The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-01-22

SJrued TO De permanent apprOprla-
tons"
Speaking of the use of private de-
tectives in investigating the Browns
vile affair, Foraker declared that 1t
is impossible to find language with
which to fittingly characterize such a
procedure as this detective business
has been from it's inception down to
the monstrous stages it has reached.
1t is atrocious, revolving and shocking
to every sense of fairness, justice and
even common decency"
STATEMENT OF THE PRESIDENT.
Speaking of the reply of the Presi-
dent and of the Secretary of War to a
Senate resolution calling for informa-
ton, on the detectives Investigations.
Foraker said: This message of the
President, with it's exhibit and this
report of the Secretary of War, pre-
sent a new and most serious feature of
this unhappy business. They not only
disclose determined effort on the part
of the President to again bolster up
he has resorted to a method in his
effort to secure such testimony that
cannot be willingly characterized with
out the use of language which, if en-
ployed, might appear to be disrespect-
full to the Chief Executive. And, worst
of all, in this endeavor to secure such
testimony the President has himself
committed the serious offense-con-
demned by every Court that admins
ters the common law that has ever
had occasion to speak on the subject
of holding out to these men an in
ducement or a reward for giving such
testimony.
SHOTS AT THE EXECUTIVE.
1t does not lessen the gravity OF
his offcnse that it appears to be i'm
preceptible to him; or if not so, that
he has become utterly oblivious to all
the restraints of law, decency and pro-
priety in his mad pursuit of these
helpless victims of his ill-considered
action.
In my opinion, aside from the quss-
ton whether there has been a misap-
preparation of funds, no precedent for
anything so shocking can be found in
all the history of American criminal
Jurisprudence.
1T will appear from the Presidents
message and exhibits thereto attached
showing the mode in which the detect
ives are operating, and the testimony
III answer thereto, that fraudulent i'm
PRESERVATION, misrepresentation, lying,
deceit, treachery, liquor and intoXica-
ton, coupled with promises of immun-
ity and the excitement of hope and !
fear and the offer of employment at |
wages, have been resort |
ed to secure the testimony sought for,
and that the so-called confessions are |
not confined to such as affect the par
ties making them or to those affected |
by them who may be present when |
such confessions are made, but extend /
also to those not present when they
arc made but are absent and without
knowledge of what is transporting and
with no opportunity to be heard in
their own defense-even to make an
objection that such statements and
such confessions are untruthful.
These facts make all such testimony
utterly incompetent and worthless"
LODGE MAKES BRIEF REPLY.
When, at 2:4O o'clock, Foraker con-
Senator Lodge took the floor,
saying he had only one comment to
make on Foraker's remarks, that being
in relation to the legality of the en-
Dloyment of Browne and Baldwin,
without reference to their methods or
the merits of their work"
The employment of Browne, he said,
was clearly not illegal, because he was
not a detective by profession, and be-
longed to no agency. The clause under
which objections to the employment
is made is that mo employee of the
Pinkerton agencies shall be employed
in the Government service, or by any
officer of it or the District of Column
bia."
Therefore, he said, the restriction
could only apply to Baldwin, who was
a professional detective.
But the intent of Congress in legis-
lating against detective agencies, said
Lodge, was against the use of detec-
tives as armed guards. The terms de
and detective agency" were
not used in the contracts made in con-
nection with this investigation.
= Foraker replied briefly to Lodge by
saying that if Congress had intended
to prohibit the employment of armed
detectives only, they would have been
specified in the statute
Foraker then asked that a date be
fixed to vote on his bill providing for
the Ie-enlistment of the discharged SOL
iiers.
An objection by Senator Warren had
The effect of postponing action, :