Q. Name the present Cabinet officers.
AMBASSADORS, MINISTERS AND CONSULS.
Q. What is an Ambassador?
A. An Ambassador is a minister of the highest rank, appointed to
represent the interests of a country at the court, or seat of
government of some other country.
Q. What is a Minister Plenipotentiary?
A. A Minister Plenipotentiary is an Ambassador or Envoy, invested
with full powers to negotiate a treaty, or do some other special
business, without being a permanent resident of such country.
Under such circumstances, he is called Ambassador extraordinary.
Q. What is a Consul?
A. A person commissioned to reside in a foreign country as an
agent or representative of a government, to protect the rights,
commerce, merchants and seamen of the country, and to aid in
commercial, and sometimes in diplomatic transactions, with such
foreign country; he is sometimes called Ambassador or Minister
ORDINARY.
SALARIES.
Q. What are the salaries of the Cabinet officers?
A. Each member receives eight thousand dollars a year.
Q. What are the salaries of Senators, and Representatives in
Congress?
A. Each receives an annual salary of five thousand dollars a year,
and an allowance of twenty cents per mile for travel in going to
and returning from Washington.
Q. Name a few of the highest salaries paid Ambassadors, Ministers
and Consuls.
To London,
To Paris,
To Berlin,
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