The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-01-22

the new regime will keep the men
moving. No agent will be allowed to
settle down In any locality. Hence
the new service has already received
the new name Of the "dying squad
rom" It's members will be sent to any
port where there is the slightest sus-
picion Of crookedness or irregularity
In customs and will even go to Paris
or London to watch things.
Once the flying squadron" arrange
ment is worked out it will prove a
terror to those who seek to defy the
customs laws, or evade them in any
fashion, or to the officials who con-
hives at smuggling.
In commenting ON the new order
OF things. Chief Wilkie says that
when the customs agents are fully
prepared to take the Aeld a repetition
Of the recent New York customs fraud
will never occur. differentiation
frauds will be an unheard OF thing,
and attempts of society women and
others to smuggle into this country
dutiable purchases made abroad will
completely disappear.
Blow to smuselers.
"There will be no incentive for a
person 10 break the customs laws,
continued Chief Wilkie. land customs
frauds will disappear because in the
first place such an action will be be-
meath respectable people and in the
second place the smugglers will know
that Jail or penitentiary sentence is
extremely apt to follow such an ac-
ton.
Heretofore, customs agents have
been dealing with travellers on a
plane that is too lenient. When the
incoming passenger arrives with a
trunkfull of dutiable articles and tries
to cheat the customs officials. he or
she usually begs off. and escapes with
a reprimand.
Under the new scheme when pas
sengers make declaration, it will
have to stand. If the law is violated
they will be arrested for a breach of
the customs laws. just as any offender
Is arrested for a breach of the peace.
This new service is going to be
very much on the job. and you can
say that 1t intends to make a record
not even second to that attained by
the secret service" .....
While Chief Wilkie has been busily
engaged in his new task the work of
the secret service has not been inter-
fered with. Its work is going on just
os usual. appropriations for it's con-
tinuance haing been made by con-
gress until the end of the fiscal year.
Date Of Organization.
The secret service was organized in
1911, when the hrst reference was
made to the bureau as secret service
force. In 1851 however, congress
made appropriations for the suppress.
sion OF oounterfeiting which has been
continued to this day. Now the serv.
ice IL to be placed under the super.
vision Of the bureau OF investigation
of the department Of justice, which
will have permanent headquarters in
the large cities Of the country. These
will be located at Seattle. San Fran.
cisco. Los Angeles, FL Paso, San An
tonic. New Orleans. Kansas City. st.
Louis. Denver, Buffalo. Chicago. New
York. Philadelphia. Boston and Allan
IA, Ga. The Chicago and New York of.
fees have already been established
with sixteen men each. These agents
will be expected to do all kinds of de.
tective work for the government, in
Guiding running down counterfeiters,
apprehending criminals and detecting
all kinds OF crime against the United
States.
In the establishment of permanent
Offices In the federal buildings Of the
large cities. the department of justice
expects to save considerable money.
Now. when case Is to be investi.
gated in San Francisco, they have to
pay the fare of one of the agents
there and back Under the new sys-
TEN to be inaugurated. they will mere
ly have to telegraph their own head
quarters.
In connection with plans made by
the department the work OF investi-
eating the trusts is proceeding on the
largest scale ever planned Every big
trust In the United States is being
probed in an effort to separate the
good trusts from the bad. In none OF
the Investigations will there be any
hasty action. The attorney general
will have to be convinced whether the
government can make out a case