Show IT is stated that a provision in the Army Appropriation bill to increase the pay of noncommissioned officers was stricken out but instead the generous donation of onequarter of a pound was added to tho daily potato ration This pretty nearly answers tho scripture question ques-tion If ho asks for bread will ye give him n stone Tho noncommissioned officers in the Union Army as a body in soldierly qualities were tho equals of the lowest grade of commissioned company officers and yet mark tho great disparity I of pay for their services Again there can bo no question that the orderly sergeants ser-geants in tho same army during tho late war accomplished more in drilling and increasing tho efficiency of the rank and file than tho captains of companies did Tho pay of orderly sergeants should bo I doubled I |