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Show SECRETARY WILSON HAS AMPLE AUTHORITY Washington. April 1C. That the referee board of the department of agriculture, ag-riculture, the duty of which Is to inves-Igate inves-Igate the wholesomeness of foods and articles used In foods, is a legally constituted con-stituted body and that Secretary Wilson Wil-son had ample authority to appoint It, was decided today by "Attorney General Gen-eral Wickersham, The decision means that the boards work on the wholesomeness of sulphur, saccharine and copper salts will bo continued The opinion points out that the federal fed-eral statutes do not provide for the creation of the bureau of chemistry, but that its existence Is recognized ln the appropriation act It also is held that It was necessary for Secretary Wilson to have recourse to the disinterested disin-terested advice of the expert chemists composing the board whenever a serious ser-ious conflict of opinion arose. |