Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 March 1912 — PRESIDENT TAFT MAY TAKE HAND [ARTICLE]

PRESIDENT TAFT MAY TAKE HAND

Intimated that Department of Agriculture Needs Attention. SECRETARY WILSON MAY QUIT One Quarrel Follows Another and | President and His Friends Are Said to Be Getting Tired of J Condition of Affairs. 1 j Washington, March I.—lt seemg more, than likely, the way things are shaping themselves, that President Taft will soon have to take a hand in giving the department of agriculture a thorough reorganization. One row after another has been developed there for months and Secre- 1 tary Wilson jumps from oiie tub of I hot water into another. President Taft, in passing on the recent case against Dr. Wiley, intimated that! there would be a housecleaning in the department of agriculture. As yet, | however, the president has done nothing, and since then the department officials have become involved In a scandal over the Everglades swamp lands and there is a brand new fresh row started between Dr. Wiley and members of the food and drugs board over a baking powder decision. ! There is doubt on the part of many ■whether Secretary Wilson will serve out the Taft administration. Many of the president’s friends believe that a younger mar ought to be put at the head of the department and a- thorough housecleaning made. |