| Show SPECIAL MESSAGE ON SECRET SERVICE President CompIles Wih With tons of House of Representatives tives Asking ExplanatIon CANNOT AGREE WITH THEM Mad Madi No Charges of Corruption Against Congress or Any Morn Mem her ber of Present House Iii Semite o of Ind tumid lie 0 remit SI houses el ollon or of Iut Year be WashIngton Je Jan 4 speak m mue me ue sage trl from the president In response e to the ba houses ruet request for tor InformatIon on which h lie I hl hk on Con 11 giess t to the u us o 0 tl the secret Ort Ime tot force wa was rf I by th thue the hotie ue to d dab To th the 10 House tf ef J I hays received the or of the bout of ot of D DC 17 1 1000 ro em fellows i Whereas ber there thI w was contained In tb the I sundry civi civil appropriatIon bl bill which I 1 Cons Congress a at It its lest n auth I C a a tw law a provision In reference to the employment of oC the Mert secret Mu In the treasury department and I lii the last Jut annual mae ot of the president of oC the Unite UnIted States to the two houses house of Conr Congress I It Was stated In reference to that provision I it II is no not too much to say MY tt that title amendment has been of oC benefit only and oh b be ot of only t to te tile criminal cleM Md and It w was furth stated Te The chi chief t argument nt In favor of the provision WI wit that the congre men did nt not Ulem themselves I wt wish to b be In Investigated by secret lt service Ice men it II w was further stated But Dut It If this Is III not de desirable A special lion could Ix ho rondo made In the law ing Ine the use Ulle of U the secret rt service force torce In investigating members of ong It would be tar far helter Jetter to Jo this lInus to todo todo do what actually was Jon Jone and 1 IThe In t or er at least leut to tive Uon against by the eX executive branch of the and the plain meaning of the above words I is that the majority or of orthe the co re were in III rear fear or of being Ing Investigated by secret ecret service men arid and that t Congress as a whole wan actuated hy by that motive In enacting g the pro provision vision In and your OUr committee appointed to con th these s or of the president to report port to 10 the house can CIUI not timid III the hearings before nor tn in UtA ro I or of tb the or senate an any Iu of nt ot of the tho honor honer end integ thy of the Conr and your our would pie fr for In order to make arm all intelligent arid lve report Jut Just to time the pros Ident u as well u as to the COn Congress to have all 1111 the Information which the tho president mal have to communicate Now ow therefore lIe He It II resolved d That the president be requested to to the an any evidence upon which be based balled ide that the chief argument In favor tavor or of time the provision l n was wall that the Congressmen did not themselves I Ito to be investigated 1 by secret men and also to to the house hOUM guy any evidence connecting any member of the hou houst of oC or of the tite Sixtieth Congress with cot cor corruPt ruPt action In his officIal capacity and anel to inform the huu house whether he ball baa In proceedings for tor the punishment ot or nil any such Individual by the cour courts l or 01 hu has reported Any such lIuch alleged allgOO dolin delin to the house ur of represents II rices v CANT ANT V 10 D DI I 1 am wholly at It a 10 1035 to understand the portion ot of the lion I have mad no le ot of cot cor corruption agaInst Congress nor against any member of oC the tha hoo house U It ItI I 1 had bad proof of such corruption affect log Ing any Iber of f th the hone In any uny matter is to width the Hie federal govern mont ment has ha Jurisdiction action would at once be brought aa a wu warn done In t the fl I cases ot of Senators Mitchell and But Dur Durton Button ton stud wid IJ Williamson Herrmann ad at different timet since I 1 have been president This would simply lie be doing lilY amy duty In the execution arid and enforcement ot of the law without respect to l persons But I 1 do not lIot Id It as aa within the province or 0 t tbs duties of the president to report to the house hOUM nJ alleged delhi of members or the sup corrupt action ot of II a member in Ia bt his officIal capacity The rhe morn ot of the house I Is by the lion within the por ot of the boue eisa loRe In tb thu prosecution of 01 criminal I and the enforcement of oC the laws law the lii must resort to the courts OOIN of 0 Ut lb United In th third and fourth clauses ot of Ute Use pr preamble It I II stated that t the moan mean hug Ine ot of Ia my word wOlde II I that Ute lbs ma ot of the Con are In fear ot of being b by service servicemen me men and ad that OI as a was 11 actuated by that motive InoUye In enact the provisIon III and that tHI this ta is an Impeachment of U the honor 1141 integrIty of oC the CUll Congress Thea statement are at not I tJ think in tw an co with the facts TIle The portion u of my HI to runs ruu as aa tel fol follow lows low ieSI an aa ana WM we In la In the de providing tei Cor Lbs secret whisk J that there be no DO detail freer the secret Co It I Ic not too muck to say that thaI this has baa hone of at bell bane baneat at only aad could Id be ot of bell only to the crimi criminal It If t tI I rUI fus Ih the purpose uC of ill II the 1116 or 05 var r against Im It 11 not