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His Position as to Secret Ser vice irregularities GIVES ilS ANSWER TO CONGRESS He is Misunderstood and Misquoted Has Great Respect for Congress Good Work of Secret Service-It is a Necessity-Urges Present Re strictiona Removed. Washington, Special.-Unusual at tention was paid in the House of Representatives Monday to the read ing of a message from the President replying to a resolution of that body calling upon him for an explanation of the intimation in his annual mes sage that members of Congress were afraid to be investigated by the sec ret service. The galleries were pack ed to the doors. The President's specific references to certain speeches by Messrs. Taw ney ,of Minnesota; Smith, of Iowa; Sherley, of Kentucky, and Fitzgerald, of New York, when the provision for the restriction of the operations of the secret service was up for discus sion, and also to Mr. Busby, the Speaker's private secretary, created a storm of laughter. The Speaker rap ped several times vigorously for or der. The President says: "I am wholly at a loss to under stand the concluding portion of the resolution. I have made no charges of corruption against Congress nor against any' member of the present House. If I had proof of such cor ruption affecting any member of the House in any matter.as to which the Federal government has jurisdiction, action would at once be brought, as was done in the cases of Senators Mitchell and Burton, and Represen tatives Willi inson, Hermann, and Driggs, at diff'erent times since I have beon President. This would simply be doing my duty in the exe cution and enforcement of the laws without respect to persons. But I do not regard it as within the province or the duties of the President to report to the House "alleged delin quencies" of members, or the sup posed "corrupt action" of a mem ber "in his official capacity." The memhership of the House is by t)e cnstitution pl,ced within the pow er of the House alone. In the pKbse cutiorn of crity.in.als and the enforce ment ofthid'laws the Preqident must resorV to the courts of the United States.'' -T-he President quotes from his mes 'e: "Last year an amendment was incorporated in the measure provid ing for the secret service, which pro vided that there should be no detail from the secret service and no trans fer therefrom." That act he claims crippled the eliciency of the service and therefore was of interest chiefly to wrong doers. He says it forbade the practices that had been followed to a greater or less entent by the executive heads of various departments for twenity years. To these practices we owe the securing of the evidence which en ebled us to drive great lotteries out of busine.ss and secure a quarter of a million dollars ini fines from their promoters. These practices have en abled us to discover some of the most outrageous frauds in connec tion wvithi the theft of government land and government timber by great corporations and b)y individuals. These practices have enabled us to get some of the evidence inidispens able in order to secure the conviction oef the wealthiest and most formidable cirminals w~it h whom the government has to deal, both those operating in y'WU1" on of the anti-trust law and btLhc x. Hie refers to the fact that through the secret service both a senator and a congressman were convicted of iand frauds in Oregon. He believes that the government should be al )lowed to investigate all branches, but pleads that Congressmen might he0 made an exception if so desired, with out cutting off so much of the power of the secret service as to cripple its usefulness in other spheres. He denies vigorously that he said that a majority of congress did not want to be investigated and says on the contrary I have always not only depreciated but vigorously resented the practice of indiscriminate attack upon Congress, and indiscriminate condemnation of all Congressmen. -Wise and unwise, fit and unfit, good and bad alike. No one realizes more than I the importance of op-operation .between the Executive and\Con gress and no one holds the authiotjity and dignity of the Congress of the United States in higher respect than I (10. I have not the slightest sympathy with the practice of judging men, for good or for ill, not on their several merits, but in a mass, as members of one par-\ ticular body or one caste. In defense of his terms in the mesa sage that arnunent in favor of the prvision w4s tat the Congressmen did not themselves wish to be in vestigated by secret service men, he calls attenti6n to the fact that when the measure was being discussed the chief argument was this, as can be seen, by reference to the Congress ionar Record. He says he would not name authors of these artic. les, but for the fact