The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-09-11
CONSULAR VACANCIES
SEVERAL IMPORTANT PLACES YET
TO BE FILLED.
appointment of the Internal Revenue
Collector for the First District Of
Illinois Action to Remove
Grants Remains Notes.

WASHINGTON CRY, Sept lit can not
be learned when Secretary Bayard's slate
of diplomatic appointments will be taken
up but it is generally expected that some of
the con ,ular vacancies will he filed next
week. and it is not quite improbable that
appointments will be made to the Austrian
and Spanish MISSIONS 1t is not yet author
itatively known that the Austrian vacancy
will be filled at once, but applicant VINO
would like to go there are keeping up quite
an urgent pressure 10 have the appointment
made without delay. Judge Tree, of Chi
cago, the new minister TO Belgium, who mas
been spokel of for the place since keley's
return, is tin in Washington. aal ha3 been
to see the president Austria aud Spain are
tho only ffst-class nations whore VS. have
vacant mis- ions, although appointments
have to bs made yet to a number OF th.rd or
fourth rate missions, the list showing vacal,
cies in Persia, Bolivia, Central Amer
lea, Columbia, COrea, AMI SUeria. Natu.
rally the chances of a diff uity DO. waen
Germany and Spain have attracted re
newed attention to the Spanish mission,
but there is no trustworthy information as
TO the intentions OF either Secretary Bay
ard or President Cleveland
Governor Reynolds, of Missouri, l. stAl
regarded as in the lead, and it is perhaps
not without significance that there is still
an evident manifestation of interest in re-
gard 10 him at the White House 81 the cx-
tent, at least that information OF a kin that
Is wanted where a person is talked o. for an
office seems to be welcome The endeavor
to cripple him with charges of re- pOnsihii-
ity for extravagant expenditures by the
South American commission Will hardly
amount TO much. Mr. w. f. Curtis, the
secretary and disbursing officer Of the com.
mission, reports that the accounts have been
examined by the state department and tine
comptroller AMI there will be no trou ble
about them. lie declares it is ridiculous
to charge extravaganza, and insists that the
commission was so economical in its expeuG-
itures as to occasion charges of parsimony
in the countries visited Counting the sal
aries of the three members of the commits
sion and the secretary, and the travelling
expenses, the expenditures do not aver
age more than $4,000 per annam
for the four people, 1t seems that
| the ladies who accompanied the com
mission did not add to the expense
the government had TO meet as a careful
aSSouht WIS k6pJ Oh All ulsbuFSSIAeufS, ana
only those incurred for she members OF the
commission and their secretary charged To
the government Deducting travelling ex-
penses and the cost OF stenographers' work,
the entire expense of the commission Is
stated TO have averaged about S a day,
which is hardly the kind of record to dc
Governor Reynolds any harm as candi.
date for the Spanish appointment
One hundred and six recommendations for
consulships and small missions, with the
papers in each case, are st the White
House awaiting the presidents decision.
The appointments will he made as rapidly
as possible, but it will be several weeks be-
fore all are disposed of. The state depart
ment officials say that Illinois has not been
overlooked In the recommendations, but re.
fuse to furnish either names or places They
say that neither Edward l. Baker, OF
Springfield, consul at Valparaiso, nor Gus
tavus Gourand. of Chicago, secretary OF le
CATION at Toxic, Japan, will be removed BY
the present administration.