New-York tribune., 1909-02-12
PRESIDENT WAS MISLED
so lfR. HEWENW4Y SAYS.
Senate Committee GiUes Congress
Clean Bill on Secret Service.
arrom 1-he 1rlbune Rureau. ]

Washington Feb Ex-senator Henenway, for the
subcommittee of the Appropriations Committee TO
which referred the resolution dealing with the
Secret Service portion of the Presidents message
made preliminary report to the Senate to-day.
There nothing sensational in Mr.. HemenWsy
statement, which a carefully prepared and
conservative paper the substance of which was
effort to disprove the charges contained In the
Presidents message that Congress, by the linita-
tons placed the activities OF the Secret Service,
had hampered the administration Of justice.
Mr.. Hemenway showed that Congress had appro-
priated liberal sums for the detection and prose-
cition of crimes against the federal statutes. and
that the limitations imposed by Congress affected
only sixt y-ive The testimony given by Secre-
tar Garfield before the House Committee on Appro-
pratons cited extensively to establish the
claim that the Secret Service not needed
detect land frauds. OF course the report did not
refer tie fact that Mr.. Garfield told the House
committee that there phases Of the prosecu-
ton OF land frauds in which the Secret Service
men were needed, such. for instance. shadowing
men who had been indicted. watching juries to see
that they were not tampered with, etc
There was some running debate following the
reading OF the Hemenway report In the Senate
Senators Foraker and Tlllman seeking by adroit
questioning TO emphasize any reflections on the
administration which they thought they perceived
but when Senator Overman asked to have an ex-
tensive article referring to the prosecution OF GER
tain cotton manufacturers read, Senator Hale oO-
jected, being anxious for immediate consideration
of the naval BILL and the report went over with
out aclOh-
Replying to Mr.. Foraker. Mr. Hemenway said
there were employed on inspection work 5000 men.
not including employed on the enforcement
of the pure food law and the meat inspection law,
and these men, he said, had all the powers Of
Secret Service men With the army of inspectors,
Mr.. Hemenway said, the government had ample
power 30 bring about the detection of crime and to
bring the guilty justice He declared that the
charge made by the President concerning me
Secret Service was absolutely wrong and eTrone-
and never ought to have been made The
Department of Justice, he said. had ample power
for the employment of detectives in ferreting out
crime. there having constantly been q goodly bal
ance hand OF the appropriation Of 100000 made
TO investigate trusts
Il think said Mr.. Hemenway, that when the
President of the United States prepared this mes
sage be misled by the head Of the Secret ser
vice bureau. who had at that time sxty-fve men
in his bureau. 1 can understand how men are am
bilious to have great power and how the head of
the Secret Service bureau would ike TO have all
the inspection service of the United States under
his control. That is Of his dreams. The At
tcrney General did not believe in IL. nor did the
Secretary OF the Interior the heads OF other
departments"