The Penn's Grove record., 1909-01-22
Us. Government Spends S2O,0O0,O0O
a~Year For Secret Service
Assertion That This Amount Was Paid Out in 1908 Will Form the Basis II a Rld Inws
tsado Into the Uses to Which Such a Sum Has Been put-Rspr@entauye TaWney
Says Country Will Be bdonSbed N What Committee VIM ReyMl.

Washington, D.. @. The Senate
Committee on Appropriations, which
is carrying out the Senate's instruc-
lions to investigate the operations of
the Secret Service and other detective
bodies employed Under the Admins
tration, already has obtained sufi-
Gent Information to show that in the
last year sums of money a~ggregating
about $1,000, 600 have been expend-
ed in secret investigation under the
direction of the President. This
knowledge will be used by the Senate
committees subcommittee of inquiry
as the basis for a rigid examination
into the uses to which such a vast
amount of money has been put. Much
of the money expended was not ap-
propriated specifically for making in.
vestigations of a secret character, but
was taken from lump sums placed at
n disposal of the Executive to meet
contingent expenses.
The criticism of the lavish way in
which Government funds have been
used for purposes of investigation is
becoming very pronounced among
Senators and Representatives, and
they think it is about time to call a
halt. Where all the $4,000 900 was
spent is a source of wonder at the
Capitol.
In spite Of reports to the contrary
it is denied that there is any real
basis for the belief that in undertake
ing to investigate the workings of the
Governments secret agencies the Sen
ate and House are making a first step
in the direction of causing trouble for
tho DroCfdnnf Tho np~noe1 - kho,@
inquiries, it is asserted, is to ascer-
tain and prevent further abuses by
the Executive and not to place obsta-
performing his legitimate constitu-
tional and legal functions.
There Is good reason to~believe that
the Senate investigation will result
In an effort to define in unmistakable
terms the relations between the Ex-
scutive and the legislative branches of
the Government and to make clear
that moneys appropriated by Con-
gress shall be used only for the pur-
poses for which they were specifically
appropriated.
1The enormous r~amifcations of the
system of Federal espionage which
has grown up largely under the Adj
ministration, extending even to the
domestic affairs of citizens are
shown by figures quoted by Represen-
tative Tawney, of Minnesota, chair
man of the House Committee on APP
preparations.
During the last session of Congress
the Administration, which is now
complaining because $4,000 was
taken of the usual appropriation for
the Secret Service division of the
Treasury Department, called for very
large appropriations for other secret
Investigations, and these %appropria-
tons were actually made by Congress.
The several amounts reached the
enormous total of $~8,126,000.
While 1t is only fair to say that a
part of this large sum was not ex-
pended for Investigations essentially
secret In character an enormous
amount was intended to further the
secret police and investigation work
of the Government; the rest was for
various inspection work.
Representative Tawney and other
members of the House Committee on
Appropriations declared that large