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Show SECRET SERVICE COMMUTE E REPORTS SAYS THE FORCE SHOULD HAVE PERMANENT CHARACTER. Advises That Legislation to Thle Effect Ef-fect Be Enacted One Hundred More Men Than In 1903. Washington, March 3. Legislation should bo enacted by congress giving a permanent aracter to the secret service force of tho government, according ac-cording to tho report of the select oom-rulttoe oom-rulttoe of the houso to investigate this force submitted to the houso today. The committee consisted of Representatives Repre-sentatives 01ui6tea4 of Pennsylvania, Currier of New Hampshire, Young ot Michigan, Brantley of Georgia and Bowers of Mississippi. It was appointed appoint-ed to investigate the amount of appropriations ap-propriations devoted to secret service work and the number of employes engaged en-gaged therein. The report was unanimous. unan-imous. "We deem It proper," says the report, re-port, "to call attention to the fact that the secret service division of tho treasury treas-ury department now exists without permanent authority of law.d&pendeut entirely upon appropriations made I rota year to year and that the like force in the department of justice is similarly simi-larly without permanent authority of law and in paid out of a lump sum appropriated ap-propriated for incidental expenses. "Whether the separate forces of secret sec-ret service men now existing in the treasury department and in the department de-partment of Justice should be combined combin-ed in one, under control of the attorney attor-ney general, we do not attempt to decide, de-cide, but suggest that whether separately sep-arately maintained or under one control, con-trol, they should bo permanently provided pro-vided for and their duties clearly defined de-fined and limited by law." The total number of employes en-gagod en-gagod In the detection or prevention of fraud, whether called secret service ser-vice men, detoctlves, special agents, special inspectors or by other names, in all tho departments combined, the report says, is found to have been Just one Hundred moro than in 1908. The committee found that $1,980,701$ had been appropriated in lump sums which might have been, but was not. used In detective work. In speaking of the Becret service division of the treasury department, the supply of men to meet the demands de-mands of the department of Justice in the past was touched upon. The committee finds, the report says, on this loan of men. "That while not strictly within the authorization of the statute, it has originated years ago in the exigencies of the case. Except Ex-cept In the few instances Indicated in this report, we have found no branches of the public service, or persons employed em-ployed therein, engaged in any duty not contemplated by the law, but whether any such persons have been or are engaged in any duty not contemplated con-templated by law the appropriation establishing or providing for such service ser-vice could be accurately ascertained only by an examination of each person per-son so engaged in any such service, which examination could not be made f within the llfo of the present congress," |