The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-09-16
Pure Food Champion
Completely Exoner-
ated by Taft.
NO PUNISHMENT
TO BE MkTED OUT
President Finds Chief of Chemiss
try Bureau Innocent of Wrong.
doing, and Resignation Will
Not Be Asked For, De-
spite Recommendation
of Attorney-G General.

Beverly. Mass, September 15.-Praisa
instead of criticism is given DR.. Har.
Vey W.. Wiley. chief of the chemistry
Bureau and popular pure food cham
pion, by President Taft In his opintont
disposing OF the much discussed Rusby
case, made public to-day in the shane
or a letter to Secretary of Agriculture
Wilson. The resignation of Dr.. Wiley
VIII not be asked for nor will tha
condisn punishment" for the chief Of
the bureau of Chemistry, which Al
torney-General Wickersham held to
De necessary. be meted out to him.
A report from the personnel board
u the department approved by Attor,
ney-General Wickersham recommend.
ed that DIR. Wiley be allowed TO rasirn
because OF an alleged conspiracy to
employ DR.. Fl. II. Rusby, a promine1t
pnarA tcognosist OF New York. as.a
department expert at an annual salary
o u Sl.eoo with a secret understandings
mat he should perform only such ser-
wees as would be compensated for IN
.he rate OF $50 a day for laboratory
ance. 1ao
The Presidents accepts DR.. yvt,ey,.
statement that he knew notbing 80
any such agreement and decla ras
moreover. that a precedent for the an
of experts at yearly sa1.rtaa
10 give only part of their tine to az
soternH'ent was set in the creation ~
the Remsen board.
No Reflection Intended
Whlie the pure food champion
OUT with flying colors. the pras,sSSa
anes ~ plain that his decision is not
90 oe taken as a reflection unon ~
or the uerso,na,
re expresses the opinion thot
inherent recommendation wo,,Ia
hase peer made had the autbo,itiaa
them. Ano"n before
TIE President limits himss,,
Time TO the Rusby case Ieau tnls
broader ssuss developed in t hs
Iohsressional inquiry for onstdas. ne
80 his remarks in this connacttSA
are construed as indicating tbat LOT
Ill oe a serious shake-up In en- Us
ieuilurai Department next yint..s
Iasul or the revelations berora as
internaI onIhittee concerning the bitter
tring seFiIe IN the department con.
r.ins about the feud betwean er
whey and Solicitor Mccabe Pr
~ MS opinion the Pres,den.
,sta.es Dr. Rusby from blame b.aao
d ishorant of the legal Iimi,a
S s.ons. out directs reprimands e. -
Sseiow' assistant chief OF he nh'
a.ls bureau, and DIR. Kebler cbins -.
~ arus laboratory, with yyhom ~
w was alleged to have .consn,.
tor, ne personnel board and tho A.
misc, General recommended the dis
reduction OF Kebler. -" tne
~. Keller is r%eprimanded TO-
Insenuous conduct" In his writtnr -
-. husoy, and the President ssSste
ny ietters suggest a ''willin eness -
ss9oft 10 evasion" DR.. B,eeloT, ..
he'd TO have been 'toverzeaIons" -
conduct Not Credi able.
n. nr:uSoy is held to be as guiltless ~
Ntiey In this particular matter A.
1859 against him, however. of en-
curing the appointment on tbe 49,.
mon laborers' roll" OF a nbvs,cIa, I'm.
expert whom he could Use 70 do W.
Sork AT a very small stipend when hs
"iHhse!1 was called away the pee,
able" peaity credit
ne PRESIDENT declares that the ,,m,-
.at'ons upon the bureau chiefs and
henus or departments to exact, per dian,
eom~pensations for the emp!ovment ~
and adds: poiicy
Here is the pure food act wbi,,
IS OF the highest importance ia an
iorce and in respect to which tba -
,erests opposed to it's enforcement a..
likely TO have all the money AZ tbo,r
command needed TO secure the moet 90
receive expert evidence. The govern.
ment ought 10 be at a disadvantaea
III TINS regard and one cannot with
hola ones sympathy with an earnest
eHort by Dr. Wiley to pay proper COM
pensation ard secure proper assistance
IN SO IMPORTANT STATUE -. 49,
the beginning when the questions
arising under 1t are of capital i'm
p%ortance to the public"
Ihe Presidents conclusions. he savs
were ready weeks ago, but he did NOT
put them on paper because he hoped
Tor a time for the report of the House
committee that was investigating tina
Department OF Agriculture. The COM
mittee's work was halted when Con-
this fall. Practically all evidence con-
sidered necessary has been heard. and
a report probably will be made whom
Congress convenes in December.
Presidents Letter.
II return herewith the papers which
Won have submitted to me in the mat
ter of the report OF the committee on
personnel OF the Department OF Agri-
culture. in which. after summarizing
the evidence adduced By them. they
recommend that DR.. II. II, Rusby,
pharmacist in the Bureau OF Chem
istry, be dismissed from the service:
that DR.. L. f. Kebler. chief OF tho
drug laboratory in the Bureau nj
Chemistry. e-yeduced from his pras-
ent position, and Or, II. w. Wiley.
chief of the Bureau OF Chemistry. and
Or. w. ID, Eiselow, assistant chief of
the bureau, be given an opportunity 10
resign from. the positions witch they
now hold in the Bureau OF Chemistry,
on account OF the irregnlaritlesr In tha