Reduction of the Army.—The
House Military Committee on the
I 27tb ult. completed the bill for the
reduction of the army. Lt provides
lor mustering out about five hundred
officers. The repaired is increas
ed t two hundred and fifty. A sys
tem is provided of pay by‘fix cd sala
ries, instead of commutation and
allowance. Tno General of the Ar
my. who now receives $19,000, is to
Lave $12,000. The Lieutenant Gen
eral, now getting $14,000, is reduced
to SIO,OOO. Officers in the field will
get a slight increase, but officers on
detached duty will be somewhat re
duced. Salary of Colonel, $3,500,
for Lieutenant Colonel $3,000, Mahr
$2,500, Captain $2,000, First Lieuten
ant $1,600, Second Lieutenant $1,400
Paine, of the
Milwaukee district, writes a private
letter to the Elkhorn Independent, in
which he says:
“I shall not be a candidate either
for renomination or re-election but
shall of course do all in my power to
promote the election of the Republi
can nominee in our district. 1 think,
however, that it would be hardly
fair for mo to meddle with the nom
ination of my successor.”
1 Halbert E. Paine.