that it is de manded. The President quotes the following from the Cicago Inter-Ocean, written from Washington by L. W. Busby, private secretary to the Speaker of tho House: "He (the chief of the divisionn and his men are desirous of doing the secret detective work for the whole government, and are not par. ticular about drawing the line be. tween the lawmakers and the law. breakers. They are ready to shad ow-tho former as well as the latter." Then, after saying that Congress will insist that the men shall only be used to stop counterfeiting, the ar ticle goes on: "Congress does not intend to have a Fouche or any other kind of min ister of police to be used by the ex ecutive departments against the legis lative branch of the government. It has been so used, and it is suspected that it has been so rsed recently. The legislative branch of the governmtnt will not tolerate the med dling of detectives, whether they represent the President, Cabinet of ficers, or only themselves * * * Congressmen resented the secret in terference of the secret srvice men, who for weeks shadowed some of the most respected members of the House and Senate. * * * When it was discovered that secret service men mere shadowing Congressmen there was a storm of indignation at the capitol and the bureau came near being abolished and the appropriation cut off. * * * At another time the chief of the secret service had his inen shadow Congressmen with a view to involving them in scandals that would enable the bureau to dictate to them as to the nriee of ailenan * * * The secret service men have shown an inclination again to shad ow members of Congress, knowing them to be law-makers, and this is no joke. Several of the departments have asked Congress for secret funds for investigation, and the Treasury Department wants the limitation re moved from the appropriation for sup pre_i,ii,g counterfeitina. This shows a ten:lency toward Foucheism and a secret watch on other officials than therselves.'' This the President considers an index to what seems an enimus of Congress to the secret service. He then says: "In connection with the Nebraska prosecution the gov ernment has by decree secured the return to the zovernment of over a million acres of grazing land; in Col orado of more than 2,000 acres of mineral land, and suits are now pen ding involving 150,000 acres more." The President follows with a )ong list of crimes against the government brought out in his administration through the secret service detectives in which even 'wealthy men have been punished1 with fine and imprisonment. He then specifies a number of con victions by the secret service such as the selling of fraudulent naturaliza tion papers, (which congress has since remidied except that the appro priations arc still too law for full effectiveness. GIreen and Gaynor have been brought to justice and are in prison. In the State of Nebraska alone sixty defendants were indicted; and of the thirty-two cases thus for brought to trial twecnty-eight have resulted in conviction. The secret service was used to as sist in the investigation of crimes under the peonage laws, and owing partly thereto numerous convictions were secured and the objetionable practice was practically stamped out, at least in many' districts. The most extensive smuggling of silk and opium in tihe history of the Treasury Department was investigated by agents of the secret service in Newv York and Seattle and a successful prosecution of the offenders uinder taken. Assistance of the utmost val nie was rendered to the Department of Justice in the b)eef trust investiga tioni at Chicago, prosecutions were followed up and fines inflicted. The cotton-leak scandal in the Agricul tural Department was inv'estigated and the responsible parties located. The destruction of the H-onduras Lottery Company, the successor to tho Louisiana Lottery was affected and $300,000 fines collected. The ink fraud contract in the Bureau of Print ing w'as discovered and $100,000 a year was saved, while the total ex penses for. the official and field force of the secret service last year was $135,000. The President says: ''Such a body as the secret service, such a b)ody of trained investigating agents, occupy hka permanent position in the gov enmtent service, and separate. from local investigating forces in different Department, is an absolute necessity if the best work is to be done against criminals. It is by far the most effi cient instrument possible to use against crime." le avers that Con gress should hold itself in readiness to investigate the ezecutive department at any time, and adds that any abuse of the service employes themselves should be vigorously prosecuted. Ie says: "To use the secret service in the investigation of purely private or political matters