The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-08-01

Will Stick to His Post and Purge De-
 pertinent of All Grafters.
 Oyster Bay, N. N. July a1. Secretary Wilson will reorganize thoroughly the crop statistics bureau of the depart- menf of agriculture according to infor- mation given out here tonight He again reiterated his intention not to re- sign and said:
 II see MT Jordan. president of the Southern Cotton Growers association. is demanding my resignation in an in- terview published to-day. Now I have mt 2 thing to say about MT. Jordan. He may say what he pleases about me. That his own people do not agree witts him, however. is evidenced by. va | gram which I have just reess ' ' S fact. you saw me open it Here it IS:
 Washington, July 31. 1SO5- "To Hon. James Wilson, Oyster Bay,
 N. Y:
 Dear sir: Tn reference to the inter- view Of President Harvie Jordan pub lished this morning in the Washington Post, would say that cannot en- dorse the same. The farmers and cot- ton growers of the south have implicit confidence in your honesty and ability to purge the department of all grafters and they hope the president will not in- terfere with the great work you are now doing for them.
 Signed: Al S. Peters, 'Vice President Southern Cotton Crow
 CTS Association.
 Here is another telegram which also have just received:
 New York, July S1. ITO Hon. James Wilson, care of the President Oyster Bay, N Y.:
 He sent the president a telegram X 50 he will know how the great com merciaI bodies we represent feel about I your department and work.
 Signed: William s. Haryey,,
 MT. Harvey I urd rstallss iS l lnected with the MercKants association Eof New York. have no intention of I becoming involved in a newspaper con ltroversy with Mr. Jordan or anybody else. I have my work to do and I am .tgoing to do it.
 Then Secretary Wilson outlined his ] new plan for the bureau of crop statis- Itics.
 I This is entirely new,' said he, "and never has been published. It IS my iYi- tiontion to create a board with Assist ant Secretary Hayes at it's head which Eshall handle all crop statistics ap- pointed a board a little while ago the members of which handle the statistics Individually and turn in their results to me or MT. Hays. The present board is 8 sort of nlakeshift affair. It was the I best we could organize in a hurry from the people in the department. It is my lintention to organize a board of four men. two of whom will be from the ! south. The other two will be from other parts of the country. They will be the best men we can find in the country, men of character, standing land education. They will be scientific Eexperts in whom the country will have Iabsolute confidence. All reports will be lsent to me from the field and I wilt lplace them at the proper time in the hands of these scientists Each will make up his estimates and the four es- Itimates will be resolved either by me or by Assistant Secretary Hays. The members of the board will be regular Eenployes of the department and they Twill spend some of their time in travel ling in search of any information that Imay bear upon their work. Through the work of this board think we shall have perfectly reliable estimates made of all crop conditions. This plan will be better than that providing for only one man at the head of the bureau Of crop statistics. That one man might I leave the department, he might get sick or he might prove to be a rascal This eliminates any of these possibilities Then, too, it will insure perfect security land confidence"