The Saint Paul globe., 1898-03-07
Wilhelm Helps William.

There Is a complication In the consul
late at Crefeld. One man, duly off,
cially decapitated by his government.
continues to exercise the functions of
the consular Office and enjoy it's salary
and fees, while another. as duly off,
cially commissioned to succeed, unsal-
aried and unfeed, walks the streets of
the German city and. with Cobb, of
Alabama, wonders where he Is at. And
the department of state is too absorbed
in standing off the inquisitive reporters
and denying the fakes concocted by
others of the guild to move for the
relief Of the commissioned consul de-
MED his office and it's perquisites. The
Milwaukee Sentinel regards the comp1-
cation as a mystery and wants Its So
luton. 1t is queer state of affairs.
Deuster. P. ", a Milwaukeean, once
editor of the German paper there, Der
Seebote, and once a representative in
congress from tie Milwaukee district,
was duly appointed consul at Crefeld.
and his commission bears the signature
Of Grover Cleveland. Among the pa
triots who rushed to the pie counter
at the restoration was Joshua Phelps,
from the plains Of Iowa, who, with
discriminating eye, picked out the Gre
field consulate as his particular slice.
In time the dispenser reached Joshua
and his piece of pie, and last October
it was duly handed out to him and he
hied himself ito Germany and to Gre
field and invited Deuster to get up and
dust. Loyal even to the hand that
IL - cd
to vamoose as soon as Joshua received
his eXequatur. Joshua. witless Of that
little ceremonial, assumed to 0. K. some
invoices Of goods for export to this
country, and polite official note from
the German foreign Office Informed him
that his wise on invoices could not be
recognized until his position had been
duly recognized A,by the imperial
government Whereupon Joshua hied
himself to the foreign Office of the
kaiser deposited his credentials, and
returned to Crefeld to await the receipt
of his exequatur. Days melted into
weeks, and they in turn stretched
themselves out into months, and the ex-
equatur came not, nor has it come.
Meantime Deuster, who is an ex does
the duties of consul, pockets the income,
and Joshua, consul de jure, walks the
streets, killing time as best he may,
seeing, with envious eyes, Deuster alb
sorbing what should be jingling in his
own pockets, and wondering what un-
der the sun Uncle Sam is idlins about
that he permits this thing to go on.
Ihe Sentinel accounts for the delay
of the German foreign office to oAio;ou,,
see Joshua on several grounds; it's par
tiality for the Teuton Deuster; the use
OF hypnotic power by Deuster: the NOS
slole commission Of majestatsbeIefdf-
gung by Joshua; but finds tho
mystery unsolva BILE We venture to s,,o
gest that the kaiser is merely irving
70 assist his great and good friend in
Washington to carry out his eood o,,,;,
service intentions. He knows that
Deuster makes an excellent cousul: he
KNOWS that Cleveland brought the con-
sulate officers measurably within tho
ciasslhed list hv executive order. he
knows that Joshua was sent To crefeIa
merely because of the fierce demand
ior pie that assailed the newly INSTALL
ed president, and not at all heco,so
Deusder was removable for cause. So
reasoning he withholds from Joshua
MS recognition, without which :Josb,,o
cahlo1 eat MS pie thus permitting the
spirit OF the civil service act to he vim
dlcated and its dignity sustained. Tins
adroltly does the German kaiser estah
llsh sphere of influence, within tho
great republic.