The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-03-04
PLUMS POINTED OUT
LIST OF sPOILs YET REMAINING TO
TIE VICTOR

The VICTOR
Days Of Civil Service Reform. But the
Blue Book 10 Still an Attractive Volume
Some of the Departments Have Hun
| dreds of Fat Appointive Places, While
Others CouIdn't Scare up Enough for .
| Game OF Marbles, Outside the Ciasaified
Lists-GIory of Consular Fees Departing
| Washington. March s-President-elect
| Mckinley will find seekers for Office for
| every place at his disposal. The Blue
Book has been studied carefully by hun
| dreds of citizens anxious to serve their
| country, and though the civil service law
| has restricted 10 great extent the num-
| Der of places at his disposal, there re-
| main many desirable billets, aside from
| the cabinet, whose composition has been
practically completed for some time.
OF ALL the branches of the executive
service none offers such attractions as
civil service reform protects very little
OF the foreign service. and from rs state
~ ambassadorships, the coveted resting
places OF the wealthy and foremost poll
,icians, down through the long list OF
ministries and consulaJes general and
consulates to the smallest commercial
agency in some remote corner of the
world, no place is without its attraction
10 some one.
The department itself is we'll protect
ed. for in its whole organization only
three desirable places are open 10 appoin.
ment by selection. the attorney general
having held that the chief clerk and
chiefs OF division are subject 20 appoint
ment under civil service rules These
three places are those OF the assistant Sec
retarieS. with salaries OF "a 900 10 $500
attached. but, by custom as fixed in
its operation as law, one AMI perhaps
two Of these are filed by promotion from
the best talent in the service and are
rarely subject TO change.
THE OUTSIDE PLUMS.
The spois lie outside in the representa-
ton abroad. First in Importance are the
three ssies-Great Britain. France
and Germany-with their salaries of S11.-
500 per annum: the Mexican mission. pay
ing the same wage. and the Italian en-
bdssy, fixed at 1900. Equal 10 the lat
ter in salary, though slightly less IN
diplomatic standing. are the missions 10
Austro-Hungary, Brazil, China, Japan
and Spain.
There are eight nice missions. with sal
a res OF $4,000 per annum. namely. Ar
gentine. Belgium Chile. Colombia, eau
senala and Honduras. Nicaragua. Costa
Rica and Salvador. Peru and Turkey.
4; $500 per annum are rated The mis-
sions TO Denmark. Hawaii. Corea, the
Netherlands. Paraguay and Uruguay.
Portugal, Sweden and Norway, Switzer-
land and Venezuela, nine in all. On SAL
AIRY of $500. that tot the minister 10
Greece and Servia. Seven places pay
$1,000 per annum, Bolivia, San Domingo.
Ecuador, Haiti, Persia, Siam and Egypt,
where we are represented by an agent
and consul general in the same person.
Mary OF the embassies and minister,
are supplied with secretaries, interpre-
=
tractive salaries. The best paid of these
is the secretary OF the Hawaiian mis-
SON. who receives 81. coo per annum. The
others. thiriy-fve in number. have sal
aries attached all the way from $1,000
down - $500
THE CONSULAR SERVICE.
As 20 the consular service some doubt
exists. BY rule made last September
President Cleveland provided that all
Ccrsulates with salaries and official fees
running between $1,000 and $500 should
he filed by only three me;hods-promo-
tion or transfer, appointment OF persons
previously serving the state department:
well IN some capacity, and lastly, by ap-
HOin;ment after examination.
That was as far as he wen; in the APP
pication Of civil service principles, and
it remains 10 be seen whether or not the
uGmlcfous incumbents in this class are
row to be regarded as subjects to evic- |
ton. Within the limits are 1876 places, |
above the $500 class are fifty-thrce !
places. and below the 81 1000 class are |
seventy-one places. There are thirty !
seven consulates general, many being lu- |
crdtive posts. such as London, Paris and |
Berlin. Owing TO the fact that until very |
recently the consular officers were not |
required 20 make any returns Of their IN |
official fees, n many cases the most sub |
stantial source of revenue 10 them, no /
one except the incumbents can tell Just |
Low much ar Cffice Of this kind pays.
Hereafter the department. through the /
workings OF a new reguls ton. may Sc
cure such Information and proceed in lis |
policy Of resolutely reducing the fees /
AMI equa,iz;ng salaries In the meantime /
all is conjecture as 10 the revenue OF the
larger c0nsuiatss and consulates general !
bu- department estimate places the fig
ure al Paris and London at about So, 000 /
per anuuin in each case.
The fixed salaries OF the more import
ant ccEsuls generally average about
s, 900. with unofficial fees retained by the
incumbent 70 an amount unknown.
Some % the most attractive OF the con-
sular places. from ne point Of revenue.
are London. Paris. Berlin. Liverpool. Biz
mingham. TunstaI, Sheffield. Palermo,
n ahagawa, Osaka. Havana. Shanghai,
Bordeaux. Lyons, Msrseilles. Bsrmen.
Chemniz. CTefeld. Frankfort. Hamburg |
Le.psic. Belfast. Vienna. Calcutta. GIas-
Eow. Hong Kong. Huddersisld. Buenos
.iyIes. Prague. Trieste. Antwerp. BrUs-
sells. Ghent, Liege. Para. Rio. Santos.
Valparaiso. Annoy. Canton. TieIstsin. Co
lO-. EavTangu.lla. Panama. Guayaquil. I
CoCnac. Hsvre. Limoges. ROubsix. <;
Etienna. AK z Cnspeiils. Anaabsrg. Bre-
n=r. Breslau. Cologne, Dresden. KEN.
Munich. SonnsbsTg. Stuttgart
Halifax. Kingston. Lees. Melbourne,
Montreal. Nottingham. Ottawa. sings-
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