The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-07-31
SCANDAL GROWS WITH EVERY DAY End Not Even Believed D bs
 in Sight DEPARTMENT HONEYCOMBED Special Attention Will be Given to the Enormous Amount of Money
 Now Spent for Public
 Printing.
DEPARTMENT HONEYCOMBED
BY wATTERsoN sTEALEY.

Washington, July 9O.-(Special)- 1.-The agricultural department snowfall is roll ing down hill and growing bigger with every revolution. Hardly a day passes without some additional light being thrown on the scandalous condition of af- fairs in the department and such facts as have become public property in the last forty-eight hours have only served to indicate that the end is not even in sight
 From a number of previously discred- tied allegations laid before Secretary of Agriculture Wilson little more than a month ago and having to do merely with one bureau, the scandal has spread until it is claimed that only the most complete and searching Investigation, which will go to the bottom of every charge and convict or acquit every official against whoom suspicion has been directed, will restore the confidence of the public
 Go Through Whole Department.
 There is no longer any doubt that this investigation will be made. The bureau of statistics will of course be investiga- ted and reorganzed. This has been a
 
 Cheatham of the Southern Cotton Grow CTS association furnished evidence which resulted in the dismissal of former Sta- tistican Holmes Only a little more than a week ago Secretary of Agriculture Will son denied that general investigation of the department was necessary or would be made. That statement was undoubted- ly made in good faith, the Secretary be- levng that in uncovering the cotton crop report scapdal everything of fraudu- lent nature in his department had been revealed. But the forced resignation of Statistican Hyde, of his stenographer Mrs. Burch. and of Dr. George T. Moore, the latter because of his connection while in office of the department with nitro culture company. have indicated what sort of conditions may be found in other branches of the agricultural department and made 1t certain that an exhaustive investigation would be prosecuted. It Is generally understood here now that Sec retary Wilson will be away from Wash ington while his department receives the thorough oyerhauling it needs. Then. when the affair blows over and the crim- inal courts get good and started on their work the Secretary will resign.
 Expenditures Are Enormous.
 When the joint committee of both houses of Congress meets some time in the autumn to consider the expenditures of the government in regard to printing it will make an especial examination of \ the methods that have prevailed in the department of agriculture, which Is said to spend moro money for printing than any other branch of the government. Those who have made Q careful survey of the work of the department in this respect assert that last year 1t expended about a million and a half dollars for the editing, preparing and publication of its various reports and bulletins. No oth- CT single department of the government has increased it's output of literature so rapidly.
 Many of the reports that are printed by authority of the Secretary are look ed upon as of the greatest value. but there are many works that cost a very large amount of money that are of vary ques- tionabe importance.