The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-11-08

L. s. Nahmens, Cette, France, May g. 1866
,,d august Sartori. Kiel, Germany, May a.
James Martin, Kidderminster. Eng, March
r. c. Browning Reddtch, Eng, June %
John John Neve, Wolverhampton, Eng, Nov. .16
| 1870 o"n' June D.
| E. e. Abbott, Gananoque, Can. Oct. 6. 1866.
,of r.. X. Call, Newcastle, N. B., Nov &c,
&C Christian Nelson, Old HartIepool, Eng,
,oJ Joao j. Nunes. Bravo, c. v. l., July 8,
Err EFnesto o.-S Canut, Palma. Majorca, Spain,
Miguel Calzado, Port Marabella, Spain,
Aug. ., 1870.
Ally Mourad. Luxor, Egypt. July 10. 1871.
1ss SR M. Fotfon, Mytilene, Turkey, Aug 1S,
CONSULAR CLERKS.
y. r. Mclean. Paris, Nov. Is 1870
:. A. Springer, Havana, Jan. g. 1870.
MosI OF these positions are unim
portant. Consul Sprague has a salary
VI si,ooo year. and doubtless lie makes
something indirectly from the official
fees which he is supposed to turn into
Inc United States treasury. Unless
Tees are specified as part of MS com
pensatfon every consul is required to
turn them over to the government
put through hocus pocus in which
the-fee are taken in by a native clerk
and then turned over to the eepsel ss
an individual the treasury snffers tha
loss or fully rs per cent of what is
taken In at our consular and CONNER
elal agencies. Consul Gaie draws
81, 600 a. year.
VI the other two consuls CiriIo Mol
ma is entitled to fees, and lie took in
Iast year $4s.f5 for official work and
some nOtar1al fees, while Mr. MantoD
VINO is also entitled to fees, received
nothing at all last year. None of the
commercial agents is at very impor-
tent place. Mr.. Schoeller at Brunn
TOOK In S1,042 last year, and if he had
the customary arrangement with the
consul at Vienna, under whom he
serves, he retained $521 1t is usual for
the agent to retain one-half his fees nm
10 $1ooe, but more than this amount he
cannot retain, SO none of the agencies
named is worth more than ST 900 a
year.
Inc TWO consular clerks receive s. 200
d year each. There are thirteen con-
sular clerks in the seryice-fo11r of
them receive $1,000 each and the atber
nine 1,200 each. Their appointments
are for life, or during good behavior.
ana they may be assigned to anv most
AZ Whlch the secretary of state thinks
the1r services are needed. There are
tnree OF these clerks now at Paris, two
a. havana, TWO at Washington and
one edch at Rome, Kanagawa Cairo
Honolulu, Southampton and Berlin.
one OF the consular clerks at Paris.
T. +. Mclean, has had a Iive1v ex
per1ence in the. foreign service. He
was appointed vice consul at Leipsic
III !o|2, vice commercial agent at
hon1gsberg in 1879, vice and deputy
consul general at Berlin in the same
year, deputy consul general at Paris
IN 1857 and vice and deputy consul
general at Paris in 1896. George TT
Sc1dmore, the clerk at KanagaWa. is
brother of Eliza Scidmore, who has
written much about the Japanese over
the signature Ruhamah. He began his
clerkship in 1876, and he has been suc-
cessively vice consul at Dumferm1ina
wee consul at Osaka and Hiogo. vice
consul general at Shanghai. vice and
deputy consul general at Kanagawa
special agent to investigate claims in
the FIJI Islands and deputy consul gen
erat at KanagaWa. Hubbard T. Smith
one OF the $1,000 clerks at Paris. began
as clerk in the war department in
1876, and was employed at various
times In the census office and the
treasury department. Incidentally he
was with Francis Wilson's Comic
opera company as a comedian for a
time. From the treasury he was trans
1e1red to the state department as a
clerk, ana thence promoted to the con-
sular service. Others of the consular
clerks have had equally varied expe-
riences.
- Some old timers in the CONSULAR ser
vice are John Hammi1l, who was first
MADE ma, consular agent at ST. -Helen's, 4 in
1871, retired in 1887, and was reap
pointed a year later; William Kroon
VINO was made vice consul at Dresden
IN 1869 and appointed vice and deputy
consul general there in 1892; M. A. len
Kin, who was made vice consul at Han
koW in 1871 and four years later inter
prefer at that post; Howard Fox. who
was made deputy consul at Falmouth
IN 1868 and consul at that place in 1874:
Elias Pellet, who was made commercial
agent at Sabamilla. in 1866, made consul
there in 1874, retired in 1880 and was
restored to the service in 1892, becom-
ing vice and deputy consul at Barran-
qu1lla IN 1893; Letterio Piyrone. who
was made vice consul at Messina In
1911 and vice and deputy consul in 1892.
j. Z. Qulggle, who was consular agent
at Cornwall from October, 1871, to
March, 1872, consul at Port Stanley and
81. Thomas from August, 1887, to April.
$780, and was appointed commercial
agent at ColhngWood in 1898; John F.
walls, who began as a clerk in the con-
sulate at Matamoras, in 1870, and after
service In various capacities at that
port was made vice and deputy con-
SUI general at Laredo in 1893. and AL
bertus Vinke, who has been vice. con-
sui or vice deputy consul at Amsterdam
since 1863
OF the 1.094 men now holding com
missions in the consular service 594
nave been commissioned since March
4, 1893. OF these As had been in the
consular service before, most Of them
by appointment of Mr.. Cleveland in his
first administration; % were simply
promoted to places in the consulates
where they had been stationed prior to
March 4, 1893; % were transferred from
other posts, and 10 were men who had
retired in Mr.. Cleveland's term and
had been reinstated by him.
Charging the 46 reappointments
against this administration and sub
tracing the appointments which repre-
sent promotions and transfers. we have
537 out Of 1904 consular offices filed by
Mr.. Cleveland, which means that the
next administration may have SGT con-
sular offices to bestow after the 4th Of
next March
George Grantham Balm.