Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-09
TO PROBE ESPIONAGE
House Votes for Investigation
of Secret Service.
Mr.. TAWNEY'S. RESOLUTION
Committee of Five to Be Appointed
by the Speaker.
PROBABLE SELECTION MONDAY
Thought That Judge Smith Of Iowa
Will Be Chairman-Report to
Be Made This Session.
Mr.. TAWNEY'S, RESOLUTION
PROBABLE SELECTION MONDAY

The House of Representatives today
adopted without debate a resolution Of
fered by Representative Tawney of Min
nesota, chairman of the House committee
on appropriations, providing for an ex-
haustNe investigation of the secret Serv-
ice. The resolution is comprehensive and
complete, and authorizes the committee
to send for and examine all kinds OF
papers that 1t may desire, including the
most secret archives of the secret serv-
ice bureau.
1t is thought that Monday the Speaker
will name the five members who are To
constitute the committee. In the natural
course of events Mr.. Tawney, having in
troduced the resolution, would be tho
chairman Of the special committee: but
Mr.. Tawney, being chairman OF the ap-
preparation committee. has about all that
he can attend = and as this committee
of inquiry mus. report at the present ses-
sion of Congress 1t is thought that Judge
Smith of Iowa. member of the House.
who was prominently mentioned in the
may be made chairman of the committee
of investigation.
The Tawney Resolution.
The text of the resolution follows:
Resolved. That the Speaker is author
lied to appoint a select committee OF five
members. whose duty it shall be to inquire
and report to the House at its present
session. as follows:
First What appropria tions were made
at the first session of the Sixtieth Con-
gress for the fiscal year 1909, that could
be used to prevent frauds in and depre-
dations upon the several branches of the
public service, including the protection OF
public lands and their products from
tinn
apprehend and punish persons charged
with violations of the laws OF the United
States, also what increase. If any. was
made in any of such appropriations over
the amounts appropriated for 1908.
Second. What branches of the public
service, paid for in whole or in part out
Of the United States Treasury, are au-
thoriZed or are in existence and support
ed by appropriations made by Congress,
whose principal duties are to prevent and
detect fraud, to apprehend and bring to
trial and punishment persons charged
with violating the laws Of the United
States: whether such branches of the
public service or any persons employed
therein have been or are being engaged
in any duty not contemplated by the law
for the appropriation establishing or pro-
vidng for such service: the names of the
persons employed, for any period. in each
branch of such service during the current
and last fiscal year, the rates of compen-
sation and allowance paid or being paid
to each of them, by whom they were ap-
pointed and on whose recommendation.
and statement of the specific duty per-
formed Or engaged upon by each of such
employees each day since the beginning
of the fiscal year 1903, and the towns or
cities visited by them or in which they
were employed in the discharge Of their
duties and the places of their legal resi-
dence.
THE committee, or any subcommittee
thereof, is authorized to sit during the
sessions of the House, to send for per-
sons and papers. including private or Sc
cret archives to administer oaths and to
employ such clerical, messenger and
stenographic assistance rs it shall deem
necessary; all expenses incurred here
inunder shall be paid on the certificate
of the chairman of the committee out OF
the contingent fund of the House