The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-26
Chief Forester Will Continue
 His Department Work
LETTER IS MADE PUBLIC
Pinchot confers With Taft and Matter Is Settled But Ballinger Con- tinues to Turn Cold
 Shoulder to Pinchot.
BY WILLIAM ROSTER.

BY WILLIAM ROSTER.
 Salt Lake City, September 25.-(special) It will be strange if some popular mani festation of the differences between the Gentiles and the Mormons does not come before the President leaves this city
 The storm which has been raging all around the President since his arrival here broke anew today when. whether by acc- dent or design Is not known, two news paper reporters representing anti-Mormon or American papers. were excluded from the special train carrying the Presi- dent and his party to Saltair, while the representatives Of the Mermon papers were made welcome. The anti-Mormon papers tonight were filled with railings against Senator Shoot and his fellow com mitteemen. It is declared that the Nor mons have deliberately monopolized the President since he entered Utah to the exclusion of the Gentles. No blame is laid on the President in connection with the affair It is pointed out that he is being made the dupe of the Mormons for political and religious effect. Special stress is laid on the alleged fact that Jo- seph F. Smith. president of the church with two of his wives,'' several coun- sellors to the prophet and some more apostles, were on the special train. Noth- Ing in the way of an official protest has been made to the President.
 Plnchot Will Stick.
 Chief Forester Clifford Pinchot will stick to his job. He has the qualified approval of President Taft under whose ministra- tions the interesting experiment is to be tried of having Lion Ballinger and Lamb Pinchot--or the other way about, if you prefer-labor beside each other in the work of national conservation.
 These facts became known this after noon when correspondence between the President and the chief forester was made public. In letter which may be de- scribed as salve for the wound to Pinchot caused by Ballinger's recent vindication. the President says that inasmuch as 1t has been made to appear that the de- cision in the Ballinger-Pinchot case was a reflection upon the administration of the latter. he desires to express his apprecia- ton of Pinchot's services and his great desire that the chief forester shall re- main in his position. He pays this com pliment to Pinchot while still expressing his confidence in Ballinger and strongly insists that the Roosevelt conservation policy shall be carried out.
 In his reply, MT. Pnchot adopted the dignified attitude of denying that he had taken offense at the Presidents decision, or that he had any intention of resigning his position. He thanks the President for his kindly attitude and says that he will be glad to retain his position and con tinue the work of conservation to which he is devoted, along the lines which have marked his administration in the past.
 Resolution of Pinchot.
 Reading this concluding paragraph be- tween the lines, one sees a determined and resolute intention on the part of the chief forester to go right along with his work along the old lines without re- gard to what has happened, except where there is a flat decision of the Attorney General or courts to balk him. It can be said definitely that-this Is the precise pol icy that the chief forester will pursue. sue.
 
 to each other. Ballinger avoided several of the functions today which Pinchot attended. Pinchot left for the east to- night while Ballinger will continue 10 Seattle with the President.
 Salt Lake Welcome.
 The Salt Lake City welcome has been characterized more for its social ability than for enthusiasm. People here say that Roosevelt got more tumultuous ovation, but that is what Is said all along the line. No one accuses Salt Lake of lacA of patriotism. The difference in tLe degree of the enthusiasm Is probably due to the difference in temperament Of the two men-Roosevelt and Taft. When the President lays aside his prepared speeches and speaks to them direct out of the thoughts which are uppermost in his mind the effect is always apparent in the increased enthusiasm of his audi ence. This is an educational trip that the President is making, however He Is out lining to his audiences across the cont. nent the policies that he has in mind in order that he may weigh their popularity and decide upon what measures he shall recommend to Congress when it con venes in December
 This morka at the breakfast of the Commercial cf4o he returned to the sub ject of railroad regulation and particu- larly the regulation of railroad rates. By inference there was comfort in his ad- dress for California, which he Is an preaching, where the railroads are en- deavoring to nullify the benefits of the increased tariff on lemons by increasing the freight rates.
 Applause at Club.
 During the delivery of the address the President was frequently interrupted by
  honorary member Of the club. This ban quet began at S:So o'clock and terminated at 9:so. when the President and party were taken to Saltair where they had a view of Great Salt Lake.
 Returning 10 the city the President was
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