Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-09-16

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of the department may require much more
radical action than the question l have
considered and decidedS'
May BE q shakeup.
That this statement indicates serious
shakeup in the department next winter was
freely predicted today. There have never
been any intimations that Secretary Wilson
was disposed TO retire and it is not believed
here that the president would request him
to do So general cleanup of affairs in
the department, however, could readily DO
required by the president and carried
through when he returns TO Washington
in November.
The Wiley case arose over the en-
ployment by the bureau of chemistry OF
Dr. H H. Rusby of New York, phar-
macognosist of the bureau. In effect pc.
Wiley. D. L. F. Kebler, chief of the drug
la boratory, and DR.. w. d. Bigelow, as
sistant chief OF the bureau, were charged
with having conspired to pay DR.. Ruspy
salary of 81, 900 year, with the tscit un-
derstanding that he was to do only enough
work TO secure this amount at tile rato
Of $40 day. This was held to violate tho
act Of congress of March Is, 1895, which
declared that no classified scientific in
vestigator should receive more than 50
day. In addition to the recommendation
that Dr. Wiley be allowed TO resign, TIE
per rsonnel board held that DR.. Rusby should
be dismissed that DIR. Kebler be reduced
and that DR.. Bigelow be allowed 10 quit
the service. None of these recommenda-
tons is upheld in the presidents opinion
kebIer is RepFimHndcd.
D- kebler is reprimanded for 'dis!n-
genuous conduct" in his letter to DR..
Rusby. and the president says that the
letters suggest Willingness to resort TO
evasion" that calls for official reproot. DR..
Bigelow is held TO have been over zeal.
GUS" and a reprimand by Secretary OF
Agriculture Wilson. TO whom the opinion
which Is in letter form is directed, is or
derod Dy the president.
DIR. Rusby is held to be as guiltess as
Dr. Wiley m this particular matter a
charge against him, however, OF securing
the appointment on the commission on
.'laborer role" of a physician and expert,
whom he could use TO do his work at
very small stipend when he himself was
called away" the president holds TO b9
mot especially creditable."
Board Ia Created.
Accordingly the "Remsen board" was
created % a number Of experts, all OF
whom were known TO be engaged in other
professional work than that of the review
ing board. DR.. Remsen, the head Of the
board, occupies an important position in
Johns Hopkins university, and that Is his
principal occupation. Another member, DR..
Russell Chittenden of the Sheffield Scien-
tific school is dean OF that school and tina.
is his chief vocation.
Hence the employment OF the Remsen
board at the rate Of 5000 year for each
member. necessarily involved the belief
that such annual salary might lawfully be
paid without requiring labor OF seven hours
a day from each person so employed. This.
the attorney general in his opinion says is
contrary 20 the statute. but in the agri-
cultural department IT was not thought
TO be the case Solicitor McCabe, TO whom
I referred the question of precedents made
in the case, replied that in the practice OF
the department the clause in the appro-
priation act OF March l5, 1895. had been,
held 10 have no application to the EN-