The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1908-07-03
GENERAL REDISTRIBUTION MADE
~ GOVERNMENT.
NEW ONES CREATED
Large Number Of consuiatss In Unim-
portant Places Are Aboilshsd-Law
Erecting Appearance Of Exporter 4
Consulate IL Modified.

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Washington, July 1.-Twenty-eighi
consular omces were closed. II new
ohices were established. seven once.
were moved and about a dozen In
creases In salaries were made as re-
suit Of = complete reorganization o
the United States consular service
which became effective today under
the provisions Of an act passed at the
last session OF congress. Other posts
will be awarded to consuls whose
pmces were closed, SO that none vii
suffer from the REIMBURSEMENT.
Out Of the % ofaces closed nine are
located In Germany. nine in Canada
and the ten others are scattered over
the rest Of the world. The German
%consulates abandoned are at Anna
berg, Bamberg, Crefeld, Dusseldorf
Eibenstock, Freiburg. Glauchau, Main2
and Zittau, while the Canadian posts
closed are Belleville. Port Hope, Port
Rowan, Coaticook. Gaspe, st. Hya,
cinthe, Three Rivers, Windsor and
Woodstock. The other posts discon.
tinued are Lucerne, st. christopher,
Jalapa, Castellamare di stabia, Cat.
ania, Utila, Funchal. Port Stanley, An.
tigua and jamestown.
Changes Made Abroad.
The consular ONCE In Syria il
transferred from Alexandretta to Mer.
sine; that at Collingwood. Ont, to
Owen Sound; that at La Rochelle,
France, to Cognac. The post at Pre-.
toria, in South Africa, is moved to
Johannesburg. The consulate at San
Juan del Norte, Nicaragua, Is changed
to Bluefields and that at Tuxpan, Mex
leo, to Salina Cruz. Erfurt, Germany,
is considered a better consulate loca.
ton than Wiemar, and the consulate
at the latter place was moved
New consulates were e~stablished<at
the following places: Aleppo, Alexan.
dria, Antung, Corinto, Fernie, Rlume,
Frantera, Guadalajara, Karachi, Mad.
ras Punta Arenas, Rangoon, solonki,
San Luis Potosi, swatow, Tapachula
and Tripoli.
These changes are made because a
redistribution Of the various posts IL
necessary to protect properly the In
terests OF American manufacturers
abroad. In some places the posts
abolished have for the last several
years not only not been paying ex-
penses but some have actually been
carried on the list Iat q dead loss OF
several thousand dollars. Take the
consulate at Jamestown, on the island
OF st. Helena, for instance. This
ONCE costs $2.475 year. while the
services the consul 10 called upon to
perform are practica by nil. Only SIG
was received in fes4 last year. The
United States is thelonly great power
now maintaining adj Office there and
its closing will redflt in no injury
whatever to America trade.
Cost Of thl service.
In the last a yealls the actual cost
of the consular se1&ce amounted to
$2,108, 1874, or IN avx age cost Of $87,-
$40 a year.
Many Of the cor ulates abolished
we're established yea&s ago for reasons
which wer regarded as SUFFICIENT at
that time, but which no longer exist.
At n time the law required that an
exporter to the UniM States OF duti-
able goods must APPEAR in person be-
fore a consul and hike oath to the
correctness OF his inEOices, and at the
solicitation OF such Exporters and Of
importers and trade bodies in the
United States and abapad. because Of
the Inconvenience to shippers in being
obliged to appear ats distant towns
with their invoices, bnsulates were
established at many places where
there were practicallySno other reas-
mi for maintaining a consulate.
Under the present laks and regula-
tions, however, the lsrsonal appear
ance Of the shippers . not required,
but the invoices may DE sent to the
consulate by messsAe or by mail
and thus the MULTIPLICITY Of consul
ates at towns but few miles apart
Is no longer necesS ary or desirable.
C~onsulates were bio established at
towns which at the &ne had some i'm
portance from q co$Mlar standpoint,
AZ at Gaspe, Quebec once q thriving
center Of fishing int4ests but now an
unimportant andsrem3te village. Other
consulates were established without
reasons apparent tothe department,
as In the casegofaJalaia. Mexico, which
was created, withoutrecommendation
Of the department "A for no reason
known to 4.
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