes; for drayage and cartage at the several posts; hire of teamsters and other employees; extra duty pay of enlisted men driving teams, repairing means of transportation, and employed as train-masters, and in opening roads and building wharves; transportation of funds of the Army; the expenses of sailing public transports on the various rivers, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Atlantic and Pacific oceans; for procuring water, and introducing the same to buildings, at such posts as from their situation require it to be brought from a distance, and for the disposal of sewage and drainage, and for constructing—payment to landgrant railroads. roads and wharves; for the payment of army transportations lawfully due such land-grant railroads as have not received aid in FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Ch. 235. 1898. 395 Government bonds (to be adjusted in accordance with the decisions of the Supreme Court in cases decided under such land-grant acts), but in—maximum. no case shall more than fifty per centum of full amount of service be paid: *Provided,* That such compensation shall be computed upon the*Provisos.*Rates for transportation. basis of the tariff or lower special rates for like transportation performed for the public at large, and shall be accepted as in full for all demands for such service: *Provided further,* That in expending the—to land-grant railroads, conditioned to perform certain Government services. money appropriated by this Act, a railroad company which has not received aid in bonds of the United States, and which obtained a grant of public land to aid in the construction of its railroad on condition that such railroad should be a post route and military road, subject to the use of the United States for postal, military, naval, and other Government services, and also subject to such regulations as Congress may impose restricting the charge for such Government transportation having claims against the United States for transportation of troops and munitions of war and military supplies and property over such aided railroads, shall be paid out of the moneys appropriated by the foregoing provision only on the basis of such rate for the transportation of such troops and munitions of war and military supplies and property a? the Secretary of War shall deem just and reasonable under the foregoing provision, such rate not to exceed fifty per centum of the compensation—maximum. for such Government transportation as shall at the time be charged to and paid by private parties to any such company for like and similar transportation; and the amount so fixed to be paid shall be accepted as in full for all demands for such service, six million dollars.Amount.
Clothing, and camp and garrison equipage, namely: For cloth, woolens,Clothing, camp and garrison equipage. materials, and for the manufacture of clothing for the Army, for issue and for sale at cost price according to the Army Regulations; for altering and fitting clothing, and washing and cleaning when necessary; for equipage and for expenses of packing and handling and similar necessaries; for a suit of citizen’s outer clothes, to cost not exceeding ten dollars, to be issued upon release from confinement to each prisoner who has been confined under a court-martial sentence involving dishonorable discharge, ten million dollars.
For contingencies of the Army, namely: For all contingent expensesContingent expenses. of the Army not provided for by other estimates, and embracing all branches of the military service, to be expended under the immediate orders of the Secretary of War, twenty thousand dollars. ordnance department.Ordinance Department. For current expenses of the ordnance service, required to defray theCurrent expenses. current expenses at the arsenals; of receiving stores and issuing arms and other ordnance supplies; of police and office duties; of rents, tolls, fuel, and lights; of stationery and office furniture; of tools and instruments for use; incidental expenses of the ordnance service, and those attending practical trials and tests of ordnance, small arms and other ordnance supplies, including payment for mechanical labor in the office of the Chief of Ordnance, ninety-five thousand dollars.
For procuring small-arm ammunition, including machinery, tools, andAmmunition for small arms. so forth, for its manufacture at arsenals, three hundred and twenty-six thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. For purchase and manufacture of ordnance stores to fill requisitionsOrdinance stores. of troops, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. For infantry, cavalry, and artillery equipments, including horseEquipments. equipments tor cavalry and artillery, and including machinery, tools, and so forth, for their manufacture at arsenals, seven hundred and ninety-one thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.
For repairing and preserving ordnance and ordnance stores in theRepairing ordnance, etc. hands of troops, and for issue at the arsenals and depots, ten thousand dollars. For overhauling, cleaning, and preserving new ordnance on hand at the arsenals, ten thousand dollars. 396 FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 235. 1898. Arms to armories, etc.For manufacture, repairing, procuring, and issuing arms at the national armories, one hundred, and. forty-eight thousand dollars. fortifications.Fortifications.
