The evening world., 1909-01-04
"|D|DN'T SAYIT,"
R0(SE WELT On
SECRET SERVICE:
President Replying to Call of
Congress for Proof Denies
Making Charges.
fCIRCLES THE QUESTION.
EAdds to the Ananias Club in
Scoring House Members for
Talk and Action.
: CIRCLES THE QUESTION.

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WASHINGTON, Jan. i.-Presldent
Roosevelt's message to the House OF
Representatives, read upon the reas.
sembling OF tina, body after the holiday
recess this afternoon amounted to q
backdown. 1t was a 5,0OO-word declare.
! ton amounting to Il didn't say IT,"
! BY typcally Rooseveltian circular
. line OF argument the President attempts
Z TO prove that he did not make any
I charges against Congressman, but only
referred to charges made by CONGRESS
men against themselves He goes h. ~;
into the Congressional Record to show
that he was justified In insnuat.ng that
Z; members OF Congress desired to restrict
the operations OF the Secret Service ia
the Treasury Department in the way cf
apprehendIng counterteiters because
&. they were afraid Of being investigated
by Secret Service men.
incidentally ne initiates practicable
the whole membership Of the House or
Representatives In the ANanlas club
The only exceptions are the few stead.
last adhersnts NJ NV Policies who
voted on Dec. IT, 1905. agains' soHd.ny
TO the President tho resolution which
called forth to-lay's special message.
Congressman Tawuey. of Minnesota.
Smith, of iowa, Sherlev. Of Kentucky.
and Fitzgerald of BROOKLYN are singled
out by the Pres Ident for particular dis
tincton IN to-day's message. " l..
Busbey, the handsome and popular prl.
Nate secretary to speaker Cannon. Is
accommodatlnglv let into the Ananlns
Club, so that Uncle Joe" may not be-
. separated from hts valuable aeeis.an:
In his new surroundings
The Objectionable Sentence.
The language to which the House
took exception was contained in the
Presidents last message to the SIX
tieth Congress. II was used in CON
nection with the request OF tho Pres!.
dent that an amendment passed last
May restricting the activities OF the
Secret Service tn the Treasury Depart.
ment he repealed
ut Is not too much to say" said the
President, "that this amendmcr. has
been Of beneht only and could be Of
bensht only to the criminal classes
The chief argument In favor OF the
provision was that the Congressman
did not themselves wish 70 BIO invest
gated by secret-Service men"
In reply to this Congress through tno
He was requested particularly FL.
transmit to Tie House any eviteu..
connecting any mcwher u 'a" House o.
Representatives OF 'he Sfyt.etn Cnngres
with corruption IN his official clpa
and to inform he House whether u.
had instituted proceedings for Tie puu-
3shment OF any such individual Dy ~
courts"
In his special message tho prcstI
as a matter OF course, re.tcru rrs Ais ..
quest that the amendment ne rnpcu.'
In addition he asks that the .-ar..t $50.
vice be made bureau m ,nc peplrt.
ment OF Justice, and that ,uc s.lu" ...
the chief of the bureau bee Increased ID.
5000 year
In opening his message The Preside.
repeats the entire text OF the. 10
resolution of Dec. H. Then he p.pcce..
as follows
Cannot Understand Il.
~ am wholly at loss t. uGde.sta.j
the concluding portion OF TIE rc3y!,
ton. have made 10 ha:eol e "a.
rrption against CoaEcoo1, not aga.
any member OF the p.l.as.: ISCaau.
I had proof Of such corrnpti)l. .i.ac:
tng any momter OF .'c i.e-e- - g..
'snaster as to which th9 E'cf csai s-S-c:s
niept has jurisdiction, actio. H1Ull
cree BIO brought, as vas Gprc III &.
cases Of Senators Mitchell and EURO.
and Representatives Williamson, lreI.
mann and briggs Mt different ,imG-
since have been President.
This would iimply he doing my dul.
In the execution ami cnforcemcI, ,C g.,
laws without respect 10 peisuua. Hut
do not regard it as within the p..yirn.
or the duties OF The President to rcpo
to the House alleged dclinQUon"Irs 60
members, or the supposed co, up; a
ton of a momIr" in his OK. .ial ca
pacity The membership of tie fiou5
10 by the Constitution placed within ..
power OF the House Is re. In TIE prose.
cutlon of criminals and the enforcement
OF the laws the President must resufi
TO the courts Of the uuted States
"In the third and fourth clauses 70.