Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-03-27
BRAINS,NOTCASH,
FOR DIPLOMATS,
BACON URGES
Georgia Senator Wants to
Make Poor Men Eligible for
Foreign Posts.

WASHINGTON. March 21-Demo-
cratic congressman will urge president
Wilson To recommend to congress in a
special message a remedy for the ST.
uation that makes it impossible :or
men without great wealth to represent
this country Al foreign courts.
The statement of President Wilson
concerning the inability of William f.
McCombs to accept the anba ssa dorship
to France because Of the fact that Gus
tom has made riches a necessary equip
ment for an American representative
abroad caused much comment among
senators and representatives, to-day.
Senator Bacon. of Georgia, chairman
Of the senate committee on foreign
relations. expressed regret to-day that
the conditions are such that they vii!
not permit Of men Of ability but mod
crate means filing them
IF the government would provide
suitable homes in foreign capitals for
its representatives abroad. suitable in
each instance in character Of construc-
ton and appointment said Senator
Bacon. Il believe that it would go far
to solve the problem. | have hereto
fore advocated in the senate and voted
in favor OF purchasing such homes for
our foreign representatives. and ! eX
pect to advocate and vote for them in
the future
Have House and Live in 1t.
Il think that to provide these homes
would 60 far to obviate the present diff
fcuty If an ambassador has digoi
fed and well appointed residence. he
viii be able. although a man OF modtr-
ate means. to maintain properly his
station as the representative Of this
government
In my opinion. not only should an
or minister he provided
with a house duly appointed and fur
nisaed, but he should be required by
law to reside in It. so that If a ricl
man should be appointed to the posi-
ton he could not rent a palace and set
pace that his successor could not
follow unless he also was rich man."
With the decllnation Of the offer ~
the amba ssadorship to Great Britain by
Charles w. Eliot. president emeritus Cf
Harvard University. and the Chinese
post by John R. Mott. Of Montclair, \
J., the noted Y. NJ G. A. worker, aud
the offer Of the amba ssaGorship to B5r-
lin 10 Professor Henry BUrchard Fine.
OF Princeton it became known tina
President Wilson has made no Other
offers Of diplomatic posts.
During the fortnight beginning with
Wednesday, the day Secretary Of State
Bryan returns from the West, President
Wilson viii begin consideration Of indl-
viduals for specific posts
EIieibles For Diplomatic Posts
The list Of names the president has
before him for diplomatic appointment
is d long one and most Of them viii be
offered places
The list includes Justice James W
Gerard OF the supreme court OF Now
York; William Gorham Rice. Of NV
York; Henry Morgenthau, Of New
York; Frederic c. Penfeld. Of Pennsy.-
yania; George W. Guthrie, of Panusyl-
vania. Thomas Mott Osborne, of New
York; MaCgrane Coke. Of New York;
p. A. Stovall OF Savannah, Ga: cN-
Lieutenant Governor Joseph f. willard
OF Virginia; Thomas Nelson Page. Of
Virginia; Ex-Governor Benton McMi]-
lin, Of Tennessee; Representative
James t. Slayden, OF Texas: T. W.
Gregory. a lawyer Of Texas; Charles
r. Crane, OF Chicago, the man who wa
named minister 20 china by President
Taft and recalled before he got to San
Francisco on his trip to his new post
Augustus Thomas, the playwright. of
New York and erstwhile Of Missouri:
Colonel Thomas Burch, of New Jersey;
David r. Francis, former governor Of
Missouri; William Church Osborn, #
New York. and Judge George Gray. Of
Delaware.
The presidents plan Is to go over the
slate with Secretary Bryan and work il
out with the view Of the fitness of the
men for certain positions. The presi-
dent hopes that in this way he will get
men in places for which their tempera
ment and experience best tit them