The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-02-11
FOREIGN SERVICE
UNDER DIFFICULTIES
Some Ambassadors Who Have Neither
Money Nor Credit.
AN AWKWARD PREDIcAMENT, TRULY
Som etimes, as with the Turkish En-
voys, II Is the Fault OF the Country;
Sometimes of the Ministers--T The
Transyaal's LiberaIity.
Ex-Attacbe. in New York Tribune.

simultaneously WIFI tHe dHllpuuNS-
ment that to DIR. Jeyds, the secretary
of state Of the Boer Republic, has been
accorded the enormous salary of $685.
000 a year for representing as Minis
ter Plenipotentiary the Transvaal In
the various capitals of Europe comes
the news that the Ottoman ambassa-
dors at Rome, st. Petersburg, Vienna,
Berlin, Paris and London have decided
10 strike, along with their respective
secretaries and attaches, in conse
quence of their having been left not
only without their salaries and allow
ences, but even without remittances of
any kind since the beginning of the
year-that is to say, for the space of
just eleven months. 1t Is difficult to
conceive any more startling contrast
than that which prevails between the
diplomatic representatives of the small
African-Dutch republic, which is not
even an independent sovereignty, but
merely a protectorate of Great Britain,
and the ENJOYS of one of the most i'm
portant great powers of the world,
power the possessions of which extend
over considerable portion OF the con-
tinents of Europe, Asia and Africa, the
spiritual supremacy of whose monarch
is represented by all Mahometan coun-
tries from the Asiatic coast of Africa to
the Pacific shore line of China, and
which weighs so heavily in the inter-
national balance that the question of
maintaining unbroken the peace of the
Old World may be said TO rest with the
sublime porte.
CASE OF TURKEY.
Turkey is one of those five or six en-
pires, Kingdoms and republics which in
sist on being represented in the prin-
cipal capitals of Europe and atWash-
ington by full-1edged ambassadors in
lieu of ordinary ministers plCnipoten-
tiary, ambassadors being, of course,
expected to maintain the dignity of
their high office on a much more elab-
crate and magnificent scale than en-
voys of minor rank. The position OF
the unfortunate Pachas and Reys in
trusted with the direction of the Otto
man missions abroad may therefore be
appreciated when it is mentioned that
not only have the ambassadors receiv-
ed no pay for nearly a year, but that,
moreover they are unable to find any
one willing to trust them even for the
ordinary necessaries of life: for the
tradesmen know full we'll that writs do
not run in the case of foreign diplo-
mats, and that it is impossible to OBJ
tain either judgments against them or
attachments against their property.
Moreover, Turkish credit is at the low
est ebb in the various capitals of Eu-
rope, and under the circumstances it is
quite probable that the stories current
to the effect that one Turkish ambas-
sador has subsisted for months on
bread and tea, save when invited out
to dinner by colleagues and acquaint-
ances, and that another is unable to
stir out of the house because he has
no boots to wear, may be true. When
one has neither money nor credit in
Europe, and when one is moreover pre-
Cluded by ones diplomatic position and
office from resorting to other means of
livelihood, it is obvious that recourse
to the charity of friends is the only
escape from starvation.
MUSURUS PACHA AND FAMILY.
The financial difficulties of Turkeys
ambassadors is nothing new, although
it is the first time that they have all
gone on strike together and have
abandoned their posts without leave of
abscense, declining to return to their
duties until they receive their pay.
Musurus Pacha. who for nearly a
country at the court of st. James, was
mixed up in all sorts of unsavory
transactions, mostly incurred in con-
nection with the efforts to procure re-
sources, and even today there are suits
pending in the London courts against
his estate and moneys advanced to
him. His son, Musurus Bey, attempted
In vain to better the fortunes of his
family and of his fathers mission, to
which he was attached as secretary,
by abducting a French heiress, Mile.
d'Imecourt, a niece and ward of the
famous French cavalry general, the
Marquis de Galliffet. After contract
ing a marriage in England with her,
which was subsequently annuled on
the ground of illegality and living with
her a couple of months. he was inn
prudent enough to venture upon French
soil, where both he and the young lady
were Immediately arrested by the po-
lice, she being turned over to her rela-
tives and he conducted to Calais and
expelled from the country, his diplo>
matte rank in England alone saving
him from criminal prosecution.
Among other chiefs of diplomatic
missions who have come to grief fin
ancially, sometimes through the neglect
les and sometimes through their own
extravaganza and recklessness, is
prince Malkolm Khan, who for SO
many years represented the Shah at
the court of st. James. The Shah
not content with depriving him of his
pay, and then of his Office, with the
threat of decapitatiOn when he re-
turned to Persia. has now caused him
to be held up to obliquy as a swindler
and a fraud by his representatives in
most of the capitals Of Europe.
SPANISH MINISTER'S PLIGHT.
Then there is the popular, genial anG
enormously stout Marquis of Campo.
Sagrado. brother-in-law of Queen lisa.
bella, who, after representing Spain fol
number of years at the court of st
Petersburg, suddenly vanished with,
out presenting his letters of recall. II
subsequently developed that he hat
squandered his entire fortune at tht
card tables of the Yacht club and sim
liar institutions at ST. Petersburg, ant
that he had incurred liabilities which
he was unable to meet, and which 81
gravely affected his own financial in
tegrity, as well as his official dignity
as ambassador. that in spite of hi
lofty connections through marriage HI
was summarily deprived by telegraph
from Madrid of his diplomatic rank
That, of course, placed him within tn
legal reach of his creditors. But befor
they could take advantage of the new
he had taken to flight and bolted t,
Paris, where, thanks 10 the liberalit!
of his generous sister-in-law, the oil,