The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-07-23
WILEY CHARGES
A BOOMERANG
FREELY PREDICTED THEY WILL
REcoL UPON THE DoPED FOOD
INTERESTS FIGHTING HIM.

Washington, d. c., July 22.-lt is
freely predicted that the charges
against DR.. Harvey W. Wiley, Chief
OF the Rnreau Of Chemistry. in con
nection with the salary of DR. II, II.
Rusty will prove a boomerang ana
recoil upon the doped food interests
which have handicapped his aiminis-
tration Of the pure food laws and
have sought to oust him. 1t seems
more than probable that the Remsen
board will be abolished and many
members of congress believe that
Uncle Jere Wilson, the aged head
of the department of agriculture,
will find it convenient To resisn
The house committee on expenditures
in the department of agriculture, OF
which Representative Moss OF lndi-
ana is chairman, will 30 to the bot
tom of the efforts TO get Wiley's scalp
and many interesting developments
are scheduled. \ genuine sensation
is promised when the Remsen board
is smoked out. Some years ago the
attacks i'm congress on the legal sta
tus OF the board became so violent
that It WIS thought we'll TO have an
opinion from Attorney General Wick
ersham on the subject. One was made
public in which Mr. Wickersham held
the board was legally appointed. L
now develops that he referred the
question to an assistant attorney gen.
eral, vet in the department who
prepared an opinion that the board
was Illegal and was appointed with
out authority of law. 1t was quickly
%cOenized that such an opinion
would place Secretary Wilson and
ex-President Roosevelt, under whose
administration the Remsen BOARD
was created, in a very bad hole es-
pecially as the board had expended
a hundred thousand dollars in in
vestigatnc henzoate of soda. Conse-
quently the opinion Of the assistant
attorney general was suppressed and
The question was referred to Solicitor
George p. McCabe, of the department
of agriculture, who has no connection
with the department of justice, VINO
wrote an opinion sustaining his chief,
Secretary Wilson. The McCabe opin.
ion was sent to the department OF
Justice and there promulgated as the
opinion Of the attorney general. \
copy of the original opinion declaring
the board illegal and which was sup
pressed in favor of the McCabe opin-
ion. is in existence ana will he pro
duced before the committee if called
for, as it doubtless will be.
1t is not improbable that Former
President Roosevelt will be summon
ed by the committee to tell the cir
leading ~ the appoint
ment of the Remsen board. II is re-
ported on good authority that he in
dicated 10 a prominent member Of
the American Medical Association .
that he had been misled in creating .
the board and in selecting its person
mel, and it is common gossip in .
Washington that the creation of the .
board and its membership was quiet .
Iy suggested TO him from a source .
which he did not then connect with .
the benzoate OF soda and saccharin .
interests, and other manufacturers op-
posed to the enforcement of the law
as outlined by Dr. Wiley.
While so much fuss has been raised
over the salary of $1,000 set aside
Tor Dr. II. Fl Rusby, it is interesting
10 note some of the sums paid the
members of the Remsen board,
whicn. in the three and cne-half