The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-08-08
DIPLOMATIC AND CONSULAR.
a Few ColInted Statistics ConcerninR Our Dip
Iumntic and Consular Service.

1umnttc ana Consular AerNice.
WASHINGTON. Aug. special bulletin No.
10 OF the Bureau of American Republics, Jo-
soph p. Smith. director, is devoted to the
diplomatic and Consular service of the United
States, and rs 1t is corrected to July 20. 1897,
may DO considered as tho latest and freshest
news in that department OF the Government,
From It's pages II Is shown that there are in the
diplomatic service ninety-eight persons, in
Guiding four Ambassador, thirty-two Minis
tiers, four Ministers resident, and the balance In
Secretaries, attaches, and that kind. This, OF
course, has nothing to do with the Consular
service, the ranking Official in that list being a
Consul. General, though the Ministers resident
are also Consuls-General. A question in the
use of words is differentiated in tho bulletin,
but no explanation Is givcn, to wit: One man IL
designated as an Ambassador. and his chief
functionary is Secretary Of tho Embassy. Why
not Embassadori
OF the Ambassadors. New York has two,
Porter TO France and White to Germany. al
$4,000 II year each; District Of Columbia has
Hay to England at ST., 500 and Massachusetts
has Draper to Italy at $40. 1000. This, by the
way, Is the lowest price offered for an Ambassa-
dor, and is less than it costs by . 800 to send q
Minister to Mexico.
OF the thirty-two Ministers, Iowa has tho Ar
gentinc at $4,000 and Brazil at Sc, 900; Penn
- 'S'N f"' 80 - a go
$500, and Switzerland ut $780,; Ohio has
! Belgium at 10000 and Venezuela at $500;
Kansas has Bolivia ut $4,000; Washington has
Chill at $4,000; Indiana,has China at $4,000;
West Virginia has Bogota at 10000 Mime
sofa has Holland at $500, and Nicaragua,
Salvador. and Costa Rica at &c, 600 each, 40
cording to the book, but as they are all admin
istered by Mr.. Lewis Baker, a hoid-over, he
probably Jumps the salary OF ton each at three
| for tyr.ptr-py. JJia gr,,,na,n w Ma
of California, appointed and confirmed. has
been decrecd persona non grdtd to the Greater
Republic of Central America (Salvator, Hon
duras, and Nicaragua. New York has Den.
mark at $500 and Spain at $12, oo0; Tennes-
see has:Ecuador at So, 900; District of Column
bia. according to the book, has Greece, Rou-
mania, and Servia at Sc, 800 each, but each Of
these Is held by Mr.. William Woodviue Rock
hill, who Is also Consul-General to Athens at
$3.50 TO Belgrade at $4,000, and to Bucharest
at 81, $780,, In all $3.50, cooper annum, which, of
course, pnts Mr.. Rockhin in the position of get
ting a lot of money which is not borne out by
the facts. Mr.. Rockhin's name, however.
appears in the list oftener than anybody's else.
New Jersey has Hayti at $4,000, Maine has
Hawaii at 81. 800, Georgia has Japan at $l2, 600,
Arkansas has Mexico at $4,000 and:Russia at
the same figure. two as good places as are on the
list Mr.. Breckenridge to Russia Is q hold-over,
and Arkansas will lose ono of her fats" ere
long. These two legations pay higher than any
others. Montana has Paraguay and Uruguay
at $1,000 each. filed by Mr.. Granville Stuart
who no doubt takes the two at q reduced figure,
but the book doesn't say 30. California has
Peru at $4,000. Mary and has Sweden and
Norway at 81. 500, and Michigan has Turkey
at SIC, 0OO.
OF the four Ministers resident. Ohio has
Korea ut $1,000, Pennsylvania has Liberia at
$4,000. New Hampshire has Persia at $5, 1000,
Ind Vermont has Siam at So. 200.
The pay of Secretaries varies from 81, 500 at
several places to $2,625 at the SIT. 800 posts.
OF all our diplomats only two part their
names In the middle, Mr.. d. Lynch Prtngle of
South Carolina, Secretary of Legation and Con-
sul-Gcneral to Guatemala, and Mr.. G. Max
Manning OF Georgia, Secretary of Legation TO
OF those writing their middle names in full
we find only three, Charles Burdett Hart OF
Nest Virginia, Minister 10 Bogota; William
bia, Minister to Greece, &c, and Edgar Thomp-
son Scott, Second Secretary at tho Embassy 70
France. AT least that is the way they appear
In the book after Editor Smith gets his blue
pencil in on them. 1t is more than possible
that several OF the gentlemen signed thoir full
submitted TO the editor. 1t is more society
and diplomatique that way.
The Consular list shows l,l46 Consuls-G en-
eral, Consuls. Vice Consuls, deputy Consuis.
GiSasnIaF agents, commercial agents. mssrshais,,
'hA tS'A" ohu olhOE Nv
General, Of whom john K y'S Gow sls e at Paris
P pc nIs T'sHv 81 he hSsD Office lice b eisa% 81, o aan So, S SSR,
London hf is ss,Sl3,2l, and Liverpool is s6, 7ee, so.
service among the States we find first that, Of
shs l,lt tSs places; only 4o3 60 eoo TO the United
toned among the foreign countries to Which
americans are sent. This does not at first
amoRg the working patriots at home eP but When
we come to consider that the salaries for these
pIsht to g1 Gs rd 6sGm z dollar Nsw t So ny dCli Arr We
Massachusetts Is next with &c, Illinois next
land IA. Missouri, California, and Wisconsin,
II; Michigan and Minnesota 10, Indiana and
North Carolins z, Kentucky, Virginia, and
Louisiana, and South Gsroiln%a, g. i;6 Colorado iS,I and
Georgia b; Florida, Washington. Mississippi,
Womb, and 1rksnsa san +. 3 fS these DsAS add
have a show eEcopt;Gtah and the Territories Of
Arizona, Oklahoma, and Alaska, which are not
Tho lowest annual compensation recorded is
81, this muniticont sum being received by Denis
4. Pantasopoius, Consular agent at Kslamata,
Greece, and by Frank Calvert, Consular agent
nc note eI To %sntGcn i that the i 1ir may Sa 9s w oi ang Of Of
these worthless Is Denis and the town he halls
from, thoush spelled kalamata, may be pro-
nounced with the accent on the second syllable.
Mr.: Francis ". Prescott, Consular agent at
no is not expected TO entertain. A large mum
Der OF places pay only from - to 81, a year, and
OF the diplomatic positions forty-seyen of the
ninety-eight bear 1897 as their date, ami OF The
Consular places l64 begin with 1897, leaving.
as viii be seen, several that may be tllcd. Some
of the places have been filed for more than a
Quarter OF u century, and Mr.. Hardegg has been
at syria since 1871.
There are VapanpIea Tnn4ulnr yI,a dannt,
&c, at Algeciras, Spain; Alicabte, spain;
hmoy, China; bagdad, Turkey; Batavia, java;
mnarge and campeaohy, Mexioo;, Chinkians.
pa;Kar' 4 fricai Guatemala, Nicaragua: HanHow,
China; Harpoo5 Armenia; Hayre. France;
IA FEontreEa, SPAIN Lapa1,, Mexico; Mazda
liza. Philippines; Marseifes, TTance; MarEat
AAFFS6isi Mo1anbiQ9s,, AtTioai N~euyitas, Cuba;
P Pna 2 ksDd ESs4Sce to! Potsrs6OFough, ont.ii TPiy;
an Drfnra Hayfi. pnrt IIunrn