Arizona republican., 1916-06-25
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portant sources of information.
 "The pending bill provides for an increase of S1,421 ,966, but this will be more than offset by revenue from fees collected by the consular service abroad This service is practically self sustaining. record seldom met in government and the envy of other nations. It is not unusual to find British and German economic reviews and newspapers exhorting their governments to adopt some of the successful features of the Amer ican system"
 The cost of living at diplomatic and consular posts throughout the world. | according to the report, has increased from E to 12S per cent, and since the majority of consular and secre- tarial diplocatic salaries are below $3,000, the Council says: The situ- ation is so serious that valuable dip 1 lomatic and consular officers may be obliged to resign if relief is not ex- | tended
 | Post allowances are recommended as a permanent method of equaliZing abnormal increase of living costs at ' low paid posts, but a general revision upward of American consular salaries after the European war is recom- mended with the declaration that the character of American consular duties ranks with far better paid work at i home. The government is urged to pay the cost of the transportation of consular and diplomatic officers their families and household effects, and enable those who have no private means to avoid harrassing personal indebtedness The report adds:
 The average American at home does not realize that in many parts of the world the American consul Is sometimes the only and most import ant native born resident. Where his salary is less than $3,000 or $4,000 aRd he has no private means, and does possess a family, his lot is difficult. Surrounded by consular colleagues who are better paid, or are drawn from a money class, and who are frequently well-housed by their governments the American con sul is hard put creditably to uphold the dignity of his government and maintain his personal pride That both are sometimes done is a tribute to the personality, frugality and in- genuity of these officials, but oftef the task is impossible and American prestige suffers
 Without taking up the entire ques- tion of government owned embassies legations and consuates, the repor 7 declares that for many years the only outward and visible sign O. American authority at Shanghai, the greatest port of China, was a flal over the shabby buildings occupied by the consulate general, postoffice jail public health hospital and fed eral court, where the United State! exercises extra territorial jurisdic tion over it's nationals. The stat department has recommended tho , purchase and improvement, for $355
 G00 of the dignified buildings nov rented for United States authorities but the house of representatives ap proved the appropriation of onl. $150,000, which invaldates the prop osition since the buildings can b | puItlidSeu Dllly as Il SIOhp anu LII
 lease expires on July 13 this yeal and cannot be renewed, ''in whicl event." declares the committee of tn
 National Foreign Trade Council, "th 1 consular and other officers will b
 forced again to move to quarters S
 inferior to those of similar repre-
 sentatives of other great powers a
 to menace American prestige in tn
 Far East. At a time when monu
 mental public buildings are bein
 erected throughout the United State
 and a s20,000,000 public building bi
 is contemplated by congress, the i'm
 portance of providing a dignifie
 habitation for the government whic
 enunciated the principal of the "ope
 door" and stood for the integrity (
 the Chinese empire, should requir
 no further argument