Norwich bulletin., 1911-08-22
Says Wiley is
0ver-Sensitive
SECRETARY WILSON TESTIFJEs
AT INVESTIGATION.
THE coRN-sYRUP INCIDENT
Declares Action of Secretaries Was
Taken Out of Difference to Prssi-
den's Wshes-WiIey Radical.

Washington, Aug. 21.-The congress
sional investigation into the attempt
TO GUST Jr. Fl. w. Wiley from his DO
sItlon as head of the bureau OF chem
lstry in the department of agriculture
was closed today with the testimony
of Secretary Wilson.
Says DR.. Wiley Was Over Sensitive.
Many times in his testimony Secre-
tary Wilson condemned DIR. wi1ey's
demeanor, charging that he was over
sensitive because his findings on pure
food and drugs were not accepted as
final, but were sometimes referred to
the ooard of which Ira Remsen is
chairman. AS he was leaving the
stand, Secretary Wilson declared that
he would prefer to resign his job to
going through another bureau row
The witness was not cross examined
by counsel for DIR. Wiley because Of
the relative positions of the two prin-
cipals.
Wilson Became Suspicious.
Secretary Wilson said he became
suspicious of the employment of DIR.
H. Fl. Rusby of New York. the drug
expert, and storm center of the in
Vestlgatlon, when he was shown a. let
ter purporting to have been written
by DR.. KalZer of the bureau of chem
istry, telling DR.. Rusby that it would
be all the same whether he worked
one day or many. The employment
had been approved by the secretary.
but he said that he did not examine
into the details of the contract, Ieav-
ing that to DR.. Wiley.
Alleged Double Dealing.
The secretary said he was now in
vestigating a report that DR.. Rusby
had accepted fees from drug importers
for opinions regarding samples Of
drugs they We're considering import
noe ca1 4hr. T-4z
as the representative of the govern
ment. He said an inspector had re-
ported he had discovered one such al
legged instance.
Coco Cola Expert Got $1,000.
In testifying about the employment
of experts. he said that in the coco
cola case DIR. Wiley had agreed to give
an expert $1,000 for appearing in the
matter, and later the expert wanted
Il paid the expenses because we had
agreed to do SO, and / issued an order
that thereafter DR.. Wiley might seiect
the experts. but Solicitor McCabe was
to fix the rate of compensa tion,r said
the secretary.
The Corn Syrup Case.
The witness said Dr. Wiley seem
ingly wants to put me in hole about
the corn syrup case. 1t was in this
case that DR.. Wiley had told the com
mittee about the three cabinet officers
charged with supervisory duties over
pure food and drug questions. chang
ing the decision of the pure food and
1rugs board relative to a substance be-
ing glucose or corn syrup" after the
decision had gone to print.
Conference at White House.
Or Wiley has forgotten a confer
ence he attended on that subject" said
Secretary Wilson. HE attended and
so did l. II was held at the White
President Roosevelt. There was an
exceedingly interesting discussion.
Very; yes, very. The president had an
opinion about a person who thought
that the substance. was not syrup"
Decision Made to Please Roosevelt.
He told how the three secretaries de-
cided that the substance could be
named corn syrup" whereupon Rep
resentative Floyd suggested that they
did it out of regard to the presidents
views.
1T is we'll for those under man to
listen to him or leave the service re-
piled the secretary.
Wley's recommendations Radical.
The secretary denounced as rad
ical" the recommendation of DR.. Wiley
that food containing alum be prohibit
ed until the referee board has passed
on the subject. In support of refusal
President Taft saying the question
that manufactur of b1eached flour
should be permitted to continue their
manufacture until the counts had
passed on an appeal
Would Ruin Persons in Business.
IF we took such action as DR.. Wi
ley recommended on articles where
there was no question of deleterious
effect on health, we would ruin the
persons engaged in the business before
the Remsen board passed on the ques
tion,'' said the secretary.
Never Opposed Wiley Testifying.
Referring to an attempt to get DR.
Wiley to testify about the effect of
benzoate of soda in the famous Indi-
ana case. when the Remsen board war
requested by the secretary to testify,
diculous.
DIR Wiley knows I never opposed
his going anywhere" said the wit
ness. tWhy get me to order him to
testify. when he could go himself"
But haven't you just said you would
regard such act as characterization"
the secretary was asked.
@'Of anyone below a chief of a. bu-
reau; not a chief.
Confederation of Wilson's Testimony.
John Ball Osborne, chief Of the bu-
reau of trade relations of the state
department, was called to substantiate
Secretary Wilson's statement that DR..
Wiley had attended a conference at
the state department with the French
ambassador, in which it was agreed
not to enforce the federal law regard
ing su1phate dioxide in imported fruit
juices until the Remsen board had
passed on the subject. Mr.. Osborne
said DR.. Wiley was there as the rep
resentative of the department of agrf-
culture.
81 ibid not know he was there in
any such capacity" said Secretary
Wilson. why did he go then?"
Il do not know. I CUES because he