Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1909-01-09

President Roosevelt's message to
Congress dealing with Congressional
of his reference to the Sc
cret Service was received In today's
mail. Extracts giving the leading
points made by the President follow:
A careful reading Of this message
will show that said nothing to war;
rant the statement that "the major
ity OF the Congressman were in fear
of being Investigated by the secret
service men," or that Congress as a
whole was actuated by that motive"
| did not make any such statement
In this message. Moreover, I have
never made any such statement about
Congress as a whole. nor, with a few
inevitable exceptions, about the men,
bers of Congress, in any message or
article or speech. On the contrary, I
have always not only deprecated but
vigorously resented the practice of in
discriminate attack upon Congress,
and indiscriminate condemnation of
all Congressman, wise and unwise, fit
and unfit, good and bad alike. No
one realizes more than I the impor-
lance of cooperation between the Ex-
ecutive and Congress, and no one
holds the authority and dignity of the
Congress of the United States in
higher respect than do. have not
. ha qli o. n d aat ovp, M no uyith The nra,
tice Of judging men, for good or for
i'll, not on their several merits, but in
a mass. as members Of one particular
body or one caste. To put together
all men holding or who have held a
particular Office, whether 1t be the
Office of President, or Judge, or Sen
ator, or Members Of the House OF
Representatives, and to class them
all, without regard to their individ-
ual differences, as good or bad, seems
to me. utterly indefensible; and 1t Is
equally indefensible whether the good
are COMPOUNDED with the bad In a
heated and unwarranted champion.
ship of all. or in heated and unwar.
ranted assault upon all. l would nei-
Their attack nor defend all executive
officers in mass, whether Presidents
Governors, Cabinet officers, or Off.
cials OF lower rank: nor would I at.
tack or defend all legislative officers
in mass. The safety OF free govern.
ment rests very largely in the ability
of the plain. everyday citizen to dis.
eliminate between those public serv.
public sefyantytw6o serve him III He
can not thus discriminate IL he II
persuaded to pass Judgment upon Q
man, not with reference to whether
he is 1T or unfit public servant, bu,
with reference to whether he is ar
executive or legislative officer, wheth
er he belongs to one branch or the
other Of the Government. s.
This alietaeionSin the resolution
therefore. must certainly be due ,tc
an entire failure to understand my
message. ID
Now as to the request of the Con
gress that | give the evidence for m,
statement that the chief argument II
favor Of the provision was that thu
Congressmen did not themselves wisl
to be investigated by secret service
men, ,......l
The part Of the Congressional Rec
ord to which ! have referred aboy,
entirely supports this statement. TIVE
distinct lines of argument were fol
lowed In the debate. One concerned
the question whether the law war
ranted the employment Of the secre
service in departments other than tn
Treasury, and this did not touch tn
merits Of the service In the least. Tn
other line Of argument went to tn
merits of the service. whether law
fully or unlawfully employed, an,
here the chief II not the only argu
ment used was that the servic
should be cut down and restricted be
cause It's members had snadowed
or Investigated members Of Congress
and other officers Of the Government
II We examine the debate In detal
II appears that most Of what wa
urged in favor of the amendment too
the form of the simple statement tina
the committee held that there ha
been violation Of law" by the us
of the Secret Service for other pul
poses han suppressing counterfeitin
tapd one or two, other matters whic
can be disregarded), and that sue
language was now to be used Q
would effectually prevent all such v
olation OF law hereafter. Mr.. Tav
ney, for instance, says: ut was fc
. the purpose of stopping the use {