The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1909-08-17
The BalLinger-P inchot
Feud May Again
Break Out
TAFT INTERvENES
President Said to Have Asked Secre-
tary to Allow Matter to Die Out
Colorado Has Razor Sharpened for
Chief FOrester.-Many Propositions
Before the Denver Congress.

nENVER, Aug. 16.-The Bal
linger Pinchot controversy
may be carried from Spokane
to Denver.
The difference between friends
of the two officials which was a
feature of the National Irrigation
congress at Spokane last week,
would be resumed, it was expect
ed, at sessions of the Trans -Missis-
sippi Commercial congress which
will be formally opened here to-
morrow morning. Many delegates
to the congress are said to be op-
posed to recurrence of hostili-
ties and to be making efforts to
have discussion of the controversy
barred from the convention.
Ballinger was expected in Den
yer but is not coming. There is Il
report among the delegates that
President Taft limited to his Sec
retary of the interior that it would
be we'll to absent himself and let
the controversy with Pinchot cool
down.
Pinchot will be here. Any delegate
may bring UP any subject at any ses-
sion and irrigation, reclamation and
conservation of natural resources
are mong the most important of the
many to be acted upon.
Tomorrow morning will be taken
up largely with opening addresses and
it will not be until afternoon that sub
jects of Importance will be discussed
The address of welcome will be de-
livered by Governor Shaffroth. Unit
ed States Senator Hughes and Con-
gressman A. w. Rucker will speak for
the congressional delegation from Col
orado.
Responses will be made also by
Governor Brooks, Wyoming; Curry,
New Mexico; Sloan, Arizona; Hadley,
Missouri, and Hay, Washington.
In the afternoon President. Thos. F..
Walsh of Denver will deliver his ad-
dress. John Barrett, head of the Bu-
reau of American Republics, will
speak on commercial relations OF the
United States with the southern coun-
tries. Laverne w. Noyes. Chicago,
president of the National Business
league, will speak on the consular
service. Truman H. Palmer, Califor-
mia, on the beet sugar industry and
it's relations to western agricultural
interests, and Donald Fletcher of Ia
coma, Wash, on municipal control of
railroad terminals.
At the night session insurance will
be discussed by Chas. Bosworth Smith
of Chattanooga, Tenn, and by F.
Campbell of St. Louis. Thomas B.
Love will explain the Robertson law
of taxation.
Washington with it's Columbia river
project and the Mississippi river states
are enthusiastic for waterways while
the central western states are work
ing for larger appropriations. A
Denver man, Cornelius Gaven, has the
only entirely new project. He will
propose that the congress authorize a
public highway from Ell Paso, Tex,
through Yellowstone park to the Ca
madam border. 1t is said to have
been we'll received so far. His plan
entails the building by each state af-
fected, of the highway within its bor-
ders.
Colorado is opposed to Pinchot;
New Mexico and Arizona always bring
ing up the question of separate state
hood, Kansas wants better freight
rates and water; Oklahoma has many
interests, one an expenditure Of $4,'
100000 on arid lands in western Ok