Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-02-12
RELATES TO the SECRET SERVICE
Senate concurs in Lincoln Holiday
Resolution Passed by HORSEPOWER
Body Passes Agricultural Bill Prae,
tiealiy az Committee Reported It.
NV Associated PreSs.)

WASHINGTON, d. e.. Feb. IL!
report WAS made to the Senate tcda!
from the committee on apprOpria
ticns on the Presiden:'s statement
concerning the attitude of Congress
toward appropriations for the supper
Of the secret service.
Senator Hemenway. who presented
this report. added thai the Presiden
was not justified In making the state
ment contained In his message L
Congress.
Just before adjournment today thu
Senate passed joint resolution II
the exact form it had been passed
By the House Of Representatives,, de
claring February T., to be a specia
legal holiday in honor of the centen
nary of the birth Of Abraham Lin
coin.
A bill was passed also repeating
the Increase in the salary of the sec
rotary of state from $4,000 to $12.OOt
so as 10 permit Senator Knox to ac
cept the appointment as secretary Q!
state.
Senator McLaurin made a speech
in opposition to the passage OF any
bill for the re-enlistment of the negro
soldiers of the Twenty-fifth regiment
accused of having shot up Browns
ville''
The Senate OF 4:56 p. M. adjourn
ed until Monday.
Hemenssay Presents Report.
Senator Hemenway presented to
the senate the report OF the COM
mittee on appropriations concerning
the effect Of the limitations upon
the secret service contained in the
sundry civil bill for the fiscal year
1909. which Limitation was the sub
ject Of protest ty President Roose'
welt in his annual message to con
gress.
The subject was investigated by a
special committee composed of Sena
tors Hemenway, Gallinger and Clay
and these senators found that the
administration had not been hamper
ed In its work ty the action Of con
gress In limiting the operations o:
the secret service.
Discussing the report in speech
on the senate floor Mr.. Hemenway
today said the appropriations for the
secret service began with $500 In
1857 and had been increased and de
creased from time to time until for
the fiscal year 1908 the appropria
tons was $125.0O0 which enabled the
regular employment Of about sixty
five men.
Continuing Mr. Hemenway said:
Presents the Figures.
There was appropriated by the
last congress over thirty-two million
of dollars, which is available direct
IL or indirectly for protecting the
government against frauds and VIC
lations of the law. 1t can hardly be
said tina, the amendment to the sun
dry civil bill. which affected the
transfer and detail Of but sixty-five
men, was in an attempt to protect
criminals when the same congress
that made this amendment appropri
ated nearly five millions Of dollars
more than ever was appropriated be
fore to strengthen the executive
branch Of the government tn law ad
ministratiOn.
III the men employed by the gov
eminent on inspection work. sail
Mr.. Hemenway. were to marct
through the streets Of Washington Il
would appear like an army compared
with the number Of men SO employed
in 1896"
Three Thousand Employed.
In reply to a question by Mr.. Fora
ker. Mr.. Hemenway said there were
employed on inspection work. S.O0'
men. which figures do not include
men employed in the enforcement o
the pure food law. AT; the meat IN
spection law. and these men he said
had all the powers Of secre: serSics
men.
With the army OF inspectors. Mr.
Hemenway said the government had
ample power to bring about the de
lection Of crime and TO bring tic
guilty to justice
Mr.. Hemenway declared that tho
charge made hv the President. con
corning the secset service was ab
solutely wrong and erroneous and
never ought TO have been made.
Thinks President MssIeo.
u think tina; when the Presiden'
OF the United States prepared int:
message he Vas mislei by the head
of the secret service bureau Who a.
that time hal sivty-five men m tint
bureau can understand how mel
are ambif' ous 10 have great poSe'
and how the head Of the secret ser
vice bureau would like 10 have al
the inspection service ~ the Uni;et
States under control. That Is one o
his dreams"
Aor cultural Dill Passes.
WASHINGTON n C. Feb IL