Weekly journal-miner., 1915-12-01
FRICTION EXISTS IN CABINET
 OF WILSON
EFFORTS OF SECRET SER VICE TO PUNISH CON- SPIRATORS ARE BEING BADLY HAMPERED.


 ous mix-up, which has produced fric
 ton in the presidents cabinet, doubt
 less has iampered the governments
 efforts to apprehend and punish those
 conspirators wno have been engaged
 ill efforts to blow m American and
 other ships carrying munitions of war and which, if Congress does its duty
 may develop into scandal of propor'
 tions, has come to light following the arrest by the Secret Service of
 Robert Fay and his associates. The
 Secret Service is, of course, the prop
 CT corps to deal with offenses of this kind but it develops that the Trust Busters" attached to the Department
 of Justice, under the supervision of A. Bruce Bielaski, have been doing most of this character of work, al though in announcements to the pub lie it nas been stated that it was being done by the State Department. Fay and his associates, however, were first arrested by the New York pol ice, with which department William ]. Finn, head of the Secret Service was formerly connected. The New York police turned Fay ct al. over to Flynn and ne promptly employed an extra force of men to run down the other conspirators and the linen high CT up.' Although the Secret Ser vice is in the Treasury Department, Secretary McAdoo objected So did Bielaski and Attorney General Greg ory. There began to circulate ugly stories of efforts by the Administra- ton to shield certain of its friends who were among the 'higner ups" Flynn pursued his work and there arose question as to where he pro cured the funds to carry it on. Then it was discovered that the Secretary of War, who, apparently distrusts the work of Bieiaski and his subordinates, had found some fund which he had placed at the disposal of Flynn. It is understood that MT. McAdoo has now ordered Flynn to abandon the task, while Attorney General Gregory nas appealed to the States to carry on the task on the ground that the Fed eral laws are inadequate. The real facts may never be disclosed, in view of the powerful influences being ex- erted to suppress them. but if they are it will result in mighty scan dal, altogether too close to the head of the administration to be comfor- table, Congress should put Secrc' tary Garrison on the stand.
 "PERK" PERKING:-George w.. Perkins-"Perk," as he Is affection ately called by his intimates-is going up and down the land trying 10 'perk" up the Progressives and. declaring that Missouri and other states will certainly put a presidential ticket in tine field. Evidently Mr. Perkins does not face with cquanirnity the sad prospect of being leader with no one to lead. His pronounciamentoes re- garding a Progressive candidate, etc, fall rather flat in view of the unanimity with which the Progress sives have decided to return to the faith of their fathers. Missouri itself shows striking evidence of this. In 1912 Missouri gave Mr. Roosevelt l240O0 votes. Last year the largest Progressive vote cast in the state was for senator. It numbered U,000. President Wilson's State shows strik- ingly the passing of the Progressives. In 1912 that party cast l45,4l0 votes in New Jersey; in 1914 ii cast 21 ,236, and in 1915 it cast 6,o03. Neither can MT. Perkins find much comfort in the showing of his party in Massa- chusetts. In that state the Progress sives cast l27,00O votes in 1913, d total Of 32,OOO in 1914 and only 1000 in 1915. The Progressive par ty may put a presidential ticket in the field but it looks as if the nominee must be George w. Perkins, the nom inator George w. Perkins, and the main voter for the nominee George w. Perkins.
 DIPLOMACY AND GOWNS:-l