have bave been II better devised t to till this end eM It 21 tnt fu butI lit U that had r beems fl fi lu tu In U 11 na tao ii Iy lisp xu H wads ut of depart Ial rI fix twenty cara To I II lIsts lie as ow oat the th securing lIrt ut of tI tie enabled tie UtI to t tin dr out ut of business WIt ic u a It ut U million tit vi ibis 1011 I flit An lids I Tho Tb I artless iott u WI ii I discover IOn souse of at tb the mIMIC mast flit I lii tin C II h tit the theft ut of t I land and uti r It by gnat cur curI 01 I and 0 by individuals u us to Ie get auto autoS S h evidence I w III Ii I 1 u 1 S 4 II lii or I ii h t eIt h he n nt t e g at o a SPECIAL MESSAGE N SECRET SERVICE S VIC I from page oneN one oner I I sr rn with r N tr nt It to tn df bi both lh w tI th Inc In III of the anti antl In and j there MI The tr tf 11 or to no OM X In hM c and It I A aP I Ib th In th the ther our u r f grim rl And the curing of ofu vr It not only a IT b u 11 Io I I ut 0 of till the tr I IU but t lends to the of r U In tM to toI h or of hilt hl i department I fret t melt meet the IC t It him of upon th tUII eue f r 10 lr from to 1811 In mint awl an 1 ay off of f 11 and d hll crippled him II I Ih the ot of It t I i II tt rot rut and thin fUrther di rIPS good tort In its pr ont lh 11 to r t to lII d tage of the criminal ot the thew ther w l irk r rr r r A argument In favor or of tho thor o axe WK that the r d r wih to be x J I Lr eruct lIlt men Very Itt th II h Inv ti tiOn has hall beau done Il I best 1 but It I Is true trull that the ther part r r I rh h secret ret agents w wIe ve i for the indictment Ie d n t h or of 1 a senator and aud A con u for fM land frauds Oregon J I Jd Id d r I Itero that It II Is In the public tnt Int t t to t criminals In any Irs Im 1 1 r the he public nice and exact h I I havo and during 10 I I r n year and anda a 1 such h who wt stern ro In I iL x ot of the govern Ivern rn s my boiler We e should be rn means to If l ue IH legislative leg hut It hi n t I R a IJ O el lIt io al could be trade made In the law uc the h nee of It the eret sc tn 11 u 11 of the then onus n It would b be far better to tois tok k It is 3 t than hAil to o do whAt actually was 1 er I stove to prevent or at least t I hen r r action Lorin no rel I 1 i cur ill executive branch ot of the II f t f WAS A u dul reading of this thle ge h that I said nothing to war waran warrert an statement nt that the or of tit th were ero In fern of be being Je ing by the ret service servicemen men I that all as a whole eel aI td oy by that Chat motive I did no k R any ny much auch statement In m me iIa ii Moreover I have havo never made any h 10 about Conr Congress aR aA aRh C n h fed 1 with R a f few ox about ahu the members of COn grer II lu any message or article or h u the Ih I have always at 1101 only Ii deprecated but re n I Ilu h of tk h up ii und and moat ot of all wie aril Ill nt flu and unfit good and L b I alike Uk No one wallies more Ih then I the importance of cooperation M 1 tarr I the IX and Congress Congre tl and ad n II m holds the authority and dignity ot of tile tea Of the United that ta to III higher respect t than I do I Ih h hi not th Ih t sympathy with the of judging moo moat for tor good nr for W IU nut lul on their merits hue hul In wasp till as II members ot of one par tJ or I on one laMe To put Iut to 0 al m non holding or who have held a particular office whether it tie hr hp tir 41 president or Jud judge or len een III or I ut at the house or of I and to class thom them all with u t r a III to I I differ I as d good or std II to me ut utterly terly in l and It Is in Ih whether the good are con d c 1 Ith the Ih bad In iii a healed danli and td 1 of all or In III Ino o II hean i rind nd unwarranted awault ault up m all di I 1 would neither attack nOr de def f fn l e III his a Intall n IH governors CAbinet I ot of lower rank nor II I 1 t k or defend all I lu a mil The safety ot of the theao ao I I rel I M very vry largely In III the elf r th plain n everyday to tn toes es I U three public ser serana er ana nIK wh eve v him well and U o who e serve him ill III lie Ih liean an 11 not It If he Is III per t r J judgment upon n It man mt 1 II huh 11 h frence to whether ho is a aI art rt I r lIMI public servant Irant but with 1111 1 eler der tt t whether I ther Ita he u An r I p h I be belion lion to IH nn one branch or the other othar ot of the II I This In the mu must certAinly be duo to Co en an 1111 to a understand my mot moe M tege e eT Tice T h solution con That the f 11 t Le be to t to lh Ih I 1 n to any upon I Ia hl his that tile the chief nt tn In favor of tb the was that Ih Ml dill did not with to I h 11 4 by t tier Mr nun n Thie nil statement which an attack UPOn ul Ori 11 no one still I leee upon poon the t 3 Jt by the feels It If you OU fill tarn to 10 the M ter r loin May I stet pages NN to u will wll I pled KI tile tee debate m 11 lal tale Mr of I Mr of tow Iwa Ur Mr I I I ley of AD and air h of HI Naw Nfl Y York fk hr this hIli a I tyro 1 tot of tilt the referred to t tand and D I ere the of Ht th sn ante the or nr Ih the and u l the of nr I lh h government to le taM sae the mart nt bI In 0 order to dee 1 I end to prevent ned nd The MI amendment was carded h I the or of the whole where no noot norotes rotes ot ot of the tI Individual members te 1 e lo