Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 61, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1909 — SENATE AND SECRET SERVICE [ARTICLE]

SENATE AND SECRET SERVICE

Chairman of Investigating Committee Discusses President's Message. Washington, Jan." 1. —That the proposed inquiry by the senate committee into the methods of the secret service will be searching and comprehensive has been definitely stated. The announcement was made by Senator Hale, acting chairman of the eommitttee, and was called out by an intimation that the inquiry might be prolonged until after the 4th of March for the purpose of permitting the summoning of President Roosevelt before the committee as a private citizen to testify. Senator Hale said: "There is very little in the senate investigation that has to do with intimations that members of congress tn either house have been shadowed or spied upon. The president’s message does not bear out the proposition that members of congress were improperly influenced in their votes restricting the secret service because of any criminality on their part, the exposure of which was feared.”