The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-01-18
Once Opposed the Secret Service

h40s WAS aSSaSSlnated an.
, asserted mere than once in private con
Eersation has disapproval of the eonduc
" ms secret Service attendant, VIII,
was killed in the accident at stree
car crossing at Pittsfeld, Mass.
representative Tawney, chairman O.
tne House appropriations committee
Whom the President attacks, is speed
ing pack here from his Minnesota home
representative Walter /. Smith. 81
Council Bluffs, Iowa, the other memha,
u appropriations, whom the Presiden,
especially singles ont, is a great Jester
ana processes to laugh the matter off
but ne and other members of the an
tPropflahons committee are very wrofh
II nan the things they are threatening
70 40 come to pass there will be high
Jinks at the Capital for some time to
there is talk about CONDUCTING an
investigation and summoning Mr.. BINS
pey before the appropriations commit.
Tee to testify. He is willing to tell
more about how the President gave
MN the material for the Inter-O Ocean
article, written before he became tbe
| speaker s secretary. Representative
sWaager Sherley, Democrat. of Ken
lucky, "a member of appropriateness
| whose words the President auotes ~
show that Congress was determined its
members should not be Swallowed by
secret Service men, promises to put a
deai OF interesting material in the
Congressional Record.
A Conversation with Sherley.
Mr.. Sherley was among the New
year s callers at the White House last
Friday. As he passed in the line, the
President said
Il had to make your argument in
debate the basis for much of nv reply
about the Secret Service, Mr.. Congress-
man. | did not want to bring Won
into it, but I had to-
Very well, Mr.. President. re-
sponded Mr.. Sherlev, as New Year S
greetings were exchanged; 81 accept
the responsibility for all I said. ),
Mr.. Sherley has been delving into
the records for proof of the assertion
that Secret Service men have shadow
ed congressman. He has found the re-
port of an investigation made during
the Hayes administration, which he
will probably put into the Congression-
al Record soon, that it may be pre-
served along with the Presidents spe-
cial message. Representative John d.
c. Atkins of Tennessee was then
chairman of appropriations. A para
graph restricting the management of
the Hot Springs, Ark, reservation had
been lost out of an appropriation bill.
1t appears that this was by accident
in one of the enrolling rooms. It
caused quite a commotion, just as did
the erroneous retention in an appro
priation bill a few years ago Of a
paragraph for purchasing the site for a
new public building in Washington.
Charges were made that Secret Ser
vice men took it upon themselves the
very day of that occurrence to 9loolz
over certain members of Senate and
House to ascertain whether they had
any guilty knowledge. The investiga-
ton brought out that Simon B. Con
over of Florida, chairman of the SEN
ate Committee on Enrolled Bills, and
Stephen w. Dorsey of Arkansas, both
Republican reconstruction Senators,
were among those whom the Secret
Service men had olooked over.''
Hostile Comments Abound.
The corridors and committee rooms
are buZzing with hostile comments. but
1t remains to be seen how much the
authors of these comments will be will.
ing to say in debate, if there is de-
bate, or before either the committee
on appropriations, if it chooses to in
vestigate, or before the special com
mittee, headed by Representative Per- |
kins of New York. One INCIDENT, re- |
cited with considerable gusto, pertains |
TO summons that Speaker Cannon |
had from the White House. It was |
the day when Mr.. Perkins introduced |
his resolution for an inquiry. He had |
just taken the gavel, Mr.. Perkins was |
upon his feet waiting for recognition, |
when by telephone message the |
White House asked that Mr.. Cannon I
come to see the President before the |
Perkins resolution was presented. When
that, under the circumstances,
that was impossible, the President ask
ed Mr.. Cannon to come to the White
House as soon as he could get away.
An hour later he took a cab and
FASTENED to see the President At the /
very beginning Of their conversation
he President brought forth the article
oy Mr. Busbey. It had been furnished
MIN supposedly by Chief Wilkie of the
Secret Service. Wilkie and Busbey
lsed to be newspaper men in Chicago.
After the article in question appeared, I
Nilkie ceased to speak to Busbey, and
hey have had no intercourse since
hat time
Threats are heard in House commit
ee circles about dragging to the light
ecords of the hearings regarding Secret
service appropriations. How much of
ms is pure, buster and how much of .
IS really serious talk is a matter OF
oniecture. The testimony of Chief
Nilkie. it is claimed contained some
admissions, which were not
rinted at his own request. But the
tenographers notes and also the type
Trltten copy are understood to have
cen preserved. IF these could be used .
0 confound any of the Presidents /,
tatements. undoubtedly some members
the committee would favor making
he original records public
Wanted His Salary Raised.
Four years ago. about this time. Pres 5
lent Roosevelt desired that the salary q