15c. A Copy JULY-1920 $1.50 A Year CONSUL1 LLETIN PUBLISHED MONTHLY WITH THE COOPERATION OF THE AMERICAN CONSULAR ASSOCIATION TO FURTHER AMERICAN BUSINESS INTERESTS IN FOREIGN LANDS THROUGH THE CONSULAR SERVICE VOL. 2 JULY No. 5 A VIEW OF MONROVIA, CAPITAL OF LIBERIA, WEST AFRICA, EDITOR, AND PUBLISHER, J. W. YOUNG - 14M45 WEST 36th ST., NEW YORK, N. Y. \ Diplomatic and Consular Appropriations The question of securing adequate appropria¬ Some of the conspicuous items of decrease and tions for the Diplomatic and Consular Service for increase over the preceding year were as follows: the fiscal year 1920-1921 has been one of command¬ Conspicuous decreases: Decrease ing importance in the Department. Following the Salaries, Ambassadors and Ministers..$44,473.61 heavy national expenditures incident to war con¬ Salaries, Charges d’Affaires 8,000.00 ditions, Congress adopted a policy of retrenchment Clerks at Embassies and Legations....208,000.00 with a view to shifting the machinery of govern¬ Contingent Expenses, Foreign Mis¬ ment from a war to a peace basis. In many of the sions 410,000.00 departments, this transition could be effected with Transportation of Diplomatic and Consular Officers 125,000.00 comparative ease through the abrupt discontinu¬ Emergencies arising in the Diplomatic ance of certain activities directly or mainly relating and Consular Service 300,000.00 to the war. The Department of State, however, Transporting remains diplomatic and was in a distinctly different position from most of consular officers 1,344.65 the other departments, in that it inherited main' of Contingent Expenses, U. S. Consul¬ the post-war problems and a vast amount of new ates 168,000.00 and urgent work arising in the foreign field as an Expenses, Passport Control 50,000.00 aftermath of disturbed conditions. Curtailment Conspicuous increases: Increase under such circumstances became an exceedingly Salaries, Secretaries in Diplomatic delicate task, and the results obtained show the Service. $128,916.67 consequences of great diligence and foresight, as Purchase of Embassy, Santiago, it is believed that while extensive economies have Chile 130,000.00 been practiced, the vital machinery has been dis¬ Payment to Mrs. Magelssen 4,500.00 turbed as little as possible in the main. Boundary Line, Alaska, Canada and U. S 15,000.00 The total appropriations for the Diplomatic and Pan-Pacific Union 9,000.00 Consular Service, for the fiscal year 1921 are Third Pan-American Scientific Con¬ $9,383,537.91, as compared with $10,972,713.25 gress 25,000.00 for 1920, showing a general decrease in both Salaries and Expenses, Interpreters branches of the Service of $1,589,175.34. and Guards to Consulates 15,000.00 2 Need of Economy ble rise in rents which threatens to become almost While the general decrease in appropriations for universal, and it has been noted that in the case of 1921 appear to be comparatively small in the ag¬ many articles which formerly might have been pur¬ gregate, these reductions become far more import¬ chased in the field, there is a considerable advan¬ ant when it is realized that the estimates submitted tage to be gained by their purchase in the United by the Department for the Diplomatic and Con¬ States. The allotments for the current fiscal year sular Service totaled $11,913,102.91; thus in real¬ must be figured so closely that it will be difficult ity the decrease represents a general curtailment for the Department to approve any unauthorized of $2,529,025. In the original estimates, the De¬ expenditures, however inconsequential they may partment sought to secure an increase of $200,000 appear in themselves. Whereas the stress of war in the post allowance fund, but this amount was conditions required the constant use of telegrams for expediting the transaction of Service affairs, not allowed and the fund, therefore, remains at $000,000, the same as for the fiscal year 1919-1920. this heavy item of expenditure may now be greatly The increases in the Departmental estimates were reduced both because of the re-establishment of based upon the ever-growing duties devolving upon postal communications and of the less urgent char¬ the Service in the field and the general increase in acter of the information to be communicated. It the cost of administration throughout the world, is in the interest of the Service as a whole that due to the universal rise in the cost of living. To officers in the field should lend the Department meet these exigencies a certain extension of the their heartiest co-operation in utilizing judiciously Service was foreseen and more liberal allotments the comparatively limited resources now at its dis- posal. at many posts were deemed necessary. The fact that the volume and pressure of work is greater Brighter Prospects now than a year ago, whereas the appropriations are substantially less, indicates the urgent need of I he last session of Congress was not an appro¬ priate one