Show COMMITTEE ABSOLVES DR WILEY Declares Chemist Not Guilty of Conspiracy y to Evade the Law Li SA SAYS YS REMSEN BOA BOARD D EXCEEDED ITS POWERS ITS POWERS y Committee Recommends in Administer Administer- Administering Changes Changes- ing Pure Food Law w WASHINGTON ASHINGTON Jan 22 22 Dr Haryey Har liar vey w W. W Wiley is held not not guilty of or conspiracy to evade ovad the law in a report report re reo re- re port filed sled with th the house today by the committee that an investigation tion last st August into the charges upon which President Taft W was 3 asked to dismiss dismiss dis dis- miss the nations nation's chief chief- chemist from the governments government's gove me service I IN N Not t only lY does oes the committee h col absolve Dr Wiley Viley from criticism of the cm cm- II of Dr H. H H H. Busby RUBby of at Now NoV York as a g government expert a at a technical rate of 20 per day but it attacks att in ill m measured terms the whole whole ad ad administration of cor the law lawand lawand and demands legislation n to ch change tl thein the m in method thod in the tho department of f f agriculture turo ture by b which the law law is now noYl applied The Time so so c called Wiley investigation ar arose se from Irm tho be charges made in hi the ag agricultural agricultural ag- ag 1 lr J D a Dr rt Vi Wiley Y Dr W W. VR 1 R. Bigelow nd br L. L P. P 0 X K Keb- Keb H bt rel t l t 11 barf act secretly arranged n cd wit Dr H. H H. H of ot Ne Now York so that the thel latter hitter D' D deed ert work vork only onh ony eighty days s 's in iii the tue year car for foran foran o on an n annual l salary salar of of ibm This was was was' declared to be he a deliberate te r evasion c 01 ot the tho th d limit oil of o 0 9 per day Conspiracy Charge Falls Fails f We I We Wc find lind fr from m the evi evidence ence that the char charges c of co conspiracy Y have haye not been established says the committee r i report p it but but on Oil the tho other hand the accused officials wore were actuated throughout solely b by a to tu procure pro pro- pro cure curo for the Of chemistry an ablo assistant in iii Il time the person of Dr H JI HI If H. Rusby Rushy under t terms and amid conditions condition which these believed to be in I entire cn tir accord with the law In w- w regulations I and practice of the department of ot ag ag- ag ure The report of the committee on c ex e expenditures in isi the time a agricultural i d department depart part ment is h signed by bt nil all of the members mem mom hors bers le Democrats t ts S an and d ica us a It n. n that tha pro lr Wiley and tiis associates communicated the facts of et Dr employment mt full fully to Secret Secretary a f Wilson 1 It h holds however that the contract f fort fork r tIme tho employment of Dr Busby is IS' technically 1 illegal an and recommends that congress make pc specific p rifle cHic provisions ns for tho the employment of experts in the tho agricultural ag department The rhe administration of the pure uro food law Jaw began eJan wi with h a policy of nc negotiation und nud compromise between tho time secretary and the purveyors of our supplies declares tho committee in its rc report port Secretary's Services Appreciated Your cO committee 1 does not not q question time the motives or the of th the see eec rotary of agriculture whoso long long- lon ser sen service ice at the bead head of f tile department ot Qt agriculture ri has been a signal i nal service t to the tue AI American people From Forn the beginning begin nin ning or however the honorable secretary lia has apparently assumed that his duties dutie's 8 in iu th tho proper crO enforcement m ll of tb the pure pur food law are arc judicial ln in 11 c character 4 ii in lU fact the fad they are arc wholly administrative admin aud aul mini ministerial This mi mis misconstruction misconstruction mis- mis construction of the time law is is fundamental und and has haB resulted rc in iu a complex or organization organ organ- an iz within th the thc department of agriculture agri Ari culture ana in In the creation of offices and b boards ul to which have naVe leon been given ioD through executive e orders powers to to overrule or or 11 annul the l findings s oi of Hoh the Ho h bureau Hi f che ni Tho rho o committee maUe a sweeping ln of the of or the tho depart depart- ment merit It ri- that the chief of Jhc time the bureau h bp b- gus given time tIle full power which the law W supposes him hum to Lave have over t all 11 ern of pf the bu bureau t that at the board ORId of food and drug I inspection be made up lip entirely from within time the bureau burean of or chemistry and that th the power of the the solicitor l to p PUSS pass ss upon the findings of the time bureau of chemistry y bo ho hovi u. vi t hd raw u. u t It It i is il reco that the time chief and hi his two to associates atef shall iu bo hf of the same sam rank Bitting ittin with equal power er is as as board mn All ll are trO be to he e subject t to to o removal 11 by br the appointing p power Board Doard Legal I The referee board is said Mid to tobo to tobo bo bo ho legally CO constituted but its ts activities iti 8 as as s' s a supervising super n power o er the tho bureau bu hu reau of chemistry are Jared dee t to be outsIde thin tho Jan law This board wa was crp re by y lr President nt Roo and ancl nj is 8 composed of eminent chemist to whom nhom are referred debated questions arism arising under the pure Pur food Jaw law It Tt reversed re Di Dr Wileys fin findings rJ tI 5 on ben hen of I. I and nd has before it it other Bother questions which the committee declares d delar s properly belong to the tho bur bureau of client chem IAh r. r The secretary of agriculture seems Moms to tl have o regarded J the findings of lf this board as 8 conch conclusion ht iH jail hall ii ame 5 g over occur the opinions and findings of the tho bu- bu 91 r Jh t ib t b bv br s f terms of bf f statute i is 1 vestel este l with authority authority- to tb ques I tion of adulteration and antl misbranding within time the meaning o ol ot the het- het act sn says s 's the report The Time committee declares the hO hoard UlI should not be ho conti l' l t- t plo pie O lt such Buch control contral over th the pure lr food la If board oaTer be bc deemed Jie or a in in the proper tra tion of pure food la law it jb ita authority all should l lie be c expressly expressly- conferred I its sope fuel and f n J rl defined I md fhe effect of it ItS ItS' s ion de declared lared by br y tho the net art of congress congress 11 aya l th f IU mfr f |