§ MR. DARBY GRIFFITHsaid, he would beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury, Whether he is aware that while the stoppage for forage is 8½d. per ration to the Cavalry Officer it is only 6d. per ration to the Artillery Officer; whether he can give any adequate reason for such difference; and, if not, whether the Treasury are willing at least to equalize the deduction in the two services?
MR. PEELsaid, the officers of the Artillery, with the exception of the Horse Artillery, received no forage, but received a commuted allowance in lieu thereof. With respect to the officers of Horse Artillery their rate of stoppage was 6d., but as that sum was fixed so long back as 1802 he did not know the reasons for its being fixed at that particular rate. But the circumstances of the two services were so dissimilar that it was absurd to contrast the allowances made to the one service with those conceded to the other.