Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1909-01-09

very foundation of the government
than all other agencies combined.
lie said that when the executive de-
liberately charged, as he said was
done in his message of December s.
1908, that the Legislative branch in
the exercise Of it's constitutional func-
lions passed legislation (which has
been of benefit only. and would be OF
benefit to the criminal classes n
'if deliberately introduced, for the
purpose of diminishing the effective
ness Of war against crime, ii could
not have been better devised to that
end there was clearly implied that
in adopting the provision of which the
president complained. the congress
intended to beneht ana protect from
detection and punishment those guilty
of committing fraud and other viola
tons Of the public law.
Mr.. Tawney asserted that no dis
claimor could now modify or change
either the meaning of the language
used by the president or its interpre-
tation by the people and press of the
country. under which Interpretation
the honor and integrity of congress
has been assailed and stands inn
peachcd."
lie referred TO the further utter
ance of the president regarding mcm-
bcrs of being afraid to be in
vestigated and said that ito thus inn
pugn the motives Of the members of
the legislative branch of our govern
mcnt. violates not only the constitu-
tional privileges Of congress, but is
calculated 10 arouse a popular pre-
JUDGE against all branches of our gov
ernmcnt more Injurious to it's con-
tinucd success than anything that has
occurred nthe history of the repub-
lie"
If, he added. there vas no intcn-
ton to thus impugn the motives OF
congress, chen il was extremely UNI
fortunate that he gave To- the people
Of our country the opportunity to say
that that was the intention aud tina
such language would not nave been
used by the head Of the executive
branch without justification"
lie would prove, he said, HAT the
presidents u%tterances wore %unfound-
ed but he added when proven un-
founded it is unfortunate that there
viii still lingcr in the minds of many.
as the result Of this charge. the sus-
picion that there doe not exist
among those intrusted with the duties
and responsibilities of government
that degree of ~faithfulness to duty and
unselGsh patriotism which The people
of right expect of their representa-
.tivcs in all branches of the service 2
Taking up the provision enacted
which restricted the operation of the
agents Of the secret service division
of the treasury department, Mr.. Taw-
new declared that for thirty years the
law specifically had confined their
duties to hat department, but that
the law in that respect had been
strengthened. He denied thai the pro-
vision tied the hands Of government
officials in fcrreting ont crime, be.
cause. he said. the secret service of
the treasury was "a very small part o.
the secret service ia the various de
p%artmcnts. He Tcfuted the statements
that land fraud Investigations wore
stopped because of the provision re-
ferred to, ana cited the appropriation
Of 100000 given last year for the
land office alone for detecting frauds,
an amount. he said, double that ever
allowed before.
The president. said Mr., TaWncy fur
Their, had completely m%isquoted his
speech mentioned in me message
whether Intentionally or not and he
read from the Congressional Record
certain extracts to support his state
ment.
AS to Moran. the assistant chief Of
the secret service division of the
treasury, who was promoted for I'M
earthing certain ink frauds, Mr.. Taw-
ney declared in conclusion that the
promotion was made on the initiative
Of the committee on appropriations il
self and no one else.
When the further applause accord
ed Mr.. Tawney subsidized, Mr.. Shcrley
took the floor.