Omaha daily bee., 1897-03-03
MKINLEY AND THE OFFICES
New President Will Have His Hands Very
Full for a While.
PLENTY OF PERSONS SEEKING The PLUMS
Spells Of Office which Attract Thou-
sands Of Men who Are WHINE
to serve Their Country
for Pay.

will find seekers for office for
every place at his disposal. The Blue Book
has been studied carefully by hundreds oil
citizens anxious to serve their country, ana
though the civil service law has restricted
to a great extent the number of places at ms
disposal, there remain many desirable blllets,
aside from the cabinet, whose composition
has been practically complete for some
time.
OF all the branches of the executive serv-
ice none offers such attractions as the De-
partment of State. The aesis OF civil serV-
ice reform protects very little OF the foreign
service, and from its stately Enthusiastically,
the coveted resting places OF the wealthy ana
foremost of politicians, down through the
long list of ministries and consulates gen
eral and consulates to the smallest CONNER
cial agency in some remote corner oil the
world, no place is without its attraction to
some one.
The department itself is well protected, for
in its whole organization only three desira-
BILE places are open to appointment by selec-
ton, the attorney general having held thdt
the chief clerk and chiefs of division are SUD
ject to appointment under civil service rules.
These three places are those of the assistant
secretaries. with salaries OF $4,000 and S3,5OO
attached, but. by a custom as liked III lts
operation as law, one and perhaps Two OF
these are filled by promotion from the best
talent in the service and are rarely SUBJECT
to change.
The spoils lie outside, in the representation
abroad. First in Importance are the three
cmbessies-Great Britain, France and Ger
| many-with their salaries OF $l7, 800 per an
mum; the Mexican mission, paying the same
wage, and the Italian embassy, fixed at Sl2.-
900. Equal to the latter in salary, though
slightly less in diplomatic standing, are the
missions to Austro-Hungary, Brazil, emma
Japan and Spain.
EIGHT NICE MISSIONS.
There are eight nice missions. with sal
aries Of SO, 900 per annum, namely, Argen-
tine, Belgium. Chile. Colombia, Guatemala
and Honduras, Nicaragua. Costa RIGA and
Salvador, Peru and Turkey. At $1,000 per
annum are rated the missions to Denmark,
Hawaii, Corea, the Netherlands, PARAGUAY
and Uruguay. Portugal. Sweden and Nor
way, Switzerland and Venezuela, nine in
all. One salary is Sc. 500, that of the min
lister to Greece and Servia. Seven places
pay $1,000 per annum, Bolivia, San Domingo,
Ecuador, Hayti, Persia, Siam and Egypt,
where we are represented by an agent ana
consul general in the same person.
Many of the embassies and ministers are
surplied with secretaries, interpreters and
attaches. with more or less attractive sal
aries. The best paid of these il the secre-
tary of the Hawaiian mission, VINO receives
"a. 600 per annum. The others, thirty'tVe In
number, have salaries attached all the way
from SO, 900 down to $500.
AS to the consular service Sun o"I p,osi
lists. BY rule maae iaSt oepISnioei 80 ..
dent Cleveland PROVIDED that all coisui".s-
with salaries ana otlrtai iees IuhIiis u
tween 81, goo and 81. 50A should be filled by
only three neutrality-suspicious. or TRANSFER
appointment of persons previously serving
the State department well in some capacity
and lastly, by appointment after examination
That was as far as he went in the ap--
plieation of civil service principles, ana II
remains to be seen whether or not the nu'
merous incumbents in TINS CLASS are no"
to be regarded as subject to eviction.
Within the limits are 1856 places; apovS
the $500 class are hfty-three places; am
below the $1,000 class are seyehty-ohe plaCei
There are thirty-seven consulates general
many being lucrative pcSts; sutn as Lon
don, Paris and Berlin. OWING 10 1ne taS'
that until very recently tne consuiaa um
GERS were not required 10 MAKE any reout ~,
or their uho1lclal ices III many 'aeeS Wv
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