Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-09

heartiness with which he favored the rigid
enforcement Of all laws alike against the
rich and poor, and he was well aware that
1t was sometimes necessary to resort to the
use of detectives
Mr.. Smith then sailed into the secret ser
vice in vigorous fashion.
1.-THE question now" he said, sis not should
legal detective force be created in the de-
partment of justice, but was congress sub
yect 10 JUST crltlcism Tor destroying at its
last session the system which has grown up
of using the counterfeiting force in the treas
ury department for mischievous purposes
Can Organize Branch
He insisted that as there never was any
special creation of the secret service de-.
tectives except by the appropriation of funds
for the detection of counterfeits, the attorney
general had full power to organize detec-.
tive force under the appropriation for the
prevention and detection Of crime.
Coming to the loaning Of secret service men
TO the president and the several departments,
Mr.. Smith charged that Chief Wilkie, under
oath before the committee, said: II hope
you Will make some arrangement that will
relieve me from committing perjury once a
month in certifying that the men were per-
forming their regular duties.
Mr.. Smith said that Chief Wilkie was en-
barrassed by the position in which he had
been placed, and was much pleased with the
proposal to restrict the operations of his
force He declared that the services had been
abused badly and that both Attorney General
Bonaparte and Secretary Garfield had dsap-
proved of the system of lending these men,
The president, however, he said, never had
talked to the committee about the matter.
Mr.. Smith took issue with the president
statement about the senate being forced to
accept the will of the house in the matter
and declared that these conferences of both
bodies were unanimous, that the restrictions
bill.
Bennett Opposes Resolution
Mr.. Bennett Of New York opposed the adop-
ton of the Perkins resolution and declared
that If the house should accept it its action
would have no more influence on the character
which history would give to President Roose-
welt than had the action of the senate on Presi-
dent Tyler's record in connection with his
attitude toward Jackson.
Mr.. Tawney received ovation as he
arose to speak
Congressman Tawney, in presenting his
views of the case, declared nothing could
contribute so much to the destruction of the
republic as an attempt upon the part of one
branch of 1t to impeach the honor and integ-
r1ty Of another branch however that at
tempted Impeachment may be sought-whether
by attributing to the members of that other
nranch as whole, motive for conduct wholly
inconsistent with honor, integrity and the
faithful discharge of duty or otherwise
The arbitrary and unauthorized use of the
great power of any one of the local branches
or the government in that respect he said
II allowed to pass unchallenged, would go
further to undermine the confidence of the
people in their government and the very foun-
dalton of the government than ali other
agencies combined.
He said that when the executive deliberate
ly charged, as he said was done in his mes
sage of December s, 1908, that the legislative
branch in the exercise of its constitutional
functions had passed legislation which has
been of benefit only and would be of benefit
only to the criminal classes, and IF it DELHI
erately introduced for the purpose of dinin-
tshing the effectiveness of war against crime
1t could not have been better devised to that
end" there was clearly implied that in adopt-
ing the provision of which the president ex-
planned, the congress intended to benefit and
protect from punishment those guilty of COM
hitting fraud and other violations of the
public law.