Show SEC SECRET ET SERVICE LIMITATIONS In the course Bourse ourse of ot his hs annual message President Roosevelt recommended the repeal of or the law limiting the use of or the government secret service to those departments de departments departments In which the secret service agents are regularly employed Not content with a simple recommendation he le said in set terms that the limitation had lad been imposed for the benefit of con congressmen congressmen congressmen gressmen and senators whose purpose was to shield criminals and he inti intimated intimated mated maled very ery strongly that some of the members of or the national l legislature had a very strong strong personal interest in thus hampering the investigating power of ot the government As examples he cited the cases of Senator Mitchell of or orOre Oregon Ore on and others who had been found t und guilty of or defrauding the government through Irregularities In land entries Strange as asit it may seem congress and the he senate resent being classified by the chief executive as possible IT tr not probable probable probable able criminals bent on avoiding detec detection detection tion ion So strong is this resentment that an informal caucus of or Republican n mem members members members bers considered seriously s a movement to o expunge pu from the records that part of or the presidents pr message which re Ye referred to the secret service as ay an insult to o both houses Lacking courage to go this his far It was finally agreed that an Investigation into the subject should s be made and a motion to that effect has already been prepared for tor introduction Into nto the house The cause cause of the law taw which passed at the last session restricting the use of ot the he detective det service was the discovery that hat some some of ot the departments had been b en using secret t service men for personal perso al ends One case was cited in which an ananny army anny officer who had had some domes domestic 1 tic ic trouble was put under surveillance by government detectives for tor private Information which was was used later against him Congressmen and sen senators senators senators were spotted presumably at the Instance of or those high in authority In Ina Ina ina a way wa the th methods of ot the Russian Russian bu were repeated and congress resorted resort d to legislation to protect prot ct itself The president says that no one would oppose the unrestricted use of the se seret secret secret cret ret service except those who had good reason eason to fear exposure and punish punishment punishment ment me t By Inference he designates in advance for tor condemnation any con congressman c congressman n gressman or senator who dares oppose his recommendation a queer doctrine In Ina a republican government and one cal calculated calculated to stir up any representative who has any an manhood left In him If a chief executive or a cabinet of officer or a department head were to be given iven unlimited authority to use secret service men his ability to intimidate legislators or other government officials would be f measured only by his un unscrupulousness unscrupulousness scrupulousness It is no answer to say that hat that the innocent would have haYe no occasion occa ion slon to object ct no man however clean his ils life can escape suspicion if it is known that he is under surveillance and nd no man however honest could combat effectively the evidence that could be piled up against him if it a systematic systematic effort to discredit him were un undertaken undertaken by b government authority experiments have demonstrated the th feasibility and desirability of the de departure departure departure Millions are Invested In steam engines which would have to be aban abandoned abandoned abandoned the development of electricity in some localities Is impossible except at prohibitive expense electric electric Installation Installation tion where power Is developed from a central station might Involve a break breakdown ak down of the whole system If the main maln plant were we e destroyed even If It were duplicated Against these disadvantages disadvantages Is the cheapness of or electricity from water power under favorable con conditions conditions conditions the great ease with which elec electric iris power may may be utilized on heavy grades Its lack of smoke and dust the simplicity and economy economy of ot control and the general flexibility of Its power as applied to heavy hedvy he Y or light loads In mountain operation the engineers who have studied the problem believe electricity is incomparably better than steam The problem of the Sierras for tor Instance where the Southern Pacific crosses through the must ultimately be solved by the use of elec electricity electricity electricity The Truckee river Is available for tor water power on a large scale and the use of ot electricity would obviate one of the greatest menaces mena s to the safety of ot operations by making fire In the next to impossible When the Sierras are tunneled as they the will willbe willbe m be the electric locomotives will be a necessity because e no motive power could be handled with safety through the long long ong tunnel necessary necessary i isal sary sal to get through the big divide Again the Short Line in Wyoming between Granger and Pocatello may mily some day utilize the enormous power to be developed from the waters of ot Bear river impounded in Bear lake by bythe bythe bythe the Telluride company Practically un unlimited unlimited unlimited limited power will be available from froma a source that Is supposed to be In Inexhaustible inexhaustible inexhaustible exhaustible and the engineering obstacles obstacles obstacles cles to the change of power are com corn comparatively slight It may ma be many years before electric electricity electricity electricity ity is in general use se on tha the great systems systems systems but the beginnings are made and gradual extension In the most favor favorable favorable favorable able localities is already under way Wa The New York Central on Its Us terminal lines Unes the Pennsylvania to Long Lang Island City and the same road to Philadel Philadelphia Philadelphia Philadelphia phia show the utility of o such service e etor for tor short hauls on heavy heaY traffic lines experiments will pave the way Wa for fur further further further ther extensions until the electric locomotives loco locomotives motives will be the rule rather than the exception wherever economy or facility of operation shows it is desirable Copper production on a cheap scale will of course play pla a large part In Inthis Inthis inthis this next stage of the transportation development of the country And nd con conversely conversely conversely this change in systems will have an Important bearing on the future of copper mining In this country It por par portends portends tends a great revolution In railroading one that will go far toward solving the problem involved In the rapid r exhaustion exhaustion tion Jon of ot coal resources and utilizing what are now unproductive streams |