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Show THEY MUST DRESS CONSPICUOUSLY, Austrian (lovernmeut Officials to ho Kniwn Br Their Dress. Vienna, Jan. 2. Special to Tub Times, Tho imperial decree compelling compell-ing government officials to wear showy uniforms on all occasions, went into effect ef-fect today. The decree divides the civil service into four categories and eleven ranks, after the manner of tho Russian. Ju the first rank of the tirst category stands the prime minister. In the second rank come ministers, judges of the supreme court, and so on down to tho eleventh rank, which includes petty clerks. In future all these gentlemen are to wear as ordinary half-dress, green coats with gray pantaloons, swotds. military caps, and mulberry overcoats with white doeskin gloves. They are to salute in military fashion, and the official of tho lower rank is to be careful that he salutes first. Tho different government officers are distinguished distin-guished by the colors of tho coat facings, fac-ings, and these colors are scarlet, dark green, pompadour, violet, blue, light graen. cornflower, blue, orange, dark brown and canary yellow. For gala occasions the wearers of these uniforms are to provide themselves with green pantaloons and cocked hats. Tho decree is very obnoxious to the civil service servants and it is fiercely as-Bailed as-Bailed by the newspapers, which claim that tho'mililiaryiug of the civil service must have a great number of unpleasant unpleas-ant consequences, and cannot but effect a vast change in social manners and customs. Tho decree is approved of only by tho miuislry. It was promulgated promul-gated with the object of diminishing nationalistic difficulties between members mem-bers of the civil service, but it must fail to accomplish this purpose as Hungary declines to adopt the new rulo. The moral scperation, therefore, between tho two halves of the monarchy will become moro and morn apparent. Tho Ill-paid officials would not object so streniously to tho aecre, perhaps, if their pay was increased to meet the expense which tho new rule will refine them to incur. |