Show BILL FOR protection MINORITY REPORT IS SUBMITTED OBJECTING TO TITLE OF BILL AS misleading washington 6 A minority report on the bill introduced by senator hoar to provider tor the protection of the president of the united states was submitted today by senator bacon from the committee on judiciary senators fetus culberson blackburn and pat terson with democratic members of tho committee signed the report it states that the title Is misleading and tends naturally to enlist the sympathy of all americana and secure a support which the bill would not receive if it were generally known that its provisions are extended to all of the cabinet officers and all foreign ambassadors and ministers to the united states the purpose of the bill the report said Is to set apart these four dozen men as a superior and distinct class entitled to a higher degree of protection than other officials citizens and inhabitants of the united states the minority members of the committee say they yield to none in their desire to protect the president and punish the enemies of the government and social order but in the accomplishment of this laudable desire we are unwilling to put upon the statute books a law that will invade and destroy the most valued principles of republican institutions which will take from the stales their rightful jurisdiction is over crime which they have never surrendered to the general government ern ment which will overturn the recognized policies and procedure of a hundred years and which not content with the provisions respecting the president sets apart some forty five or fifty other men as a separate class whose persons shall be more sacred in the eye of he law than others of the inhabitants of the united states the report cites paragraphs of existing laws and sections of supreme court opinions as ample for the protection of the persons of others than the president of the united states it la declared that the jurisdiction conferred on the federal court in the first section Is in violation of the constitution of the united states |