The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-03-26
Statistics Show the Special
Agents in the National
Governments Employ Now
Number 3,l05
THEY COST FOUR MILLIONS
SENATOR SIMMONS PREPARES
AN AMENDMENT TO THE HEP
BURN BILL-BABcoCK TIRED
OF CAMPAIGN WORK.

| WASHINGTON, March %, 1906
Representative Tawney has submitted a
table to the House in which statistics are
| presented regarding the Capitalization in
the Federal Government Of the mspec-
| ton of the domestic affairs of the peo-
pie. 1t is shown by the comparative
table that the number of special agents
or inspectors in the employ of the gov
| ernmsnt has Increased from 708 in 1896
to 3,105 in the present year. The amount
of money expended for this service ten
years ago amounted to 1921, $50, while
at present it aggregates $4,546,3 1923.
1t is significant that the smallest in
crease has been in that branch of the
Treasury department devoted to the pro-
lection of the revenues of the govern
ment Hhere there has been an increase
of ID per cent in the number of employees
and % per cent. in the money expended.
The increase in the revenues, not in
Guiding those of the postal service, has
amounted to IA per cent.
In the other departments the increases
in these special agents make san inter-
esting study for those who wish to see
how government expenditures have
grown along the lines of inspection pure
ly. Under the Bureau of Labor the num-
ber and amounts paid to special agents
has increased 100 per cent. The exam
liners and special agents of the Depart
ment of Justice have grown 80 per cent.
in number and 84 per cent. in cost.
For the suppression of counterfeiting
and other crimes through the medium of
the Treasury Department, the cost has
increased 90 per cent. In the Depart
ment of the Interior the inspectors have
increased 10 per cent. in number and sc
| per cent. in cost. In the Postofiee De-
partment the increase in numbers has
been 100 per cent. and 394 per cent in
cost. In the Department of Agriculture
the increase in the number of men en-
ployed is 3S3 per cent.
Senator Simmons, of North Carolina,
has prepared an amendment to the Hep
burn rate bill which has the approval of
a number of Senators. and which may
be a possible solution of the differences
that exist on that measure. He proposes
to amend first by extending the time
when the rate fixed By the Interstate
Commerce Commission shall go into eff
feet from thirty to sixty days. This ex-
tension of time would afford the oppor-
/ tunity for judicial review before the rate
goes into effect, thus meeting the objec-
ton now raised against suspend.ng the
rate pending review.
| 1t is further provided by the amend
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! constitutional rights are invaded Twenty
days shall be allowed for an answer, and
ene court may thus ueeerlihAe ene ni't'er
oefore the oroer nzihg the rate goes lnto
effeet' mo preliminary Or inferloeutory
order suspendang the rate snan Oe
granted
IN explaining MS amendment Senator
simmons mas TINS 70 say olearts' rne
courts have no right 'unless Congress
gives them the right. to set aside an or