The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-08-23

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There we're private secretaries TO
Franklin and Adams. hu' the amount
OF their pay was apparently unknown.
BY way of contrast II may be Inter
ie,ted here that the appropriation for
the Diplomatic AMI Consular service for
the current year Is $3.50 642 S.
John Jay bridges the gap from Living
ston to and beyond the erection of the
Department under the new Constitution
in 1859. They were the only Secretaries
for Foreign Affairs OF the Continental
regime The new Congress. as Is well
known. took up the matter Of eNecu-
tive departments almost Immediately
after the Inauguration of President
Washington. The ACT establishing the
Department of Foreign Affairs under
that name was approved on June -
II was by the statute approved Scptem-
her II that the Department acquired its
present name. The functions now eXer-
cis.t 10y the Department of the Interior,
and indeed some vested in other Depart
ments, were imposed upon 1t after much
debate, in which the same old repuG-
nance to the creation Of officials TO eX-
ercise power was exhibited by the
Congress.
All me archives ~ tue ullllnfl lhl
regime. except those Of the War and
Treasury branches, were now to he
turned over To the new Department of
state. They were in charge Of Charles
Thomson. Secretary of the cd Congress.
He addressed Washington regarding
them and was ordered to deliver them
20 Roger Alden, the old Under Secre-
tary of Foreign Affairs, who was en-
| 10, htIa Of N tho
pe-1ment under jefferson unit, he re-
, signed on July 25, 1870, being dissatts-
He'd with his pay OF $500 year. JEFF
ferson was only receiving $4,000. The
estimate for the whole office staff and
expenses that year was $3.50
! In the beginning there was much un-
certainty about powers duties and pro-
ccdure. The Constitution left much 10
be inferred. Often tho statutes were not
more precise. The new Congress began
by askmg jefferson for information on
| foreign affairs, as it's Continental prede-
| Ccssor would have done, whereas the
! President should have been addressed
as he was now fully responsible for the
foreign relations of the country. The
power of removal OF the Secretary was
extensively debated. as it has been al
|
pers TO the Department which 2houC
have been communicated to Congress
He generally male the Department tn,
custodian of all the letters he received
including some relative to other Depart,
mems, and ne sent to II all application
for office, "A practice observed to this
day. When he made hi. tour to tht
South the custom of the Secretary o.
STATE presiding N Cabinet meetings
was estahlishc" In he distribution o
the minor functions Of Government tn,
mint was originally placed by hin
under the Department, Of State Bu
the hrf- separate division of the De
partment ever erected was in 1902
when Or. William Thorn was appointed
Supcrinteuden Of Patents.
just as a SUMMARY view of condition
at the outset jcnerson's estimate, file,
) with the Treasury Department July II
1890, may be given here;
| The Secretary Of state, His salary So $50
\ FIRST, THE HOME OFFICE.
, ! One clerk at $500 and one at 500. ., 81, 80
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