Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-08-03
MOODY TO HELP HIM
Head Of Agriculture Department, After
Conference With the President An
nounces Intention to Purge His De.
partment-New Crop of Scandals
For Him to Work Upon.

Washington, D. c., Aug. L. An
important development last even
ing in connection with agricultur-
al department affairs was state
ment by Vice President E. S.
Peters of the Southern Cotton
Growers association, who is now
in Washington, to the effect that
he did not indorse the declaration
of President Jordan of that asso-
citation that Secretary Wilson was
incompetent and ought to resign.
Mr.. Peters wired Secretary viii.
son at Oyster Bay saying he did
not indorse Mr. Jordan's attitude;
that farmers and cotton growers
of the south had implicit conf
dence in his integrity and ability
to purge the department of graft
ers and expressing the hope that
the President would let nothing
interfere with the great work Sec
rotary Wilson is doing.
He said there had been no &C.
ton taken by the Southern Cot
ton Growers association looking
to Mr.. Wilson's resignation. He
recommended the work done for
the south by Secretary Wilson's
department.
Oyster Bay, Aug. Attorney
General Moody arrived here today
somewhat Unexpectedly. He
drove to Sycamore Hill. His mis-
sion is to consider with the Pres
1dent the cases turned over to
the department of justice from
the agricultural department In
quiries are now being made by
the attorney general into the cot
ton crop report and nitro-culture
scandals.
Oyster Bay, N. Y, Aug. There is
new crop of scandal in the depart
ment of agriculture. The officials. in
yolyed this time are those of the
bureau of animal industry and the
weather bureau.
Secretary Wilson conferred with
President Roosevelt yesterday and
backed BY the chief executive Is going
back to Washington to give the depart
ment of agriculture a shaking up that
1t has not had since it was created.
Secretary Wilson refuses to resign
With grim determination he declares
he will clean his own house and drive
out the grafters If he has to reorganize
1t from top to bottom.
First come the cotton scandal, which
led to the dismissal of Edwin S
Holmes. Jr.. assistant statistician, and
the flight of John Hyde, statistical ex
pert.
Then Dr. George r. Moore, scien
fist in the bureau of plant industry
was compelled to resign last week as
a result of the exposure of his con
nection with the Nitro-Culture com
pany of Westchester, Pa.
Fresh Crop Of Scandal.
Now come fresh crop of scandal
involving the bureau of animal indus
try. The work of inspecting and tag
ging all the meat products turned out
in the the United States for export
abroad comes under this bureau
which is in charge of DR.. S. Salmon
For long time after the bureau was
organized difficulty was found in Sc
curing the right kind Of tags or labels
to be placed upon beef and mutton in
tended for export. Finally three OF
four years ago, a local genius was
said to have invented an ideal labe
for the purposes of the bureau of ami
NAL industry. He also invented 6
paste for attaching the labels to the
meat and an ink for printing the labels
that were as meritorions as the label:
themselves. The haste was unusually
tenacious but contained no ingredients
that could effect the meat delecterious
while the ink would not run or fade
and was as inocuous as the paste
A company was manufactured fol
the manufacture and printing of these
labels and the making of the paste
with the inventor at the head of it
But, it is said. the money to financ,
the concern was supplied by one O
the scientists attached to the depart
ment, who became a partner in thu
company. The concern received con
tracts for the special label running VI
to large figures and the inventor iron
a poor man speedily became prosper
Gus.
He had no competition in bushes
and contracts we're given hin with
out the formaility of advertising 70
bids or any thing f that sort MAI
urally his scientific partner share
his prosperity
Luxury for Weather Bureau.
The weather bureau, which is pre-
sided over by Willis L. Moore, mus
explain something. Frequent refer
ences have been made in the pas
three years to a summer annex of tn
weather bureau, which Mr.. Moore i
establishing in the Blue Ridge mour
tains in Virginia 1t is said a sur
approximating 100000 already ha
been spent on this establishment b
the department, and this without spe
cial authority from congress. TIL
latter appropriates annually lum
sum for new buildings for the weatl
er service. OF the, funds Mr.. Moor
is said to have taken each year fo
| three or four years q good slice