Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-08-18
SENSATION NO. 2.
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arrangement fully to him." Yes"
WAS your going to the secretary di-
rect an unusual proceeding
"Oh, no, We go TO MIN constantly
with such matters
.'You assume the full responsibility
for the arrangements that have beer
made?" asked Chairman Moss.
II do, the full responsibility rests
with me-"
Rep. French of Idaho asked DR.. Will
ey whether a well balanced board IL
the agricultural department on which
the solicitors department and the bu-
reau of chemistry were propertienate-
~ represented could handle pure food
cases without friction.
Il don't think it could be worked out
with the present antagonism existing
between these two departments" said
DR.. Wiley.
DR.. Wiley charged that the manu-
facturers of this product has offered
money TO prominent commercial chem
lists OF the United States 10 secure
opinions supporting their contention
that corn syrup" was a proper name
for glucose.
The board Of food and drug inspec-
ton, endorsing the bureau Of chem
istry, found that corn syrup" was an
Illegal label on glucose.
.'All the board joined in the deeis-
ion." DIR. Wiley said. land the decision
was approved by the secretary. This
decision was sent TO the printing Of
flee, was set up and proofs taken, but
it was never sent out.
axartiv contrary
was published by the three members
of the cabinet vested with the juris-
dlctions in such matters as a pure
food decision under the food and drug
act"
In the interval between the pre-
paration of our decision and the pub
lication of the ruling by the three Sec
retaries / know that the corn products
company was very busy.
They tried to get certificates from
chemists, one of whom later became
member of the pure food referee board.
to show that corn syrup was a proper
term Tor glucose. In one case a
chemist informed me that he had been
offered money for such an opinion but
he refused it.
when ! learned this, | 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
DIR. Wiley said that the president of
the Corn Products Co. protested to
the board of three cabinet officers, de-
claring DR.. Wiley's appeal to the
state chemists was unfair. DIR. Wiley
was asked by Secretary of Agricul-
ture Wilson to 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 Co." said DR.. Wiley
"but Mr.. Emery, food commissioner
of Wisconsin, had extreme difficulty
getting a copy of it and had to appea
to member of Congress for assist
ance."
DR.. Wiley added that the decision
of the three secretaries which tool
place of the withdrawn decision o
the agricultural department, still re
mains in force.
Asked whether the Remsen boart
chemists were men of high standing
DR.. Wiley smiled and said:
They all stood very high until they
made the benZoate of soda decisions
] don't think they stand so high now
Or. Wiley said he did not question
their honesty, but he pointed out that
they did not make the investigations
themselves. He said he had not felt
free TO discuss cases with Sec Will
son since the board of food and drug
inspection was created, but had nc
doubt of the secretary's honesty and
zeal
Il am not seeking vindication," de-
elared DIR. Wiley.
He said he had not asked to he
heard before the committee and re.
iterated his denial of an alleged lille.
gal arrangement with Dr. Rusby. say
ing that he had no knowledge of IL
THE STATEHOOD FIGHT.