The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-07-21
W|CKERSHAM IS IN
MORE DANGER
THAN WILEY
Agitation Uncovered Schemes
of Doctors Enemies
REMSEN COMMISSION COST
Modest Amount Paid to Or. Wiley's
Subordinate is Only a Drop in
Comparison

comparison
Washington, D. c., July 21.-It is
freely predicted that the charges
against DR. Harvey W. Wiley, Chief
of the Bureau of Chemistry in con
nection with the salary of DR. H. H.
Rusby will prove a boomerang and re-
coil upon the doped food interests
which have handicapped his admins.
tration OF the pure food laws and
have sought to GUST him. II seems
more than probable that the Remsen
board will be abolished and many
members of Congress believe that
Uncle Jere Wilson, the aged head
of the department of agriculture, will
find ii convenient TO resign The
House Committee on expenditures In
the Department of Agriculture OF
which representative Moss, OF IN
diana, is chairman. will 90 70 the bot
tom of the efforts TO get Wiley's scalp
and many interesting developments
are scheduled A genuine sensation
is promised when the Remsen Board
is smoked out Some years ago the
attacks in Congress on the league
status OF the board became so violent
that II was thought well 10 have an
opinion from Attorney General Wick
ersham on the subject One was
made public in which Mr.. Wicker
charp hold Tho hoord mos Iny,Ii,. M
pointed. II now develops that he re-
terred the question TO an Assistant
Attorney General. yet In the Depart
ment, who prepared an opinion that
the board was Illegal and had been
appointed without authority of law
II was quickly recognized that such
an opinion would place Secretary vii
son and ex.President Roosevelt. I'M
der whose administration the Remsen
E1arl was created in very bad hole
especially as the board had expended
hundred thousand dollars in investi-
eating benzoate OF soda Consequent
" the opinion OF the assistant attor-
ney general was suppressed and the
question was referred to Solicitor
George p McCabe. OF the department
OF Agriculture. who has no connec-
ton with the Department of Justice
who wrote an opinion. sustaining his
Chief, Secretary Wilson The Nc
Cabe opinion was sent to the Depart.
ment Of Justice and there promuleat-
ed as the opinion OF the Attorney
General A copy OF the original op-
inion declaring the board illegal and
which was suppressed in favor Of the
McCabe opinion. is in existence and
will be produced before the commit
tee il called for. as il doubtless will
be
II is not improbable that Former
/ President Roosevelt will be summon
ed by the committee to tell OF the
circumstances leading TO the ap.
pointmeut OF the Remsen Board II
is reported on good authority that he
indicated TO prominent member of
/ the American Medical Association
+ that he had been mislead in creating
i the board and In selecting It's person
mel. and IL Is common gossip in Wash
/ ington that the creation of the board
and It's membership was quietly sug-
/ gested TO him from q source which he
| did not then connect with the benzo-
= ate OF soda aud saCcharin interests.
and other manufacturers opposed TO
the enforcement OF The law as outlin.
ed by Or Wiley
While so much tuss has been raised
over the salary OF $ 500 set aside for
DIR. II. II Rusby It IS interesting to
! note some of the SUITS paid the mem
bers OF the Remser board. which. in
/ the three and oue-half years OF its
existence has cost the government
/ several hundred thousand dollars and
which has rendered two decisions,
one reversing Wiley on benzoate of
soda and the other sustaining him on
saccharin. From March l. 1908. to
Dec 81 1909. this board drew $50. 1893,
( which was divided among It's mem.
bers as follows. DR. Ira Remsen OF
/ John Hopkins. President OF the Board
Z Sll.63l. salary and 5000. expenses:
total si5.662: Or. Russell H. Chieen-
I. den. Yale university. $1,000 salary
and S5.76e expenses. total Si9.i79. Or
! Christian A. flertcr. Columbia unlver.
sity. S9.S22 salary and SS.5lS eXpens-
es. total $500; DR. John A. Long
Northwestern University, Sl56S5 sal
AIRY and sSi7S expenses. total SEA-
l5S; Or. A. H. Taylor, University OF
California, S9,7S2 salary and S4.4lg
expenses. Since then 100000 has
yearly been set aside for the salaries
| and pNppngeg of the bonrd