The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1911-07-22
AGAINST
WILEY TO PROVE
A BOOMERANG
PREDICTED THAT CHARGES WILL
REcoIL AND RoUT DOPE
FOOD CROOKS.
Indications are That Secretary Will
son of Department of Agriculture,
May Get Out on Account of Recent
Sensation.

Washington, D. c., Ju'y 21.-It is
freely predicted that the charges
against DR.. Harvey w. Wiley, chief of
the bureau of chemistry, in connection
with the salary of DR.. H. H. Rusby,
Will prove boomerang and recoil up
on the doped food interests which have
handicapped his administration or the
pure food laws and have sought to
ouSt him.
1t seems more than probable that
the kemsen board will be abolished
and many members of congress be-
lieve that Uncle Jere Wilson. the aged
head of the department of agriculture,
will find it convenient to resign. The
house committee on expenditures in
the department of agriculture, of
which Representative Moss of Indi-
ana, is chairman, will go to the bottom
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 legal status of the
board became so violent that it was
thought well to have an opinion from
Attorney General Wickersham on the
subject; One was made public in
which Mr.. Wickersham held the board
was legally appointed 1t now devel-
ops that he referred the question to
an assistant attorney general yet in
the department, who prepared an opin-
ion that, the board was illegal and had
been appointed without authority of
law.
1t was quickly recognized that such
an opinion would place Secretary
Wilson and exPresident Roosevelt,
under whose administration the Rem
sen board was created, in a very bad
hole, especially as the boald had ex.
pended a hundred thousand dollars in
Investigating benzoate Of soda. Con-
sequently the opinion of the assistant
attorney general was suppressed and
the question was referred to Solicitor
George P. McCabe, of the department
of agriculture, who has no connection
with the department of Justice. VINO
wrote an opinion susta ming his chief
Secretary Wilson. The McCabe opin
ion was sent to the department OF
justice and there promulgated as the
opinion of the attorney general.
Suppressed Opinion.
A copy of the original opinion de
claring the board illegal and which
was suppressed in favor of the Nc
Cabe opinion, is in existence and will
be produced before the committee il
called for, as it doubtless will be.
May Summon Roosevelt.
1t is not improbable that former
President Roosevelt will be summoned
by the committee to tell Of the cir
cumstances leading to the appointment
| OF the Remsen board. 1t is reported
on good authority that he indicated
to prominent member of the Amer
lean Medical association that he hat
been misled in creating the board ant
| in selecting it's personnel, and it IL
common gossip in Washington tha
the creation of the board and it's mem
bership was quietly suggested to hin
from source which he did not ther
connect with the benzoate of soda an(
saccharin interests, and other manu-
| facturers opposed to the enforcement
of the law as outlined by DR.. Wiley.
Salary Fight Joke.
While az rnunh f,1Cc hoe hany
over the salary of 81 500 set aside 70.
DR.. Fl. Fl. Rusby, it is interesting t.
note some of the sums paid the mem
! bers of the Remsen board, which, il
! the three and one-half years of it's ex
istence, has cost the government sew
eral hundred thousand dollars ant
which has rendered two decisions, one
reversing Wiley on benzoate of soda
and the other sustaining him on sac
charm.
From March /, 1908, to December
| 81, 1909, this board drew $86.793
which was divided among it's members
| as follows: DR.. Ira ,Remsen of Johns
Hopkins, president Of the board, s11,
691, salary and s4,040 expenses; tota
! s15,662; DR. Russell H. Chittenden
Yale University, $13,7O9 salary, and
s5,769 expenses; total $19,479; DR..
! Christian A. Herter, Columbia Univer
sity, 1892 salary and $3,518 ex
penses, total s13,340.
Since then 100000 has yearly beer
set aside for the salaries and expenses
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