Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-07-14
WILEY FRIENDS
TAKE UP FIGHT
Chief Chemists Removal
VIII Start Biggest Row OF
the Administration.
LIKE PiNCH0T AFFAIR
House Committee Ready to
Turn the Tables on the
Attorney General.
Special by United Press Wire.

Special BY United Press Wtre.
Washington, July 14:-Dr. Harvey
w. Wiley will not be separated from
his Job as chief chemist without an
upheaval such as the administration
has never known before, according
to indications here today
Progressive Republicans Joined
with Democrats of the House today
to urge an immediate probe into the
charge that the latest attempt to
get the pure food chief Is 1nsti-
gated by the interests which he has
antagonized by fearless administra-,
tion of the law, although ostensibly
coming as a matter of departmental
routine.
The House committee on expendi-
lures in the department of agricul-
ture today made plans for tmmedt-
ate action. There was talk at the
capitol of a reprisal directed against
Attorney General Wickersham for
his report on Wi1ey's charges. Evi-
dence which the House committee
has uncovered, members say, show
the attorney general himself to have
been guilty of Irregularities in disre-
garding the law which requires the
payment of expenses for special as
sistants to be itemized.
Combination After Wiley.
That the whiskey trust, Standard
Oil, the glucose manufacturers and
venders of soft drinks are the real
forces behind the move to oust Wiley
to departmental intrigue, was the au-
thoritative information secured by
Democratic members Of the House
today
A committee probe Of these
charges will begin this afternoon.
DR.. Wiley himself did not deny
that outside influences were the
prime factors In the plans to force
him out He would not contradict
the department of agriculture itself,
had been attempting to undermine
hin~and nullify his work.
&ne certain officials referred to by
Y. icy was taken to mean George G.
McCabe, solicitor of the department,
member of the pure food board and
one of the committee on personnel
which recommended that Wiley be
permitted to resign for his irregulari-
t,es in connection with DR.. Rusby's
employment.
The general complaint made about
DR.. Wiley Is virtually the same as was
made against Clifford Pinchot, that he
is running his bureau In a high hand
ed manner over the heads Of his su-
periors. Mr.. Pinchot did about as he
pleased with the bureau Of forestry,
without consulting the secretary of
agriculture, and DR.. Wiley, in the bu-
reau of chemistry, has been following
In the footsteps of the forester.
1t was therefore without much hesi-
tation that the department Of agricul-
ture personnel committee seized upon
an opportunity for condemning Wiley
and recommending that he be allowed
to resign
The charge is that he conspired to
give Illegal compensation to DR.. 81. n.
Rusby, head of the New York College
Of Pharmacy at Columbia university,
as a government expert.
DR.. Rusby has been employed for
several years as an expert for the gov
Jaw prohibiting the department Of ag
nculture from paying any expert
greater salary than $4,000 year. 1t
was found that DR.. Rusby's services
1ould not be obtained for less than 500
J day for laboratory investigations and
Tor $50 day for attendance in court.
Attorney General Wickersham had
Aeld that the law permitted the pay
Ment Of only 81 day, the per diem
(f 81 ZOO a year.
Notwithstanding this law, DR.. Wiley
Ind L. F. Kebler, chief Of the division
tf drugs of the department Of agri-
1ulture, arranged, 1t Is charged, for
)he employment Of DR.. Rusby at
Dalary Of $1,000 year. to be paid to
)ervtce and $50 day for services In
eourt.
The effect of this arrangement. 1t Is
)atd, was that he should be called upon
10 perform only such service as this
Salary would compensate for at these
rates.
This arrangement came to the notice
IF DR.. r. L. Dunlap, acting chief Of
)he bureau of chemistry, and he i'm
hediately took the matter up with
Secretary Wilson. 1t was referred to
he committee on personnel Of the de-
bnrtment Of agriculture. composed Of
Assistant Secretary Hays, Solicitor
EcCabe and Chief Clerk Clark.
The committee recommended that
Or. Wiley and Dr.. BigeIow, his assist
mt, be permitted to resign. that DR..
Kebler be reduced and that DR.. Rusby
be dismissed
Mr. Taft desired to give the "de-
fendants" an opportunity to be heard
and sent to each copy of the report.
DR. Rusby immediate put the en-
tire responsibility up to DR.. Wiley,
yaying he presumed the chief chemist
knew what he was doing.
DR.. Riley and other officers have not
Bubmitted their answers, and the presi-
nent will take no action until he has
received them.
Or. Wiley's friends understand that
be will not resign, but will stay until
forced out.