Bisbee daily review., 1909-01-05

Council Bluffs, Iowa. He is engaged in the wholesale grocery business. his store being located fin Omaha, in the wholesale district there. He Is re- puted to be quite wealthy Stewards attorneys are Harl & Finley, of Coun- cil Bluffs. Iowa, who are also the at torneys at that place for the Omaha and Council Bluffs Street Railway Company. in which company Harl holds considerable stock. Stewart be ing also a stockholder and possibly a director of the company. He is also represented in Omaha by w. J. Con nell. one of the attorneys there for the same company. Stewart Is also rep resented fin his perjury case by "Bill' Gurley. of Omaha, Nebr., who at one time was quite closely connected in a political way with the U. P. R. R. l Company; Stewart is also closely as- sociated with c. B. Hazleton, post master at Council Bluffs. Harl ( Finley and Ha.leton are all members Of the same lodge. Another close personal friend of Stewards Is Ed Hart. alias "Waterworks" Hart, presL dent of the Council Bluffs Water Company. and interested in the street hallway Stewards father was inter ested in, and practically owned and controlled. during his lifetime, large ranch along the U. P. R. R. in Nebras- ka, and did great deal of business with that road.
 Concerning this case the United States attorney at Omaha states: ! .zf fav art, one for fencing, one conspiracy, one perjury. all good cases and | chance of conviction good.
 In connection with the Nebraska ! prosecution the Government mas by ! decree secured the return of the Gov ernment of over a million acres of grazing land; in Colorado of more 1 than 2.OO0 acres of mineral land, and suits are now pending involving 15O,' 900 acres more.
 1 All these investigations in the land l cases were undertaken in consequence of MT Hitchcock. the then Secretary of the Interior, becoming convinced that there were extensive frauds com mitted in his Department; and the ramificatiOns of the frauds were Sc Ifarreaching that he was afraid to trust his own officials to deal fin thor c1ch-goinE fashion with them. the C the secret sarvice Dea accO 'dingl2 resigned and WIS appointed in ;he In terior Dayartmept to carry Ou this work The fist thing he discnve"e1 vas that the special agents diTis'on or corps of dectectivss of tno Lane Office of the, Interior Department was largely under tle control of -.'e land thieves; and in consequence the in- vestigations aiSve referred to had to be made by secret service men.
 if the present law, for which Messrs Tawney, Smith. and the other gentle men I have above mentioned are re spons. .ble, mad then been in effect, this action would have been impossi ble. and most of the criminals would unQuestionably nave escaped. No more striking instance can be imag ined of the desirability of having a central corps of skilled Investigating agents who can at any time be as signed, if necessary in large numbers to investigate some violation of the Federal statutes, in no matter what branch of the public service. In this particular case most Of the mninves' tigated whe were public servants were in the executive branch of the Gov erument. But in Oregon, where an enormous acreage of fraudnulently laIienated public land was recovered for the Government, a United States Senator. Mir Mitchell, and 8 Member of the lower House. Mir. Williamson, were convicted on evidence obtained iHty men transferred from the Secret ! Service and another Member of Con , grcss was indicted.
 i From 1901 to 1904 a successful in- Ivestigation of naturalization affairs was made by the Secret Service. with the result of obtaining hundreds Of convictions of conspiratOrs who were ! convicted of selling fraudulent papers Of standardization. Subsequently, Con gress passed a very wise law proyid- ing a special service and apprOpria- tion for the prevention of naturaliza' ton frauds: but unfortunately, at the same time that the action against tire ! Secret Service was taken, Congress also cut down the appropriation for special service, with the result or crippling the effort to stop frauds in naturalization) The fugitives Greene and Gaynor, implicated in a peculiarly | big Government contract fraud, were located and arrested in Canada by the Secret Service. and thanks to this ! they have gone to prison for their ! crimes.
 The Secret Service was used 70 as sist in the investigation Of crimes un- | der the peonage laws, and owing part. ! Iy thereto numerous convictions were secured and the objectionable prac- ' iice was practically stamped out, at least in many districts. The most eN. tensiye smuggling of silk and opium in the history of the Treasury Depart ment was investigated by agents of the Secret Service in New York and Seattle and a uccessful prosecution Of the offender undertaken. Assist ance of the utmost value was rendered to the Department of Justice in the beef-trust investigation at Chicago, prosecutions were followed up and fines inflicted. The cotton-leak scan dal in the Agricultural Department was investigated and the responsible parties located What was done in connection with lottery investigations is disclosed in a letter just sent to me by the United States attorney for Delaware. running as follows:
 The destruction of the Honduras National Lottery Company. successor to the Louisiana Lottery Company, was entirely the work of the Secret Service. This excellent work was accomplished by Mir. Wilkie and his subOrdiustes ! thought it