The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1912-09-13
WASHINGTON LETTER.

OuutOuAtouSs ~ tSPty 10 0GuatOt Feu1OSG
and to Senator john d. Archbold has
been lost. No trace of the letter, save the
excerpts that appeared 10 press dispat
ches, can be found, and Senator Clapp is
the least bit worried about the where.
abouts of the Bull Moose epistle. He is
anxious to read ii before the committee
meets the last Of the month, and would
liketo get started on it.
Senator Depew will be witness before
the committee. and will tell about the
Harriman fund Of $a6o. 900 TO the cam
paignof 1904 The committee will ask
Wiliism R. Hearst to turn over letters
that he has. and Cornelius Bliss. Jr., will
be asked to testify, as the Senator'S think
he might help locate written evidence of
the Hartman and Standard Oil contri.
buttons TO The Republican Presidential
campaign Of 1908 He will be asksd IL
his father, the treasurer Of The Repnbii.
can National Committee 10 1904. left
upon his death any memoranda that
would throw light on these contributions.
".
DR.. F. L. Dunlap. known In the de-
partment of agriculture as associate
chemist. and the man who has aided
Solicitor George P. McCabe aud the food
dopers in SO hampering DR.. Harvey W.
Wiley's crusade for pure food that Wiley
resigned. has himself quit the bureau Of
chemistry to accept commercial posi-
ton 10 Chicago
Dunlap. who, with McCabe. constituted
the duo on the pure food board that al
ways opposed DR.. Wiley's efforts in be-
half of the public. was the first to suggest
the Aimsy and ridiculous charges against
Wiley, Of which the then chief chemist
was promptly exonerated. But as Presi-3
dent Taft did not see fit 10 curb the ac-
tisities OF this pair, Dunlap and Mccabe,
90 Doctor Wiley also did not see the.
necessity Of remaining in the employ Of
the government
Duniap's title was conferred upon him
BY Secretary Of Agriculture Wilson, but
not BY law. The position was created so
that Dunlap and McCabe might be ap.
pointed members OF the food and drug
board, which 10 tnrn, was. formed to
prevent Doctor Wiley from enforcing the
law
That the administration aud Secretary
Wilson were biased 10 favor OF the doped
food manufacturers. was shown in letter
written by Wilson, which was made pub
lie when house committee was conduct
ing an investigation at the time Of the
Wiley charges. This letter referred TO
Dunlap aud McCabe as ..our people, on
the board Of food and drug inspection.
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Porto Rico Is unprecedensly prosperous.
Her trade has steadily increased during
American occupation TO figure almost eve
times greater than those Of the last year
of the Spanish regime, as shown in re-
port TO the Department of Agriculture on
the investigation Of The Porto Rico agri-
cultural experiment station during IoIIH
by D. w. May. special agent in charge.
Porto Rico's trade in 1900, when the
United States assumed control, amounted
to SIC. 6oo,o Last year i amounted to
SIS, 700, 900.
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The cotton crop Of the south for the
year ending August 81, 1879, according
to statistics complied by H. G. Hester,
secretary Of the New Orleans cotton ex-
change exceeded that Of the previous
year by 4,oIS,55I bales
Its money value was $Io7. o74. s2s less,
due as much to the low grade of the crop
as to the decrease in the price resulting
from overproduciion. II was the lowest
in grade Of any crop forthe last ten years
-.
The extent to which corporations or
..inierests" have contributed campaign
funds to influence legislation in congress
1855 %e~ e@.oU~4~A ~ t4E soA40uH4O iii
Company is a branch Of the senate CAM
paign contribution investigation which,
il is believed. will be opened when hear.
iugs are resumed September go,
Senator Clapp. chairman of the invesli
eating comm iiiee. has declined to make
public The names Of many witnesses be
is endeavoring 20 reach. Among those.
il Is understood. are many whom he in
tends TO ask for information as 10 any
regular campaign contributions by cor
pora.ions. or BY men idenii6ed with big
industrial and transportation organize.
tons or slliances,
The investigation will be designed To-
sevesl contributions made With view to