Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-08-22
SEC. WILSON
HAS CRITICISM
FOR DR.. WILEY.
Head Of Agricultural De-
partment Says Chemist
Did Not Discuss Question
Before Committee.

washington -. u, Aug, Zl.-Sec
retary Of Agriculture Wilson testify
ing today before the house investiga
ting committee severely criticised DR.
Fl. w. Wiley of the bureau of chemis
try for his course In regard to pure
food and drug work and told IN 8
more or less general way Of the fam
lily troubles" which led to the recon-
mendation for DR.. Wiley's dismissal
Secretary Wilson declared that DR.
Wiley in his testimony before the
committee had withheld matter in re
gard to the controversy over sulphur
dioxide in fruit. He complained that
DR.. Wiley did not come to him to dis
cuss subjects, about which he had
talked freely to the investigating
committee and promised to have a
little chat with the chief of the bureau
of chemistery when he returned from
weeks vacation. In appointing the
pure food and drug inspection board
and in the creation of the referee
board Secretary Wilson said he con
sidered DIR. Wiley had been done 8
kindness rather than being insulted as
q chemist
Held Lawyer on Board Necessary.
Secretary Wilson laid all RESPONSE
bility for the employment of DR.. H.
S. Rusby to DR.. Wiley.
ecretary Wilson said that Dr.
Wiley was without question the head
of the bureau. Asked about his OBJ.
lection in creating pure food and
drug inspection board the secretary
said that he felt more power attached
to a board decision than to a one man
decision. @
There are people who criticize me-
said the secretary, "even the presi
dent OF the United States Is some
times criticized and II / remember
correctly there we're those who
shouted as the Saviour passed by
cruelty him, cruelty him 80 wanted
a board"
The witness was asked why he ap-
pointed mixed board" consisting
of two chemists, DR.. Wiley and DR..
Dunlap and, a lawyer, Solicitor NC
Cabe.
1T may be that it was not neces-
sary to have lawyer" on the board
because questions of prosecution must
be passed on by fhe board" said the
secretary. 1T may be that a farmer
like me or you Mr.. Chairman could
take q case into court, but don't
believe we would do very well with
it."
HAS It worked out very well?"
Not "Happy. Family"
II think you gentlemen have gone
far enough to ascertain that the
family has not been as happy as 1t
might have been."
+. The secretary was asked about his
phrases used In letter touching the
Indiana litigation over Benzoate OF
soda in which he referred to Solicitor
McCabe and Dr., Dunlap as "our peo-
pie on the board"
"You are pretty we'll aware that
there was fiction on the board" replied
the secretary. ut would have been
an insult to DR.. Wiley to consult him
in regard to benzoate Of soda
"Why?" asked Representative Boyd
of Ark.
Because he despised 1t and every
thing In regard to it. He felt that
his work was reflected on when we
appointed the referee board to re
consider the benzoate of soda ques-
ton but it was not"
Secretary Wilson said he consulted
freely with DR.. Wiley regarding ap-
pointments of the bureau Of chemistry
but in years like this he was likely to
saw to all bureaus now go little slow
with your estimates, this Is demo
cratic house"
He declered that he himself and
not Solicitor McCabe was responsible
for increasing the powers Of the soil
citor, He denied that in so doing he
was getting back to the Objectionable
one man power.