The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-03-15
DR.. Wiley Quits
Service Of Uncle Sam
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enemy in the department of agrlcul-
ture in connection with the employ
ment of DR.. H. H. Rusby, as an eX-
pert. -.
Solicitor McCabe, as one OF the
members of departmental board,
adiudged that Wiley violated the law
in paying Rusby more money Tor eA-
pert testimony in pure 1000 cases
than departmental regulation permit
ted. McCabe's opinion was acquies-
ced in by Attorney General Wicker
sham in his famous decision that
Wiley inherited condign punish
ment.'
A Congressional committee absolv-
ed Wiley from blame, uncovered
story of bitter war against Wiley, at
the head of which was McCabe and
Dunlap. and recommended sweeping
changes in the pure food administra-
ton, supporting Wiley. Prior to this,
President Taft overruled the attorney
general and ordered Wilson to hold
Wiley without blame In the RuSpy
matter.
Recently a big lobby formed here
with the backing, it was said, of GER
tain powerful food interests, enemies
of Wiley, and this agency has been
circulating bitter personal attacks on
the pure food chief. Wiley charged
that his enemies in this bureau were
being given aid from the department
of agriculture.
81 have received at least a dozen
offers from concerns all over the
country since the newspapers began
printing rumors of my resignation"
said Wiley, this afternoon. II have
not decided finally upon any one of
these. However, / have promised to
give a few lectures which will take
me into Nebraska and Colorado for
two weeks, and somewhere in the
east, after that don't know exactly
what Then I will consider the flu
ture. 1t will take time to decide ex-
actly what 1 will do"
Dr. r. F. DOOlittle, associate chem
list, was named as Wiley's temporary
successor Wiley's resignation speci
fed it should take effect, today. In
the letter he handed Wilson, no rea-
son was given. The letter was merely
formal.
"Dr Wiley has resigned-that is all
can saw now was the assertion of
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson.
It has been known for weeks that
DIR. Wiley was considering retiring
from the government service. Since
the first Of the year a powerful lobby
of manufacturers opposed to his strict
enforcement of the pure food law has
been fighting him, it is said, by an
anonymous press agent"
The pure food champion says he is
urea OF IlG SLII1C dlId I'LL IlOil IdlSeu
not only by personal attacks but by
internal friction in the Department of
Agriculture itself.
Congress only recently investigated
the politics Of the pure food division
and found how a combine of the two
other members of the pure food board
Solicitor George P. McCabe and AS
sociate Chemist F. L. Dunlap-fre-
quently tempered with the Wiley
thought
Wiley fought these members of the
preliminary food board. He has fire.
quently declared against the "antag-
onism of Secretary Wilson,, has been
reversed against the three cabinet Of
ficials constituting the appeal board
in pure food matters, and his decisions
have been overturned by the commit
tees and referee board.
DR.. Wiley has accepted am editorship
on Good Housekeeping a woman's
magazine He has also arranged a
lecture tour with a Chautauqua bu-
reau.
Victor Murdoch, the Kansas pro-
gressive, today paid a glowing tribute
to the service of DR.. Wiley and his
administration as guardian of the
peoples food.
There is no other single individual
in the country" said Murdoch, ''who
stood up so long, persistently and sue
cessfully against every device to de-
stroy that which the miscreants use.
He has been hammered more than any
other individual in the history of our