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Show DO NOT FEAR LIMITING NATION'S SECRET SERVICE WASHINGTON. Feb 15. Responsible officials connected with the detection of crime ln four different branches of the government have Just testified (u substance sub-stance that the limitation on the use ot Iho secret service operators of the treasury treas-ury department has not. be-on Injurious to their respective services. They are Chairman Chair-man Knapp of the Interstate commerce commission. William L. Solcrm, disbursing disburs-ing clerk of the department of commerce ami labor. G. W. Trowbridge, chief of revenue agents, and Assistant Secretary I James It. IU-vnolds of Hie treasury df- i partmcnt, in charge of the customs scrv- I C Their testimony, taken during hearings i ' on the sundrv civil appropriation bill, i was mane public today by t he hour.e com- , ; mlttei on appropriations. With th" lestl-1 lestl-1 mom of Secrotftrv Garfield of the Interior I depaVtment and' of Attorney General! Bonapnrte It Is rolled upon by the com- i niittei- to refill-1 tin- claim that the limitation lim-itation placed last year on the- secret ' service of the treasury department has , workeil to tin- Interest of the criminal 1 classes. , ... All who were examined on the subject ; , disapproved of th suggestion of a con-, con-, trnl bureau and all expressed satisfaction with exIstliiK conditions. None could recall re-call u demand for u secret service opci -. alive of the treasury department during the past year. |