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35th Congress, \ HOUSE OF EEPRESENTATIVES. \ Report 
 \st Session. \ ( No. 298. 
 
 BENJAMIN U. HYAM. 
 
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 April 17, 1858. 
 
 Mr. Curtis, from the Committee on Military Affairs, made the following 
 
 REPORT. 
 
 Tlie Committee on Blilitary Affairs, to tvhom luas referred the memorial 
 of Bevjamin D. Hyam, have had the same under consideration, and 
 submit the foUoiving report : 
 
 The memorialist presents that he was a clerk in the Quartermaster's 
 Department of the United States army, in the year 1847, in the em- 
 ploy of Captain A. R. Hatzel, of the United States army. That he 
 accompanied the army to Mexico, during the war which was then 
 pending, making some stay at Brazos Santiago, and was at Vera Cruz 
 during the siege, capture and occupancy of that city by our American 
 troops until October 31, 1847. That on several occasions, and for 
 many days at each point, he was called on to bear arms and do mili- 
 tary duty in apprehension of attack from Mexican forces ; and that 
 during the whole time he was exposed to the diseases and dangers of 
 a campaign in the country of a belligerent foe ; and that he is there- 
 fore entitled to the bounty granted to soldiers who served in the Mexi- 
 can war. 
 
 If the petitioner were regularly enrolled and mustered into the ser- 
 vice, and served for a period of fourteen days as a soldier, proof of these 
 f^icts would, in the opinion of the committee, bring the memorialist 
 within the provision of existing laws ; but occasional rallies of the 
 various employes of the army have not been regarded in the same 
 light as those taking on themselves all the hardships, duties, and ex- 
 posures incident to the regular, volunteer, or enlisted soldier. Con- 
 tractors, clerks, wagon-masters, and many other persons are necessary 
 to the army ; but they are hired at different and better wages ; have 
 more control of their own stay or departure, and generally find better 
 accommodations than those who are under the slender compensation, 
 plain ration, and " rules and regulations" of the United States army. 
 While clerks received fifty or one hundred and fifty dollars a month, 
 volunteers received only seven or eight dollars a month. There was a 
 radical difference, therefore, in the classes of service, and the govern- 
 ment has therefore, at all times, perserved a difference in making 
 acknowledgments and rewards. 
 
 There may be cases of extraordinary merit which would present 
 occasion for including a clerk within all favors bestowed on soldiers ; 
 but although this is a case of much merit, it does not, in the opinion of 
 your committee, justify a departure from a reasonable and wholesome 
 rule. 
 
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