Bisbee daily review., 1911-08-29
PREDICT MOSS
 IS FOR WILEY
Report Of Committee Not Civ en Out, But f Is Believed That Doctor Is
 Vindicated
AGREEMENT ON ALI POINTS

WASHINGTON. Aug. 2s.-The Moss committee, which has been investigat- Ing the McCabe-Wiley feud, held an executive meeting today and decided 70 adjourn until December. The com mittee believes it has made a most successful inquiry into the controyer. sy and that the report and reeom- mendatisns will lead to legislation that will great improve the adminis- ration of the pure food law.
 The committee did not take action on the merits of the case. but it is known that its recommendation will demand sweeping reforms in the de partment of agriculture.
 The house, if it desires. can hold the whip hand n such matters, notwith- standing the fact that the department Is of the executive branch of the government. Should it so recommend the house may frame the next agri- culture appropriation bill so that Dr. Wiley will be unhampered in his work in the bureau of chemistry, and 1t may refuse to sanction further expense on account of the Remsens board and even the board of personnel
 Committee Agrees.
 It is stated On good authority that the committee is unanimous or nearly all questions at issue in the inYestiga- ton. The yoluminous record of the hearings has not come from the printer, and until this is received it is impossible for the committee to take official action.
 The committee may reopen the case next winter if it develops that there is additional evidence to be obtained. Chairman Moss said today that one question certain to De determined by the committee was the legality of the employment of Dr. Rusby, about which the present controversy at first eentered. The committee will take into consideration the precedents estab- hshed by the department iself when it engaged the expert services of ". H. Harris and the further fact that the Remsen board is eniploed under a contract with the bureau of chemistry.
 There is no doubt that the inves. tigation by the Moss committee has proved to be among the most import. ant begun by the democratic house The testimony has revealed the hin drance thrown about Dr. Wiley, and 1t has been demonstrated that the ad- ministration of the pure food law has practically fallen into the hands Of Solicitor McCabe. who IS Aot q chemist and the RemSen board. which was not dreamed of when the pure food law was enacted.
 Dr. Wiley is believed not to have suffered in prestige or public conf dence because of the investigation and the report of the committee prob ably will be a vindication Of the earn. est work Of the chief chemist to en- force the pure food law as he con strues it.
 The committee today inserted ir the record a dispatch to The New York Journal of Commerce, which was testified to by Parker Willis, the Washington correspondent of the paper, at the request of the chairman of the committee at the first day Of the investigation. In the dispatch g remark by Secretary Wilson at the opening of the hearing by the three secretaries last spring in regard tC saccarin was quoted. In his speecl Secretary Wilson said, according tC MT. Willis, who was coTroborated b5 others present dl the near ms
 q want you to understand tha the referee board was organized ant put into action for the purpose O conserving, the interests of the man ufacturers."
 The dispatch went On to give qual flying circumstances of the speech but the committee would not allow l to go into the record at the time.
 Yesterday Secretary Wilson aite he had concluded his testimny charged that Mir. Willis had misrepre sented him and read from the note of the stenographer at the time of th' bearing before the secretaries and as serted that if MT. Willis had gone ol and quoted more he would have ha' a different story to tell.
 Mr. Willis tried to get permission from the committee to put in the res of his dispatch, but MT. Higgins c Connecticut, who has an especial dis like for newspaper men for some req son. objected. Today the committe took up the matter and decided tha a gross injustice had been done Mi willis by the committee, if not D Secretary Wilson.