The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-02-22

over, the congress provided no substi-
tute whatever for the secret service
In consequence the department OF
justice was obliged to develop as
speedily as possible It's corps OF spe-
cial detectives TO take the place or
the secret service agents, which 1t
lad previously used and the nucleus
of this force was made up OF officers
formerly connected with the secret
service and trained in such methods.
j call your special attention to the
fact that il the department of justice
had not taken this action, there
would have been a complete failure to
enforce the law against many types
of criminals and as 1t was, in the early
months of the present fiscal year. dur
ing the C. H. Morse prosecution IN
New York and in connection with Ger
tain other important cases. serious
inconvenience and anxiety were
caused to the prosecuting officers Y
this action OF congress IN deprlvIng
them of the aid of the experienced
operatives of the secrcc service, on
whom they had been accustomed to
rely. | call your attention to the fur
ther fact that the department OF JUS
tice had never taken any steps tc
organize this force so long as IL could
get men detailed to it from the sec
ret service. In other words, the ac-
tion Of the congress in regard to the
secret sersice would have caused
gross miscarriage oil justice, had IT
not been in large part nullified by the
prompt action OF the department or
Justice on it's own initiative and with
out any further legislation OF any
Kind by the congress, In providing
species of secret service within the
department OF justice itself.
Your committee states that it has
never been the intention OF the con
gress to build up spy system. The
next sentence. however. advocates the
building up of precisely this spy
system in the department OF justice.
Not only have l again and again re-
quested that the secret service be
placed under the department OF JUS
tice, but the chief OF the secret SER
vice has himself specifically request
ed on different occasions that the same
course be followed. AS regards the
general policy which should be fol'
lowed, therefore, your committee mas
declared for the policy. the adoption
OF which / have urged and all dill
culties would be met by providing spe-
ciflcally and amply for carrying out
that policy. Chief Wilkie should be
transferred to the department OF JUS
tice and put at the head oil the force
therein organized.
But in your report and the subse-
quent debate, direct and Indirect
attacks are made upon the secret
service, with curious persistency
and a curious indifference TO the TACT
that your committee recommends that
q precisely similar secret service to
the one attacked and now established,
observed that no limitation is pro-
posed upon the secret service and In
spcction work OF the government.
Senator Hemenway states that
There are more than three thousand
men now in the secret service and In
spection work OF the government,
and that In the last few years. the
number has trebled and that III they
were to march through the streets or
Washington. they would make an
army while 1T was also stated in
the same debate that at the close OF
President McKinley's administration.
there were only 167 such men on the
pay rolls, whereas 1t was alleged that
we now have over three thousand
and that the appropriations on that
account for the last year, amounted
to about S10.0O0.OOO.' These state
ments are not in ACCORDANCE with the
facts
II submit to you herewith sub
stantially accurate statement OF the
number OF mon employed on Secret
service work. or criminal inyestiga-
ton work, during the wear that has
just passed. as compared with the
years 1901~02 Owing TO the very
brief period which | have had to get
at these figures II was impossible to
get them with entire accuracy, but
they are not out OF the way more than
n score or so IN either direction. Ac-
cording TO these figures, it appears