The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-06-27

also unknown to the Chinese minister
 It was only after much speculation con
 cerning the identity of the giVer tha
 it was discovered that for many years
 Di En Lung had acted as General Car pentiers confidential man. Genera
 Carpenter, it is understood, made tht
 first gift in Di En Lungs name, while
 the latter donation was his friends per
 sonal subscription.
 Until the United States assumed the
 responsibilities of sovereignty in the
 Philippines and in the other Pacific de- pendencies captured from Spain the need of educated young men possessing thorough knowledge of Oriental lan- guages and capable of filling positions in the diplomatic service had not been felt. Tn every Oriental country in which the United States maintained consul ate or an embassy there had always been need of interpreters, but this want had usually been supplied from among the natives of the country concerned. It was rarely that a citizen of the United States was employed as a con- sular or legation interpreter, and it was still more unusual to find such posi-
  cially trained for the service. For nearly thirty years the United States government has set aside $15,000 year to pay for all the interpreters employed in China. Corea and Japan, and the amount has been found sufficient. Now that the United States has become a world power however, the state depart ment realizes that the old system can no longer be followed, and that much more liberal appropriation will have to be made for the purpose.
 Tn the future it is unlikely that the sum of $15000 a year will be found suffi- eient to pay the interpreters in even one country.
 Because of the change in the foreign policy of the United States there has arisen distinct demand for the serv- ices of young Americans able to fill those consular and diplomatic positions hitherto held by foreign-born interpret CTS. The institution of chair of Chi- nese at Columbia university is a step in this direction which it is expected will be followed by other colleges. The gov ernment itself has set the example by announcing that it proposes to conduct a language school of it's own, probably at the American legation in Peliin It is probable that some direct appoint mems to this school will be made, but in the main it is the intention to recruit the legation school from students chos- on from those successful in the exami- nations in the Chinese language which will be held after while at Columbia and other universities,
 These student interpreters, as they will be styled will be paid a salary while they are studying, exactly as is done with cadets at West Point and Annapolis. As the student interpreters will have to keep themselves in for eign country they will be paid a rather higher salary than is given to the other wards of the government. The exact amount to be paid to them has not yet been definitely fixed, but the first class will consist of ten men who will be paid $1 900 e year each,
 Tn this new departure the United States government is being governed largely by the experiences of the Brit ish government, which has for years maintained at all it's foreign embassies a corps of student interpreters. These are young Englishmen wha a"e requir- ed to pass a most exacting civil service examination in England before they are assigned to foreign country. At the age of eighteen they have to pass a still harder examination, and then, If they are successful they are rated as stu dent interpreters and a small salary Is paid to them At the present time there are over thirty student interpret CTS attached to the British legation at Pel,in. From their ranks the British draws all its consuIs for Chinese cities and ports The majority of the men are of British birth and de- scent, but there is always a considera- ble sprinking of pure Chinese among them.
 Hong Kong is considered as British territory, consequently a Chinaman born on English ground ranks as British subject and under the law, is supposed to enjoy the same privileges In the matter of holding diplomatic of- fee as any other Englishman.
 Now that the United States has the to deal with. a still further advance Is to be made. The consular as IL now StA1uS, TOfmS an ex- cellent stock upon which the state de- partment thinks it can graft the new shoots made necessary by our fresh re- responsibilities. The whole of the dlplo- natic corps in the Orient has been very selected and, while adminis- trations may change, there will never again be any of those general upheavals that used to follow the presidential elections. Ever since the extended in- -roduction of the civil service rule into he state department there have been 'ewer and fewer changes in the person. 1el of the corps of men who actually do he work, and this has had marked ef- 'ect upon the service.
 When the governments school for student interpreters is in working order t Is expected that it will be able to sup ply exactly the class of men that will be | needed for official positions in our new They will be expected to | Inow more than one language and they | will be required to show familiarity | with more than one line of knowledge, l The government wants good, al1-around l nen, capable of taking charge of a dis | rict, or of conducting a court of in- l Iuiry. or of acting as interpreter. pros- | cutor or judge, according to the exi-