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law warranted the employment Of the secret
service In departments other than the
Treasury. and this did not touch the merits
OF the service In the least. The other line
OF argument went to the merits OF the SER
vice. whether lawfully or unlawfully EN-
ployed. and here the chief II not the only
argument used was that the service should
be cut down and restricted because its mem-
bers had -shadowed" or investl gated mem
bers Of Congress and other offlcers Of the
Government.
The President criticises the arguments
OF the four members named, saying In
part;
BY far the largest part OF the argument
against the employment OF the secret ser
vice vas confined to the statement that 1t
was In violation Of law or course such
a statement is not In any way an argument
In favor Of the justice Of the provision. IL
| Is not an argument for the provision at all
| IL Is simply a statement Of what the gentle
men making 1t conceive to have been the
law. There was both by implication and
direct statement the assertion that II was
the law, and ought TO be the Law: that the
secret service should only be used to sup
press counterfeiting. and that the law
should be made more rigid than ever in this
respect.
incidentally may say that In my judg-
ment there Is ample legal authority for the
| statement that this appropriation law to
| which reference was made imposes no re-
strictions whatever upon the use OF the
secret service men. but relates solely TO the
expenditure OF the money appropriated
Mr.. Tawney In the debate stated that he had
/ in his possession a letter from the Secre-
tary OF the Treasury received few days
4 In oh oh ho yoff ha Tra ~
himself admits that the provisions under
which the appropriation has been made
have been violated year after year for a
number OF years in his own Department. "
| append herewith as Appendix A the letter
| referred 10. u makes no such admission
as that which Mr.. Tawney alleges. 1t con'
: tains on the contrary. as you will see by
reading It, an emphatic protest against
any such abrdgment OF the rights dele
gated TO the Secretary Of the Treasury by
existing law" and concludes by asserting
that he is quite within his rights in thus
employing the service OF these agents" and
that the proposed modification which Mr..
Tawney succeeded in carrying through
would be distinctly TO the advantage Of
violators Of criminal statutes OF the United
States"
In the appendix to the message the
| President presented to Congress an
article which appeared in the Chicago
| by l.. ". Busbey, at that time private
secretary TO the Speaker OF the House,
entitled ~Wilkie Would Be the Fouche
of the House." Ths President char
acterzes il as -an utterly unwarrantable
attack on the secret service division
OF the Treasury Department and is
chief. The President calls attention TO
these paragraphs OF Mr.. lBusbey's article:
He uhe chief OF the division) and his
men are desrous OF doing the secret de-
tective work for the whole Government
and are not particular about drawing the
line between the lawmakers and the law
breakers. They are ready to shadow the
former as well as the latter.
Then the President says, after saying
that Congress will insist that the men
shall only be used to stop counterfeiting;
Congress does not intend TO have Fouche
or any other kind OF minister OF police TO
be used by the executive departments
against the legislative branch OF the Gov
ernment. II has been so used and it Is
suspected that II has been so used recently.
The legislative branch OF the
Government will not tolerate the meddlins
Of detectives, whether they represent the
President. Cabinet officers or only them
selves. Congressman resented the
secret interference OF the secret service
men who for weeks shadowed some OF
the most respected members OF the House
and Senate. when II was dis
covered that the secret service men were
shadowing Congressman there was storm
OF ind gnation at the Capitol and the bureau
came near being abolished and the appro-
priatiop for the suppression OF counter
feiting cut on. At another time
the chief Of the secret service had his men
shadow Congressmen with view to In
yolying them in scandals that would enable
the bureau to dictate TO them as the price
of silence. The s'cret s.rvio
men have shown an inclination again to
shadow members OF Congress, knowing
them TO be law makers, and this is no joke.
Several OF the departments have asked
Congress for secret funds for Investigation
and the Treasury Department wants the
Limitation removed from the appropriation
for suppressing counterfeiting. This shows
a tendency toward Foucheism and a secret
watch on other officials than themselves.
This is Mr.. Roosevelt's comment;
In view OF Mr.. Busbey's position ! have
accepted the above quoted statements as
fairly expressing the real meaning and
animus OF the attacks made in general
terms on the use OF the secret service for
tho punishment OF criminals. Further
more, In the performance OF my duty, to
endeavor TO find the feelings OF Congress
men on public questions OF note, ! have
frequently discussed this particular matter
with members OF Congress- and on such
occasions the reasons alleged to me for
the hostility Of Congress TO the secret
s,rvice, both by those who did and by
those who did not share this hostility. were
almost invariably the same as those set
forth In Mr.. Bnsbey's article. may
add, BY the way. that these allegations
as 10 the secret service are wholly without
foundation in fact.
All OF which, the President goes on 10
say, is beside the main issue: Does Con-
Rress desire that the Government shall
have at it's disposal the most efficient in
strument for the detection OF criminals
and the punishment and detection Of
crime, or does II not?'
THE action Of the House last May
he says. was emphatically an action
against the interest Of justice and against
the interest OF lawabding people, and in
its effect OF benefit only TO lawbreak ers.
/ am not now dealing with motives; what
ever may have been the motive that in
duced the action Of which ] speak. this
was beyond all question the effect OF that
action. Is the House now willing to remedy
the wronHl'
The President says he had tried to per-
suade the House, speaking informally
with members, not 70 permit the wrong
but he believed that the time had come for
plain speaking.