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55TH CONGRESS, S ENATE. REPORT
18t es88ion. II No. 87.
REGULATING PAY OF NONCOMMISSIONED OFFICERS IN
THE ARMY.
APRIL 21, 1897.-Ordered to be printed.
Mr. SEWELL, fl'om the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the
following
REPORT.
[To accompany S. 661.]
The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the bill
(8. 661) to regulate the pay of noncommissioned officers in the Army,
have carefully considered the same and report it. with the following
amendment:
In line 4 strike out the word ninety-six and insert Uninety-eight.
Your committee reported this bill at the first session of the Fifty-
fourth Congress after a very thorough examination, and it was passed
by the Senate. The committee have again carefully examined into the
whole subject and again report it favorably with the amendment, fixing
the 1st day of July, 1898, as the date when its provisions shall take
effect, and recommend its passage and adopt the report made to the
last Congress, the amendments recommended to the bill then pending
(8. 2420) having been incorporated in the pending bill.
[Senate Report No. 642, Fifty-fourth Congress, first session.]
The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the bill (S. 2420) to
regulate the pay of noncommissioned officers in the Army, have carefully considered
the same and report:
Your committee submit the following communications and recommendations from
the War Department in regard to this bill:
Letter of the Assistant Secretary of War.
Indorsement of Major-General Miles.
Letter of the Adjutant-General of the Army.
The committee fully concur in the views expressed by the General of the Army,
the Assistant Secretary of War, and the Adjutant-General of the Army, and beg to
submit the following reasons why this bill should become a law for the best interest
of the service:
The grade of noncommissioned officer in the line of the Army is the intermediary
between the private and that of the commissioned officer.
The noncommissioned officer is always in immediate contact with the men. On
his force of character, good capacity, strict integrity, untiring energy, and soldierly
qualities depends, in a great measure, the success of military administration. The
very slight increase of his present pay over that of the private soldier is totally
incommensurate with the responsibility placed upon him and the onerous duty
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