St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-05-12
Comfortable Oonsulates With Fat Fees
That are Open to the Favorites
Of Bayard.
The Progress Made in Handling the
Money Bags of Uncle Sans
Exchequer.
Exposure of a Dynamite Package In
the Dead Letter Office--Demo-
cratic Criticisms.
A Would-be Consul Who Does Not
Fear Death Yesterdays Appoint
ments--General Notes.
Some Soft Snaps.

Special to the Globe.
WASHINGTON, May 1.-THE appoint
ments in the diplomatic and consular ser
vice have been coming pretty thick and fast,
but the secretary'S list is not exhausted by
a good deal. In the official register kept at
the state department there are checked Off
the places considered vacant. These are
shown to Democratic senators and other
magnates of the party who care to see what
Mr.. Bayard has got left before putting in
applications for old friends. They embrace
the offices which are really vacant or are
only temporarily filled, and likewise the
black-listed consulS whom the secretary is
prepared to remove on the selection OF sue
cessors. Mr.. Bayard calls them all
vacancies, for such he has deter
mined them to be in his mind.
No great secret is made of this list OF va
cancies and copy of it is Obtainable if the
applicant for it has friend in the depart
ment AS revised up to date, the record
shows that Mr. Bayard considers the Glas-
gov consulship vacant Mr.. Bret Hartes
disqualification for Office holding under the
new administration Is something he did
during
THE LAST CAMPAIGN,
which is'construed to be offensive partisan
ship" There is this to be said about the
service abroad: A consulship is almost al
ways good legitimately for $4,000 more
than the blue book indicates. The law per-
mits the consul to retain not more than
81, 900 year from fees of the agencies un-
der his consulate. There are some other
comfortable vacancies at the presl-
dents, or rather at Mr.. Bayard's dis
posal. The consul generalship at Havre is
worth So, 900 year, but there are forty ap-
plicants for it, among them a friend OF
Senator Eustis and cousin of Senator
Gibson of Louisiana. Being the port OF
Paris and very ancient and beautiful city
of $500 population, Havre is considered
desirable place to live abroad at the gov
ernment's expense. Athens, which was de
cined by A. Haller Gross, pays $3, 500
year. Tunstall, Eng, held by an Illinois
man, is worth $4,000, and Sheffield, OF
more commercial importance, is worth
So, 500. Cardiff, Wales. which is looked
upon by the experts around the state de-
partment as one of the best things left,
yields an income of $1,000. William Writ
Skies, the husband Of
OLIVE LOGAN
held it for three years and died. The duties
are performed temporarily by Evan X,
Jones, who was born in Wales, but is cit
izen of this country. The most earnest ap-
plicant for this place is young Welchman
who is member of the Missouri legislature.
Cardiff is noted for its fine climate. The
new consul there will have Nine. Patti for
a neighbor, her castle of CTag-a-Nas being
near Cuthbert Jones of Louisiana has al
most lien of the consulship at Callao. He
has seen diplomatic service at Tripoli and
in the Orient, and is conversant with the
Spanish and Portuguese dialets of South
America Callao is a fortified town with
40, 900 inhabitants, The large exports OF
bullion, copper, cotton, bark and hides in
sure fees beyond the amount which the con-
sui is allowed to retain.