Mr. CHANDLER. I think thatthis amendment is eminentlynecessary, and I hope it will prevail. It will be remembered by many of the older Senators that some years ago the consular system had become corru t; very great corruptions had crept into it. ior example, the consul at Liverpool received as much as 40 or 50 or 60,000 dollars perannum. Congress took up the entire consular system and reviewed it, and fixed the salaries, the intention bein to fix a salary at every important point. 1 en there were some unim portant points which were not deemed of sufficient consequence to justif the payment of a fixed salar, and those we eft open to be paid by fees.The intention was to fix a salary at every point where the business would reall warrant the payment of a salary to the consu. Upon that principle the whole consular system was reorganized. This was, perhaps, ten or 12 years ago. Since that time some of the oints that were not then deemed of sufficient importance to authorize a fixed salary have now become points of great business importance, and I am informed that now the some evils have crept into those places which existed prior to the reorganization of the system, that some of the consuls, as the Senfrom Iowa says, receive, perhaps, 8 or 10 or 15,000 dollars a year, when if the places had been of sufficient importance to warrant the payment of $1,000ayear the salary would have been fixed at $1, 600. As the Senator has suggested, I believe that these fat pickings are generally selected by those who are not particularly well known to Senators, and without any special reason being given for their obtaining such appointments. I hope that this amendment will revail, and thata imit of $2,000 will be fixe. If when the system was reorganized these places had been deemed of sufficient importance to justify the payment of a salary at all, $1, 600 would have been fixed as the limit they would have been placed in schedule C. If this amendment shall not prevail, I shall propose to put them in that lower schedule.