The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-08-21
DIPLOMATIC AND CONSULAR.
4 Few COIIated Statistics Concern
ing Our Diplomatic and Consular
Service

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diplomatic and consular service of the
United States, and as it Is corrected to
July %, 1897, may be considered as the lat
est and freshest news in that department
of the government. From it's pages it is
shown that there are in the diplomatic
servict ninety-elght persons, including
four ambassadors, thirty-two ministers,
four ministers resident, and the balance in
secretaries, attaches, and that kind. This,
of course, has nothing to do with the con-
sular service, the ranking official in that
list being a cOnsul-general. though the
ministers resident are also consuls-gen-
eral. A question in the use of words is
differentiated in the bulletin, but no eX-
PLANTATION is given, to wit: One man is des-
ignated as an ambassador, and his chief
tunCtiOnary is secretary OF the embassy.
| Why not ambassador?
OF the ambassadors, New York has two,
Porter to France and White to Germany,
at $3.50 a year each; District of Column
bia has Hay to England at $l7500 and
Massachusetts has Draper to italy at $l2,-
! coo. This, by the way, is the lowest price
offered for an ambassador, and is less
than it costs by $500 TO send minister
OF the thirty-two ministers, Iowa has
the Argentine at $4,000 and Brazil at
$l2 coo; Pennsylvania has Austria at $l2,
at 1880; Ohio has Belgium at $4,000 and
Venezuela at $500; Kansas has Bolivia
at $1,000; Washington has Chill at $4,000;
Indiana has China at $1,000; West Nlr-
ginla has Bogota al $4,000, Minnesota has
| Holland at $3.50, and Nicaragua, Saliva
tor and Costa Rica at $4,000 each, &C
cording to the book, but as they are all
administered by MIR. Lewis Baker, a hold
| over, he probably Jumps the salary of
ten each al three for twenty-five. His
| successor, W. L. Merry, of California APP
pointed and confirmed, has been decreed
| persona non grata to the Greater Republic
| of Central America (Salvator, Honduras
! and Nicaragua. New York has Den
mark at 1850 and Spain a $4,000; Tennes-
see has Ecuador at $1,000; District OF Co
! lumbia, according to the book, has Greece,
| Roumania and Servia al 800 each, but
each of these is held by Mr.. William
/ Woodville Rockhil, who is also consul
| general to Athens at $780, to Belgrade at
| $500, and to Bucharest at $500, In all
! $4,000 per annum, which, of course. puts
| Mr.. Rockhll in the position of getting
! lot of money which is not borne out by
! the facts. Mr. Rockhilfs name, however,
| appears in the list oftener than anybody's
| else. New Jersey has Hayu at 5000,
| Maine has Hawaii at $500, Georgia has
! Japan at $4,000, Arkansas has Mexico at
| S17, 800 and Russia at the same figure, two
as good places as are on the list. Mr..
| Breckenridge to Russia is a hold-oyer, and
! Arkansas will lose one of her fats" ere
| long These two legations pay higher
! than any others. Montana has Paraguay
and Uruguay at $500 each, filled by Mr..
| Granville Stuart, who no doubt takes the
| two at a reduced figure, but the book
| doesn't say so. California has Peru at
| s1OO 900 Maryland has Sweden and Norway
| at 81. 800 and Michigan has Turkey at &c.,
900.
| OF the four ministers resident, Ohio has
| Korea at $780, Pennsylvania has Libe-
| ria at $1,000 New Hampshire has Persia
at $1,000, and Vermont has Siam at S.
| co.,
The pay Of secretaries varies from 1880
at several places to $2,625 at the 1880
/ posts.
OF all our diplomats, only two part their
| names in the middle, Mr.. d. Lynch Pringle
| of South Carolina, secretary of legation
! and consul general to Guatemala, and
Mr.. c. Max Manning of Georgia, secre-
tary of legation to Liberia.
OF those writing their middle names in
| full we find only three, Charles Burdett
| Hart of West Virginia, minister to Bo-
| gotta: William WoodVille Rockhill of the
| District of Columbia, minister to Greece,
etc, and Edgar Thompson Scott, second
| secretary at the embassy to France. At
| least that is the way they appear in the
| book after Editor Smith gets his blue
| pencil in on them. IL Is more than pos
! sible that Several OF the gentlemen sign
| ed their fun names when they appeared
! in the manuscript submitted to the ed
| itor. 1t is more society and diplomatique
that way.
The consular list shows 1,146 consuls
! general, consuls vice consuls, deputy con-
suls. consular agents, commercial agents,
| marshals, interpreters, consular clerks
| and other attaches OF these twenty-sev-
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| Gowday al Paris is the highest paid, the
ESTIMATED annual compensation" of the
Office being $12 O62. 80, while London is 49,
| 5l321 and Liverpool Is s6,7G6.S2
| Dividing all the positions i'm the consular
service among the states we find first that.
Of the / ,1l6 places, only 4O3 go to the United
| States. The remainder Of over 200 being APP
portioned among the foreign countries TO
/ which Americans are sent. This does not
! at first blush seem fair to the working con-
/ tingeut among the working patriots at
/ home. but when we come TO consider that
] the salaries for these PAGES very from a
/ dollar and fifty dollars we ought TO be re-
l signed. New York leads the list, as she
should by population, with 90 places; Mas
/ sachusetts is next with 30, Illinois next
! with q: Pennsylvania ana the District Of
! Columbia follow with 20 each; Ohio H.,
/ Maryland "a, Missouri, California, and
/ wisconsin f3 each; Texas, Vermont
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| nesota. 10; Indiana and North Carolina 3,
| Kentucky Virginia. and New Jersey, 8;
| Tennessee T. Rhode Island. Louisiana. and
/ South Carolina. 6; Colorado and Georgia,
| 3; Florida, Washington, Mississippi and
/ Nebraska. 4: North Dakota, Delaware, and
/ New Hampshire. 3; Oregon. Kansas and
/ West Virginia, 2; Montana, South Dakota.
Wyoming. and Arkansas J. To these add
\ four from the United states az large.
AS win be seen by this list all the states
have "A show except Utah ana the Terrific
/ ries Of Arizona. Oklahoma, aud Alaska,
| which are not recognized,
The lowest annual compensation record
/ ed Is 81. this munincent sum being received
! by Denis A.. PantasopOlus. consular agent
at Kalamata, Greece, and by Frank Ca
vert, consular agent az Dardanelies Tur-
/ KEY. II may be worthy Of note 10 mention
] that the first name OF one
OF these WORTHLESS IA Denis and
/ the town he halls from, though SPELL
ed Kalamata. may be- pronounced with the
accent on tho second syllable Mr. Fran
90 W. Prescott, consular agent at Dover.
ENGLAND, receives gi.25 per annum. but he
| h not expected 10 entertain. A .arge num-
Der of places pay only from 81 10 81 n year,
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