The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-07-20
Has Available Funds to Issue
 New Report
HAYES HAS TAKEN CHARGE
Has instructions to clasase the De- partment of the sIsEnas Left By the Cotton Leak
 Scandal.
BY wATTERsoN sTEALEY.

Washington, July 1s-tSpecial )--The dilatoriness of the Secretary of Agricul- ture in reaching decision as to whether to order new cotton report is leading many to fear that after all the Secretary may allow the fake report fixed up by Holmes, the dismissed assistant statisti- clan, to. stand.
 It will require very little money to make new report and even If 1t requir- ed a considerable amount, it is of the utmost importance and only fair to the growers, that a report be issued which can be depended upon. President Jordan of the Southern Cotton Growers associa- tion. and Colonel Hester of the New Orleans cotton exchange, both understood from the Secretary last Sunday that new report would be forthcoming if the funds were available.
 Funds Are Available.
 There is at the disposal of the Secre- tary a contingent fund which can be drawn upon at all times to pay the trav- cling expenses of employees even as far as England and the continent. It is there fore believed here that it is not alto gether question of funds holding up the Secretarys decision. The truth is that the Secretary does not seem at all happy over the action of the cotton men In discovering corruption in his department and pointing out the guilty. To make matters worse, reports are coming from the district attorneys office to the effect that the Investigation now under way is bringing to light a good deal more than ot rate reported.
 The secret service bureau is branch or the treasury department over which Secretary Wilson's presidential candidate and feilew-aowair. Leslie Nj. Shaw pre- sides. If the district attorney is getting as much information about the corruption in the agricultural department as is re- ported. when the time comes it wiIl likely be appropriate to ask what the secret service people were doing undfe Secre- tary Wilson's directions and also the directions of Secretary Shaw.
 Will Cleanse Department.
 Assistant Secretary of Agriculture Will ton N. Hayes has taken hold of the af- fairs of the bureau of statics with in st.,ucton from Secretary Wilson, approv- ed by President Roosevelt, to cleapse the
 
 leak scandal. His authority Is unlimited. He has been told that he may have what ever clerical force he needs, and if there are any employees whose services he thinks should be dispensed with they will be discharged
 It is regarded as extremely likely there will be a complete reorganization of the .Jrce employed in the statistical depart ment as well as a thorough revision of the orders governing the monthly crop re- ports, the latter having already been out lined in circular issued by Secretary Wilson.
 Hayes Will Be In Charge.
 In that regard Secretary Wilson said to- day that hereafter if there are accusa- tions against the integrity of the bureau it must be directed against himself or Assistant Secretary Hayes, as he has no intention of allowing any other per son access to information that may be used in stock jobbing MT. Hayes will probably be in charge of the bureau until after Congress assemblies, as it is be- lieyed that competent man to take the place of MT. Hyde, who resigned as chief statistician, cannot be had for the salary paid by the government, $S5oO year. con gress will be asked to increase the salary and if ia the intention of Secretary Will son to place in charge of the office man whose ability has been established, but one who has had no connection with sta tistical bureau attached to stock broker age offices Whoever Is appointed Will first be approved by the President
 rumor has been circulated that when Congress assemblies a movement will be started to have the crop gathering bu- reau transferred to the department or commerce and labor in order to insure a more complete reorganization. Senator Dollivar of Iowa, warm personal friends of Secretary Wilson is slated Tor the chairmanship of the Senate committee on agriculture He has made 2 s.uuy {. of inc methods of crop reporting and It is known that he is opposed unalteraDiy to any change of the character sug- eested.