Bisbee daily review., 1907-10-13
SECRET SERVICE ID BE MADE
 GREATER
Report That Government De- tectives Will Be Organized for Ferreting Out All Kinds of Fraud and Graft

ST. LOUIS. Oct 12.-Some Govern, ment officers and employees in this city view with apprehension the pro posed bill or the reorganization oi the Federal detective system. for k.ch Eiscth. t t Is said. . bill iiiiii 1iiiiii be p=e- sented to Congress at the coming ses, sion.
 While the scope of the proposed bill has not yet been defi led it is claimed that 1t will create new bu. reau for the correction of at kinds of abuses with which the government Is dealing through its departments and it is possible that the Post OflCe and Internal Revenue Inspection ser. vices may be incorporated with inc Secret Service BureaI.
 It also is intimat5d in Washingt on. D. C.. that John E. W:lka Chief of the Secret Service Bureau. mas been suggested for the official head of the new bureau.
 Should this be established, it will cause an upheaval in many Federal departments and affect many office holders. It is proposed to change. to some extent. the operation of the De pertinent of Justice.
 The originator of the bill has not been announced. IL IS said that every phase of violation of the Government laws will come under the authority of the new bureau and will add q large force of detectives to the pres ent Secret Service force.
 It also is proposed to establish a special investigation branch of the Department of Justice, which will take the initiative in investigations.
 The Secret Service Bureau has con fined its operations chiefly to the work of ferFetsng out counterfeit money cases and protecting Govern. ment officers and visiting foreign rulers. An illustration was seen here on the visit of President Roosevelt. ,phe presidential party was accom- panied by two Secret Service men. Three more men joined here. From three to four were within arms length of the President all the time.
 James Sloan and Joseph Murphy were the Secret Service men with the President. They are regularly assign ed to such guard duty, Sloan always accompanying the President when travelling. He was assigned to guard duty with President Mckinley and has been On the same detail since.
 Murphy is a son of the late Colonel John E. Murphy. who for years was in charge of the St. Louis Secret Ser vice office. E. J. McHugh, who sue ceeded Colonel Murphy. in charge of the local office. and John A. Adams, of Kansas City office, both of whom were on the detail guarding the Pres ident at Oyster Bay, came to St. Louis to meet the party.
 Philpot and Adams met the party at the Levee. Mir. McHugh. at the Jai-Alai building. arranged for the safety of the President there. Two Secret Service men were on foot be- side the Presidents carriage from the Levee to Fourteenth street. There NIT. Sloan got on the box with the driver. and three others entered the carriage following, with Doctor R.xey. At the Jair-Alai building they gather ed about the President and accom- panied him to the building. A Secret Service man was on either side of MT. Roosevelt. while he was speaking The others were in the audience.
 Secret Service Agent Sloan compli mented St. Louis or the order ob- served Roosevelt day