for the realization of constructive pro¬ rigid economy in every phase of consular work in order that the present moment of retrenchment and jects, but the general atmosphere for the immediate financial conservatism may be abridged with as future is favorable as the interest of Congress and of the country is fixed on the Consular Service, and small a degree of derangement to the Service as possible. great hopes are entertained for its material better¬ ment. It may be said that although there is a The contingent expense allowance for the Con¬ moment of temporary strain, the prospects for pro¬ sular Service is diminished by $168,000, while moting the general interests of the Service appear most of the items represented in such expenditures sufficiently bright to inspire a higher degree of have vastly increased in cost. There is a percepti¬ optimism for the near future. New Consular Class Richard F. Boyce, of Michigan. The following newly appointed Consuls and John R. Minter, of South Carolina. Vice Consuls are at present undergoing instruction M illiam \V. Corcoran, of Massachusetts. at the Department, Consul General Nathaniel B. Raleigh A. Gibson, of Illinois. Stewart being the instructor: Theodore D. Palmer, Jr., of New Jersey. Consuls Edmund B. Montgomery, of Illinois. Winthrop R. Scott, of Ohio. Avra M. Warren, of Maryland. The following student interpreters recently re¬ Chester W. Davis, of New' York. ceived instructions and have departed for their Renwick S. McNiece, of Utah. posts: F.dgar C. Soule, of Texas. George Orr. of New' Jersey. David C. Berger, of Virginia, to China. George J. Crosby, of New Jersey. Maxwell M. Hamilton, of Iowa, to China. Vice Consuls de carriere Flavius J. Chapman, of Virginia, to China. Henry Averill, of Virginia. Lawrence E. Salisbury, of Illinois, to Japan. 3 ^ AMERICAN ONSULAR, J^UJLI.BXlTsT Appointments, Transfers, and Resignations C. Ludlow' Livingston, now Consul at Barbados, assigned Consul at Charlottetow'n, Prince Ed¬ In the Consular Service from ward Island. June 12 to July 20, 1920. Will L. Lowrie, now Consul General at Lisbon, assigned Consul General at Athens. PRINCIPAL OFFICERS. John N. McCunn, now Consul at Georgetown, as¬ Charles H. Albrecht, now detailed to the Depart¬ signed Consul at Barbados. ment, detailed as Consul in charge at Reval. David B. MacGowan, now detailed Vladivostok, Norwood F. Allman, now Vice Consul and Inter¬ assigned Consul there. preter at Tsina, detailed to Tsingtau temporarily. Karl deG. MacVitty, now detailed Nassau, as¬ Homer Brett, now detailed to the Department, as¬ signed Consul at Saigon. signed Consul at Tacna, Chile. I.eland B. Morris, now detailed to Saloniki, as¬ John K. Caldwell, now assigned Vladivostok, as¬ signed as Consul there. signed Consul at Kobe. John B. Osborne, now detailed Havre, assigned Charles R. Cameron, now Consid at Tacna, Chile, Consul General at Christiania. assigned Consul at Pernambuco, Brazil. Horace Remillard, now assigned Saigon, assigned Carl F. Deichman, now detailed Valparaiso, as¬ Consul at Huelva, Spain. signed Consul General there. Frederick Simpich, now on detail, assigned Consul Charles W. Drew, now' Vice Consul at Brussels, at Guatemala. assigned Vice Consul at Amsterdam temporarily. James A. Smith, now Consul General at Calcutta, Robert Frazer, now assigned Kobe, ordered to pro¬ assigned Consul General at Hongkong. ceed to the Department upon arrival of successor Alban G. Snyder, now Consul General Panama, to assume his duties as Consul General at Large. assigned Consul General at Singapore. Elliot B. Coulter, now Vice Consul at Helsingfors, Hugh C. Stanard, now a Consular Assistant un- assigned Vice Consul at London. assigned, Resigned. Edward M. Groth, assigned Vice Consul at Rotter¬ Alfred R. Thomson, now detailed Charlottetown, dam. First appointment. assigned Consul at Zagreb. Edwin N. Gunsaulus, now Consul General at Sing¬ Alexander W. Weddell, now Consul General at apore, assigned Consul General at Halifax. Athens/assigned Consul General at Calcutta. Thornwell Haynes, now unassigned, assigned Con¬ Charles S. Winans, now detailed London, detailed sul at Berne. as Consul in Charge at Prague. W. Stanley Hollis, now detailed London, assigned John D. Wise, now unassigned, detailed to War¬ Consul General at Lisbon. saw. George D. Hopper, now' detailed to the Depart¬ V\ allace J. ^ oung, now Consul at Prague, assigned ment, detailed to Rotterdam. Consul at Bradford. James P. Hurley, now detailed to Riga, assigned Consul there. SUBORDINATE OFFICERS. Augustus E. Ingram, now Consul at Bradford, as¬ Richard C. Beer, now \ ice Consul and clerk, Brad¬ signed Consul at Havre. ford, appointed Vice Consul and clerk at Liver¬ Ezra M. Lawton, now' Consul at Guatemala, as- pool. assigned Consul at Sao Paulo, Brazil. Franklin Clarkin, special work as Vice Consul at Walter A. Leonard, formerly assigned, detailed to ; Harbin terminated and services accordingly the Department for duty.