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Show SEN. LODGE COMMENTS ON FORAKER'S REMARKS Washington, Jan. 13. When, at 2:40 o'clock vesterday, Mr. Foraker concluded con-cluded his address, Senator Lodge took the floor, saying ho had only one com- mem 10 maKe on .ur. ruraKers remarks, re-marks, that being In relation to the legality of the employment of Browne and Baldwin "without reference to their methods or the merits of their work." lie said expenditures had "been made from this fund under President Mc-Klnley Mc-Klnley as well as under President Roosevelt and also by Mr. Root, President-Elect Taft and Ceneral Wright, each as secretary of war. No voice had ever before been raised against its use. No constitutional provision. Mr. Lodge said, ha1 'been violated by these expenditures. ! The employment , of Mr. Browne, ho said, was clearly not illegal, hecause he was not a detective by profession, and' belonged to no agency. Tho conditions con-ditions under which objection to the employment is made, is that "No employe em-ploye of the Pinkerton or similar special spe-cial agencies shall be employed in the government sen-ice or by any officer of it or the District of Columbia." Therefore, ho uald, the restriction could only- apply to Baldwin, who was a professional detective. Going back to the "Intent" of congress con-gress In legislating ngaluet the employment employ-ment of Pinkerton detectives, Mr. Ijodge said it grew out of the armed conflict between hundreds of Pinkerton Pinker-ton detectives and strikers at Homestead Home-stead during the great strike there many vcaru ago. The 'debate in the house of representatives repre-sentatives on his resolution, said Mr. Lodge, proved) that the Intent was against the use of detectives in the usual manner. The terms "detective" and "detective agency" were not used in the contracts made in connection with this investigation. Al the time this investigation was made, he said, two bills were pending in congress, either of which if passed, would have given tho President discretion in there-enlistment there-enlistment of these discharged soldiers sol-diers and it then seemed likely that ono of them would -pass. Mr. Foraker replied briefly to Mr. Lodge bv saying that, if congress had intended to prohibit the employment of armed detectives only, they would have been specified in the statute. This restriction was not Inserted, an said, although in debate it was discussed, dis-cussed, i . |
