The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1909-01-05

commission was 70 carry into effect
the twentieth section Of the Hepburn
law, added: The provision about
the employment Of the secret service
men viii work very great damage to
the government ia its endeavor 10 pre-
vent and punish crime. There is 10
more foolish cutlery than this against
spies Only criminals need fear oUr
detectives" Il inclose ccpy Of The
whole Letter, marked Appendix c."
The postscript is blurred in lay copy
book. and two or three Of the words
cannot be deciphered.y lAppendix {
is a letter dated April 30. 1908, from
President Roosevelt TO Speaker Can
non protesting against the cutting
down In the sundry civil biz of the :lI-
preparation fer secret service work
''The only people benefited would be
the very worst OF the Zig railroad men
whose misdee6s We are Try ing to pre-
vent or correct were the words OF the
president These methods proved un-
ayailing to prevent tie wrong Messrs
Tawney and Smith and their fellow
members on tie appropriations COM
mittee paid no heed to the protests,
and as tie obnoxious provision was
Incorporated IN the sandry civil bin it
was impossible for me 10 consider or
discuss II Oh its merits as I should
have done had il been IN separate
bill Therefore / have now taken the
.Only method available, that of discuss
ing II in my message 10 congress, and
as all efforts 10 secure what regard
as proper treatment of the subject
without recourse 10 plain speaking had
failed / have spoken plniuly AMI di-
Fectly and have set forth the facts IL
explicit terms.
Here the president gives instances
ii which the secret service men have
been Instrumental in securing convic-
tions of offenses against federal laws.
citing especially the laud fraud cases }
IN connection with the Nebraska
prosecution tie government has by de
cree secured the return to the govern
ment Of over million acres Of graz
ing land 81 Colorado q moro than
1000 acres q mineral land, and suits
are now pending involving 10000
acres more
Departments Agents Dishonest.
All these Investigations ia tie land
cases were undertaken in Consequence
Of MIR Hitchcock. the then secretary
Of the interior. becoming convinced
that .hcre were extensive frauds com
mhted in his department, and tie
ramihcatiops Of the frauds were so
iarreachinE chat be was afraid 10 trust
his own officials to zeal in thorough
going fashion with then One Of the
secret service men accordingly resign
cd and was appointed in the interior
department 70 carry on this work. The
flrsta thing he discovered was that the
special agents division or corps II de-
tectives Of the land office of the int
ricr department was largely under the
control Of the lard thieves and in CON
sequence the Investigations above re
ferred to had 10 be made by secret
service men.
II 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 md
most OF the criminals would ungues-
tionably have escaped No more strik
ing instance can be imagined of the
desirability of having a 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
matter what branch OF the public sery-
iee In this particular case most Of
the men investigated who were public
servants were iu the executive branch
Of the government. But in Oregon,
where an enormous acreage Of fraddu-
le2uy alicnated public land was recov-
cred for the government, United
States senator Mr. Mitchell. and a
member of the lower house, MIR VIII
hanson, We're convicted on evidence
obtained by men transferred from the
secret service. and another member of
congress was indicted
Stopped Naturalization Frauds.
From 1901 to 1901 a successful inves-
tigation of naturalization affairs was
1ade by the secret service. with the
result Of obtaining hundreds Of convic-
lions Of consprators who were convict
ed Of selling fraudulent papers of nat
uralization. subsequently congress
passed a very wise law providing a
special service and appropriation for
the 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 fer this special serv-
ice. with the res,lt Of gripping the
effort to step frauds IA nGturalEation)
The fusitives Greene and Gaynor in
plieatei in 4 peculiarly big government
cCatract fraud, were located ara ar
rested IL Canada rs the secret servIee,
and. thanks TO this, they have since
gore 70 prison for their crimes.
The secret service was used tn assist
IN the Investigation Of crimes un1er
the peonage laws. and owing partly