If this bill is enacted into law we will send our foreign ministers abroad and they will have no money with which to rent an office. Grave complications may arise requiring our diplomatic agents to communicate With the President or Secretary of State. and there will not be one cent of money with which to pay official postage or the expense of a telegram or cablegram. The gentleman from Missouri spoke of the late troubles which some of our naturalized citizens in Great Britain have had in the last year or so. If the law had been as he claims it shall be by this bill. it would have been out of the power of our diplomatic representatives to have sent or received telegrams from the Department of State. Does my friend propose when rights of naturalized citizens of this country or of nativeborn citizens are in jeopardy in Europe or elsewhere throughout the world we shall have the representative of the Government present. but there shall be no sum of money given for the purpose of communicating rapidly by steam or on the wings of the lightning with the home government? Yet that is the effect of this bill. Instead of $85.000 being provided for the contingent expenses of the Department. as has been customary in preceding diplomatic appropriation bills. there is only provided in the pending measure an appropriation of $15.500.
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