Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-02-22

connection with the verdict which
must give renewed confidence TO am
those who believe that the law must
De ObcyDd.
".I desire to add TO- what has been
quoted above the appreciation Of the
department here Of The work done by
MI Wheeler. who has shown himself
to bo conscientious and highly ell
cicut fundamentally in bringing about
much desired results Boo Nebraska. Very
respectfully
ALFRED w. COOLEY,
Acting Attorney General
LIMITATION ACTUAL
"Tho limitation Of the use Of the
secret service was not i'm the least de-
gree technical; Ct was real and actual
Do such "a condition as arose I'm the In
terror department some four years ago
arises again boz that department. with
| this limitation we should be prevent
ed from employing the sercet service
and the result would be harmful to
the government and Of benefit only to
the criminals, unless. Of course, We are
able 20 build up a precisely similar
secret service iu the department OF
/ justice. in which case the action Of the
| Congress would have been effective
| only as showing IT'S disapproval Of The
I admirable work done by Chief Wilkie
/ ANA his division Unless the new Sc
/ cret service IN the department Of jus
/ tice does fits work ga precisely similar
/ fashion 90 Chief wilkes secret ser
| vice. @ viii not DO good and effective
] work and I can your attention TO the
/ fact that the ,esult Of the action u
| Congress has hitherto been by the Gre
alton Of the sesret service. markedly
/ 90 increase the total cost OF this class
/ of work
'Thc facts in reference 90 the detec-
/ tion and suppression of the land frauds
| and the punishment Of criminals en-
! gagged iu them have been made
| public again and again, but In
| view OF the report OF your COM
| mittee 10 is as well to refer 10
| them once more. Secy. Hitchcock
| became convinced that there were
| widespread frauds In his department
| and that his own force was unable 10
! deal with them. Through the depart
| mout Of Justice he had a number Of se-
| crct service operatives assigned 20
J work on the interior department cases,
together with one secret service opera
tive who was assigned direct 90 the
| Interior department Mr.. Hemanway
speaks as 10 the attorney general and
/ the secretary Of the interior had not
| known of such assignments, as a mat
| ter Of fact every such assignment was
I mace on Nl' NIIhlNn hhANN-A 81 llIH
| head OF the department. The FIRST re-
suit of the work IN question was %
find that various departmental officials
| haze failed in their duty and some of
them were accordingly dismissed.
WOULD HAVE ESCAPED.
"rhe results of the assignment Of the
. secret service men taken. Of course. In
connection with the activity of the re-
organized force OF special agents from
. the interior department are found iu
the conviction OF many defendants
some OF them being among the wealth.
7 esq and most influential people in thch
communities others standing high hi
the political world. one OF them heing
a senator and another a representative,
iu Congress, while "a second representa-
tive 600 Congress was indicted. II tn
limitation of the use OF the secret sery.
ice which your committee upholds has
been iu force az the time of which
speak, tho senator, the Representatives
and the various men OF wealth and higl
political influence who were convicted
would am have escaped punishment
. hold that such am outcome would haN,
been BOZ The interest of the criminals
only
"Ouce tho emergency had passed th,
/ need for the detail of the secret serNic,
| men uo longer existed and they weu
/ accordingly Withdrawn. But this his
/ tory of these land frauds shows con
1 cIusiyely che need NJ having some Sc
/ cfDt service body subject to emergonc,
, detail Co departments n which 10 Is no
: 7 ordinarily employed.
Before the secret service was uaet
m the interior department as hav
| outlined above. tho prosecutions fo
| land frauds were insignificant in thel
results Al the time there wns no ~
| feCtiVe desire shown 90 limit the uae a
. the secret service Then the secra
. service agents were used in conneCtio
with these lands frauds and secured IA
prosecution and conviction Of man
P mru. influential because or their Weall
or their social order political pnoml
ueucr Forthwith there began that al
tive agitation against the Use uf M
. secret service which continued uutn th
ID cotton of the Congress last spring Yer
rcsrectmlN
THEODORE ROOSEVELT"
.I S. This Irtlsr d. boz part based uI
ou statements furnished by tho attol
a ury-s.neial aud iho secretary of Oh
N interior lt ha. neeu carefully ura
otur Dos them AND thc statements
% aU which t contains so far aa The
' IeI.r fn tho drua fmFut ~ justice am
tne department uf t1e Interior haN
. bosom checked and approved by them.
'lucl... Nauous documents AS 90
lows.
statement showing requests ~ az
n nlItmruf off Justice flr tho afsigumer
uf secret service operatives during On
!, ye.r 1901 ana the nrst siK months
' lHu.
statements of "a number of men en-
. pluyed lu secret service CO., criminal 10
y YesuEation work during the year lul
" ended aa compared with tho year l90
I. 1902