The Topeka state journal., 1897-03-04
A Complete List of Those Which
President Mckinley
Has the Power to Fill After To-
days Installation.
MORE THAN 100
Including the Postoffices Which
Number 10000.
Hundreds of Consular Posts and
Other Places.

elect Mckinley will find seekers for Of
f1ce for every place at his disposal. The
Blue Book has been studied carefully
by hundreds OF citizens anxious to
serve their country, and though the
civil service law has restricted to a
great extent the number of places at
his disposal, there remain many desir-
able billets, aside from the cabinet,
whose composition has been practically
complete for some time.
OF all the branches of the executive
service none offers such attractions as
the department of state. The aegis of
civil service reform portects very little
of the foreign service, and from it's
stately Enthusiastically, the coveted
resting places of the wealthy and fore
most of politicians, down through the
long list of ministries and consulates
general and consulates to the smallest
commercial agency in some remote cor
ner of the world, no place is without
its attraction to some one.
The department itself is well pro-
tected, for in its whole organization on
ly three desirable places are open to
appointment by selection, the attorney
general having held that the chief clerk
and chiefs of division are subject to ap-
pOintment under civil service rules.
These three places are those of the as
SiStant secretaries, with salaries of $4,-
500 and SO, 500 attached, but, by a Gus
tom as fixed in its 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 repre-
sentat1on abroad First in Importance
are the three embassies-Great Britain,
France and Germany-with their sal
aries of $17, 500 per annum; the Mexican
mission, paying the same wage, and the
Italian embassy. fixed at $4,000. Equal
to the latter in salary, though slightly
less in diplomatic standing, are the
missions to Austro- Hungary, Brazil,
China, Japan and Spain.
There are eight nice missions, with
salaries of $4,000 per annum, namely,
Argentine, Belgium, Chile, Colombia
Guatemala and Honduras, Nicaragua,
key. At $500 per annum are rated the
missions to Denmark, Hawaii, Corea,
the Netherlands, Paraguay and Uru-
quay, Portugal, Sweden and Norway,
Switzerland and Venezuela, nine in all.
One salary is 500 that of the minis
ter to Greece and Servia. Seven places
pay $4,000 per annum, Bolivia, San Do
mingo, Ecuador, Haiti, Persia, Siam
and Egypt, where we are represented
by an agent and consul general in the
same person.
Many of the emba ssies and ministers
are supplied with secretaries. interpre-
ters and attaches, with more or less at
tractive salaries. The best paid of
these is the secretary of the Hawaiian
The others, 35 in number, have salaries
attached all the way from $4,000 to
$500.
AS to the consular service some doubt
exists. BY a rule made last September
President Cleveland provided that all
consulates with salaries and official fees
running between ST. 900 and 81, 500 should
be filled by only three methOdS@prO-
motion or transfer, appointment of per
sons previously serving the state de-
partment well in some capacity, and
lastly, by appointment after eXamina-
tiOn.
That was as far as he went in the
application of civil service principles,
and it remains to be seen whether or
not the numerous incumbentS in this
class are now to be regarded as subject
to eviction. Within the limits are 1856
places; above the $4,000 class are SO
places. and below the $1,000 class are
IL places There are 81 cOnsulateS gen
eral many being lucrative posts, such
as London, Paris and Berlin. Owing
to the fact that until very recently the
consular officers were not required to
make any returns of their unofficial
fees, in many cases the most substan-
tial source of revenue to them, no one
except the incumbents can tell just
how much an office of this kind pays.
Hereafter the department, through
the workings of new regulation, may
secure such informa ton and proceed in
its policy of resolutely reducing the fees
and eQua1iZing salaries. Meantime all
is conjecture as to the revenue of the
larger consulates and consulates gen.
eral, but a departmental estimate pla-
ces the figure at Paris and London at
about $25 900 per annum in each case.
The fixed salaries of the more i'm
portant consuls average about $1,000,
with unofficial fees retained by the in
cumbent to an unknown amount.
Some of the most attractive of the
consular places, from the point of rev.
enue, are London, Paris, Berlin, Liver
pool, Birmingham, Tunstall, Sheffield,
IOs,1n : nCo 10 Eoh
Shanghai, Bordeaux, Lyons, Marseilles,
Barmen, Chemnitz, Crefeld, Frankfort,
Hamburg. Leipsic, Belfast, Vienna Cal
cutta, Glasgow. Hong Kong, Hudders-
field, Buenos Ayres, Prague, Para, Rio,
Santos, Valparaiso, Annoy. Canton,
Tientsin, Colon. Barranguilla, Panama,
Guayaquil. Cognac, Havre, Limoges
Anna berg, Bremen, Breslau, Cologne,
Drenden, Kehl, Mayence, Munich, Som
neberg, Stuttgart, Halifax, Kingston,
ham, Ottawa. Singapore, Southampton.
Swansea, Sydney, Toronto, Victoria,
Winnipeg, Yarmouth, Florence, Genoa,
Leghorn, Messina, Milan. Naples, Rome,
Laredo, Paso del Norte, Vera. Cruz,
Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Callao, ST. Pc
tersburg. Apia, Matanzas, Santiago de
Cuba, Gothenberg. Stockholm, Basle,
ma and Maracaibo.
In the war and navy departments
there are just two places open to can
didates, aside from a couple of private
secretaryships and a half dozen miser-
ably paid laborers' places. These
places are the assistant SecretaryShips,
one in each department, paying 81, 500
each
Every other place, not only in the de-
partments proper, but in their outside
dependencies, in the navy yards, in
river and harbor works, and at every
point outside of the regular military
and naval establishments, which. of
course are even more strongly fortified
against attack, there is no opening for
the office seeker.