Show QUITE TOO ONE OKE SIDED the government has not yet paid off the soldiers and sailors at santiago and this is doubtless doubt lessa abood thing too they can surely get along for a while on the regulation government rations without serious discomfort and gradually the city is being ed so that by the time the pay roll is liquidated it will not take so much to get so little there is not much to get there now and until there la in a general enlargement articles in some lines are apt to command whatever their worth somewhere near their weight in gold the sailors have a little heavier reckoning to look forward to than the soldiers have because of the prize money which has been earned the destruction of cerveris veras fleet alone apart from regular pay and the expense of ammunition supplies etc will cost the government a very large amount it seems like a relic of barbarism but is nevertheless still a practice and in accordance with the law tor for the government to pay a head for every man in the ships of an enemy when those ships are destroyed and every man in the american fleet will receive some money as his share for the part taken in the fight of july 3 the law provides that the commanding officer shall have one twentieth part of all prize money awarded to the ships under his immediate command and this it to Is shown by an eastern paper would give admiral sampson over for his share in the fight commodore schley will receive about taking out the share of these two officers there will be about which will be apportioned among the officers and men who took part in the fight the commander of each vessel will receive a tenth part of the sum allotted to his ship and an aa there were seven war vessels which took part besides a number of small craft like the gloucester and vixen each captain would get about 2500 as his share this would leave about 20 apiece for the sailors I 1 all of this seems very disproportionate of course there must be a grading of prizes in accordance with the station of those receiving them but such wide discrepancy seems to be not only unnecessary and unjust but has a tendency to beget improper feelings in the men toward the officers all of which chic h should be carefully avoided for thep admiral to get what many would consider an ample fortune the next in command nearly halt half as much and the ratio then to diminish so an rapidly that a beggarly twenty dollars is left for each of those thos who db nearly all the work and incur most of the dangers does not appeal strongly to that sense of justice which is a part of the american composition |