The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-03-04
OUR FOREIGN MINISTER'S.
what it Costs to support Our Diplomatic
GOrnA AhrOAh.

WhnI ~ COSTS 10 support our DInLOmAbtc
Corps Abroad.
Three hundred and sixteen thousand dollars
pay all our Foreign Ministers. Thirty-three
thousand dollars pay all our Secretaries OF
Legation. The Chinese Secretary gets five
thousand dollars. the, largest salary, for under
standing the language there. Only halt tnqt
sum is paid TO Secretary who can soeak
japanese. Fifty dollars a week is paid TO Secte.
taries at Paris and London, while in dear aud
frigid st. Petersburg tbrty-6ve dollars a week
Is the stipend. A hundred thousand dollars,
added as contingent TO this grand total, MAKE
four hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year
expense Tor what Don Piatt described John
Mason as doing, bringing his gigantic intellect
to bear upon an introduction OF Muggins to the
Emperor"
In Turkish countries our Consuls have to
keep guards, dragcmen, and other laZzaroni,
costing $3500.
We appropriate $50, 900 q year to relieve
American seamen, send them home, and make
them feel the goodness of their aag, aud $4,000
dollars to make presents TO foreigners who
rescue our seamen. 1t is Il beautiful thing to
see all civilization reaching out help TO those
who sail the seas over for thee, Lowell" We
plant lighthouses all round them, leave re-
lief fund in ever port, make Jack happy, as
his tastes go, fill his pipe with baccy, procure
him fiddle, make hIm proud of his colors.
But the sovereignty of the storm, the ocean that
violates the comfy of nations, the iDsincere
and barbarous sea, who shall put trust in
treaties with It?
Our Conusls and their clerks cost us $500 OOO
We have eleven ConsulsGeneral, one hundred
and twenty Consuls, aud iorty-dve inferior
Consuls. London and Paris are now Consulates-
General. Some new Consulates are Acapulco
Hskodadi, Mahe, 0sacca, Tunstall, Valencia
Yeddo, and Baimen. Fifty thousand dollars
are expended for flags, arms, seals, and postage
for the Consuls. Thrty-hve thousand dollars
for Office rent. We support prisons in China,
Siam, Turkey and Japan, as we'll as Consu
Courts, and they cost us $4,000. 1t costs
$40, 600 to bring home criminals. when Surratt
is not on the wing; Sl2 500 to suppress the
slave trade, $40, 900 for neutrality act expenses,
and S55,584 to pay this years part of the Schedt
| dues-these are some of the sums we pay
| abroad. We give $4,000 to q revenue agent who
| ransacks the accounts of Consuls, aud keeps
| them from what is commonly called knocking
| down. Fondly do we hope, fervently do we
| pray, that we need not have any body to watch
! the revenue agents. Ninety days sky ylarking in
each and every year Is allo we'd to Consul and
a Minister. Vessels to Canada "ciear" only
once year. The jail at Bankok, in Siam, and
all the jailors, get altogether $1,000 a year.
shall take care to keep out OF that Jail at
Bankok, for fear the soup might be thin. But
don't believe any body ever goes to Bankok
ought to be increased, for at present there is
not enough temptation TO get into Jail at Ban
kok. Altogether, the diplomatic service away
from home costs about a million of dollars
OF Pacific Railroad-to connect, say, Scrub
Run and Sandy Hill.
Grave and agile old boys are our foreign
Ministers. We made the best nomination when
we sent Franklin. Charles Francis Adams was
a copgealed Franklin; he did not warmly, but
too well, The only Minister we ever sent
abroad who brought au idea back was Thomas
Jefferson. He looked into the pots of boiling
carrots out of sympathy with the color of his
hair, and discovered the French revolution in
their first ebullitions. Reverdy johnson is au
| article of exported hlubber.- Washington Cor
| TeSpOndence CHICAGO Tribune.