Arizona republican., 1904-12-31
Changes to Be Made in the
 Diplomatic Service
REID FOR ST. JAMES
General Porter Will Leave Paris, but His Successor Is not yet Announced. {. Other Changes Which the President Has Decided.

Washington, Dec. 30,-President Roosevelt is devoang some time at present to the consideration of import ant appointments in the diplomatic and consular service of the government which are to be made formally by him at the beginning of the new admins tration next March.
 Joseph II. Choate, ambassador to the court of St. James has indicated that he does not desire longer to continue as representative of this government in Great Britain and he expects, when re- lieYed. to return to America to look after his personal interests here He will be succeeded by Whitelaw Reid. proprietor of the New York Tribune, who was at one time minister to France.
 General Horace Porter, the American ambassador to France will retire from i that post soon after March 4. He was appointed by the late President Me I<inley and with the expiration of his present term will have served the Unit ed States at the French capital eight years. The president has decided on General Porter's successor, but at this 1 time no announcement of his decision | can be made. Charlemagne Tower, the American ambassador to Germany, and Robert $. Mccormick, the American ambassador to Russia, will continue at their respective posts.
 Bellamy Storer, ambassador to Aus i tria IIt4ngary, will continue in his ipresent place until the president de- cides to transfer him to another post
 in the diplomatic service. As to the i iambassadorship to Italy nothing of a definite nature can be said now. It has ! been rumcred that Ambassador George Won L. Meyer is to succeed General 1 Porter at Paris, but it can be said that such change is not certain. The prob
 abilities are that Ambassador Meyer will remain at Rome.
 l General Powell Clayton having de-
 cided to relinquish his post as ambas-
 sador to Mexico at the end of the pres
 ent administration he will be succeed ed by Edwin II. Conger now United
 State minister to China It is not ex-
 pected that Mir Conger will continue
 long at the Mexican capital. as he is
 understood to intend to return to his 1 home state of Iowa to be candidate
 for governor in succession to Governor Cummins When he leaves the City of
 Mexico, he will be succeeded by David
 E. Thompson of Nebraska, who at the present is minister to Brazil.
 MT. Thompson accepted the appoint
 ment to Brazil with the understanding
 that he would be appointed to high
 CT place in diplomatic service as soon
 as the opportunity offered. Minister 1 Conger will be succeeded at the court
 of Pekin by Wm. w. RockhiIl, at pres ent director of the bureau of American
 republics, who is recognized as an au-
 thority or all subjects pertaining to China and Chinese.
 John K. Gowdy, who was appointed by President Mckinley as American consul general ct Paris, will be suc- tceeded by Frank II. Mason, who is now
 consul general at Berlin. In succession
 to MT. Mason, John Lewis Griffiths of Indianapolis, will be named.
 It is expected that some other
 changes will be made in the corps of
 American ministers. but at this time
 they are not obtainable for publica-
 tion.