The Washington times., 1911-08-18
TAFT WILL DELAY
HIS ACTION DESPITE
WILEY REVELATIONS
President Will Defer Matter
Until He Goes To
Beverly.

Unless there is q change OF mind on
the part of the President, the Wiley
case will rot be disposed of until no
goes to Beverly for his summer vacG-
tion. This can be stated upon the high
est authority.
The decision to defer action in the i'm
portant case was reached when tho
President first began glancing over tn }
press accounts of the testimony before
the Wiley investigating committee. He
saw at once that this testimony should
enter into his judgment of the charges
against Wiley, and he has told friends
that he will not act for the present
But when the President does act, his
friends now expect him to act decisively.
1t is even predicted that a wholesale
shake-up will be ordered by Mr.. Taft
That Secretary Wilson will be involved
in the changes, is no longer doubted.
He may not resign. That would look
too much like firing the veteran Cabi-
net officer, but he will retire before the
Presidential campaign begins.
The testimony before the House commit
tee investigating the Wiley charges is
so conclusive of conspiracy to prevent
the proper execution of the pure food
10" AlldI Tic tSlLtIll Is dIldZSu IIS
is not so much surprised at the little
politics in the department, since this
grows up in all departments as he is
qstounded at the apparent participation
OF Secretary Wilson in the scheme OF
the conspirators.
Wilson Barred Appeals.
It has already been demonstrated
that Secretary Wilson refused to en-
gn
TO him from the decisions Of the pure
food board. This board was composed
Of DR.. Dunlap and Solicitor McCabe.
who had become the autocrat of
the whole department. These officials
paralyzed the effective work which Or.
Wiley attempted. according to the tes-
timony.
The whole record, too, is filled with
evidences of the complete subordina-
ton of the chief chemist and the per-
sistent efforts to embarrass him and
render his work useless. All this Is
aside from the effort made in the
Rusby case to show that the chief
chemist had violated the law and should
be subjected to 'cOndign punishment"
1t is the method used by the solicitor
and his associates in making their
case against DIR. Wiley, their withhold
from letters, their Juggling with
records, and their apparent malice, that
have impressed the President and
caused him to go further into the case
than the original record did.
The chances now are that Mr.. Taft
VIII wait until the printed hearings are
available, then review the whole of
the testimony eXacted by the House
committee before he finally determines |
whether or not he will dismiss Dr. |
Wiley or throw McCabe, Dunlap. and |
a few others out of the department.
Opportunity for Recognizing.
It is known that the President re-
CARDS the Department Of Agriculture |
as an excellent field for reOrganiza ton |
Secretary Wilson has been head of 1t |
for so long that bad practices have |
grown up in it, the President thinks |
in spite of the best of intentions on |
the part of the Secretary. Whether or |
not these practices can be abandoned |
without the resignation of the Secre- |
tary remains for the Executive to de-
termine.
Instead, therefore of simply consider
ing the case of DR.. Wiley, an indiVid-
ual official of the Chemistry Bureau,
the President will consider the reor-
Fanization of the whole department.
He will take the testimony before the
House committee as the basis upon
which he will work
OF course, If Congress remains in
Washington long enough the Execu-
tive may dispose of the Wiley matter
while here. but the indications now are
that adjournment will come within the
next week or ten days. In this event
the decision will come from the summer
[ aDital at Beverly.