Seekers For Office

Washington, Maren 2.- PresidentElect McKinley vvill find seekers for office for every place at his disposal. The blue book has been studied carefully by hundreds of citizens anxious to serve their country, and though the civil service law has restricted to a great extent the number of places at his disposa!, there remaln many desirable billets, aside from the cabinet, whose comrosition has been practically complete Tor some time. Of all the branches of the exeeutive service none offers such attractions' as the department of state. The aegis of civil service reform protects very little of the foreign service, and from ita ïtately ambassadorships, the coveted resting places of the wealthy.and forcmost politicians, down through the long list of ministries and consulates general and consulates }o the smallest commercial agency in some remóte corner of the world, no place is without its attraction to some one. The department itself is well protected, for in its whole organization only three desirable places are open to appointment by selection, the attorney general having held that the chief clerk and chiefs of división are subject to appointment under civil service rules. These three places are those of the assistant secretarles, ' with salaries of R500 and $3,500 attached. but, by a cus: torn as fixed in its operation as law. one and perhaps two of these are filled by promotion from the best talent in the service and are rarely subject to change. The TUree Embassies. The spoils He outside, in the repreeentation abroad. First in importance are the three embassies - Great Britain, France and Germany - with their salaries of $17,500 per annum; the MexiCan mission, paying the same wage, and the Italian embassy. fixed at $12.000. Equal to the latter salary, though slightly Iess in diplomatic standing, are the missions to Austj'o-Hungary, Brazil, China, Japan and Spain. There are eight nice missions with salaries of $10,000 per annum, namely, Argentine, Belgium. Chile, Colombia, Guatemala and Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Salvador, Peru, and Turkey. At $7,500 per annum are rated the missions to Denmark. Hawaii, Corea, the Netherlands. Paraguay and TJraguay, Portugal, Sweden and Norivay, Switzerland and Venezuela, nine rn all. One salary is $6,500, that of the minister to Greece and Servia. Seven places pay $5,000 per annum, Bolivia. San Domingo. Ecuador, Hayti, Persia, Siam and Egypt, where we are represented by an agent or consul general in the same person. iMany of the embassies and ministers are supplied with secretaries. interpreters and attaches, with more or Iess attractive salaries. The best paid of these is the secretary of the Hawaiian mission. who receives $4,000 per annum. The others. thiry.--five in number. have salaries attached all the way from $3,000 down to $500. As to the consular service some doubt exists. By a rule made last September President Cleveland provided that all consulates with salaries and official fees running between $1.000 and $2,000 should be filled by only three methods- promotion or. transfer, appointment of persons previously serving the state department well in some capacity. and lastly. by appointment aftel' e.xamination. Are Tliey Subjeot to Evlctlon? That was as far as he went in the application of civil service principies, and it remains to be seen whether or not the numerous incumbents in this olas? are now to be rígarded as subject to eviction Within the limits are 196 places: the $2,500 olass are fiftythree places, and below the $1,000 clas3 are seventy-one places. There are thirty-seven consulates general, man.v being lucrative posts, such as London. Paris, and Berlin Owing to the fact that until recently the consular officers were not required to make any returns of their unofficial fees. in many cases the most substantial source of revenue to them. no one except the incumbents can teil just hov much an office of this kind pays. Hereafter the department, through the workings of a new regulation. raay secure such infprmation and proceed in its policy of resolutely reducin?: the fees and equalizing salaries. Meantime all Is conjecture as to the revenue of the latger consulates and Consulates general, but a departmental estímate place? the figure at Paris and London at about fC'5.000 a year ín each case. The fixed salaries of the more imtant consuls generally averages about ?5,000, with unofficial fees retained by the incumbent to an unknown amount. In the war and navy department there are just two places open to candidates, aside from a couple of private secrelaryships and a half dozen miserably paid laboréis' places. These places are the assistant secretaryships. one in each department, paying $4.500 each. The Trea8nry Department. The treasury department next offers the greatest inducemnts. salary and honor taken nto consideration. These include: Three assistant secretaries at Í4.500 each, six auditors at $4.000 each, six deputy auditors at $2.500 eaeh. one treasurer at $6.000, and also an assistant treasurer, controller of the trsasury, assissant controller of the treasury. register of the treasury. assisant register of the treasury. controller of the currency. commissioner of internal revenue, general superintendent of life-saving service, commissioner of navigation. director of the mint. supervising surgeon general of marine hospital, supervising inspector general of steam vessels. commissioner general of immigration, superintendent coast survey, private secrciary to the secretary of the traSUry, 250 laborars actually employed as such, from $240 to $600; 120 collectors of customs. at varying salarles' foi iy-three surveyors of customs, six naval oflicers, nine general appraisers of customs. five eornmiséioners of immigratti h, ilftsen appráisers of customs, eight en asslstant appraisers of customs, four examiners ol' drugs, sixty-three collectors of Interna) revenue, nine ássistant treasurers of the United States and ten supervlsing inspectors of stearn vessels. Conxiected with the United State; mints there are four superintendents. flve mèlters and reflners, three coinei-3. flve assayers, or.e engraver. In the Uniifced States assay office there are one Superintendent, two assayers in charge, tvi assayers, one melter and reftner. one melter and one assayer and melter. Department of .lust loe. Connected with the departmeni: of Justice there are one solicitor general, six assistant attorneys general, one solicitor of the treasury. one assistant solicitor of the treasury, one solicitor internal revenue. fourteen territorial .-udges, three judges in the Indian Territory. five Judges court of private land claims, seventy-flve United States attorneys. seventy-five United States marshals. There are also in the District of Columbia two judges of pólice court, lïfteen justiees of the peace, about 450 notarie? public and commissioners. of deeds. eigrht trustees of the reform school for loys and nine trustees of the girls' reform school. During nis administration President McKinley also will have a number of üfe appointments at his disposal, includlng places on the yjpreme court, the federal benen and in the army and liavy; df whlch class of officers are alhijwed to reiire on full pay. No field embraces more positions over v.hieh contests wil! be made by aspiring candidate? than the postal service. There are .iust 70.612 postoffices in the country, and most of these change hand? with every adm.lnistratjJon. Of. these over 66.500 are fourth-class postoffices. and. 20,000 of these 66.500 are money order offices, or ones that pay weï. The retiring administration is the first one to flx a four-year tenure of office, but this. of course. is not binding. These fourth-ciass appointments will be made through the four years of the incoming administration. Of the presidcntial postofBcea. about 250 will be at the disposal of Mr. McKinley during his HiFt month in office. There are forty cases of presidential postmasters' commissions already espirea, not acted on by the postoffice department, and thirty-eight more will expire during March.