Show ACTION ON COTTON LEAKAGES washington july 30 in regard to the discussion regarding the circumstances attending the reference by secretary allson 0 o the united states attorney of the cotton league for advice as to whether or not action against assistant statistician holics would lie solicitor george mccabe of the department of justice today gave out the following statement about 10 a m friday july 77 under instructions from the secretary of agriculture I 1 called epou mr beach united states attorney for the district of columbia taking with me the secret service operative made the investigation of the repeated leakage on the cotton crop the secretary instructed ted me to place all the evidence in the possession of the department and the original report of iha secret service operative in the hands of sir beach and to request that official to advise tha secretary whether in his opinion a criminal action would lie against any of the parties named in the evidence or in the report I 1 carried out the instruction of the secretary and further told him that the secretary to have his opinion on the matter as soon as possible and whether it would handicap him in his efforts to maintain a prosecution if the secretary gave a report of the investigation to the newspaper men pending mr beacha beachs determination ot the matter mr beach replied that he did not want one word to be made public until he bad time togo over the matter and satisfy himself as to whether or not an offense had been committed and a prosecution could be maintained upon my suggestion mr beach called up the secretary of agriculture by telephone and advised him of the fact that he did not want publicity at that almo and that ha would communicate wath the secretary as soon as possible on friday afternoon between 2 and 3 mr beace called upon the secretary in person and returned all the papers and stated that a prosecution would not lie the whole question was presented to mr beach whether against the law had been committed and whether in his opinion a criminal prosecution could be maintained united states district attorney beach when shown the statement of mr mccabe declined to add anything to the statement heretofore given out by him solicitor mccabe referred to in the above is george mccabe ot ogden lately promoted to the position DAIRY AND FOOD commissioners portland ore july 10 the convention of the national of state dairy and food departments merln this city today in ninth annual session dairy and food commissioners from all parts of the united states are in attendance the opening session of the convention was devoted to listening to the address of welcome by J W ralley on behalf of the state dairy and food departments of oregon address of welcome by mayor harry lane on behalf of the city 0 portland address of welcome by president H V goode on behalf of jhb lewis and claib response on behalf of the association by alce president J D noble of hartford conn by W W P mcconnell kato president minn of the association man y |