Bisbee daily review., 1911-08-27

, slSoC. His opportunity had come. He was virtually his own boss, and pro Il ceeded to get some one to boss him self. There was no solicitor" at that time. The legal work of the depart ment had been, for the most part turned over to the department Of jus tice. Secretary Wilson and McCabe became intimate. Every question
 passed up for adjudication by the de.
 partment was returned in haste with
 positive opinion. Wilson considered
 MeCabe as a bright and a valuable
 man.
 In few years the estimates for the
 agricultural department jumped from S3,000,000 to $i5,e00.000 per annum.
 MeCabe prepared all the bills that were sent to congress both for appro priations and on other matters. He
 prepared bill that raised his own salary to S2500 and he prepared a bill
 that authorized him to take on as 1 sistants. The department of agrieul- ! ture had no legally appointed solicitor. 1 McCabe decided to be the solicitor of i the department in law as well as in 1 fact. and he wrote an appropriation | bill in which the word solicitor" was ! used in specifying the salary he was ! 10 receive. Congress passed the bll. | McCabe was the solicitor" and has | continued to be so called. although there is no authority in law for such | a title. He thus increased his pres ! tige in the department as well as in many other places.
 At intervals he wrote bills that add ed assistants to his office force. lie has twenty-two law clerks in the of fee, besides ten in the field and a corps of clerks.
 Tcok on More Assistants Congress decided 10 investigate the packing business McCabe took charge of the investigation. It re- suited in the passage of the cattle in spection law. McCabe took on few more assistants and proceeded to see that the bureau of animal industry carried out the law. McCabe and the bureau of animal industry which con gress authorized to carry out the law clashed. MeCabe won the fight and the bureau has been subservient to him since that time.
 McCabe first came into the lime light in the BaIlinger-Pinchot contTo-l versy He arranged some of the de tails for the beheading of Pinchot, and when that official was theoretically executed McCabe took over bodily theI law office of the forest division. lie was boss of the department, but there remained one great obstacle-Wiley
 The head of the bureau of chemistry. Wiley, would not stay 'hitched. President Roosevelt created the Rem sen board, which took from Wiley the authority conferred upon him b. the act of congress. Wiley would not accept the situation. He criticised the board and kept up his fight for what he believed was the intent of con gress-cleaning foods and drugs oi deleteTious preservatives and neutral obstacles. McCabe sided with the Remson board. Gentle persuasion was used on Wiley to show him that he should not try to run the bureau of chemistry while the secretary was the boss ofs the department. Wiley started to agitate outside of the de partment.
 The whiskey case came up for set tlemen. Wiley decided that whiskey meant pure whiskey fl effect. Those who had the power ever him decided the question in several ways, until to day the question of whiskey Is Fir- tually where it started. The benzoatel of soda and saccharin cases, both oi which Wiley maintains are dangerous preservatives of impure substances, split the department wide open. Wiley and the members of the bureau of chemistry, with the exception oi the associate chemist Dr. Dunlap stood out against the decisions of the. other boards.
 Wiley Protests
 | Wiley made no secret Of the fact that he believed McCabe went too far when he attempted to dictate to the bureau of chemistry Wiley was the l--.a L-..----..- -..--.----....