Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1909-01-07

statement of what the gentlemen MAX
ing ii conceive To have been the In W.
! There WAS both by Implication and
direct statement the assert ion that it
was the law and ought to he the law
that the secret service should only be
used to suppress countcrfciting and
that the law should be made more
rigid than ever in his respect.
No Restrictions on Service.
incidentally may say that in my
Judgment there is ample legal :uthor
ity for the statement hat this appro-
priation law to which reference was
made imposes no restrictions whatever
but relates solely to the expenditure of
the money appropriated Mr.. Tawney
in The debate stated that he had in his
possession ~ letter from the secretary
Of the treasury received q few days
Hs5' in which the secretary of the
treasury himself admits that the pro-
visions under which the appropriation
has been made have been violated year
after year for Il number Of years in
his own department" | append here
with as Appendix \ the letter re-
fcrred to- Appendix A is Il letter from
Secretary of the Treasury Cortelyou to
the chairman Of the committee on ap-
preparations Of the house Of represent
alivcs. dated April 30. 1908. protest
ing against the proposed law abridg-
ing The right Of the secretary Of the
treasury to detail secret service men
10 work IN other divisions of his de-
partmcnt. such abrdgcment he de-
clared. would be 'disiinctly to the ad
vantage Of violators OF criminal stat
utcs Of the United States" 1t makes
no such admission as that which Mr..
Tawney alleges 1t contains, on the
contrary. as you will sec by reading ii.
an "emphntic protest against any such
abridgement of the rights delegated to
the secretary "f the treasury by eX-
isting law" and concludes by assert
III" that he "lS quite within his rights
In thus employing tn" service of these
agents" and that the proposed modifi
cation which Mr.. Tawney succeeded In
carrying through would be ''diStinctly
to the advantage OF violatOrs Of crimi-
nal statutes Of the United States"
call attention to the fact that i'm this
letter of Secretary C"riclyou to Mr.
Tawney. as in my letter to the speaker
quoted below. the explicit statement
is made that the proposed change will
he for the benefit Of the criminals. Il
statement which simply reiterated in
public form in my message to the con-
gress this year and which Is also con-
tanned in effect in the report Of the
yrcSS.
"Private Conduct" Of Members.
\ careful reading of the CongressiOn-
al Record will also show that practical
ly the only arguments advanced in fa-
vor Of the limitation proposed by Mr..
TawneyS committee beyond what may
he supposed to be contained by impli
cation in certain sentences as to
abuses which were not specified
were those contained in the repeated
statements of Mr.. Shcrlcy. Mr.. Sher-
Icy stated That there had been pro
niU!"tt atuN'S StoNiilS 'ut VI 'uc
use Of the secret service for purposes
other than those intended" putting his
statement in the form Of Il question.
and in the same form further stated
p, that the "privatc conduct" of "mem-
berS Of congress. senators and others
! ought not to ho investigated by the
secret servi:c and that they should
l
grcss" who had been accused Of ''con-
duct unbecorng a gentleman and n
member of congress" In addition to
these assertions, couched as questions.
he made one positive declaration that
this secret service at one time was
| used for the purpose of looking INTO
| .hc personal conduct of member OF