Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-01-19
MANY CoNsULATEs ARE SNAPS
llsed to SheIve Elderly Gentlemen
Whose Friends Find It Neces-
sary to Take Care OF.
o,sme for Condition Rests Upon u
Long standing Custom--Cant Ex-
anime Eminent Citizen.

Washington, Jan. ls.-Secy' ROW.
yhIle appearing before the house APP
,ronrIations committee, Is relating to
me expenses OF the statement depart
ment spoke frankly concerning the
abort comings Of the American consul
lar service. The statement OF Mr..
Root which have Just been made pub
No show that in response to ques-
,ious BY Representative Livingston, the
secretary said:
There are a great many consulates
that have been in that condition ana
there are some that are still Ia that
condition, and the fact arises from sew
sral causes one cause Is mat con-
splates are used and regarded here
not az places In which active and ef-
fcIent work Is to be done, but are
used as places In which to shelves es-
Unable and elderly gentlemen whose
friends find II necessary to take care
Of them in some way. Laughter)
Nov, | have got old enough 10 be
able to say that sort OF thing without
anybody being offended. do not think
Mat when a man has lived out the ac-
fNltN OF MS me anu Paooeh V's'i'
his ambition and his energy or his de-
sire to make a career for himseif--l 90
not think then Is the time to start him
out IN A new place where he has got
10 learn new business and push the
commerce of the country
The statements were then made by
Mr.. Root in reply to questions OF mem
ters OF the committee:
NJ. 7 anita with Won
Mr.. secretary. as to that. but upon
whom rests the blame for that condi-
tom"
secy. Root--It rests upon long
standing custom, whereby the executive
Is expected to appoint TO important
consulates important men from the
different states.
Mr. Graf-But yea have a system of
Examination?
seey. Root-Yes, so far as the young
fellows go. You can put the screws
on them and make them come up for
examination. But when an eminent
dtizen
Mr, Liylngston-An eminent ex-sena-
Tor or member Of Congress
secy Root COMMUNICATIVE When
on eminent citizen comes around you
cannot examine him In geography and
arithmetic, He resents II. and there IL
the dickens TO pay all along. Q.augh-
ter) II Is a custom that has grown
out-just like this deficiency custom.
When you step In to change a custom
you cannot change II by piecemeal; you
have TO jar something.
Take this consular bill which Is now
pending, When IL was introduced II
contained series of provisions under
winch the consulates were TO be graded.
TIC original appointments were TO be
only TO the lower grades, and the up
rer grades were TO be filled by promo
ton, SO that we would catch fellows
young while they still had some mo-
tive power LEFT In them. These pro-
visions have been stricken out and the
bl reported without them. Still, the
Oil makes great advantage over the
present system"
The approaching end OF the active
work OF the reciprocity bureau was
sounded In Mr. Roots statements, about
the expense for It's maintenance
Representative Littauer asked Mr..
Root II the bureau would be perma-
hent, and the secretary Of state pro-
Soted laugh with the following re-
ply;
The Indications are that II will not
De- The making of system of reel
ptoclty treaties does not appear to have
tfe elements Of eternal life"
IN discussing the trade conditions In
onina and the necessity for gathering
Information concerning commercial
troubles there. Mr.. Root said:
mere Is no occasion for sending a
commission TO China. Our ministers
shd eonSuls at the treaty ports of Chi
A are commissioned now, If these
gentlemen VIII come up here | will bury
ulem 10 papers so that they could not
us out Tor week. We have bushels
sn1 bushels OF reports from perfectly
trustworthy American witnesses as to
VIVA. ms been happening IN China, and
70 the cause thereof. The trouble
NV not ignorance as to what the
, are; II Is In applying the
ta'e pam and simple remedy. There
~ peen two troubles: One arising
av on the iact that the law. the Chinese
hus'oh act, contains some provisions
.ulon experience has shown to be ILL
sX1kd and the other ia that the law
hWen administered in a harsh and
"oonsiderate way.
me president has remedied the ad-
mhls'raiiOn, I think, lust as far as tho
Nv permits him 10 do. and the thing
~. w d'ne now is for you to change
n,. ~" II SOME respects not so as 10
b,, "n. we chinese laborers to come In,
49, W that the Chinese laborer can be
AM, ana out without insult and indlgnity
ana .'t.usnlp 10 the Chinese merchants
,hs noldrs, and the men who occupy
mn,I,r. position In the Chinese com
,pn, y as me people In this room oc.
~ ~ s ou.s' Ihey have been subject
thns ~ uss lhdignlty and gross hard
der ,hs+ ' 'ay cases, and do not won