Armament of.For the following for armament of fortifications, to be available until expended: *Ante*, p. 274.For procuring three and two-tenths inch field cannon, with their carriages, equipments, sights, and harness, in addition to amount allotted under the appropriation for national defense, and ammunition, including machinery, tools, and so forth, for their manufacture at the arsenals, five hundred and forty thousand dollars. For procuring siege guns, their carriages and ammunition, including machinery, tools, and so forth, for their manufacture at the arsenals, five hundred and ten thousand eight hundred dollars.
For procuring range finders and instruments for fire control, fifty thousand dollars. For powders and projectiles for seacoast guns and mortars, and for explosives for filling the projectiles, for fuses, and for necessary machinery, tools, and so forth, for their manufacture at the arsenals, and for test plates and expenses of testing, one million and fifteen thousand dollars. For ammunition for rapid-fire guns, four hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. For fitting up twenty-one fifteen-inch smooth-bore carriages to take the eight-inch breech-loading rifles, twenty-one thousand dollars.
For twelve-inch barbette carriages, including inspection, test specimens, and so forth, two hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars. medical department.Medical Department. Supplies, Volunteer Army.For the purchase of medical supplies for the Volunteer Army of the United States Army, fifty thousand dollars. engineer department.Engineer Department. Materials, tools, etc.For pontoon boats, pontoniers’ materials, intrenching tools, drawing instruments, surveying instruments, note books, printing and issuing maps, sappers and miners’ tools, fifty thousand dollars.
For expeditionary force to Cuba, namely: For construction plant, fifty-two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; For intrenching tools, thirteen thousand and ninety-five dollars; For portable electric outfit, twenty-three thousand two hundred and twenty-five dollars; For surveying and drawing instruments, sixteen thousand four hundred and sixty-four dollars; For the procurement of field maps printed on linen with indelible ink, three thousand dollars; Contingent expenses.For unforeseen contingent expenses which involve immediate expenditure for purposes of imperative urgency, forty-two thousand dollars; in all, one hundred and fifty thousand and thirty-four dollars, to be expended under direction of the Major-General Commanding the Army, and to be available until expended. torpedoes for harbor defense.Torpedoes for harbor defense.
For the purchase of additional torpedo material, fifty thousand dollars. For expenses of planting torpedoes now in progress at all principal harbors, three hundred thousand dollars. PRINTING AND BINDING.Printing and Binding. For printing and binding for the Navy Department, twenty thousand dollars. For printing and binding for the Treasury Department, thirty thousand dollars. FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Chs. 235–237. 1898. 397 NAVY DEPARTMENT.Navy Department. For stationery, furniture, newspapers, plans, drawings, drawingMiscellaneous expenses. materials, horses and wagons, to be used only for official purposes, freight, expressage, postage, and other absolutely necessary expenses of the Navy Department and its various bureaus and offices, one thousand dollars.
NAVAL ESTABLISHMENT.Navy. Pay miscellaneous: For commissions and interest; transportation ofPay, miscellaneous. funds; exchange; mileage to officers while traveling under orders in the United States, and for actual personal expenses of officers while traveling abroad under orders, and for traveling expenses of apothecaries, yeomen, and civilian employees, and for actual and necessary traveling expenses of naval cadets while proceeding from their homes to the Naval Academy for examination and appointment as cadets; for rent and furniture of buildings and offices not in navy-yards; expenses of courts-martial, prisoners and prison, and courts of inquiry, boards of inspection, examining boards, with clerks’ and witnesses’ fees, and traveling expenses and costs; stationery and recording; expenses of purchasing paymasters’ offices of the various cities, including clerks, furniture, fuel, stationery, and incidental expenses; newspapers and advertising; foreign postage; telegraphing, foreign and domestic; telephones; copying; care of library, including the purchase of books, photographs, prints, manuscripts, and periodicals; ferriages, tolls, and express fees; costs of suits; commissions, warrants, diplomas, and discharges; relief of vessels in distress; canal tolls and pilotage; recovery of valuables from shipwrecks; quarantine expenses; reports; professional investigation; cost of special instruction, at home or abroad, in maintenance of students and attaches and information from abroad, and the collection and classification thereof, and other necessary and incidental expenses, one hundred thousand dollars.
The appropriations herein made, except as otherwise provided, shallAppropriations how long available. continue available until January first, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine. Approved, May 4, 1898.