Show UNIFORMS FOR DIPLOMATS Slow ciicral Comlcy Shone in Splendor at Honolulu Some of the State Department officials i think that it would bo a good idea for Congress j Con-gress to authorize the wearing of a uniform upon state occasions by all of our diplomatic people who are sent abroad They say that the representatives of all the civilized nations or at least the leading ones are provided with court uniforms The American Ameri-can representative baing compelled to appear ap-pear upon fulldress occasions in ordinary evening dress are in constant danger of being be-ing taken for waiters There is hardly a Minister who has represented this nation abroad who does not sympathize with this project to have a uniformfor Diplomatic Corps which shall bo as elaborate and showy as those provided for the army and navy There is not a single one of our representatives representa-tives abroad who has ever seen any kind of military service who does not wear a military I mili-tary uniform to avoid tho too striking contrast con-trast between plain evening dress and the I court costumes of the foreigners It is doubtful whether any Minister ever carried this idea so far as did Minister Comley I Rutherford Hayes representative in the I t Sandwich Islands Comley was a Brigadier I General in the Union army When he arrived ar-rived in Honolulu he wore a resplendent i uniform of a MajorGeneral in tho United i States service A gentleman who was a I resident in Honolulu during Gen Comleys I stay there says hat t Comley wore this uniform uni-form all the time and it was said by some of the American residents at Honolulu that he slept in it Comley must have been a great hero in the minds of tho simple Islanders i He told them that he had served in the United States Senate for two terms and that I he was much more instrumental in putting i down the rebellion than Gen Grant The i majority of the people in the Sandwich Islands today regard Comley as one of the j great military heroes of the age who j I temporarily gave up his high position in the army to gain health and rest in the Sandwich Ii Sand-wich Island Washington Letter in N Y World |