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Show LAMBASTES SECRET SERVICE. lowan Has Not an Exalted Opinion of Secret Service Men. Washington. During the consideration considera-tion of the sundry civil bill in the house on Thursday, Mr. Bennett's amendment striking out the provision limiting the field of operations of the secret service was rejected by a vote of 41 to 153. Vitriolic denunciation of the secret service of the treasury department was uttered by Mr. Smith (Republican) (Republi-can) of Iowa during the consideration of the bill. He likened the secret service ser-vice men to "common liars," and charged that they were unable to unearth un-earth gigantic land frauds recently discovered by the secretary of the interior. in-terior. He said McKinley was shot down at Buffalo while a secret service ser-vice detective stood at his side unable to take notice of the approaching murderer. mur-derer. He said further, that the secret se-cret service man did not even capture the murderer, but that it took a man with a blr.2.: tLIit Ip so. |