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Show SAYS CHEMISTRY BUREAU PAYS HUNDRED TO ONE WASHINGTON, Feb. 1. "Every dollar wo have spent in our laboratory has saved Uncle Sam 5100. The work of tho chemistry bureau has saved tho government govern-ment n vast deal of money. In the twelve years that I had chargo of microscopic tests of sugar at the various ports, under un-der an arrangement between tho secretary secre-tary of agriculture and the secretary or tho treasury. 1 think I can say without boasting that I have saved the United States government 510.000.000." Chief ChomlBt Wiley .made this statement state-ment today to tho house committee on expenditures In the department of agriculture. agri-culture. Dr. Wiley said botwecn 1830 nnd 1902 ho found marked differences in the same grades of sugar at dlfforent ports. Ho said the government was not getting all tho revenue that It should, and that the polarization al the port of New York was much lower than it should havo been. His Investigations, he added, resulted re-sulted in now polarization regulations. |