Salt Lake Herald | 1900-08-21 | Page 4 | Lucky Diplomats

LUCKY DIPLO DIPLOMATS fA TS Washington ton Correspondence New York Mall Mail and Express Among the many pleasant features of the life of an ambassador in Washing Washington ton is his immunity from all law and andall andall all taxation while residing at the cap capital capital ital in his official capacity The secre secretary secretary tary of the treasury in a decision just issued has further extended the privilege liege of these gentlemen by excusing them from paying the customary stamp on checks drawn by them This generosity on the part of the toward the re f foreign powerS in Washington was quite generallY abused s several veral years ago The representatives of some or of orthe the petty South American republics were particularly obnoxious of their vIolation of ordinary po police lice regulations It frequently hap happened that these young gentlemen af aft after t ter r big dinners came in violent dolent COn COntact n tact with the police who not knowing them treated them as plain drunks At the station houses they would pre present present sent their cards whereupon they were dismissed with apologies The next day they would complain to the secreta secretary of state of the gross discourtesy shown them and the secretary was also Corn om to on behalf gO gov government to th minister r of the legation to which the young joung roisterers were eat t This grew to b be such a nut nui nuisance sance that the police pollee determined o remedy the matter me measures One or two or the more notorious of offenders offenders fenders faIling into the hands of the police received a thorough and dressed clubbing before the obtuse e pe je could be made to understand upon whose sacred body his club was failing There the usual round of apologies from the policeman the chief of police and the secretary of state but the young attaches soon learned a lesson and b behaved haved them themselves themselves selves