The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-01-19
u. S. Government Spends sS2O,OOO,OOO
a Year For Secret Service
Assertion That This Amount Was Paid Out In 1908 Will Form the Basis Of Rigid n
gaOn Into the Uses Which Such Sum Has Been uRepentaVe TaWny
Says Country VIII Be EOnihe by What Committee Will Reveal.

sums of money have been diverted
for other purposes than those desig-
mated or intended by the law. The
investigation about to be begun by
the House is intended to uncover as
many of these abuses as possible.
Speaker Cannon named Represen-
tatives Olmstead, of Pennsylvania,
chairman; Currier, of New Hamp-
shire; Young, of Michigan; Brantley,
of Georgia, and Bowers, of Missis-
sippi, as members of the special COM
mittee authorized by the Tawney res
olution to Investigate the various
branches of the Government Secret
Service. Messrs. Brantley and Bow
ers are Democrats. Mr.. Bowers is
a member of the Appropriations Com
mittee
AS the result of the passage of sew
eral laws in the last few years, with
other reasons, the number of men en-
ployed to discover violations of stat
utes has increased nearly twentyfold
within a decade. According to Mr..
Tawney, the number of these men ON
the Federal roll just prior to the
Spanish War was less than 200; to-
day it exceeds 5000, and the appro-
priations for their maintenance have
jumped from little over $1,000, 000
to seven or eight times that amount.
This is aside from other expenditures.
Some of the large items contained
in the current appropriation act, that
is, those that were passed last winter,
were shown by Mr.. Tawney and Mr..
Smith, another member of the APP
preparations Committee. They are as
follows:
For the detection of violations of
the postal laws, $1,105, 900.
For the detection of violations of
the internal revenue laws, 1925, 900.
For the detection of frauds on the
customs, 100000.
For the detection of counterfeiters,
S115,0O0. y
For Investigations by the Bureau
of Corporations, $175, 900.
For special agents and inspectors
in the enforcement of the Interstate
Commerce act, $450,0O0.
For the detection and prevention
of depredationso on public lands, $780,
900.
For the investigation of Antitrust
law violations. $250,000.
For special agents for the Pension
Bureau, $380,000.
For the enforcement of the Meat
Inspection law Congress appropriated
5000, 900, the bulk of which is said
to have been expended for inspection
services.
Similarly a large part of an appro-
priation of $4,000 for the enforce
ment of the Pure Food act, 1t is as
serted, is paid out for inspectors. A
sum approaching $1,000,00O annual
ly is said to be expended for the en-
forcement of the immigration and
Chinese exclusion laws.
All this is aside from appropria-
lions for the collection of evidence in
the ordinary litigation which Occur
pies the time of the Department Of
Justice, including the pay Of United
States marshals, special attorneys and
experts of various kinds. 1t readily
can be seen that with appropriations
made in lump form, such as the fore
going, it is difficult to segregate the
amounts paid out for actusl work of
detection of all kinds, and it is this,
among other things, that the investi-
| pation is exnnctad tn disclose