The Washington times., 1911-07-14
HOUSE COMMITTEE
To HUNT MEN BACK
OF WAR ON WILEY
Chairman Wants to Know
who" Is Conducting
Fight and why"
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(COnunueO from F1TSt PaBe.l
transacting my duties in the usual way
and as / see the right.
of course in advance of my answer
to the President. l cannot discuss the
merits of the case"
DR.. Wiley was told that the House
Committee had unearthed the fact that
the Department of Justice has seen fit
to pay trust buster" Kellogg $4,000 for
to pay trust buster" Kellogg was al
lowed to draw more than 81, 200 in less
than three years on unitemized expense
accounts, and that ]. C. Reynolds,
another special assistant to the Attor-
ney General had been paid $63 900 for
rendering expert assistance in the en-
forcement of the antitrust laws.
We'll. 1t may make a difference as to
whose OK is gored," observed DR.. Wiley,
drily.
The Trregularity."
The sum of DR.. Wiley's offending, ac-
oording to the charges, is that he en-
gagged DR.. Rusby at salary of 81, 600 a
year, but this, however, was to be paid
at the rate of $50 day for court work
and $40 day for laboratory work. Dr.
Rusby was needed only occasionally and
the daily wage was in effect only until
the $500 salary might be Appropriated.
On the other hand, the law says that
expert services must not be paid for al
a rate above S11 per day, hence DR..
Wiley's present predicament and the
opinion of the Attorney General that the
1rregularity'' merits the punishment
that DR.. Wiley should resign and that
DR.. L F. Kebler, chief of the drug lab
oratory, should be reduced.
"A strange state of AFFAIRS" said
Chairman Beall, of the House Commit
tee now investigating the Department of
Justice. Our committee discovered yes
terday. when the charges against Dr.
hnN1 ho he
General has by no means restricted
himself in hiring expert assistants. The
committee has in its possession vouch-
ers showing where Mr.. Kellogg was
paid lump sums for additional COM
pensation." We also find that special
assistant McReynolds was allowed SO
per diem for eXpenses-not to be ac-
counted for-and over and above his
railroad fare, telegrams, and sleeper ex-
penses.
pared at all with that of the Attorney
General who has been so quick to
condemn the pure food expert DR.
Wiley has stood between the public and
the despoilers for years. He merits and
has the public confidence.
Points to Contrast.
In view of the disclosures concern
ing the liberties taken by the Attorney
General in dispensing thousands for his
expert advisers, am unable to see any
comparison whatever between the tech
nical breach said to have been COM
mitted by DR.. Wiley and the wholesale
breach indulged in by the Attorney Gen
eraI In one case the amount involved
Is not more than $500. In the other
1t runs into the hundred thousands"
Representative Moss chairman Of the |
House Committee on Expenditures in |
the Department Of Agriculture, issued a |
call this morning for a meeting of his |
committee to take up the Wiley con-
troversy. 1t is not believed that the |
opponents Of DR.. Wiley will receive |
mu, \ encoura cement at the hands of |
the House membership. Congress be- |
food law as much as 1t does in anti |
trust proceedings.
In this connection, 1t is interesting to |
note that there have been more than |
1000 prosecutions under the pure food |
law, championed by DR.. Wiley, long
before 1t went upon the statute books. |
0f the cases already decided there have |
been more than 800 convictions. In no
case has an offender been sent to jail.
Nominal Fines Imposed.
In a majority of cases the fines have
been nominal They have ranged from
cent to 5000, the latter being the limit
for first offense. More frequently
sentenced SO, SIS, and $50, and in but
one instance, so far as could be recalled /
at the office of the solicitor for the Ag-
ricultural Department today, has an Of
fender received the maximum fine
These statistics are interesting for
this reason:
DR.. Wiley's bureau and the solicitor