The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-07-02
WILSON LIKELY
TO LOSE HIS JOB
Secretary OF Agriculture More
or Less Responsible for Pack
ing House Scandal.
SHREWD JOHN WANAMAkER
RISE AND FALL OF CAPTAIN
WINNIE.
SHREWD JOHN WANAMAkER
Especial to The Herald.)

Washington, July l,-James wilson,
secretary of agriculture, appears to be
in a fair way of being forced out of
President Roosevelt's cabinet, because
of alleged dereliction OF duty in coun-
tenancing slipshod inspection of meats
and in falling to follow up his inspect
ors and seeing that the strict letter OF
the law Is maintained in condemning
unfit cattle. Secretary Wilson, who is
admittedly a man of integrity, has been
on the verge OF dismissal before, be-
cause of allowing himself TO be hood
winked by inspectors who leaked the
rotten report and allowing the market
10 be manipulated to the tune of many
millions. Ii is current belief that Pres
ident Roosevelt considers the Neill-
Reynolds report of the conditions now
prevalent at the packing-houses as an
indictment of the department of agri-
ture, of which the bureau of animal in
dustry is part This important posi-
tion i'm the cabinet seems slated for a
younger and shrewder man, one fitted
To correctly gauge inspectors, who are
always confronted with the tempta-
tion OF graft funds. The change may
not take place for several months, but
in the light of present conditions I'm
Secretary Wilson's department ii is be-
lieved to be inevitable.
Story of Wansmaker.
The. recent demand for Upton Sim
Glars sensational book recalls the sto-
ny of how John Wanamaker, when
postmaster general. was instrumental
I'm excluding a certain book from the
mails, which naturally was seized upon
by the publishers as a splendid adver-
tisement Honest John quickly saw the
opportunity TO turn few more dollars
into his cash registers, and bought up
all that remained OF the edition of the
book and had them shipped to his
stores by express, where they were
snapped up at-faney figures by a sem
sation-loving public.
Captain Wynne's Disgrace.
That Captain Robert F. Wynne of
the marine corps should have been
finally hailed before a court martial for
is cause for little sur
prise Rnong those who encountered
this bellicose- young man in his salad
days, when he was more or less of a
conspicuous figure in and around
Washington before his fathers influ-
ence got MN MS present billet In the
lesser branch of the naval service.
Young Wynne was of an assertive dis
position, and when his father, Robert
j. Wynne, became postmaster general
the son seemed unable to adjust him
self to the new honors which were
heaped upon the clan or to forsake the
primrose paths he was wont TO tread
when a STRIPPING, The rather far
fetched defense which he set up TO pal
late his disregard for orders of his
commanding officer will doubtless
prove that young mans undoing That
a sunstroke suffered by Wynne some
six years ago during the march of the
rallied forces to the relief of the be-
leaguered legations at Picking should
cause him 10 commit such grave ''er-
Tors OF judgment and accentuate an
abnormally irritable temper would ap-
pear to totally unfit him to perform
-the duties OF an officer in the marine
corps, i'm the opinion of the medical tes-
fimony produced at the court-martial
The assertion of his friends that there
is a deep-rooted antipathy to men i'm
The service who have not passed
through Annapolis is rather strained.
Prejudices of this sort are at most To-
cal in their application, and cannot be
held against civilians as a class-a
point which the defenders of Captain
Wynne would have done we'll 10 have
kept in mind before rushing to his res
cue with such an absurd statement