The Washington times., 1911-08-17
Dr.. Wiley Accuses Cabinet Officers

was rather proud of, and I was fully
sustained by the courts decision.
| But today, and ever since that opin-
| lon by the three Secretaries glucose can
be labeled corn syEup-except In VIE
| consin."
In the bleached -four case DR.. Wiley
said he appealed to the Secretary. IN
that case the food board and his own
| view were sustained, ard the courts
finally held with them, making II
complete victory.
Bureau Letters.
"One of the chief affairs of the food
board is to answer letters. I suppose
about twenty of this sort are sent out
daily, answering questions about food
law details. AS chairman, I sign them,
even when I disagree from the decis-
ion.
I'VE have one case of this side that
has hung fire two years. 1 have been
ready to vote on it, but can't get 1t de-
cided. 1t involvesSoft drinks-dosing of
children with articles that are injur-
!ous to them"
rs that the Coca-Cola case?"
mo; that case went to the courts. 1
consider that giving people, especially
children, doses of caffeine, Is very detri-
mental and ought to be stopped. That
is what the Coca-Cola people are do
ing"
: Asked about his part in getting the
pure food act passed, DR.. Wiley said
at all hearings Colonel Hepburn, chair
man of the House Committee, always
asked him to attend.
' THE food people would plead by the
| hour for q law that would allow them
TO use borax and benzoate. They even
| wanted exceptions in the law, in favor
| of those preservatives.
Il was always given the chance by
| Colonel Hepburn to answer these state
ments, and I did. The law as passed,
! consider. forbds the use OF preserva-
| tives, save when employed externally.
/ did not like that exception, but gen.
orally the law pleased me well, and
slider It a fine law despite small de-
fects."
On the eve Of ths laws passage, DR..
Wiley sat with the House committee
and helped in the last work Of shaping
| the bill.
Attorney Davis went back to DR..
Wiley's testimony of yesterday. when
he said that in 100 cases Dunlap voted
with Wiley, in the food board. but later,
when McCabe voted on the other side.
Dunlap withdrew his vote, and cast 1t
with McCabe.
'The order Of voting" said DR., Wiley.
was this. The papers in a given case
were sent to the three members aS, in turn turn
noted on them his vote
After time tn order Of voting was
changed. and was made Wiley: McCahee.
Dunlap. After that. Dunlap always fol-
lowed McCabe-it facilitated business
very much"
Audience Laughs.
This detail of law showing Dunlap
was completely controlled by McCabe
brought out a 1eerins laugh from the
audienCe.
Asked about his testimony in the
Indiana State benzoate case DR.. Wiley
said he never asked McCabe whether
he might testify.
II went on my own volition, be-
cause thought it my duty" he said.
"I did ask the attitude of the de-
partment about bureau employees GO
ing-that was all.
My bulletin on benzoate of soda
is now cut of print-can't be had for
love or money. The plates have never
been destroyed"
This was given with an emphasis
which made plain that DR.. Wiley
thought his bulletin had been sup
pressed, and 1t brought out another
laugh.
Then DR.. Wiley told about the
Scotch oats case" A seisure was
ment won the case and had the goods
condemned. Soon after another case,
exactly like tAis arose in Arkansas,
but the solicitor absolutely refused
to prosecute 1t!
Instead of prosecuting the second
case, Solicitor McCabe wrote the Secre-
tary of Agriculture recommending that
no seizure be made. And no further
effort was made to enforce that regu-
latiOn. The department regulations at
that time held that geographical name
must not be used to mislead the user
about the place where goods were pro-
duced.
In the case of the Heinze India relish,
a seizure was made on the ground that
the word India" suggested manufac-
ture of the article in India.
If the procedure had been taken in
the regular way, the ,Heinze people
would have been entitled to a hearing,
and to show that the word India was
a generic trade term, long used. with
established meaning. and hot intended
avoid this, seizure was made.
The Heinze case Is important, because
the Heinze people have been persistent
advertisers of the fact that they do not
use benzoate. The enemies of Wiley at
the Department of Agriculture have
persisted in intimations that Wiley was
unduly friendly to the HeinZe interests;
and, in connection with the Heinze seiz-
ure case, Wiley's friends have alleged
that 1t was started in order to get
Nileys alleged pets into bad repute.