The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-07-01
MANY CHANGES|
IN CONSULATES
TWENTY-ElC:.! OFFICES CLOSED
AND NEW ONES OPENED
UP.
WASHINGTON.

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eight consular offices were closed II
new Offices established seven offices
We're moved and about dozen in
creases in salaries were made as a re-
suit of a complete reorganization of
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 office were
closed. 50 that none will suffer from
the REIMBURSEMENT
Out of the 90 offices closed nine
are located in Germany, nine in Canada
and the other 10 are scattered over the
rest of the world. The German consul
lates abandoned are at Annaberg. Bam-
berg. Crefeld. Duschau. Eibenstock.
Freiburg. Glauchau. Mainz and Zittau,
while the Canadian posts closed are
Bellville. Port Hope. Port Rowan,
Coatlcook. Gaspe st. Hyacinthe.
Three Rivers, Windsor and Woodstock
The other posts discontinued are Lu-
cerre, st. Christopher. Jalapa. Castel-
lamare eli Stabia. Cantana. Utila. Fun
chat. Port Stanley. Antigua and James
town.
The consular Offices in Syria is trans
ferred from Alexandretta to Mersne:
that at ColllngWocd, Ont, 20 Owen
Sound: that at La Rochelle. France
to COgnac. The post at Pretoria i'm
South Africa. is moved to Johannes
burg. The consulate at San Juan del
Norte, Nicaragua, is changed to Blue
fields, and that at Tuxpan. Mexico. to
Salina Cruz Erfurt Germany is con-
sldered better consular location than
Velmar and the consulate at the lat
Ter place was moved.
New consultes were established at
the following places: Aleppo. Alexan-
drla, Antung, CorintO, Fernie. Rlume.
Frontera. Guadalajara. Karachi. Mad
ras Punta Arenas. RangOon. Salinki,
San Luis. Potosi, Swatow. Tapachula
and Tripoli
Ihese changes are made because a
redistribution Of the various posts is
necessary to protect properly the inter-
eSts of American manufa cturers abroad
In some instances the posts abolished
have for the last several years not
Only not been paying expenses but
some have actually been carried on
the list at dead loss of several thou
sand dollars. Take the consulate It
jamestown. on the island of ST. He
lena. for instance. This office costs
$2415 per year. while the service the
consul is called upon to perform are
practically nil. Only SIG was received in
fees last year. The United States is
the only great power row maintaining
an office there and its closing VIII r.
suit in 40 injury whatever to Ameri-
can trade
In the last "a years the actual cost
of the consular service amounted to
$2,1OS,s34, or an average cost of sS7.S72
a year
Many of the cOnsulates abolished
were established years ago for reasons
which were regarded as sufficient at
that time, but which TO longer exist
AT one time the law required that an
| exporter to the United tSates of duti-
able goods must appear in person be-
fore a consul and make oath to the cor
rectness of his invoices, and at the So
licitatiOn of such exporters and of i'm
porters and trade bodies in the United
states and abroad. because of the in
convenience to shippers i'm being obliged
TO appear at distant towns with their
invoices, cOnsulates were established at
many places where there were practi-
cally no other reasons for maintaining
consulate Under the present laws
and regulations. however. the personal
appearance of the shippers is not re-
CURED. but the invoices may be sent
to the consulate by messenger or by
mail and thus the multiplicity of con-
sulates at towns but a few miles apart
Is no longer necessary or desirable
Consulates We're also established at
towns which at the time had some i'm
portance from a consular standpoint,
as at Gaspe, Quebec. once a thriving
center of fishing interests but now an
unlmpOrtant ana remote village Other
consulates We're established without
reasons apparent to the department. As
, IN the case of Japala, Mex, which
was created without the recommends
ton of the department and for no rea-
son known to it.