The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-08-01
MIR. WILSON'S
 PLANS TOLD VIII ReOrganize Bureau
 of Statistics. SECRETARY INTERVIEWED Better Men Are to Be Placed
 in Department. AsriculHurist Talks sf Some TAinss Hs~ Has, Done while |. Ones, anA
 Declines Ce.troversy wsth
SECRETARY INTERVIEWED

Oyster Ray. N. T., July 31.-secretary Wilson will reorganixe tfiorough1y the crop statistics bureau of the Depart, ment of Agriculture, according to inc formation here tonight Already he isI seeking men of character. standing ana education to conduct the work of the bureau. men in whom the farmers and growers of the country will have irn- plicit confidence and who will place tho. reports of the bureau on standard of excellence never heretofore achieved One man he has found, although he does not at this time wbsh to publish his name. The other three he hopes to secure in a short time. Two of them experts in cotton and tobacco statistics-
 This in hrief Is one of the ideasi which Secretary Wilson elucidated to- President Roosevelt today. At the con-, clusion of his conference, Secretary Wilson talked fuentiy about some phases of the work. He was asked whether there was any Likelihood ofI his early relinquishment of his portfoliol as Secretary of Agriculture.
 T have not been asked to go and [ am not intending to resign" said the Secretary. When I went there found practically nothing but a few roll-ttop desks and half dozen half starved scientists. The Agricultural Depart- ment today is a great Department and, we are trying every day to make iti better. Since took charge of 1t zSz people have been let out of it's service for various reasons, many of them on charges of one kind or another. We, make it point to keep only first-class men and women. The purpose of the investigation no win progress is to purge the Department of all selfishness and corruption and that end will be accomplished. It Is my purpose and 1t is the purpose of the President.
 No, haven't the slightest idea of resigning," continued the Secretary. IT; see Mir Jordan, President of the South-8 ern Cotton Growers Association, is de- manding my resignation In an Inter- view published today. Nov. have not a thing to say about MT. Jordan. H0 may say. what he pleases about nae- That his own people don't agree with him. however, is evidenced by tele- gram which I have just received---in fact, you saw me open 1t. Here it is:
 MT. Peters's Telegram.
 Washington, July 31. 1905. TO Hon. James Wilson, Oyster Bay:
 Dear Sir-In reference to an in- terview of President Jordan published this morning in The Washington Post. I would say that I cannot endorse 1t. The farmers and cotton growers of the South have implicit confidence in your honesty and ability to purge the De- partment of all grafters and they hope the President will not interfere with the great work you are now doing for them.
 "'E. S. Peters, President Southern Cotton Growers
 Association.
 q have no intention of becoming in-. volved in a newspaper controversy with MT. Jordon or anybody else. have my work to do and am going to do it."
 What have you to say. Mir Secre-i tary. about Mir. Jordan's statement that. you did not collect new figures on the cotton acreage"
 "only this," replied Secretary wil-I son. The reports which were receiv~s ed by the governments reporters in the, field were placed in the hands of al board appointed to make the estimates from them. That boards estimate dif- fered from the estimate made by Hyde. correct believe, but If 1t Is not, 1t isl the report of the field reporters and not of the department. Hitherto, 1t Is trues the figures probably have been Juggledj and changed, but we have eliminatedi practically any future Juggling of thatI sort. The situation. you understand.l was peculiar We probably wouldt never nave uibCONCfrN fk fAtha ~ itVs1 been for the fact that two speculatorsl got into a quarrel about woman"
 Concerning the inquiries now heingf made into the scandals by the Depart- ment of Justice. Secretary Wilson didt not care to talk.
 Holmes and Moore.
 "Manifestly." he said, 1t would scarcely be proper for me to discuss the work of another department, par-t ticularly in the present circumstancess, Only two cases are now before the Attorney General from my department, that of Holmes and that of Dr. Moore.f What may be the result of the in- uuiries I have no idea. Dr. Moore had3 some fine results and if he had only made clear to the depart ment his entire connection with the Nitro Culture Company. think we could have kept him on a straight course.'
 Then Secretary Wilson outlined his new plans for the bureau of crop 
 This Is entirely new" said he, and never has been published. It Is my Intention to create a board. with As- sistant Secretary Hays at its head, which shall handle all crop statistics. | appointed a board little while ago. the members of which handled the sta- tistics individually and turned in their results to me or to Mir. Hays. The present board Is G sort of makeshift affair It was the best we could or ganize in a hurry from people in the department. It is my intention to orr zanize a board of four men. two of which will be from the South. The other two will be from the other parts of the country. They will be the best men we can find in the country-men ,f character, standing and education. They will be scientific experts in whom the country will have absolute conf- ience. All reports will be sent to me from the field and will place them at the proper time in the hands of these scientists. Each will be a regular em- oloye of the department and they will spend some of his time in travelling in search of any information that may pear upon the 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 oroyiding for only one man at the head if the bureau of crop statistics. That me man might leave the department;
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