St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-11-18
TAKING THEIR TURN.
Salaries Of Republican Oonsuls Raised
Onlyto be Enjoyed by Patriotic
Democrats.
A Story About Sunset Cox that He is Not
Anxious to Have Spread
Abroad.
Republican Senators to Hold a Cau-
Gus of War Before Congress
ConveneS.


ConveneS.
The President Busy Upon His Mes
sage and Declines to Discuss
Appointments.
Democrats Gather the Fruit.
Special to the Globe.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 7.-Ex-Congress-
man Franklin of Missouri, who has just
been appointed consul at Hankow, China,
has reason to be very grateful to Repub-
lican senate. The house appropriation
committee deems it part of its duty to
regulate the public service by raising and
lowering salaries, according to ideas to fitness
and faithfulness of the incumbent. The
late consul at Hankow, Mr.. Shepherd, had
a woman on his pay roll as marshal and as
woman could not perform the duty as
marshal the appropriations committee
thought it knew pretty well what duties
the female marshal performed in order to
earn her salary. By way of rebuking this
sort of thing the committee attempted to
reduce the salary of the consulate from
S3, 500 to $1,5OO. The house agreed,
but the senate refused it's assent
to the reduction, and the salary remains
unchanged. The change, if made, would
not have gone into effect till July last.
Mr.. Shepherd has just been removed, and
Mr.. Franklin of Kansas City appointed.
Had the senate yielded to the house it
would have been Mr.. Franklin's interesting
lot to be fined $4,000 year because Mr..
Shepherd has shocked the moral sense OF
the appropriations committee. At the first
session of the Forty-eighth congress the ap-
preparations committee
INCREASED THE SALARY
of the consul at Hong Kong by the sum of
81, 900, because Col. Mosby had been a
very efficient officer. Col. Mosby was re-
moved last spring because he was Repub-
lican, and ex-senator Withers of Virginia
was appointed in his place. So MI. With
ers is now in receipt of $4,000 year as a
reward for the admirable manner in which
Col. Mosby performed his duties. Very
soon after MI. S. S. Cox was appointed
minister to Constantinople it became known
he had selected a Republican for
secretary of his legation. The
story was told in the Washington dispatches
to the GLOBE, and MI. Cox became very
indignant at such an accusation and not
only denied that there was any truth in the
story, but took the trouble to explain that
Mr.. Emmett. the secretary there, was a
Democrat, appointed by Democratic influ-
ence, after a Democratic president had been
elected, and that this appointment was in
fact by little anticipation the act of the
new administration, so that Mr.. Cox could
not possibly have any occasion for desiring
or even thinking of any change. Now Mr..
Emmett has been removed and DR.. Lee of
Philadelphia has been appointed secretary
of the legation and DR.. Lee is a Republican,
and Mr.. Cox, it is learned from the very
best authority, has been asking for months
to get this young Republican friend of his
appointed to this Office. Mr.. Cox can see
himself as others see him. He can un der
stand why we laugh at him. Like A.
Wards kangaroo. he is ''a most amoosin'
little cuss." Mr.. Cox is
VERY FOND OF COMEDY.
No sooner was Mr.. Cleveland elected than
it became known to all Mr.. CoX's friends
that he was the next minister to Turkey.
The complacent appropriations committee
added So, 500 year to the salary of minis
ter to Constantinople because they wished
to make some return for the amusement Mr..
Cox had afforded the house for so many
years. and yet after Mr.. Cox had got his
appointment he arranged to have delega-
ton of his constituents come down here and
beg him to decline the appointment, be-
cause his district needed him so much in
congress. He marched his constituents
over to the White house and heard them beg
the president to reconsider the appointment.
OF course the president said the nation
could not spare such an invaluable
man from the legation to Tur-
key, and Mr. Cox bowed submis-
sively to the demands of his country
and went to Constantinople at $4,000
year, instead of staying in congress at
S5, 600, purely as a matter of duty. Mr..
Cox's little comedy did not deceive anybody
from the president down, but it afforded a
great deal of pleasure to Mr.. Cox. Like the
king of Bavaria he has to have his theatre
Gals, even if he is the entire audience. The
original story about the secretaryship at
Constantinople is that Mr.. Cox told Mrs. T.
A. Hendricks that he was going to make a
Republican his secretary of legation, and
Mrs. Hendricks told him that as he owed
his seat in congress and his appointment as
minister to the Democratic party, she would
suggest that he give the patronage at his
command to the Democratic party and pay
his personal obligations in some other way.
Republicans to Caucus.
Special to the Globe.
WASHINGTON. Nov. 17.-There will be
caucus of the Republican senators held
soon to decide upon the course to be fol-
lowed with regard to President Cleveland S
appointments. The exact date for the
meeting has not been fixed, but it will prob
ably be about week before the beginning
of the session. There is wide difference
of opinion among senators as to the best
course to follow. Some of the most radical
are in favor of opposing the confirmation of
all new officials whose appointments are
considered to be opposed to the tenure of
office law. Others believe the president
should be accorded the right to name his
own officers at pleasure, where his doing so
is not violation of the civil service law.
The question will be pretty thoroughly dis
cussed in caucus and it is altogether uncer-
tain what the decision will be. Senator Hale
said to-day that it is impossible to tell at
this time what the attitude of the senate
would be, but that matter would probably
be settled in caucus little while before con-
greSS meets.
Too Busy to Talk.
Special to the Globe.
WASHINGTON, Nov. Representative
Curtin of Pennsylvania called on the presi-
dent to-day to talk with him about the
strictly public business of filling with
Democrats the Pennsylvania federal offices
still remaining in the hands of the Republi-
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