Salt Lake Telegram | 1911-08-08 | Page 2 | House Committee Gets after Solicitor M'cabe of the Agricultural Department

m cc:;;m gets ra soucuoa WASH1NOTON. Aug... Tb aeUvlty of Oeorge p. MrCatx. solicitor o( Ui Sgrlcultural departmenf, trying to up-- up-- hate) tbe famoue anti-Wiley- benaeau of . . neda eeclslon by the aeoissn hoard and i-Jtecraianr Wllaeek waa preked ysetsrnsf .. before tb bouea eosnmltte oa aarleul-tural aarleul-tural expenditures Mr. McCaba went .lhraugh aa other gruelling eroee esaml-' esaml-' natloa ao le hla esenuee of sower la t'the departnsent. s Mr. MeCabe admitted that before tbe national emveaileei f Stale- aad Dairy ' Inspectors at Deaver, A los. a bad on-. on-. a official trip through several atatee I "Interviewed every maa I oould gel at aad .4ol4 bias t coma t Denver aad us-bakt us-bakt th departmeat'a ruling. ( y0aoipifa aatlflad. "Thla eampalga aecura aa Indorse-wntof Indorse-wntof Bths entwnyrulinefrnm the national gathering." Mr. MoOah aaid, "waa fully Juetlned, because tbe menu-fs.ctur.rs menu-fs.ctur.rs who did not Vise benaoata of soda In their foods were making an advertising ad-vertising eampalga aad war trying to gala notoriety by opposing Secretary Wilson and the Remeen board." A letter written by Mr. McCahe to Dr. Wiley la September, 111, onallengtng the letter's elatemsats that there were 14,000 "rure-alla" and patent medtrlpee on the OAarket. was Introduced. Solicitor McCsbe admitted that he nad eeneureo Dr. Hlflyer. a chamlat of the bureau of chemtetry, for looking up a legal deflation defla-tion In the oeagreaaitmel library during offle bourn. "You forbade a rhemtet looking np a word eo thai he route answer a corre-spendentT" corre-spendentT" demandsd Rsnreeeatative yloyg of Arkansae. ' , "I didn't Ihlnk be wag competent to understand aad act upon a legal dag. nltlon." . . . Tblretad for Power. Mr. MrOahe said be wrote that section ftf the agrlcultuml spproprlatlone aot of 110 that authorised putting all food -and drug caeee In the hande of the eollcltor fcw tils discretlonsry action, and the famoue fa-moue "general order Ne. 140," of July ll. ISIS, carrying out that law. Testimony waa given to ehew the ex -tent t which the department offlciale participate In the d.r.nse of bensoats of seda ae a food pesos rvathro In the state of Indiana eult two yeara ago aaelnet manufacturers who ooatlaued to use It 4n th.lr producte. rorsner Attorner General Wngham and Slate food Commissioner Barnard of Indiana In-diana will teetlfy today, along with A. W. RoMnson of Michigan, a chamlat employed In the federal bureau of chemistry chem-istry here. Robinson, who testified ealnst bensnate of aoda tn the Indiana ca.ee, la asld to have been dlemlesed by the deportment of egrlcultur without statement of cause. . Mr. Blnghsm will he asked to Identify letters he wrote stating that Wiley and his aselstanta wsr not wanted for their espert opinions, but tn testify ts the facts of the "poteen squad" espsrlmsnia a subject for which Dr. Wiley , counsel declares they were aot exempt from sum-