The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1912-03-16
RESIGNATION Of
. DR.. WILEY CAME
is 4 SURPRISE
WASHINGTON WAS STARTLED BY
ANNOUNCEMENT THAT HE
HAD RESIGNED.


nounces He VIII Devote Remainder
of Ills Life in Creating National
Health Department,
Washington, March 15.-Dr. Harvey
w. Wiley, chief of the United States
bureau of chemistry, resigned today.
He announced he would devote the re-
mainder of his life urging the crea-
ton of a national health department
entirely separate from any other
branch of the government service.
The resignation became effective to-
day. DR.. Wiley said he had num-
Der of offers under consideration. One
is from a lecture bureau and others
are of an editorial and commercial
nature. He declared positively that
he would not enter business.
Asked whether he would be a can
didate for the head of the proposed
federal health department for which
he announced he was going to work
he declared that he would not be
hat he has feld all the government
positions he cared to fill
Preji lent Taft today sent tele
grams broadcast to the heads of uni
vers't.es and colleges throughout the
country asking them to recommend
a successor /, DR.. Wiley. The presi-
dent SAID n, loped id this way to gel
con3en 'rs of opinion as to the best
and most available chemist.
DIR. Wiley's resignation came as g
dramatic climax to the long confer
ence he had with Secretary Wilson
in 5he latter's private office today. The
secretary would make no statement
Of The case other than DR.. Wiley will
hand in his resignation.
did DR.. Wiley outline his plans fol
the future.
Rumors had been current for sew
eral weeks after the government s
the service. Nevertheless, the actua
news of his resignation came as bic
surprise to official Washington. TIC
all resignation reports DR.. Wiley had
made emphatic denial.
The latest report has been that DR.
Wiley would lay down the important
work he had been doing for the de-
part nent of agriculture to become as
sociate editor of housekeeping mag
azine. He has received many fiatter
ing offers from interests in other
lines of business.
DR.. Wiley for a long time had been
department of agriculture. He had
claimed that he has been hampered in
the administration of his office and
harassed by other officials. The re-
cent Wiley Wilson -McCabe contro-
versy was but an outcropping of ex-
isting friction. A house committee
which recently investigated affairs OF
the department complimented DR.. Wi
his enemies" in the department.
He entered the service OF the gov
ernment as chief chemist in 1883
serving in that capacity continuous
ly ever since.
Because of alleged technical irreg-
ulari-ies in the department of DR.. H.
H. Rusby, a New York consulting
chemist, DR.. Wiley some time ago was
recommended for dismissal by Secre-
tary Wilson and Attorney General
WicKersham. President Taft set
these recommendation aside.
One rumor recently was that DR..
Wiley would enter POLITICAL life and
might become a candidate for vice
president on the democratic ticket.
DR.. Wiley denied this with a laugh.
DR.. Wiley recently was quoted as
saying:
Il have for a long time been work.
ing TO secure peace in the depart
ment. This, however, cannot exist so
long as there are such incongruous
elements in the department as are
now to be found there.
IF | determine to withdraw shall
issue statement which there will be
no. difficulty in understanding"
DR.. Wiley at that time was asked
whether he had expressed his views
to Secretary Wilson. He replied that
he had done SO long ago.
''I have told him what kind Of peo-
pie could get along together in the
department and what kind could not"
At the cabinet meeting today Pres
ident Taft was informed Of DR.. Wiley's
resignation by Secretary Wilson. To
the newspaper men after the cabinet
meeting Secretary Wilson said:
The relations between me and DR..