eo I 1 em am unable I I lIui by b mentioning Ih the m mem belll bees who oMd for and ern members who feted against tI the but its Ita the records was greeted ted with applause I 1 Iam em am well 11 aw aware however that In an any case of lime timid man many members wh who hI have no ular ot of the h point et t leer Ia ar are runt 1 alit con pl to In follow the lead Iad lit of tilt the h hll had considered the matter an and t I hI hIno hate no doubt that nany of r the h helm elm pimply 11 the load of t Tawna aHI abd smith having had the to n know kno very 11 mUch M as to 0 th the rights and 1 In Inot ot of the question J I would not a It In inthis this wa way to between mem members bers bera or of tit the bou house but as hoe hn been taken to tG my language In which I 1 simply or of tit the action ot of the as n II whole hole and a apparently there Is Ie II a desire that I should thus dle dla to I will state that I 1 think the on the t tc un appropriations under the lead IMd ot of the whom I h hate mention mentioned ed Now lit ac to the ru t ot of the Con Coli roes that I RIve give the lIa evidence for my InY statement that the tho chief In favor of the provision wad WIUf thAt dId not to be in by secret service men loon Ins JUS SlA The part ot of the Congressional Record to tl which I have referred above nUre I supports this statement Two die lines of argument Aumont were followed In III the tho de debate bat One concerned the quos uon tion wh whether ther the tho law warranted the employment ot of the secret In Ind d other than limn the treasury and this did not touch the merl merits of the service In the least The other lino IIno of argument went to the merits or of the service w whether hr lawfully or unlawful It employed and here the chief It if not the only argument u used ed was that the should hould b be cut Iut down and re because l It Its II h lied shadowed pr pI Investigated members of Congress aid all Other o or of the hI government If we examine the de debatt debate bate batt In detail ip II appears that mot most of what Wh was urged d In favor tavor or of the amend amendment ment tOl look k the form torm of the that the tiro committee held that t there bid been a violation or law by byth bythe th the use of tb the all secret lIt service for oth r purposes than counterfeit Ins In end and ont one or two nth matt matters which tin con he be and th that t such language langua was now nol to bl be lI used ed us would prevent all au 1 violAtion of taw law he hereafter Mi 11 for tor Instance 1148 It a was for tor th the pur paw po or of t the h use of this Mr eer vice Ice In every way wey by the d de ot of the that the prevision wee WaI And Mr Smith says Now that was wal the only wa way In any limitation could be put coon the Activities ot of the secret II cowls Mr followed In Inthe inthe the same ame vein and by tar the largest t part or of the argument t the employment or of the secret service was all confined to th the statement that It was wa In or of law Of COUIl course ouch II a statement I is not in an any way wayan an argument In favor ot of the Justice ut of the It I Is not an Argument for the at all It Is II sim simply Im Imply ply 1 a statement ot of what t the e mn men milking making It console to o have heal the lAW There wu was both by and direct statement the Ule as that It wee Uro law and aught to be the law that the secret ah should uhl only be used to suppress coun counterfeiting and nd that the law be made more rI la than ever in this respect UR ulm OF 1 MIU J I may say that In my I Judgment there is III ample legal au for the statement that title till ap taw law to which reference was wa mate made Imposes ll no whatever upon the u use of the secret service men but solely to the expenditure of the money mOlley Mr In the debate tut od 00 that he had In his hili possession a aletter letter from the secretary ot of the tho treas hea treasury ury received a tow tew days ago In which the tho of the treasury admits that the under which the appropriation ha ben been made have been violated Y your Ir after year for Ii a number numb ot of year In his own dePArt dePArtment department ment I append herewith a as ap appendix a I A the letter referred to Jt It makes no uh such admission U se that which Mr Tawny Tawney alleges alleg It Oil on the contrary as you will see ee by read reMd tug lug It an emphatic against arty any such Bum abridgment of the rights delegated d to the secretary of the treas treasury UJ ury by existing taw law and concludes by that ho 1 quite within rights In thus employing the sir Mr vice or of these agents gent and that the pro pru poNd which Mr Ir succeeded In ha carrying through would tie bo distinctly to th the advantage of Iu lobes ot of criminal statutes of the Unit United united ed I call Attention to the tact feet that In this letter ot of e y Corr Cor Cortelyou to Wr Mr Tawney as In my letter to tile the speaker er quoted below ow the tle ox ax I le made muI that tile the INU prepaid will be II for tor tin ot of the a statement which J I Amply reiterAted In public form In Inmar Inley mar ley to o the tha Con this yr year and which Is alo Co In III e effect ct In hr the report ot of UI the secretary of too tM treasury to 0 A careful reading In et the el al will kilo Show that ally the lilt |
