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Show I WON STAND FPU BRIEF PERIOD Adjournment Taken Before Expert Ex-pert Fairly Begins His " Recital. M'CABE USES STRONG W.ORD Says Dr. Kebler Lied if He Made Statements Attributed to , Him. WASHINGTON, Aup;. 35. Dr. Henry H. Rushy, dean of the New York col-lego col-lego o pharmncy, whoso employment as n government drug export at $1600 a year has brought criticism and threatened threat-ened dismissal on Dr. H. H. Wiley, chief of the bur.cnu of chemistry of the deportment of agriculture, and his associates, as-sociates, testified today before the house committee which is investigating the matter. Solicitor AlcCabo also .testified. .tes-tified. "Mr. McCabc appeared at his own request re-quest to refute statements reflecting on him made by other officials of the chemistry bureau. Ho was asked whether 'there was a regulation in the department against employees Jiolding Btock in private companies. Ho produced pro-duced ;ui order of .Secretary Wilson, issued .in WOo, prohibiting employees; from holding stock in corporations in lines of work on which thoy are engaged. en-gaged. McCabe Defends Order. There was another order, said Mr. McCabe, Mc-Cabe, prohibiting employees of the chemistry bureau from giving information informa-tion to district attorneys in cases affecting af-fecting the department." He defended this order, declaring that "we would hnve chaos if all our inspectors were writing to United Stales attorneys on our cases anil niviug their views and ideas o: how the case should be handled." han-dled." Mr Mc.C'abc declared the food and drugs laws had been " vigorously ami iffoctivelv enforced." He explained the Missouri court judgment in "which he li:i! chnniied "benzoic acid" to "oaf-frin," "oaf-frin," lit" said the department had not i barged that the article was adulterated adulterat-ed with benzoic acids, that the suit had not been brought on that charge i want to make it clear to the eominittt'B that 1 have not falsified nor changed court records." said McCabe, 'If Dr. Kebler testified that officii!. offi-cii!. of the bur-Mii of chemistrv are prohibited from giving information to members pf.eruigrchs he lied," declared Solicitor McCabe. Withdraws Statement, When members of the committee ob-lectori ob-lectori to such language. Mr. MeCnbe modified the statement lu "falsehood" "false-hood" and he finally was induced to withdraw it altogether. Dr. Kebler is Dr. Wilev's -assistant. Formci "Representative "Repre-sentative Hepburn of Iowa, attorney for Dr. Wilev. was1 reprimanded by the committee during the discussion for the declaring that the remark was "illustrative "illus-trative of the character of the wit-nef wit-nef . ' ' Then Dr, l?usbv tool: the stand. He said ho received $20 a day from the jrovcrnment for the time he worked when first employed. In 1900 this was reduced to .0 a dav because the government gov-ernment could not pay more. Later he demanded "() a day "for appearance as an expert in court but this was refused. The .Ki0fi a year contract for eighty days' work then was made with him. Dr. Wilev took the stand, but he had barely finished a recital, of his official service when the committee adjourned until tomorrow. |