Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-08-01

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Agricultural Department, and asked
Mr.. Zappone II any expert employed
by the government was In attendance
there. The witness didn't know
Isn't DR.. Boos of Boston down there as
an expert witness?" Mr.. Moss inquired.
Mr.. >Zappone didn't know, and suggest
ed that this question be asked later of
Solicitor McCabe of the Agricultural
Department. He added, In response to
further questions, that the voucher for
the payment Of an expert usually
showed the period he had been en-
ployed, although he again insisted that
the Attorney General had held that
such employment, being in the nature
of a contract. was perfectly legal, no
matter how much the expert might re-
ceive.
1t was then developed that DR.. Rusby
had been allowed $40 day during his
first employment with the department
and that his later arrangement Of $1,000
a year on the annual roll had been
arrived at in exactly the same manner
in which the compensation OF the MEM
bers Of the Remsen board had been fixed.
1.-THE hearings before the committee on
personnel Of the Department of Agricul-
ture,' said Mr.. Floyd, "show that this
was the way DR.. Wiley arrived at the
rate Of payment to DR.. RuSby-that Is,
when employed on the per diem basis"
Stirs Up Trouble.
The calling Of Mr.. Willis stirred up
something of a row In the committee
He was handed a copy of the New York
Journal Of Commerce Of May %. 1911,
containing an account of hearing at the
Department Of Agriculture, attended by
DC
asked If he was present at the hearing
and heard Secretary OF Agriculture VIII
son say:
II want you to understand that the
referee board was organized and put in
action for the purpose of conserving the
interests of the manufacturers.
Mr.. Willis answered that he had heard
the Secretary say that, and had after
ward. to make sure he had heard cor
rectly, asked three persons who were in
the room at the time to confirm it.
Representative Higgins of Connecticut
strenuously objected at this point to the
committee accepting 1.-The testimony of
a newspaper man. on such an important
point, and insisted that the official Ste
nographer. who had made verbatim re-
port Of the proceedings at the hearing,
be called by the committee. 1t was de-
cided to do this later.
1T is not decent" Mr.. Higgins con-
tinued, "to attack the head Of the Agri-
cultural department by the testimony OF
a newspaper man. But If the committee
thinks this Is the proper way to get at
the policy of the head Of a great depart
ment shall not further object
Wants to Hear Both Sides.
Representative Mays of Florida sug-
gested that the committee would better
hear two sides than one of every ques-
tjon brought before It,
Solicitor Earl of the Department OF
Commerce and Labor, who was men,
toned by Mr. Willis as one Of the three
men who had confirmed his impression OF
what Secretary of Agriculture Wilson
had said at the hearing, was next called
to the stand. He said he rem embered the
incident very we'll and thought Secretary
Wilson had said something in a general
way as Mr.. Willis had quoted him. He
added that Mr.. willis seemed elated that
tho Secretary had 80 expressed himself,
and seemed to think the latter had made
q "damag ing admission" Mr.. Earl said
he had been astonished at the time that
Mr.. Willis could have placed such an In
depreciation upon the Secretary's remark.
The hearing will be continued tomor-
row, with DIR. Ira Remsen, president OF
Johns Hopkins University OF Baltimore
and head Of the referee or benZoate OF
soda board, on the stand.