Show ADY TO ARGUE i THE QUESTION Roosevelt Gives Out State Statement Statement ment Regarding Use of Se Secret Secret Secret cret Service Officers NO ABUSE OF OPPONENTS MILD AND MODERATE LAN LANGUAGE LANGUAGE LANGUAGE GUAGE USED BY PRESIDENT I t Wa Feb 3 Declaring that I if r th government Is le to act with fill r fluency against criminals it must have liae some Iome kind of 0 secret service agents I an act against criminals any w I President In a state staten m n t ade public at atthe the White House i ii emphatically reiterated his op opp p In to restricting the field Held of the I f r t enice erl e TIlt Th position of or the administration i did tid ii l the president that It Is against gain sound bound policy to discriminate In Tn 1 of If criminals by discriminating Against the use of t the te e secret service to tn t ct and punish Vt Ar no t me has baa the president or any anya a officer claimed that the I rr legislation of or the last ses I iB i affected the secret service division of the treasury department in tho the mat ter ter of suppressing g counterfeiting or orI I tins the president As a matter of nf Of fa fat t the th limitation did not apply in tle lightest degree to the normal norma functions of that service and the claim that thc tho secret e ret sen service Ice was not ham hanl wred in looking after counterfeiters is dimmed but that assertion a that the Tr tf tion was waa harmless to the gov gO at s interest Is not correct Injurious Limitation fh Jh tred of or the limitation was ma mait it n to circumscribe the field of ot use in which the trained agents of i he the fret setret ret service had hitherto been ad employed Under limita limitation tion it bame bf ame Impossible to use these investigators estimators n in the class of or cases in which they have been conspicuously conspicuous successful for many years Th TIll phraseology of the restrictive legisla lion uon is such that any person who was employed In or under the secret dl di vision MElon during 1909 for even een so short a period as an hour became disqualified I Ifor for promotion of ot employment in any an branch of the government service here either his compensation comp or ex tenses lenses would be payable from any ap appropriation in the sundry civil act acL The limitations tied the hands of or the secretary of the treasury and made It impossible for to continue the em employment of these men met In many cases of of irregularities or wrongdoing in those branches of the treasury department devoted to the issuing and handling of ot securities and coins of ot the government Presidents Contention It is the contention of the executive branch of or the government that it should be permitted to use the best means mean of investigating criminal cases and when legislation is enacted that de deprives deprives the executive branch braAch of a par particularly particularly desirable and effective Imes investigating force the governments inter interests interests interests ests which are the Interests of or the peo people people pie are injured and the only gainers are the evildoers who may ma thereby escape I detection and punishment The question Is is It right or wise or er r proper specifically to discriminate against me JOe particular division of or the governments investigating forces and prevent Its employment where It might be bt used to great advantage It Is an evasion of the question to answer that j tn In one particular and circumscribed I Ifield field suppressing counterfeiting and i I protecting the president Its activities I are ar not affected by the limitation I If 1 the government is to act with full efficiency against crimes it must haVe hae some force of justice who can act against criminals anywhere and the position of the administration is that it is against sound public policy to dis discriminate criminate in favor of criminals by dis discriminating discriminating discriminating criminating against the use of or the se secret secret secret cret service to detect and punish them |