Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-27
DEMAND MORE MONEY,
Americas Diplomatic Representa-.
tives Nay Get Up a Strike.
ONE WHO HUNTED FOR A PLACE
With the Utmost Eagerness Now Sends a
Very PIaintive Kick.
THE SENATE WILL TAKE SOME ACTION

WASHINGTON, April 26.-The Senate
has made public the correspondence that
passed between the Secretary of State,
diplomats who are seeking to have their
salaries increased and to raise the title OF
the officials in some cases from Minister to
Ambassador In view Of the appeals made
to him from the public officials direct, and
also through the State Department, Mr..
Sherman has introduced the necessary
amendments to the consular and diplomatic
appropriation bill.
salary of the Minister to Turkey to SIC. 900;
that of the Minister to Greece, Roumania
and Servia to 81 800; that OF the Minister
Resident to Denmark to the same figure,
and raises the ministers to France, Ger
many, Russia and Great Britain to the rank
of Ambassadors, but leaving their salary at
81, 800, as at present. The correspondence
on the subject is very interesting, and brings
out clearly the different standpoints from
which men look at things before and after
being appointed to public Office.
EAGER FOR AN OFFICE
Many persons will remember how persist
emily the Hon. Clark E. Carr, of Galesburg,
Ill, pursued the Harrison administration
as soon as it came into power for some recog-
milton of his gallant services as stump or
ator. Mr.. CaFr's friends worked early and
late to get him a prominent place,
and for the first three months O.
the administration he was named
for almost every place, from Cabinet office
down to the head of bureau. Finally, Mr..
Carr was made happy, and the administra-
ton relieved Of heavy burden, by the ap-
pointment of the so-calIed silver-tongued
orator from Illinois to be Minister Resident
TO Denmark.
Mr.. Carr has already discovered that the
salary of his Office is not sufficient to sur
round him with all the dignities and lux
uries due to a representative of the United
States, and he eloquently pleads for raise
The published correspondence shows that be
wrote several touching letters to various
friends in Washington whom he thought
would be OF service to him, and these ap-
peaIs have borne fruit in the proposed
amendment of Mr.. Sherman to raise his
salary to $500. One letter, descriptive of
the lamentable manner in which the United
States neglects its diplomats, Mr.. Carr wrote
to Representative Grout, OF Vermont, in
which he angles with tempting bait for the
support of Mr.. Edmunds. In this letter
Mr. Carr says:
THE ONLY DRAWBACK.
The position 1 hold here is, in many ways,
very agreeable, and now that am here and
located with my family want to remain, and
want to live and do my duty in a manner
worthy of a representative of my country. The
great drawback is that the salary is so small
5000 q year. You no doubt realize how
meager such salary is for member of Con-
gress, but L assure you it is more meager
for Minister at this court The salary
was formerly $500. but for some unexplain-
able reason it was cut down to $1,000 Nv
predecessor here, a Democrat, the last thing
before he left wrote an official dispatch to the
Secretary OF State urgently recommending
that the mission be raised from Minister Resi-
dent, which 1t now is, to Minister Plenipo-
tentiary, and that the salary be raised to ST. 800
He sent this dispatch, which is on file at the |
Department OF State, when retiring from Office