The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1912-01-26
DOCTOR WILEY. THE
FOOD EXPERT GETS
CLEAN ENDORSEMENT
.tOUSE COMMITTEE SUSTAiNS
CHIEF OF CHEMISTRY
BUREAU.
Wins OUT in CONTROVERSY
Report of the investigating Commit
tee to the House of Congress viii
Be Unanimous-No Politics Per-
mits a Full Agreement.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 22.-Harvey
w. Wiley, chef of the chemistry bu-
reau of the department of agriculture,
the storm center of the food admins
tration controversy last summer, is
given clean bill of health in the re-
port of the house committee that in
vestigated the charges and counter
charges. The committee, in it's re-
port, which will be presented to the
house, sustains DR.. Wiley all aolng
the lines, except on unimportant de-
tails.
The evidence taken in the case was
voldminous, but the report is confin-
cd to the actual conclusions of the
committee. The republican members
Of the committee joined with the
democrats in making the report unan-
imous
There is no politics in the report"
said Chairman Moss, of the commit
tee.
This fact, together with compro-
misses on some of the matters about
which the members of the commit
Tee had differences Of view. permitted
a full agreement.
The report pays much attention to
the Remsen board, to the activity OF
Solicitor McCabe, who was the prin-
cipal opponent of DIR. Wiley in the de-
partment, and it's recommendations
in general recommend that DR.. Wiley
be given free hand in the enforce
ment of the pure food and drug law,
thus limiting very largely the power
formerly exercised by Solicitor Nc
Cabe. This limitation already has
ben put into effect under the action
token by President Taft shortly after
the adjournment of the extra session
brought the active congressional in
vestigation to close.
The final stamp Of approval of the
was affixed by all the
members of the committee today.
The committee Immediately ordered
the report printed confidentially and
declined to announce the recommen-
datiops until the report was made
public.
The investigation was made by the
mouse committee on expenditures in
the department of agriculture, and its
hearings during the recent extra ses-
sion of congress awakened national
Secretary of Agriculture
Wilson, DR.. Wiley, Solicitor McCabe
and host of other witnesses con-
yributed to the symposium of reyela
lions regarding the demoralized con
,itiors surrounding the administra-
ton Of the pure food law.
In the course of these hearings, DR..
Wiley told how most OF his rulings
were arbitrarily overruled, that there
', ere few cases of drug law violations
prepared because many lines OF in
quiry were taken out of his bands
end turned over to the Remsen ref |
cree board for Investigation. He said
his hands were thus absolutely par
elyzed." His decisions confilcted
with The Remsen board and he said
that the least that could be done for
TIRE public's protection was to prohib-
it the use of foods or drugs until the
board had decided in favor of their
use. He added that this policy had
not been carried out The big con
troversy between him and the Rem
sen board was over the chemistry
bureaus finding that benzoate OF so
Ga was harmful.
The only dissent from the sweep
Ing verdict for Or Wiley is based
upon the irregular appointment of
DIR. r. H. Rusty, Of New York. as
s20-a-day expert, compensation
which was not to aggregate over
81, 900 in any one year, the amount
under law. 1t was for this
at that per diem rate to
Tct around The official limitation of
Yay for such services to $1,000 that
the personnel board OF the depart
ment first and then Attorney General
recommended the re-
moval of DR.. Wiley from office.
THE DANGER OF LA GRIPPE
To cure your la grippe coughs take
Foley's Honey and Tar Compound
R. E. Fisher, Washington, Kas..says:
Il was troubled with a severe attack
Of lagripDe and nothing 7 used did me
any god and 7 was threatened with
A friend advised mr. TO
use Foley's Honey and Tar Com
pound and got some at once. ! was