St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-12-01
a Study of the Clerkships Shows That
There is More Promotion Than
Change in the Offices.
1t is Also Found that TIE Same is to Some
Extent True Among Ministers and
CopsuIs OF Our Service.
%he Last Session of the Forty gbtIi
Congress Meet To-day and Or
ganize for Work.
CIecftdnd Has n Large Number of Callers
BGy0rd Likeiy to be Secretary
Of Sf0fc.
promotion the RuIe in Government
:. Service

WASHINGTON. Nov. 3O.-Second Assistant
Secretary Of State Hunter said the other day:
81 entered the government employ under
the administration of Gen. Jackson as de-
partment clerk and have risen to my present
position without asking for promotion OF
political influence. Under the many different
administrations under which ] have worked
don't remember any changes made for
political reasons in the personnel of the
state department.. OF course, the
heads were changed every time, but among
clerks, except in the case of promotion, re-
signations or dsmissals for misconduct, the
same men were continued in office, but one
cannot always prophesy for the future from
past experience
Mr.. Hunters experience has been very
exceptional. 1t is true that for the past
twenty-four years the department has been
in the hands Of the Republican party, but
of course, the same is true Of all
the other departments, and the
state department is much to be
preferred as place of refuge over the other
branches of the government OF course, the
secretary changes with each administration,
but Mr.. Frelnghuysen's son-in-law, Mr..
John Davis, has been directly or indirectly
connected with the department for over four
teen years. He entered as a temporary
clerk and has diversified his work in the de-
partment with service as secretary to the
agent of the United States before the Geneva
tribunal, clerk Of the court Of commissioners
of Alabama claims and assistant
counsel for the United States before the
French and American claims commission.
Mr.. Hunter entered the department clerk
May %, 1929 and has never left it. He has
been second assistant secretary since July
%, 1866. Mr.. Alvey A. Adee became secre-
tary of legation at Madrid, September 9,
1870, and was transferred TO an 81, 500 clerk
ship in the department July 9, 1877. He has
been third assistant secretary of state
a little more than two years. Sew
ellon A. Brown, who is generally
credited with being the power behind
the throne in the department, entered
temporary clerk December 21. 1864. He has
been chief clerk for more than eleven years.
Mr.. Wing, chief Of the diplomatic bureau,
appears to have been in the department less
than two years, but Mr.. St. Clair, chief Of tie
consular bureau, has been in the department
ever since November II, 1865, and Mr.
Haswell, chief of the bureau of indexes and
archives, entered the department January
%, 1865. Among, the 81, 800 clerks,
Mr.. Bartle has been in the department
thirty-twO years, Mr.. Haywood twenty-three
years and several Others nearly as long.
Turning now to the diplomatic service it
appears that Geo. Osborne, of Illinois, has
been minister resident in Buenos Ayres for
nearly eleven years. Alphonso Taft, minis
ter to Russia, was previously minister to Aus
tria. Nicholas Fish, minister resident in
Belgium, entered the diplomatic service when
his father went into the state department aud
has been secretary of legation at Berlin and
charge d'affaires at Bcrne. Mr.. Gibbs, min
lister resident and consul general in Bolivia,
was formerly envoy extraordinary and 'uIn-
lister plenipotentiary to Peru. Mr.. Thos. A.
Osborne, of Kansas, minister to Brazil, was
formerly minister to Chilli. Mr.. Henry 9.
Hall, minister to the Central American
states, was for many years consul general to
Havana. Mr.. Logan, Of Illinois, min
lister to Chill, was formerly min
lister to the Central American states.
Mr.. Foote, minister to Corea, was promoted
from the consulate at Valparaiso. Mr.. HofT-
man, minister to Denmark, had been secre-
tary of e legation to Paris, London and st.
Petersburg. Mr.. Lowell. minister TO Eng
land, was promoted from minister to Madrid.
Mr.. Eugene Schuyler, who was lately legis-
lated out of his triple headed mission to
Greece. Roumania and Servia, has been sec
retary of the legation at ST. Petersburg and
Constantinople, consul at Birmingham
and consul general at Rome.
Mr.. Smith, minister to Liberia, is holding
his position a second time. Mr.. Morgan,
minister to Mexico, used to be United States
judge at Alexandria, Egypt. Mr.. Francis,
minister to Austria, was promoted from Lis
bon, and under Grant he was made minister
to Greece. MIR. Foster, minister to Madrid,
was formerly minister to Mexico and to
Russia. Mr.. Thomas, minister to Sweden
and Norway, was formerly consul at
Gothenburg, and Mr. Cramer, minister
to Switzerland, is the clerical brother-in-law
whom Grant made minister to Copenhagen,
so that promotion is rather the rule than the
exception in the diplomatic corps.
In this consular corps, Felix A. Matthews,
of California, has been consul at Tangiers
since July, 1870. The salary is $4,000.
John Wilson, of Pennsylvania, has been
consul at Brussels lor nearly thirteen years.
The salary is $500. William
T. Wright, of Maryland, has
been consul at Santos, Brazil,
for eight years. He is paid by fees, which
last year amounted to less than 81, 500. Isaac
F. Sheppard, of Massachusetts, has been con-
sui at Hankow, China, for eight years. The
salary is So 500. r. M. Hooper has been
vice and deputy consul general at Paris for
ten years, but doesn't appear to get any
compensation at all except when the consul
general is absent. Doreuce Atwater, OF
Connecticut has been consul in
the island of Tahiti at salary
OF $1,000, for over fourteen years.
His cousin, of Illinois, has $4,000 consul
ate on the island of Samoa, but before that he
was consul in Germany for many years.
The consular register only shows the date of
the last appointments. Many of the present
consuls have been promoted or transferred
recently. but have heen good many yesrs
in the consular service. W. c. Fox. of Mis-
souri, has been consul at Bruins
wick, Germany, for about eight
wears. He gets fees of about
So, 500. Joseph t. Mason, of Virginia, has
been consul at Dresden nearly nine years.
His salary is 81, 500. Edward NJ Smith, of
Nav York. has been consul at Mannheim
nearly nine years at salary of $1,000.
Chas. NJ. Allen, OF New York, has been
consul at Bermuda for twenty-three years at
81, 500. B. F. Farnham, of Mass Achusetts,
has been consul at Bombay for fourteen