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Show DISCOVER OPINION ' DECLARING REHSEN BOARD IS ILLEGAL Mysterious Document Appears Ap-pears Before Agricultural Expense Committee. WASHINGTON, Aug. S. Another mysterious, government document enme to light today whea aa opinion of Assistant As-sistant Attorney Genersl Jamea A. Fowler, written March 21, J909, declaring declar-ing illegal the snnointment and payment pay-ment of the Bemeea pure food board waa produced before the house committee com-mittee oa aprieultural department expense. ex-pense. Attorney General Wickersham upheld the board. The Fowler opinion never became th official fading. On hfav 24 following follow-ing Attorney General Wiekeraham gave his forrrl opinion to the secretary of agriculture that tha Kemsen referee board 'a creation waa entirely within the law. The board overruled Dr. Wiley on the bensontc of sods case nfter he bad conducted bia prison squad ez peri menta. Th Kemaea board tofrtiitr was challenged early io 1909 aad ttu attorned at-torned jrescTal had refcereti tha matter mat-ter to Fowler. Where the copy of th Fowler opinio came fron was soft made public. The examinstioq of Dr. Ira Remsea ef Johns Hopkins university. Baltimore, Balti-more, aa presidnnt of the hoard, waa begun tod sr. the Fowler opinion forming form-ing th basia of much of the queetioa-" queetioa-" , |