The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-05-17
CON g R E s s.
The Consular and Diplomatic Appropria-
ton Passed the House.
REFORM OF THE SERVICE.
New Schedule of Salaries and
Expenses.
ECONOMY AND EQUITY.

ECONOMY AND EQUITY.
WASHINGTON, May 16, 1874.
Mr. HOLMAN, dem.) OF Ind, from the Committee
On War Claims reported to the House bill ex-
tending from the Both OF January. 1874, to the 3Oth
Of January 1875, the time for fling claims for ad-
ditonal bounty. Passed
PUBLIC LANDS.
Mr.. LOWE, (rep.) of Kansas, from the Committee
IN Indian Affairs, reported bill extending the
time for the payment for lands purchased by &C.
tual settlers In Kansas belonging to the Miami
and New York bands. After explanation the bill
was passed.
Mr.. TOWNSEND trep.) Of Pa, from the Committee
on Public Lands, reported bill to legalize entries
Of public land under the Homestead laws in certain
cases. Passed.
THE DIPLOMATIC AND CONSULAR BILL.
After conflict Tor precedence between the con-
sular and Diplomatic Appropriation bill and the
bill to repeal moeties the former prevailed "a to
-. and the House them at twelve O'Clock, went
INTO Committee Of the Whole (Mr. Burrows, Of
Michigan, IN the chair) on the Diplomatic and
Consular Appropriation bill.
Mr.. Cox, (dem. OF N. Y, addressed the House
IN the cost OF the diplomatic system Of the govern
nent. He declared that the people would not
dgh If the whole diplomatic system were upturned.
There would al least be prayer OF gratitude to
the American Congress If it would dispense with
Dne-half the foreign MISSIONS He read some lu-
ncrous extracts from the diplomatic correspond
snce and alluded to the class OF rowing commits
uoners who travel at the expense OF the govern
nent. In this connection he referred to the Rev.
Or. Newman as probably standing on the
Chinese Wall investigating that remarkable
structure for the benefit Of American architects
and as ready to skip OF clear to SpitZbergen,
from which ne would write that there were dogs
In the United States who came from there. Thence
he would probably Jump to where 'Chimborazo
stands, q landmark to the sea of time" He also
called attention to . pamphlet printed by the
State Department.. and prepared by remark
able man. called Steinberger, giving descrip-
lions Of the location, topography and natural his
tory OF the NavgatOrs Islands and Of the religious
notions Of their inhabitants. The extracts W hch
he read from it elected bursts of laughter.
And this, he said, was the sort of information for
which the government was paying over 5000, 600
year. And these were the islands that this rowing
commissioner wanted to nave annexed to the
had had enough OF such propositions IN regard
to St. Domingo and the nowery mead
Ing these Islands, 1900 miles from aAI San
Francisco might be that they would serve as new
B lSna bay or the outgoing administration IN
report, he declared in more serious lone that he
would not vote to give contingent fund Of
'$2l8 600 Tor any such absolute nonsense,
A BOLIVIAN DEBT.
When the item for the, Minister resident at b.
sss was reached Mr. aem Of
Bolivian government to pay constitute sIs
x: IF map n 81 TIC Bovan ssSsS E
which 1t contracted In 1858 to pay him $25, OOO
saa did sny
ticular remedy, but submitted the matter to the
Committee on Foreign Affairs.
p "A ta1 q hat Ton
had received letter from MIR. Coltons attorney
requesting the committee to take no action in the
matter I'm Gil alter the month OF May.
Mr. SCHUMAKER sent to the Clerks desk and had
read an Official paper OF the Bolivian government,
NJ SWAMI, dem, Of Mo, who has d nss en Of
the bill, submitted that it was not the business
the State Department to collect the unliquidated
debts Of private citizens with foreign govern
ments.
Alter some further discussion the subject was
dropped without any action being proposed.
THE PAKAGUAYAN MISSION.
Mr.: POTTER, DEM Of n: Y, moved to strike out
the item OF $4,000 Tor the Minister resident at
Uruguay, who Is also accredited to Paraguay, and
argued That there was no possible Tor man-
politician with an ONCE. There had been only one
occasion since the great war 81 Paraguay when
After discussion the motion was rejected.
REVISION OF THE CONSULAR SERVICE.
MT ORTIZ rep q ina Chairman Of tine Com
the paragraphs relating to consulates, the subst-
tute being the bill reported from that committee
entire revision OF the whole consular sys-
tenn. He explained the necessity for this re.
ihe first object Of the ' revision t"'' he
said, was to equallze the compensation Of
gate expense. In fact the aggregate expense was
diminished by over $4,000. He himself believed
that the representatives OF the government abroad
ought to be paid higher rates OF compensation;
but he yielded that opinion OF his own IN difference
to the known sentiment OF the House and
country in favor of rctrenchment and reform.
He reminded the committee that the consular
service was the only branch OF the government
that was actually remunerative. Thus the amount
OF fees received at the different consulates and
accounted Tor to the Treasury curing the past
year was $746,694, while the expense under the
proposed amendment would be $500, 500.
PROPOSED SCALE OF SALARIES.
The salaries fixed In Mr.. Ortn's amendment are
Consul General at Cairo, $4,000 Consuls General
at London, Paris, Havana and Rio Janeiro, S6,0 900;
$500; at Kanagawa, Montreal and Berlin,
$4,000; at Vienna Frankfort and constantlnople,
$1,000; the Consul at Liverpool, 81, 600. Ali the
other consnlates are divided into seven classes.
VITA 5ae l0 Iass ga Class
$1,000; class $1,5oO; class 7, $1,000 Glass con-
ssts OF Hong Kong ana Honolulu; class consists
OF the eight Chinese Consuates and Calao. Glass 3
consists OF Manchester, Glasgow, Bradford, Havre,
Matanzas, Tripoli, Tunls anu Tanglers, Nagasaki
pinwall, Buenos Ayres and Valparaiso. Glass
CONSISTS Of Birmingham, shef1ied, Belfast, Slnga-
aRa T T1nss as oass Iy DS sand na
tago de Cuba, Antwerp and Brussels, st.
ThOmas Hamburg, Bremen and Dresden and
Hakodadi. Glass comprises Leeds, Southamp-
ton, Dundee Leith, Cork, Dublin, Clifton, Toronto
Hamilton. Coancook, Halifax, Kingston iJam.) st.
Johns IN. b., Nassau IN. P), Turks Island, Car
DID, Demerara, Port Louis Mauritlus Odessa,
Amoor River, san Juan, Porto Rico, Lisbon Rot
terdam, Sonneberg, Nuremburg, Barmen, Chem
nltz, Leipsig, Aix-a-Chapelle, Trieste, Prague,
Basic, Zurich, smyrna, Beirut, Tamatave, Aca-
pulcO, Matamoros, Pernambuc0 and Montevldeo
All the other consuates are embraced IN classes
and7.
OTHER EXPENSES
Allowance for clerk hire Is also made as fol-
lows
- Consuls General at London, Paris. Havana and
shanghai 1000; Consul at Liverpool, So 900; Con-
sus ~ Manchester, Birmingham, Bradford and
nnemeld 81, 600; Consuls at Sonneberg, Chemn1tZ,
benast, Montreal, Hamburg, Lepsig Lyons ORES.
osn, Havre, Mafscilles, KureAhburg, Bordeaux and