Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-12-31
PRESIDENT WILL
ANSWER PINCH0TI
TAFT TO MAKE REPLY TO FOREST.
Frs SPEECH IN MESSAGE TO
CONGRESS.
ADMINISTRATION GETS BOMBs
Rsport That Roosevelt's Friend Has
Been Asked TO Resign Denied
at Capital.
BALLINGER OUTLINES HIS PLANSl

| WASHINGTON, d. c., Dec. IS
Clifford Pinchot's talk on conservation
before the University club in New York,
Monday was bomb in the administered
ton camp. President Taft'S answer to-
1t will be found in Il message he will
send to Congress Immediately after the.
/ holidays. When the Presidents views
are i'll black and white it will be appar-
aut whether or not there are any differ
ences between the Roosevelt policy as,
outlined by PinchOt, and the Taft policy,
as interpreted by Secretary Ballinger.
The President has insisted that Bal,
inger in his annual report has gone be-
You'd the acts and recommendations of.
MIR. Roosevelt and his subordinates 1t
will not be long now, therefore, before
the country vii! be able to draw the,
! deadly parallel upon the conservation.
question and distinguish clearly the line
Of cleavage, if any exists. between the
present and the last administration.
Pinchot Picks Up Gauntlet
NJ. Pinchots observations generally
are accepted in administration circles as
indicative of his intention to fight from
now on where all the world may see In
a word, he has picked up the gauntlet.
which Secretary Balinger, backed up by
the President, threw down in letter adj,
dressed to Congress through the medium
OF Senator Jones of Washington
There were reports during the day
that Mr.. PinChOt'S speech would lead to
request for his resignation. but this
was denied in a responsible quarter 1t
was asserted that Mr.. Pinchot's views in
general way were similar to those en-
tertalned by the President and his Sec
rotary of the interior. 1t was added that
this would be shown by the President in
bis forthcoming message.
Mr. Pinchot's speech, according to the
administration, merely has laid down
principles which will be accepted by all
right thinking Americans. The President
and Secretary Ballinger purpose to enact
those principles into law. For some days
past MIR. Ballinger has been at work
preparing drafts of bills covering modif-
cations of the stone and timber act, elias
sihcation of public lands, withdrawal of
water power sites, etc.
BalIinger Outlines His Plans
In anticipation of new legislation to
prevent the acquisition of power sites on
the public domain by persons or corpora
tons whose object is to establish a mo-
nopoly, this administration, observing the
policy of the last. has withdrawn temper
arily from all form of entry locations
known to possess power possibilities. 1t
is the assertion of the Pinchot adherents
that Ballinger has restored q number of
sites which at once have been taken up
by corporations
Mr.. Balinger is of the opinion that if
the federal government desires to exer-
else control or supervision over the wa
ter power development on public do
main, it can do so only by limitations
imposed upon the disposal of power and
reservoir sites upon public lands, the wa
tiers of streams being subject to state
Jurisdiction in their appropriation and
beneficial use. The draft of the bin he
has prepared on this subject will author
ize the classification OF all lands capable
of being used for water power develop,
ment and will direct their disposal
through the interior department under,
conditions that will insure to the nation
fit remuneration for a long term of years
for any benefits granted private individ-
ualS or corporations.