would be a gross abuse. But there has been no single instance of such abuse during my term as President. In conclusion, he says, "I most ear nestly ask, in the name of good gov ernment and decent administration, in the name of honesty and for the pur pose of bringing to justice violators of the Federal laws wherever they may be found, whether in public or private life, that the action taken by the House last year be reversed. When this action was taken, the Senate com mittee. under the lead of the late Sen ator Allister, having before it a strong ly worded protest (Appendix D) from Secretary Cortelyou like that he had s(nt to Mr. Tawnev. accepted the See retary's views; and the Senate passed the hill in the shape presented by Sen ator Allison. In the conference, how ever, the House conferees insisted on the retention of the provision they bad inserted, and the Senate yielded. The chief of the secret service is paid a salary utterly inadequate to the importance of his finetions and to thIe admirable way in which he has perforied them. I earnestly urge that it be increased to $6,000 per an num. I also urge that the secret ser vice be placed where it properly be longs, and made a bureau in the De partment of Justice, as the chief of. the secret service has repeatedly re quested; but whether this is done or not, it should be explicitly provided that, the secret service can be used to detect and punish crime wherever it is .found. THEODORE ROOSEVELT, The White House, January 4th, 1909. PROMINENT PEOPLE. Governor Warner is filling his third term as executive of Michigan. William H. Taft, at Augusta, Ga., has accepted several invitations to speak in the South. New York's celebration on New Year's Eve was severely criticised by Rabbi Silverman in a sermon in Tem ple Emanu-El. Governor Hughes in his inaugural address at Albany, N. Y.. urged no division of responsibility in the ap pointment of public oflicials. Champ Clark, who succeeds .Tohn Sharp Williams as leader of the Dem crats in the Hcuse of Represeatatives, is fifty-eight years old and wLs born in Kentucky. Yuan-Shi-Ka!, Grrnd Councillor and commander-in-chief of th- Chi nose army, was deposed by an eaict issued at Pekin, Na-tung being ap pointed .to succeed him. Senator Raines announced in Al bany, N. Y., that he would intr'oduce at the coming session o& the ,egsa ture his State Police till, which was defeated eight years ago. Count de Ruio, who in 1838 was one of the men who threw bombhs at t.he carriage of En)peror Napoleon III., in Paris, was .tenderedt a dlinner by 100 prominent Italians at Los An geles, Ca!. The Rev. Dr'. Charles A. Eaton, whose Cleveland congregation in cluded John-D. Rockefeller. prbaached his first sermon as pastor of tyMd ison Avenue Baptist Churck, New York City.. Sir H. IH. Cozens-H-ardy, master of the rolls in England, recently said that in his belief classical teaching did more to cultivate true gentleman ly manners and to improve s.ne wnota condition of the man than any other branch of study. President Eliot, for the second time in forty years, delivered~ a regut lar lecture in a classroom at IIa.val 4. Schooner Oapsizes; Four Drowned. Mystic, Conn., Special.-The Gil bert Transportation Company's schooner Myra W. Speers capsizedl 35 miles off Cape C"od on the night of December 30Lh and four men of the crew wvere drowned. Captain Elisha F. Rogers, and one man were taken off by a fishing schooner. The Spe'ers. loaded with railroad ties from New London to Boston, st<ruck a submerg ed wreck nnd w'as nyerturned. Father Viger, Sul.piclan, hias com plet'ed a services of forty years in the chair of poetry at St. Charles' College, IIartford, anud the Catholic Transcript says of h!m: "Lzong con munion with the nmuses had keyed the old professor up to concert pitch and it was stimulating to fol!>w him as he madeo the ascent to Parnansus. As the editor of Jenkins's 'llistory of English LIterature,' lhe adhered struictly to the .purpose of the author, and under Fat'her Vigor's direction the work remain-ed the standard text book on American and English Catho lie literature. lBesides dioing editorial work Father Viger tra,nslated inte of0 unnaLgf Trf, 'JAN. ceedings the Senate Gumnary. "ng beThe postal savings bank 1 pro b 'ore the senate and many '. da theats were proposed to it, was vot aavu requiring the deposit o i ngs funds in State ag well amend onbank ~. ome of coi bank a rpostal ce 3ag Sena e also received t - l om .. e President, one as nat- an ir ad itional interstate in ing t legislation and the other o mes State? 