Ministers, resident, appointment of foreign service officers as.. Ministers, retirement of.. Military attachés___ Page. 3 3, 113-118, 181, 182 111 186 108, 192 0. Office hours____ Officers, foreign service, per cent of contribution to retirement fund.. 48, 70 113-118, 120-128, 161, 162, 165 1 3 1 1, 15, 25, 51 3, 113-118 197, 198 155, 185 P. 137 23 23 204 180 4, 107, 124, 162, 165 Per cent of contribution to fund by officers and by Government Per diem subsistence expense.... 3, 189 Perquisites: Commercial attachés_ 67 Personnel, British and United States Consular and Diplomatic Service__ 154 Polk, Mr. Frank L., statement of 211-214 Porter, Mr. Stephen G., letter from President Coolidge_ R. Retirement.. Reclassification, proposed. Page. 138 10, 12, 22, 39, 52, 66, 73, 158 Recommission of consular officers and diplomatic secretaries. Reimbursement of contributions_ Removal from service__ Administration of fund 9, 21, 22, 159-161 13, 19, 51, 54, 91-94, 152-156, 206, 210, 213 i 1, 151, 176, 177 126, 196 40, 178, 179 90, 94, 152, 154 65, 69 155 80, 154, 157 On account of inefficiency_ 81, 82 Age of Eligibility of ambassadors and ministers. 75, 79, 104, 105, 108, 109, 129, 133 4, 15, 106, 119 Of ambassadors and ministers_ Annuities___ Of Army officers_ On account of disability. Before age of 65. Employment after retirement_ Precedent for.. Cost of, to Government.. 4, 192 106, 108 Fund, appropriations for Great Britain, system of 107, 113-117, 120-128, 162 3, 107, 161, 162 124, 132 Judicial officers. Per cent of contribution by officers and Government.. Of ministers and ambassadors Of Navy officers.... Rogers, Mr. John Jacob: Letter from President._. 165 107 25, 35 26 140 141 181, 185 162, 163, 183 192 94, 132, 152, 153, 211 140 Naval attachés.. 3, 15, 51, 128, 135, 136, 158, 161, 204, 205 Present, Diplomatic and Consular Services. Size of___ Uniform scale.. Seamen Secretary of State: 139 140 24 1, 25 2 132, 164 Retired officers in British service.. 9, 58, 66, 76–78, 81, 151, 155, 157, 195, 204, 205, 212 151, 160, 161, 179 199 23 26 28 8-16, 217 5, 40, 100, 134, 158, 163, 178, 179, 203 In Department of State__. In United States outside of Washington, D. C. Length of... Period of.. 3, 113–118, 188 47, 188, 189 3, 163, 166, 195 3 160 Naval attachés, salaries. iiiiiiii 160 172 162 139 140 Consular service____ Consular Service, United States, proposed reclassification.. Diplomatic Service, United States, proposed reclassification. Entrance-examination statistics_ Foreign-service retirement. Military attachés, salaries. 47, 151, 197-200 21, 151, 167, 176-180 173, 174 47, 181-183 3, 57, 189 198 U. FOREIGN SERVICE OF THE UNITED STATES. COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Washington, Monday, January 14, 1924. The committee this day met, Hon. Stephen G. Porter (chairman) presiding. The committee had before it for consideration H. R. 17 (and at a subsequent meeting, a reprint containing minor amendments, H. R. 6357, which was favorably reported). A BILL For the reorganization and improvement of the foreign service of the United States, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That hereafter the Diplomatic and Consular Service of the United States shall be known as the foreign service of the United States. SEC. 2. That the official designation "foreign service officer" as employed throughout this act shall be deemed to denote permanent officers in the foreign service below the grade of minister, all of whom are subject to promotion on merit, and who may be assigned to duty in either the diplomatic or the consular branch of the foreign service at the discretion of the President. SEC. 3. That the officers in the foreign service shall hereafter be graded and classified as follows, with the salaries of each class herein affixed thereto, but not exceeding in number for each class a proportion to the total number of officers in the service represented in the following percentage limitations: Ambassadors and ministers as now or hereafter provided; foreign service officers as follows: Class 1, 6 per centum, $9,000; class 2, 7 per centum, $8,000; class 3, 8 per centum, $7,000; class 4, 9 per centum, $6,000; class 5, 10 per centum, $5,000; class 6, 14 per centum, $4,500; class 7, $4,000; class 8, $3,500; class 9, $3,000; unclassified, $3,000 to $1,500. SEC. 4. That foreign service officers may be appointed as secretaries in the Diplomatic Service or as consular officers or both: Provided, That all such appointments shall be made by and with the advice and consent of the Senate: Provided further, That all official acts of such officers while on duty in either the diplomatic or the consular branch of the foreign service shall be performed under their respective commissions as secretaries or as consular officers. SEC. 5. That hereafter appointments to the position of foreign service officer shall be made after examination and a suitable period of probation in an unclassified grade or, after five years of continuous service in the Department of State, by transfer therefrom under such rules and regulations as the President may prescribe: Provided, That no candidate shall be eligible for examination for foreign service officer who is not an American citizen: Provided further, That reinstatement of foreign service officers separated from the classified service by reason of appointment as ambassador or minister may be made by Executive order of the President under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe. All appointments of foreign service officers shall be by commission to a class and not by commission to any particular post, and such officers shall be assigned to posts and may be transferred from one post to another by order of the President as the interests of the service may require: Provided, That the classification of secretaries in the Diplomatic Service and of consular officers is hereby abolished, without, however, in any wise impairing the validity of the present commissions of secretaries and consular officers. 1 |