Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-01-29
WASHINGTON.
Salaries of Diplomatic and Consular
OicfaIs-Ex-Cenfede rates In Senate


-Pers0neI.
WASHINGTON. Jan. 26-The most
interesting document that has come
before the House at this session is the
bill recently reported from the Ap-
propriations COMMITTEE, making ap-
nronriations for the salaries Of
Ministers, Consuls and Secretaries. OF
Location abroad IN the coming year,
the year beginning July L, 1885. Of
course every fellow who expects Co
have a place of this sort expects tol
have it by that date, SO ills interesting
TO him to know just what the salaries
are to be for the coming year, so that
he may not only select his place at
once. but see what his receipts are to
be.
The Ministers to Germany, France,
Russia and England get ST., 500 each
those to Japan, China, Spain, Italy,
Brazil. Austria and Mexico, 81, 600
each: Chill, Peru and Central Amen
can states. $4,000 eacn; Belgium,
Netherlands, Sweden, Argentine Ke--
nnbIic. Hawaiian Islands, United
States of Colon bia and Turkey, 81, soc
each Liberia, Switzerland, Denmark,
Portugal. Sam, Persia, Corea, Hayti,
Bolivia ard Congo, S., 900 each; Secre
taries of Legation at Paris, London,
Berlin. ST. Petersburg, China, Japan,
get 50. 625 each; Consuls General,
London. Paris, Havana, Rio de |
Janeiro and Liverpool, Sc, 600 each
at Hong Kong, Calcutta and Sh2ng-
hal, SIS, 900 each lat Melbourne, "a 5OO;
Berlin, Ksnagawa, Montreal, Homo
lulu and Panama, 81, 600 each; FOO
Chow. Tientsin, Annoy, Chin KlaRg
and CaIlao, So, 500 each; St Peters
burg, Frankfort, Halifax, Vienna,
Bucharest, Ecuador, Ottawa, Man
chester, Glasgow, Bradford, Demera-
"a, Belfast, Singapore, Havre, Ma
tanzas. Vera Cruz Colon, Nagasakl,
Osaka. Valparaiso and Antwerp, |
Sc. COO each: Tunstall, Birmingham,
Sheffield, Dundee, Leith, Noting ham
Victoria, Marseilles, Bordeaux, Ly-
ons. Maracaibo, Buenos Ayres,
Hamburg, Bremen, Cienfuegos, Dres-
den, Santiago de Cuba, Sagua lie
Grande, Brussels, Smyrna, Beirut,
st. Thomas and Athens, 81 800. AL
other salaries in this line of govern
mental gifts run from 81, 600 to $4,000
year.
Elk. CONTEMPORARIES IN CONGRESS.
A good many people are regrettipg
the outbreak of war bitterness in the
Senate this week. There are many
men in that body who were active
supporters of the COnfederacy, and
the quarrel seems likely to make q
good deal of bitterness on both sides.
That it will prove embarrassing to Mr..
Cleveland Ia making up his Cabinet,
revivipg the bitterness OF the war
times, as it does. goes without saying.
There are three men 10 the Senate
who were III the Confederate Cen
gress, Vest, Pugh and Garland, and
fourteen or fifteen who were IN the
COME derate army, among them But
Ter, HAMPTON, Kenna, MaXey, Harms,
Ransom. Vance, Lamar, George, VIII
liams, Colquitt, Walker, Morgan and
one or two others. Brown who was
Governor of Georgia, and quarreIed
with Davis, does not hesitate to say
that he was a Secessionist in the be-
ginning. Malone, too, was IN the
Confederate service, and so was Rid
dleberger. So that nearly or quite
One-third of the senate had a connect
ion with the Confederacy In some Of
fetal capacity.
GENERAL MEIGS
is working very hard to get the Pen
sion Building In shape to turn it over
temporarily TO the inaugural. bill. The
old General is just as bright and bluff
and earnest as he was twenty i've
years ago when he had JEFF Davis
name cut in block Of stone for
Cabin johns Bridge" just out of
the city, only to be cut out again
when Davis went out of the War De
partment to become President of the
Confederacy. He is thoroughly in
earnest in anything he undertakes,
and very indignant at anything that
can have the least appearance of Off
ciaI crookedness, or an attempt IN
that line. Not long ago a firm in
Boston who made terra Gotta work,
having a large contract for work for
the Pension Building, sent him pair
of very handsome and very costly
vases of their own manufacture.
When they were opened and their
object made known to the old General,
he was the maddest man In Washing
ton. Ho ordered them Immediately
repacked and shipped back to tbs
firm, sending with them 3 message
that will cause the manufacturers to
inquire pretty carefully hereafter
the sort Of men they are sending
presents to.