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Show THE SOLDIERS' CLAIMS. A disp.it' ii fiom "Washington lo yesterday's yes-terday's Tribune Indicates that there Is some difficulty in proving the accounts of the volunteers from Utah in the BpaiaiShVAmerican war nfter their actual ac-tual enlistment but prior to their mustering mus-tering into the service of the United States. The statement was that the cooperation co-operation of the commanding officers of the batteries and of the cavalry troops will be called on to help in the adjustment. adjust-ment. But If records were not properly kept, (which probably Is not the case. Judging from the dispatch i, it is going; to be very hard to make satisfactory proof at this late date. The point Is this The volunteers were in camp some time before their final muster into the United States service ser-vice That time, fiom their assembly to the muster, was supposed to be In the service of the State, and the State should have paid for It. to be reimbursed reim-bursed later by rhe Federal Government. Govern-ment. During this temporary period the State should also have furnished the volunteers with uniforms, blankets, shoes, and a general outfit, the cost of which would also have been paid back by Uncle Sam. For all this expenditure the State should have vouchers to show. Including Includ-ing bills from those who furnished supplies, sup-plies, payrolls of the men, etc, aiul the settlement with the Federal Government Govern-ment would have bpen easy. Failure to do this is evidence of inexcusable Ignorance Ignor-ance and carelessness, and as a matter of fact there was too much of that, ns volunteers were allowed to go away from the Slate without the equipments that they should have had without blankets, without proper Clothing, without with-out shoHB, and in general. iRcklng In essential things needful for a soldier equipment. ii was an exceedingly shameful showing for Utah; and now this difficulty diffi-culty about Shilling the pay of the ol-unleers ol-unleers during the Interval of their reporting re-porting as volunteers to the time of their muster Into the Federal service Indicates that the inattention and careless care-less methods that prevailed In other respects re-spects at that tlmo In this business, prevailed also as to this matter. f so the final settlement, should It ever be reached, will have to bo by guesi, instead in-stead of upon a payroll duly signed by every volunteer at the time of the proffer of his service, wdth the dale of UCh proffer attached to his name. It Is to be hoped, however, that final settlement set-tlement may soon be made, for it Is disgraceful dis-graceful to have the Just claims of the volunteers drag along like this for years. |