The Anaconda standard., 1899-01-29
HAD A. SPIRITED DEBATE
Parsimony of the Government
Denounced as Disgrace.
SALARIES WERE RAISED
Consuls and Secretaries of Embassies
Were Forced to Live on Starva-
ton Wages-Gallinger Takes
Shot at Clark.


Washington, Jan. 2S.-A spirited Ge
bate was precpitated in the senate to
day while the diplomatic and consula
appropriation bill was under considara
tion. The appropriations committe
was sharply criticised for not providing
adequate salaries for some of the con
sular officers and secretaries of lega
tions of this government in foreigl
countries and the parsimony of the gov
ernment in this respect was denounced
as a disgrace. Mr.. Hale of Maine va
in charge of the bill, and despite L.:
protests, several amendments were in
corporated in the measure. The bill
was passed, carrying nearly $1,500000
The recess of an hour and a half vas
taken to enable senators to attend the
funeral of ex-senator A. H. Garland.
The concurrent resolution adopted by
the New Hampshire legislature, urging
the speedy ratification of the treaty OF
peace, was presented by Gallinger.
A resolution calling upon the secre-
tary for information concerning the In
vestigation of the bureau on printing
and engraving was adopted.
A resolution was adopted calling rp-
on the secretary of state to procure
from the United States representatives
abroad the annual amounts paid by
foreign governments for pensions not
civil. The house bill for adjusting
clothing accounts of deceased soldiers
was passed.
Hale called up the diplomatic and
consular appropriation bill. Jones ask
ed the senate to take a recess from 9
to $3.50 O'Clock to allow senators to at
tend the funeral of ex-senator Gar
land. A recess was ordered.
The consular and diplomatic bill was
then read. 1t appropriated $1.710, ,533
$5O,0O0 more than the amount carried by
the measure as passed by the house
Mr.. Gallinger desired, he said, to Ca II
attention to the starvation wages
paid to the United States consular 1ep-
resentatives abroad.
Mr.. Hale, in charge of the bill, ex-
planned that the appropriation commit
tee had not considered the compensa-
tion of consular officers, and suggested
that the committee on foreign relations
take up the question and make some
recommendation.
Have you ever KNOWN" inquired
Mr. Cockrill of Missouri, ANY applicant
for consularship to object to the salary
before taking office?'
Replying to Mr.. Cockrill, Mr.. Sal
linger said that his question was not
in any sense an argument.
Senators" said Mr.. Gallinger, re
ceive $4,000 year. Many others would
take the position for half that sum.
Some men in Montana and other states,
judging from accounts in the newspa-
pers, are willing to pay a bonus for a
seat in this body. But that is no reason
why senators should not receive decent
salaries; nor is it a reason why some
of the young men abroad should not he
paid proper salaries. Some of these sal
aries are meanly inadequate. Our con-
sular service is verging in this respect
upon what l deem disgraceful."
Mr.. Morgan of Alabama offered an
amendment from the committee on for
eign relations increasing the salaries of
the secretary of legations in the Argen-
tine republic, Venezuela, Peru, Liberia
and Korea from sl.5O0 to $780, Mr..
Morgan spoke at length on his amend
ment. He said that our consular serv-
ice in South America, particularly, was
being degraded and cut down
The positions We're taken by
men who, either themselves OF
through their fathers, had private
means with which to support the social
elegancies, one of the features of Off .e-
holding in those countries. He sharply
criticised the United States govern
ment for its parsimonious policy, de-
claring that it was a disgrace to the
country.
After further discussion, the salaries
of secretaries of legation to the Argen-
tine republic, Venezuela and Peru, were
increased from $1,500 to $1,sO0, and Of
the consuls at La Guayra, Venezuela,
from s1,SO0 to $4,000 and at Pernam
'buco, Brazil, from $4,000 to $4,000. The
allowance for clerks of consulates from
$1,000 to $1,000. The salaries of three
third secretaries of embassy at Lonion,
Paris and Berlin We're fixed at 81 600
each. The consulate at Naples was
placed in the $500 class the consulate
at Collingwood, Canada in the $4,000
class, and the consulate at Niagara
Falls in the S1,500 class. The bill as
amended was then passed.
At O'Clock the senate took recess
until $3.50 p. M, and upon reassemoling,
the senate on motion of Mr.. Davis went
Immediately into executive session. AT
$50 p. m. the senate resumed consider
alton of business in legislative session.
Mr.. Mason offered a resolution pre-
faced by statements that reports had
been received that "of late years as
high as so per cent. of the soldiers un-
accustomed to the climate (of the Phil
fppfnes) have died by reason of said
climate" as follows:
That the surgeon general of the ar
my be required to furnish a statement
as to the percentage of our soldiers,
who are sick and have been sick and
the number of deaths in our army by
reason of the sickness caused by the
climate, and to set forth when, accord
ing to the generally accepted term, the
sickly season begins in the islands, and
further that he will give to the senate