The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-07-02
Many Changes i'm Consular
Service of the Government
COST OF THIS DEPARTMENT TO
THE UNITED STATES HAS
AVERAGED ss7 .372 PER ANNUM
FOR THE PAST "a YEARS-29
OFFICES ARE CLOSED.
specIai TO me Journal.

consular Offices were closed, seven
teen new offices were established,
seven Offices were moved and about
a dom increases in salaries we're
made as a result of a complete TeoT-
ganization OF the United States con-
sulaT service, which became effective
today under the provisions of an act
passed at the last session o. con-
gross. Other posts will be awarded
to cOnsuls whose Office were closed,
so that none will suffer from the re-
adjustment.
Out of the twenty-eight offices
closed nine are located in Germany,
nine in Canada and the ten others
are scattered over the rest OF the
world. The German consuiates aban-
dOned are at Annaberg, BamberS- Gre
| field. Dusseldorf, EibenstOck, Frelberg,
GiauchaU. MainZ and Zittau, while the
Canadian posts closed are Belleville,
Port Hope. Port Rowan, COaticook,
Gaspe. ST. Hyacinthe, Three Rivers,
Windsor and Woodstock. The other
posts discontinued are LUceTne, St
Christopher, Jalspa. Castellamare oil
Stabia, Catania, Utila. Funchal- Port
Stanley. Antigua and jamestown.
The consular Office in Syria is
| transferred from A1exandTetta to Mer-
/ sine; that at CoTlingwoOd, 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 BIuefields and that Al Tuxpan.
/ Mexico. to SaIina Cruz E-fUrt, Ger
| many, is considered a better consular
| location than WeihnaT and the consul
| late at the latter place was moved
| New consulates we're Established at
| the following places: Aleppo, Aiexan-
| dria AntUng, Corinto, Fernie. Rlume,
! FrOntera, Guadalajara, Karachi, Nal
| ras, PUnta Arenas. RangOon- SalOnki,
San Luis POtosi, Swallow, Tapachuld
and Tripoli.
These changes are made because
redistribution of the various posts is
necessary to protect properly the in
| terests of American manufacturers
abroad. In some instances the posts
| abolished have for the last several
years not only not been paying px-
penses but some aave actually been
carried on the list at dead loss o.
several thousand dollars. Take the
consulate at JamestOwn, on the island
of St Helena, for instance. This Of
fee costs S2,475 asyear, while the ser
vices the consul is called upon to per-
received in fees last year. The Uni
/ ted States is the only great power
noY maintaining an office there and
! it's closing will result in no injury
whatever TO American trade
/ In the last twenty-fOur years the
/ actual cost of the consular service
| amounted to 50 los ,934, or an average
| cost o. s97.S72 year
Old Offices Abolished.
Many of the consulate5 abolished
were established years ago for rea-
| sons which were regarded as suffic-
| lent at that time, but which no longer
exist. At one time the law required
| that an exporter TO the United States
/ of dSltiable goods must appear in per-
! son before consul and make oath to
/ the correctness of his invoices, and
at the solicitation of such exporters
and of importers and trade bodies in
| the United States and abroad, be
| cause OF the Inconvenience to ship
4 pers in being obliged to appear at
| distant towns with their invoices. con-
/ sUl2tes were established at many
places where there were practically
no other reasons for maintaining q
| consulate Under the present laws
| and regulations. however. the person
/ al appearance of the shippers is not
required. but the invoices may be
! sent 20 the consulate by messenger
/ or by mail and thus the multiplicity
of cOnSulateS at towns but few
| miles apart is no longer necessary or
desirable
| ConsuIates we're also established at
/ towns Which at the time had some
| Importance from a consular stand
( point as at GaSpe, Quebec, once
/ thriving centre of fishing interests.
| but now an unimportant and remote
1 village. Other cOnsulates were es-
/ tablished without reasons apparent to
/ tne department, as in the case of ia
I pala, Mex. which was created without
| recommendation C the department
1 and for no reason known to it.