The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1909-02-02

examiners to enforce compliance with
one section of the railroad regulation
law of 1906. In addition the Govern
ment is paying 100000 year "to
enable the Interstate Commerce Com
mission to keep informed regarding
compliance with the act to promote the
safety of employees and travellers upon
railroads. -
The government men, whom the
Bureau of Corporations now keeps
afeld cost n lot Of money. A dozen
Investigations a year are undertaken,
and involve travel far and wide. One
item for these investigations during
the current fiscal year amounts to
$250,000.
Forty-seven Secret Service Men.
None of these expenditures touch
the activities of the Secret Service,
which brought on the recent trouble
between the President and Congress.
While that is popularity supposed to be
the object of the inquiry by the spe-
cial committee of the House, it is like
" to become only one rather tiny
detail in the entire investigation. For
the appropriation for suppressing
counterfeiting and other crimes, -
amounting to $4,000, pays the ex-
penses of about forty.seven Secret
Service men, who, in numbers, are in
significant as compared with the many
employees the government keeps busy
to detect and suppress crime.
As matter of fact. the detective
and inspection agencies of the Federal
government have assumed n propor-
tion way beyond ANYTHING the AVERAGE
citizen has Thought. The leaders of
Senate and House have followed the
DEVELOPMENT of these forces but il has
not been popular to resist appropria.
lions therefor. The departments have
demanded the men and in most cases
they have been given a good portion
of the money they asked for that pur-
pose. Because of those large appropri-
ations. Congress has been more or less
averse to enlarging the operations of
the Secret Service. Now it is proposed
by the investigation, which the House
IS undertaking. to emphasize the uses
10 which these appropriations. aggre-
eating something like $50 900 600 a
vcar for inspection work. have been
nut
Bringing the hiectoral Votes'
Every dav or two now traveller
from afar nushes into the big. bank
Gkelooking room of the Cashier of
the Treasury. A Senator or member
of tho National House usually accom-
NAMES him. There is little talk at
the paving teller's window or in the
littla side office during which the iden-
tificption of the traveller is establish.
ed. Then he is handed a roll of bills.
! Sometimes II ia large roll. sometimes
it is a small roll.
The traveller departs IN good humor !;
nroner entries of the disbursements
are made in big books provided for
that nurnose The pavment of % cents
to the traveller for every mile he has
come 70 reach Washington from the
con;t,l of bis state &c oil tbe com.
,onsa+;on bo roceives for This mora or
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a. JsnIaral oon;taI
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