Guarding The President

Additional Precautions For His Safety Being Generally Urged.

As a result of the recent accident to the president and his party at Pittsfield, Mass., a suggestion has been made that there be organized a special corps of detectives to look after all details relating to the president's safety while in Washington and while traveling about the country, says the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. This work is now part of the duty of the secret service men, but it is proposed to have a number of picked experts to do this and nothing else.

The matter was broached at the treasury department, but the officials there were not prepared to indorse it entirely. Assistant Secretary Taylor said that so far as affording general protection to the president was concerned this was done very effectually by the secret service men already. He added, however, that he thought it would be a wise thing to provide an official coachman for the president to drive the Iatter in all the cities that he might visit. 'With such a man in the coachman's box," said Mr. Taylor, "there would be no danger of the horses getting beyond control or of the driver taking unwarranted risks in passing car tracks. It would also be a good thing to have one or two men on hand to see that everything connected with the train on which the president was to travel was in proper order."

Public men in Washington have given some attention to the question of whether or not as a matter of policy it is a good thing for the president to travel generally about the country. The universal opinion has been that, all things considered, the good resulting from such tours offsets the risks involved.