Weekly journal-miner., 1909-01-06

in which company ilarl holds con.
 siderable stork. Stewart being also
 a .'ockhoilcr and po--|hly director
 m thc company lic is also repro.
 .,utcI in Omaha .n w. J. tonuolI
 one of 'ar atforuc,a there for thc
 same company stewart is also rep
 resented in h. perjury case hy
 Bul' Gurley of Omaha. Nchr.,
 who at one time WIS quite closely
 connected in % political way with
 the v. '. R. R Company; stewart
 is al-1 closely associated with t. F.
 UHcltuu. postmaster at Council
 ruG. Iarl x Finley and lIlzleton
 ne aIl member. of thc sane lodge
 Another close personal friend of
 -tcvnu's i. FI Hart. a'in. "Watcr
 work. 1Iff. president uf The t0unrl
 Eun- WWc, Company and 'n.'r
 o.tcJ ln tHc irct niNay ~.r".
 Hr'- father w"- iucr icI lr, and
 .n.t. .lNy oHrrl nrl controlled.
 during h. lifetime large ranch
 .ug isr r. I H H. m Nebraska,
 IrJ diI % gIoat deal Oi business
 aitI ttat toad
 rpurcrnit. l.s e..c tho United .'atc- uitornoy nt Omaha states: "Tucrp aro three cl.cs agdiu.t Stew lrt. one for fencing, one conspiracy. ,uc perjury. all good eases and chances of conviction good. "
 In connection with inc Nebraska prosecution the Government has hy dc. cree secured the return to the Govern. mcnt of over million acres of graz. ing land: in Colorado of more than 2.OOO acres of mineral land and suits are now pending involving lj0,0oO acres more.
 All these invest igaiions in the land cn,es were undertaken in consequence of Mr. Hitchcock. the then Secretary of the Interior. becoming convinced that there were extensive frauds com mittcd in his Department; and the ifcations of the frauds were SO far reaching that he was afraid to trust hs own officials to deal in thorough. going fashion with them. One of the secret service men accordingly resign. ci and was appointed in the Interior Department to carry on this work. The first thing he discovered was that inc special agents division or corps of dc. tcctivcs of the Land Office of the In. tcrior Department was largely under the control of the land thieves; and in consequence the investigations above referred to had to be made by secret service men.
 1T the present law. for which Messrs Tawney. Smith. and the other gentle. men 1 have above mentioned are rc. Sponsiblc. had then bscn in effect, this action would have been impossible, and most of inc criminals would m. questionably have escaped, No more striking instance can he imagined of the desirability of having central corps of skilled investigating agents who can at any time bc assigned, 1T necessary iD large numbers. to investi- gate some violation of the Federal statutes, in no matter what branch of the public service. In this particular ease most of inc men investigated who were public servants were in the executive branch of the Government. But in Oregon. where an enormous acreage of fraudulently alienatcd pub lie land was recovered for the Govern ment. . United States Senator, Mir. Mitchell. and Member of the lower House. Mr. Williamson. were convict. cd on evidence obtained by men trans. ferred from the Secret Service. and anothcr Member of Congress was in. dic,ed
 From 1901 to l9Oi n successful in. vcstigaton of naturalization affairs was made by the Secret Service, with the result of obtaining hundreds of convictions of conspiratOrs who were convicted of selling fraudulent papers of naturalization. Subsequently, Con. grcss passed very wise law provid ing special service and appropriation for the prevention of naturalization frauds; but unfortunately, at the same time that the action against the Secret Service was taken. Congress also cut down the appropriation for this speci al service, with the result of crippling inc effort to stop frauds in natnrnliza tion.) The fugiiivcs Greene and Gay nor, implicated in n peculiarly big Government contract fraud, were To. oated and arrested in Canada by the Secret Service, and thanks to this they have since gone to prison for their crimes.
 The Secret Service was used to as sist in the investigation of crimes m. der the peonage laws, and owing part ly thereto numerous convictions were secured and the objectionable practice was practically stamped out, at least in many districts. The most extensive of silk and opium in the history of the Treasury Department was investigated by agents of the Secret Service in New York and Seat. tle and successful prosecution of the offenders undertaken. Assistance of the utmost value was rendered 10 the Department of Justice in the beef. trust investigation at Chicago. prose. cutions were followed up and fines in. ilicted. The cotton.leak scandal in the Department was investi. gated and the responsible parties To- cated. What was done in connection with lottery investigations is disclosed In letter just sent to me by the United States attorney for Delaware, as follows:
 The destruction of the Honduras National Lottery Company, success. sor to the Louisiana Lottery Com. pany, was entirely the work of the Secret Service. This excel. lent work was accomplished by Mir. Wilkie and his snhordinatas