The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-01-04

his own officials to deal Tn rnorougn- going fashion with them. One of the secret service men accordingly resign ed and was appointed in the interior department to carry on this work. The first thing he discovered was that the special agents division or corps of de tectives of the land office of the inte- control of the land thieves, and in con- sequence the Investigations above re- ferred to had to be made by secret service men.
 If the present law, for which Messrs. Tawney, Smith and the other gentle men have above mentioned are re- sponsible, had then been in effect this action would have been impossible and most of the criminals would unques- tionably have escaped. No more strik- ing instance can be imagined of the desirability of having central corps of skilled Investigating agents who can at any time be assigned, if necessary in large numbers, to investigate some violation of the federal statutes, in no
  ice. In this particular case most of the men investigated who were public servants were in the executive branch of the government. But in Oregon, where an enormous acreage of fraudu- lently alienated public land was recov- cred for the government, a United States senator, MT. Mitchell, and a member of the lower house, MT. Will liamson, were convicted on evidence obtained by men transferred from the secret service, and another member of congress was indicted.
 Stopped Naturalization Frauds.
 From 1901 to 1904 successful inves- made by the secret service, with the result of obtaining hundreds of convic- tions of conspirators who were convict ed of selling fraudulent papers of nat uralization. Subsequently congress passed a very wise law providing special service and appropriation for tke prevention of naturalization frauds, but unfortunately at the same time that the action against the secret serv- ice was taken congress also cut down the appropriation for this special serv- ice, with the result of crippling the effort to stop frauds in naturalization The fugitives Greene and Gaynor, i'm plicated in peculiarly big government contract fraud, were located and ar rested 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 assist in the investigation of crimes under the peonage laws, and owing partly thereto numerous convictions were se- cured and the objectionable practice was practically stamped out, at least in many districts. The most extensive smuggling of silk and opium in the history of the treasury department was investigated by agents of the se cret service in New York and Seattle and successful prosecution of the of lenders undertaken. Assistance of the utmost value was rendered to the de partment of justice in the beef trust investigation at Chicago; prosecutions were followed up and fines inflicted. cultural department was investigated and the responsible parties located. What was done in connection with lottery Investigations is disclosed in letter just sent to me by the United States attorney for Delaware, running as follows:
 The destruction of the Honduras Ma, tionai Lottery company. successor to the Louisiana Lottery company, was entirely