Show It I TIlE UXSALVRIED CONSULS II I I How Uncle Sams Agents Abroad i Arc Compensated I There are four hundred and thirty i officers in the consular service They I are designated respectively as Consuls General Consuls iceConsuls Consular I Agents Consular Clerks and Commercial I Com-mercial Agents Of this number two hundred and three or less than onehalf I receive regular salaries The others are I paid by fees received at the different I agencies These fees are allowed at the I discretion of the Secretary of State I The Register of the Department of State gives a full list of all the persons I employed in this service but it specifies only the salaries appropriated by law I Returns from the offices which are supported sup-ported by fees are like the others made to the accounting bureaus of the Treasury I and the pay allowed to them can only be j I I ascertained by delving through their reports re-ports This information is valuable at a time I when consular appointments are in great f demand and when little is known of I their pay beyond the limited number reported in the Departmental Register In several cases the fees from the agencies are much larger than those at some of the most important consulates In such instances the Secretary of State allows I to the incum onlv a part of the money bent for the time being graduating the pay by the receipts The following list is compiled from the report of the Fifth Auditor of the Treasury for the fiscal year of 1884 It shows the value of various unsalaried consulates and agencies Fees Collected Pay Annaberg Germany7572 2500 Barranquilla Colombia 4153 2500 Belleville Ontario 1842 1842 Breslau Germany 1402 1402 Brunswick Germany 4349 2500 Carthasena Colombia 1236 1236 Catania Italy 1521 1521 Curacoa Dutch West Indies 1612 1612 Denia Spain 1423 1423 Elberfeld Germany 3495 2500 Ghent Belgium 1146 1146 Gottenberg Sweden 1829 1829 GuelphOntario 2793 2500 Horgon Switzerland 3360 2500 Kohl Germany 1922 1922 I Afnr r1 n MaTinn 1841 1841 1 llitJiiU < l iUWAAWV y Rheims Franco 2375 2375 Rouen France 1440 1440 Roubaix Franco 1015 1015 St Galle Switzerland 6185 2500 Port Limon Costa Rica 1120 1120 Santos Brazil 1718 1718 Sherbrooke Quebec 4329 2500 Stockholm Sweden 1407 1407 Three Rivera Quebec 2036 2036 Trinidad British West Indies 2483 2483 Baracoa Cuba 3543 2500 Cardenas Cuba 4076 2500 Chatham Ontario 2312 2312 Wallaceburp Ontario 2218 1000 Dunfermlino Great Britain 3217 2500 Dusseldorf Germany 1272 1272 Hull Great Britain 1390 1390 Mayaguez Porto Rico 1222 1222 Morrisburgh Ontario 1396 1396 Port Hope Ontario 1967 1907 Port Rowan Ontario 1276 1276 Port Stanley Ontario 3913 2500 Slgua La Grande Cuba 1729 1729 Sorel Quebec 1236 1236 St Etienne France 2400 2400 St Hyacinthe Quebec 2277 22Ti Owing to the depression of business the fees in several of the foregoing consulates con-sulates fell off consideraely as compared with previous years Many of the others with an income of less than a thousand a year are valuable to the incumbents on account of the commercial opportunities they afford There is no good reason why all these consulates should not be regularly provided pro-vided with annual salaries instead of receiving re-ceiving fees which often exceed the graded pay for higher service An absurd ab-surd regard for the old ruts of precedant without respect to changed conditions is answerable for this incongruous arrangement I arrange-ment |