The Sentinel=record., 1912-01-20
CLEAN BILL
 FOR WILEY
HOUSE COMMITTEE EXoNERATEs CHIEF OF CHEMISTRY sU-
 REAL iN REPORT
Finding Which Will Be Rendered. the House Next Monday Is Wholly Non-Poltical and All Mem.
 bsrs Sign Report

Washington Jan l9.-Dr Harvey w. Wiley. chief of the chemistry bu- reau of the department of agri. .ulture. t6e storm center of the food admins nation controversy last summer is agen a clean bill Of healta ,l the re, lort of the house committee That in. gestigated the charges and counter lbarges. The committee in it's report Y. which will be presented to lme house next Monday sustains Dr. Wiley all along the line, except on unimportant details
 The evidence taken in the case was yoIuminous, but the report is confined 10 the actur conclusions Of the com uttee The republican members of fhe committee joined with the demo. cfats iH making thefreport unanimous.
 There Is no politics in the report. said Chairman Moss of dhe committee. This fact, together with compromises oa some of the matters about which the members of the committee had diff. frenees Of view permitted
 The report pays much attention to tae Remsen board. to the activity of solicitor McCabe' who was the prin. cipal opponent of Dr. Wiley in the 6epartWent, and it's recommendations 'iq general. recommend that Dr. Wiley he given a free hand. in the enforce ment Of the pure food and drug law t3us limiting very largely the power formerly exercised by Solicitor Me Cabe This limitation already has aeen put into effect nader the action taken by President Taft shortly after tie adjournment of the extra session which brought the active congresston. Investigation to close
 The nnal stamp or approval of the conclusions vas affixed by all the members of the committee today.
 The committee Immediately. order ed the report printed conudenuany and declined to announce the recon mendations until She report is made public next Monday.
 The investigation was made by the house committee on expenditures in The department Of agriculture and it's hearings during the recent extra ses- s.gn of congress awakened wide na- tlonal interest Secretary of Agri culture Wilson, Dr Wiley. Solicitor accabe and host of other witnesses contributed to the symposium of rev cations regarding the demoraliaed con e.ions surrounding the admiaistra. taa thg pure food la&
 In the course of these hearings pr Wiley told how most Of his rul nss were arbitrarily overruled. that here were few cases of drug law yio- Iatops prepared because many lines Of iniury were taken out of nis hands And -Arned over the Remsea referee 9ard for investigation He said his hands were thus absolutely paralyz- tdr
 Ills decisions contlicted with the Remsen board and he said the least lhat ould be done for the mblic's pFotectiog was 10 prohibit the use of oods or druss until the board had de Haed in favor of their use He added That this policy had not been carried
 The big controversy between A''n aad tafte Reursen board was over ne chemistry bureaus finding that oeR@oate of soda was harmful
 Virtually the only dissent from the weeping +erdiffct fur Dr, Wiley is bas- su upon the irregular employment ot 'f II T Rusby of New York, as a s-o day expert, compensation. which was not to aggregate over $1,6oo in 'Ny one year, the amount authorized under law It was for this employ "ent at that per diem rate, to get 'opad the officlul limitation of ray '0F such services to $1,6O0. that the 'Sonnei board of the department usp and then Attorney General "lfkersham recommended the reno t- q ot Dr Wiley from office
 OF Wiley's assistant Dr. DunlGp. 0'aa memorandum of the asrees ent on this subject when Dr Wiley
 as absent and reported it to secFe.
 'y Wilson Dr. Dunlap almost in' 4Noly sided with Solicitor McCahe " 'ae decisions of the pure food eeafa of which Dr Wiley was the o'0er member
 v Wiley told the committee inst
 months ago that he found t nse-