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

"1 ~
-..... rongressmen will urge president
.r.-..r ra recommend to congress in a
..s,r message a remedy for the ST
zion that makes it impossible for
$3.50, without great wealth to represent
.,;s country at foreign courts.
,-,s statement of President Wilson
incoming the inability of William +.
,,..,,,r5. TO accept the amba ssad orshi p
r.rsnrs because of the fact that Gus
.-- has made riches a necessary equip
AN, for an American representative
-.r-.s caused much comment among
--,sr.rs and representatives to-day.
s.o,rnr Bacon. Of Georgia, chairman
-rs senate committee on foreign
,-.+.r. expressed regret to-day that
49, .,rrftfons are such that they Will
-. ,..afr Of men Of ability but mod
r4r. means filing them.
III FIN, government would provide
-....nr4 homes in foreign capitals for
i.. representatives. abroad, suitable in
...r instance in character of construc-
Jan and appointment" said Senator
neon 81 believe that it would go far
f.. .a.Fa the problem. ! have hereto
s.rz advocated i'm the senate and voted
.r favor of purcha sing such homes for
o,r foreign representatives. and eX-
VAC, IN advocate and vote for them in
tn future.
Have House and Live in It.
81 raiull that TO provide these homes
,au.a 60 far TO obviate the present elf
e.urry If an ambassador has dig"i-
a-- and well appointed residence. he
win he able. although a man Of moder-
s.a means. to maintain properly his
...-.or As the representative of this
government
I'm my opinion, not only should an
.sador or minister be provided
With house duly appointed and fur
r..grd. but he should be required by
sr To reside in it, so that If ricA
man should be appointed to the posi-
ton he could not rent palace and set
race that his successor could not
Tow unless he also was rich man.
With the declination Of the offer Of
tr- 8mha ssaGorship to Great Britain by
Charles W. Eliot. president emeritus Ct
Harvard University. and the Chinese
post by John r. Mott. OF Montclair \.
+, the noted Y. NJ. c. 4. worker, and
fa off. of the ambassaGorship 70 Ber-
FIN TO Professor Henry Burchard Fine,
NJ Princeton it became known that
President Wilson has made no other
offers ~ diplomatic posts.
During the fortnight beginning with
Wednesday. the day Secretary Of State
F~an returns from the West. President
wilson viii begin consideration of indi-
v.oias for specific posts.
EIloibles For Diplomatic Posts.
Th. list Of names the president mas
before aim for diplomatic appointment
is long one and most of them will he
Offered places.
The list Includes Justice James W.
Gerard, Of the supreme court of New
York. William Gorham Rice Of M
York. Henry Morgenthau, Of New
York. Frederic 6. Penfeld, of Pennsy,-
wanna. George w. Guthrie, Of Pennsyi-
MIA. Thomas Mott Osborne. Of Ne|
p A. Stova'l. Of Savannah, Ga: eX-
Lieutenant Governor Joseph Z. Willard.
q Virginia; Thomas Nelson Page, Of
Fginfa, Ex-Governor Benton McMil-
2. OF Tennessee: Representative
Jtmes l.. SlayGeu. of Texas; T. w.
Gregory a lawyer Of Texas; Charles
H. 'rane, Of Chicago. the man who was
named minister to China by Presiden,
aft and recalled before he got to San
Francisco on his trip to his new post;
Augustus Thomas. the playwright, If
New York and erstwhile of Missouri:
''.one Thomas BurCh, Of New Jersey:
David r. Francis, former governor Of
Missouri; William Church Osborn. If
Ne" York, and Judge George Gray. Of
Delaware.
The presidents plan is to go over the
safe with Secretary Bryan and work it
Vli with the view of the fitness Of the
.sh for certain positions. The pros:-
uaHt hopes that in this way he will &C.
men in places for which their tempera-
1ah' and experience best fit them