New-York tribune., 1908-12-11
TEMPEST IN CONGRESS
REPLY TO PRESIDENT IN
PREPARATION.
Committees to Consider Remarks on
Secret SerJice-White House
4ccumuIating Ammunition.
From Tn. Tribune Bureau.

Washington Dec. 1O-A tempest which may
burst with great fury or break up IN clrrous
clouds is brewing over the Presidents REMARKS
in his message regarding Congressman ana ''e
Secret Service The Republican leaders IN poth
houses of Congress have decided to permit the
adoption of resolutions providing for the reier
ence Of that portion of the Presidents message
dealing with the Secret Service to committees
with instructions that an investigation OF the
working Of the clause limiting the duties OF the
Secret Service and the reasons for its adoptlon
he conducted and report made Representative
Perkins of New York will introduce the resoiu-
tion in the House Tomorrow. His resolnuon
will provide for the appointment Of select CUM
1nttee to consider the message, and II Is expect
ed that after all other portions OF the ooouheH'
are disposed of the committee will report 'hdl
the portion dealing with the Secret service
should be expunged from the record. 1t is PROB
able that Representative Tawney chairman Oh
the Appropriations Committee VIII De aPpolii'su
chairman Of the select committee.
40 decision has been reached to who shall
introduce the resolution in the Senate but the
plans of the leaders are to have Republican
do so It will not provide for a select commit
tee but the Committee Appropriations VIII
he charged with the responsibility of conducIihe
the investigation and preparing the report
The Senate leaders were not disposed 10 'dNe
any action but the Democrats ana CERTAIN ~
publicans who antagonizc .he President msls'-
ed that they would introduce resolutions OF cen
s,re and would endeavor to have that portion
of the Presidents message expunged from me
record Conferences between the tepu6lC"h
leaders the Republicans and the Democrats.
and finally between the Republican leaders u
the Senate and the Speaker. marked 'he uoS >
and as q result it was decided that It "ou'"
he wiser for the Republicans to introduce lh7
resolutions and take entire charge OF the aha''
than to permit the Democrats and anu-aoinlills
tration RepubIicans to cause action OF ar
more radical character and oebdte VIM
would he sensational and acrimonious.
Tho Democrats in the Senate have agree1' !"
consideration Of the Republicans promising 70
take the initiative. to permit the adoption u
the resolution without debate. This Will pre-
,op, certain Republicans who are anxious for
an opportunity to attack the President rom
spea king, as they VIII De e''ti"1u - "
cison of the leaders.
IT. leaders maintain that reference of this
,,o+ioo or the message to a COMMITTEES VIII give
an o,nortunitv for the bitterness which no"
evists 70 disappear. and that it is prooaole
.bo, tho report Of the committee. when ii finally
reaches the Senate will be of an innocuous
character
the President is keenly alive to the sentiment
and the purposes Of the leaders in Congress anu
is diligently accommodating a mass of lnatst'd'
which will serve as ammunition for bomoaro-
r,ent of Congress should any affront be gwen
IN hin, through the action Of either commlttee'
IF he should be forced TO take this step 'he re-
suit would be most sensational, and the CoiSs-
ouences TO more than one member OF congress
might prove disastrous.