The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-17
Secret of Opposition to DR.. Wiley
Is Made Plain.
Glucose Trust Is at the Bot
tom Of 1t.
HIS RULING REVERSED
By a Triumvirate of Cabinet
Officers, He Says.
Chemists Were Offered Money
for Satisfactory Findings.

Washington. Aug 17.-Dr H. w. Wi
ley, the pure food expert, added anoth-
er sensation to the house inquiry into
agricultural department affairs today,
when he declared that a ruling adverse
to the socalled corn syrup manufac-
ing interests promulgated by the bu-
reau of Chemistry, the food and drug
inspection board and Secretary Wilson
himself had suddenly been changed into
a favorable opinion without beng re-
ferred to him or his associates.
Whey charged that the manufactur-
erS of this product had offered money
to prominent commercial chemists of
the United States to secure opinions
supporting their contention that corn
syrup vas a proper name for glucose.
The board of food and drugs inspec-
ton endorsing the bureau OF chemis-
try found that corn syrup was an il
legal label on glucose. All the board
Joined III the disussion," Dr. Wiley
said, "and the decision was approved
by the secretary This decision was
sent to the printing office, was set up
and proofs taken but it was never sent
out. Later an exactly contrary decis-
ion was published by the three mem-
bers of the cabinet vested with the jur-
isdiction in such matters as n pure
food decision under the food and drugs
act.
In the interval between the prepar-
alton of our decision and the publication
of the ruling by the three secretaries
/ know that the Corn Products com
pany was very busy.
He Was offered Money.
They tried to get certificates from
chemists. one of whom later became a
member of the pure food referee board,
to show that corn syrup was a proper
name for glucose. In one case a chem
ist Informed me that he had been Of
fered money lor such an opinion, that
he refused it.
when I learned this 1 wrote to all
the state chemists in the country who
are charged with enforcing pure food
laws and put it up to them to say
whether this was a proper label.
Every one answered in the negative |
and they were not offered any money
by me or any one"
Dr. Wiley said the president Of the
Corn Products company protested to
the board of three cabinet officers de-
cIaring DR.. Wiley's appeal to the state
chemists was unfair. DR.. Wiley was
asked by Secretary of Agriculture Viii |
son 10 state what he had done and he |
supplied the secretary with his letter
to chemists, and also with a brief to
show that corn syrup was an illegal
label.
"That brief was furnished to the /
Corn Products company said Dr.
Wiley, but Mr.. Emory, food commis-
sioner of Wisconsin, had extreme diff
fcllty in getting a copy of it and had |
to appeal to a member Of congress for
assistance" DR.. Wiley added that the
decision of the three secretaries which /
took the place of the withdrawn decls-
ion of the agricultural department sllil
remains IN force.
Asked whether the Remsen poaro
chemists were men OF hign standing,
Dr.. Wiley smiled and said;
Not SO High Now.
.sThey all stood very high until they
made the benzoate Of soda decisions.
1 don't think they stand SO hlgh now;
DR.. Wiley placed in evidence the let
ter written by Secretary Wilson April
"a 1907. notifying him OF the appoint
ment of DIR. Dunlap as associate cheIn- |
ist This is the letter which DR.. WHEY
internrered yesterday as giving Dr. |
Dunlap authority greater than his own
Secretary Wilson announced in the let
far that he had decided to create the
hoard of food and drug Inspection ana
mat he would look to you CDR. Wiley)
for the facts ana TO MI MCOdoS AOi 'Ao
Returning to DR. Wileys testimony
that he had never been informed of the
e1act charges made against him before
the personnel board tepresSIies'tlS 1-9
F'lovd. of Arkansas, asked II ne had
received ary statements from the per
sonnel board until the final notice tnat
he was to resign
Nothing whatever, Saiu III ENliSS'
CHAIRMAN Moss asked Dr. Wiley
about the negotiations that led up to
the employment of DR.. H. H. Rusby
which it is charged, was secret ar
rangement.'
Did YOU personally take this mat
ter to the secretary of agriculture?'
asked Moss
Il did" said DR.. Wiley.
mid Won explain the terms of the
arrangement fully to him
Yes 7,,.,o
Chicago. Aug. 1.-THE administra-
ton of the bureau of chemistry by Dr.
Harvey w. Wiley, whose rulings yitally
affect the canning industry is endorsed
in resolution adopted today by the Ma
tional Gamers association and the Ma
tional Canned Goods and Dried Fruit
Brokers' association. The resolutions,
which are addressed to Pr es!dent Taft,
conclude as follows:
I'VE respectfully urge the president
to consider well the conspicuous ser
vice DR.. Wiley has rendered the peo-
pie. their manifest appr wal and con-
fidence in him and to ask his reten
ton in his present offices if not in
compatible with that sense Of fairness
which has ever marked the judgments
of the president Of the United States