Show DIPLOMATS DONT GET WAGES ENOUGH NOUGH Sp Washington tun D U cO t J Jill i aI IS l 1 Il Once mote male an nn effort IH Is to be bt made mack to Induce Congress s to provide more mOl suitable quarters for tor tho the American diplomatic consular con mcl s than this 1 1 they th Ih rv Y ure 1110 able to obtain under existing o circumstances No Nn man lies Hus nil not a II private fortune cnn can afford to accept a Q t post n st t a as os ambas ambassador m or of tho the United States Stale for Cor the tho ran rea reason son that l uk hll combined 1 salary 1 and al nl allowances Is not to In pay the ox of or n a It proper reel resi residence dence dene This Is particularly true In such 1 Tendon London Paris Pirl Vienna lenna tad and St SL Petersburg J cl r hurn fp Cp t to Iho tho present time dine nil all attempts to lo provide lo suitable buildings for or Ameri American can cau nn representatives es In those cities have Marro proved futile And yet tl nearly nil all the great gnat t powers of or lore have lut C secured quarters for rOl their ambassadors In Washington lolI which were purchased or built es especially for tor tho the purposes for tor which they t they 10 are ato used Great Greut wall teas the Iho first lint government nt to recognize the Iho wisdom of ot such a n I courso Coarse and more moru than 23 25 2 years ago II o u II building WM erect erected erected ed Upon land purchased In the name of at Victoria for tor tho rho English minister Since that time limo Germany Franco Ilu nUl sla Mexico nod oven China Chinn have hlo followed fol tol followed lowed suit cult Tho The social as well on an Ute the political ad nd advantages vantages which such residential ac Ito accommodations give gho to diplomatic rep rop representatives lel have hae been pointed out again by lor b secretaries t slurs of ot state from Mr Air Ir to Mr Hont end lind the tho members of or tho the senate tumid and house committees on un foreign affairs have not been bean slow to appreciate those thole advantages hut but up uIt to u tE t his present arnt time It has hM apparently tl 1 been Un impossible Pis elbi e to t n get g t Con Congress C n gress to endorse tho recommendation of ot thOM best qualified to know kno what such Huch n course means 1 Now however Congressman Perkins of Now York U IL member of oe the tho committee on In foreign affairs line has taken Iho tho matter up liP In earnest and It Il Is II un understood that lint ho he has the promise of or the tho support of tho time speaker spanker mid thin tho com committee on nu rules so Co that t It Is lit probable that thul Letts heror the expiration of ot mother another year the United States will have to acquire property In foreign lands for thin tho Ih use IIse of our oils diplomatic matic corps As showing the difference In III the thu t hu com compensation I paid laid to 10 foreign representatives i tives Ies In the United Malted Stoles States and Ameri I Abroad iMs It Is his only can c representatives and salary llO the to compare necessary the ot of with that of ot the tho Anted to 10 Wn Washington to London can I receives rt a salary ot of O former Tho Cho with for Mr ear per pcr annum wants eta or of SOO J Inure mure In addition fund ot of about hl he hilts an total 1011 ot of The n a tl a year also hM has rent free freen The Tho embassy 0 splendid n palmy of ot ruid to London tor n 10 Cs ot of less more III nt her word titor ds tt g of at tho a i or the position corresponds with his hlA own I r |