'the absorption by the ecom- g sesse &teel Corporation of the s passe a and Iron Company, nited P At i bills on the calen Senate ad.jo and The ary. and in the dent worthy of ar. Represe edings of the Hous .ned ,_ood delitatives and which Cause iscusi<" of amuseiient was a ote hunting " of the fort comi Afri -.of Incidenti t rip of Pres4den oose d a the fai illy there was\ a eference 'ief The ni%s so-called nias Clu can newspape ole debate iinged on -it. Edgar o. stoiy stating that Ma to accompan fearns, of the army, was g order to & the President and that .he retired list> so he had been put on I or matter was with increased rank. TI to of Illinois. ibrought up by Mr. Man in consideratioim connection with tl c issuance of 1 of a bill authorizing t) who retire , commissions to office The remai ith increased rank. voted to th ie' of the day was de ber of mise consideration of a num tions. VIllneous bills and resolu At 5:18 p.1 m. the House adjourned. THU Se .SDAY, JAN. 7. Characteri ate Summary. President in iw the action of the Oeneral not t irecting the Attorney States Steel prosecute the 1Iited, sorption of t rporation for its ab Iron Compan Tennessee Coal and ard lawless ad ther arbitrary trate,'' Senator .'if Magis introduced a res lbe n, of Texas, instructing the c tion i the Senate ciary to report a iittC on the judi. practicable wheth as e. ly da as that committee t r in e opinio of d authorized to perli . resident 1 -is Mr. Culberson, t such absorptio . length, criticised at considerab ' insisted that Congthe President and a to give directionsrpss had the right er executive departm to a head of an to conditions. t under certain Ta Senator Hopkins Texas Senator was declared that the \ resenting the Presid'no )roperly rep Mr. Roosevelt, had 1ent and said that action of the steel lot approved the .n that lie had merelv 'corporation, but nt duty to oppose sucI ''not felt it his Sta Senator Foraker getion.''. an he would speak on th ve notice that fair next Monday whiBrown ville af would ask to make his e id lhe lief of the soldiers o re fifth Regiment the un ness of the Senate. An amendment was r Senate from the commit. providing for an inicrea. ary of the President to, of tihe salaries of the and1 the Speaker of thie Representatives to .$20,0 Tile Senate adjourned House Sum Although technically u oration in the House of tives tihe District of Colu priation bill was side tra the members indulged in bate. This took a wide x proceedings opencinig withI of the rules of the House b* sted, of Pennsylvania. His stirred up the subj.st in alli and gave the so-called insl decr the leadership of Mr. On Massachlusetts, an opportunit their grievances. Mr. Coe New York, occupied middle on the proposition. Mr. Taft's reported inte, break the solid South was inci brought into discussioni in th~ of a speech on the tariff by M pard, of Texas, who remarked connection that the Preside had made himself ridiculous. FRIDAY. JAN. S. House Summary~ After having made him tje all day for criticism-vth -ere there words of cortnmendation, House of Rlepresentatives b)y a of 212 to 35 rebuked (lie Presiden tabling so ach os his message as flected oni membiers of Conmgress connect ion withI his recommlendati r'egarding the secret service (let ecti and also dec'larinig it to he the se of (lie House that they shall deel to consider any commiunications frn any source which is iiot iin its o jiudgmenit respectful. Toward the close of the debate Ai In r of assa elu set ts, va ily n - bored to secure, first tne -n substitute for tile resolutionl -an s o amendinieIt express shape of an b miteo p confidence inl the collmittee on aP priationfs and then the postpone It of the whjole Mattel. 111til Mon but he was 0ovrwhelliinly out ed gne SummarY. Che Senate passed a bill providing iditions under which the thirteenth itis will be taken. The lHouse bill kielu was under consideration was ended to allow printin and bind g of census reports to be done by ivate contract instead of in the ernment printing office if fOun sirable by the directon of the cn SAn amenamflci-t placing the alp As. An; amnonfice clerks ointment of 3,500 ectisofiecrk inder the civiL service commissiOn as defeated. , Senator Culberson s resolution in tructing the comittee o the ju iciary to report whether the Prri dent has authority to pennit the anb sorption of the Tennessee CoSt and Iron Company by thve ited States Steel Corporation was adopted. 3idge 'peer s Decision Reversed. g OleeSpecial.A de \'ew Orlea ns, li,SP t Soh ciioi of vast inlpOrtanCe to the sUtho sm olltllwest beemise it, plYeets the n Of an increase in freight rate ' .e n of a n i e th e ra ilro a d s ra tese prtelly handed down these Wednesday by the United States Cie eit Co rt of A >peals, reverSing ie iecree of emory speer, of the dO tlee district 3f Georgia, thif restrainei the defendant rail roads from putting the pOposed in1 reased freight tariffs 11to effect. Shaft at rort Mahoue. 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