Show secret service 1 the tarui secret service money Is usually applied to a fund placed nl tho disposal oc ministers to be expended at their discretion in or protecting alio interests or tills country moneys consist of a sum of 35 TOO annually included in alio estimates n respect of which ministers required to make A declaration that the moneys spent have been expended in accordance with alio intentions or parliament As ministers arc required to give account of their steward it Is obvious we no means of knowing how these moneys are expended alio reader alio carries ills amiul back to episodes his knowledge such ns the collapse of the fenian conspirators spira tors or of their later development the irish will have little difficulty in realizing how indispensable pen sable a fund of this kind ts to the protection of a state and of understanding the infinite variety of uses to which it may be applied chambers journal |