Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-10-01
BY TAFT.
Chief FORESTER, PINCHOT,
GETS HIS FROM PRESIDENT.
Values His Work Very Highly and Is
Believer in His Acknowledgement
Policies Are Upheld and President
Taft to Ask Congress for More Aid
for Good of the Cause.

AS result of several long confer
ences with Chief Forester Clifford Pin
chot at Salt Lake City,. President Taft
has caused to be issued statement III
which it is declared that never at any
time during the Ballinger-Pinchot con-
troversy has the president intended to
reflect upon Mr.. Pinchot and IN which
Mr.. Taft takes a more forward stand
than ever in favor of the Roosevelt pol
icies for the conservation of natural re-
sources.
The president indicates that what Is
to be done in the way Of retaining
arid lands must be done within the
law, but he announces his intention of
applying to congress for such contirma-
tory and enabling legislation as will put
the Roosevelt policies on the frmest
possible basis.
Pinchot Will Not Resign.
Mr.. Pinchot, before leaving for
| Washington, also issued a statement in
which he makes public portion OF
President Taft IS letter written to the
chief forester at the time the letter to
Secretary Ballinger was dictated. The
president said he hoped Mr.. Pinchot
would not find reason in the Ballingel
letter for resigning.
Il shall not resign" declared Mr.
Pinchot, and he adds that he is going
to continue to serve the government
along the same lines he has pursued
in the past, concluding with the state
ment:
81 believe in equality of opportunit.
and the Roosevelt policies, and 1 pro
pose to stand for them as long as
have the strength to stand for any
thing"
Mr.. Pinchot S statement was show
to the president before it was give
out. The president IS statement was a
follows:
Taft Lands Pinchot.
In view of published items that tn
: letter of the president to Secretar
Ballinger was to be considered in som
way a reflection on Mr.. Pinchot, tn
president has authorized the publics
ton of the following: That at the tim
that he wrote the letter to Secretar
Ballinger he also wrote letter to Nj
Pinchot assuring him that the conclI
sions stated therein were not intende
in any way to reflect on him; that til
president deemed Mr.. Pinchot' s wor
in the public service of the utmost va
ne; that he expected to continue I'll
policies for the conservation of r
sources, including the reclamation {
= arid lands and preservation of our 70
: ests and the proper restrictions in +
= spect to the use of coal lands and watt
- power sites as well as the improvement
of our waterways and to ask congre
for such confrmatory and enabling lie
. islation as would put the execution
those policies on the frmest basis; al
that he would deem it a great loss
. in respect to the matters Mr.. Pinch
:, had been concerned, the administratic
= should be denied the benefit of b
, service"
Chief Forester's Statement.
e Mr. Pinchot's statement, which w
a made public at the same time, fl
- lows:
4 AT the suggestion of the preside
J. I make public the following extrac
$ from his letter to me mentioned in t
is statement he has just authorized:
10 i" I wish you to know that I ha
ar the utmost confidence in your console
9. tious desire to serve the governme
and the public in the intensity of 20
IN purpose to achieve success in the m;
20 ter of conservation of natural
Il sources, and in the immense value
what you have done and propose to
ID with reference to forestry and kindr
methods of conservation; that I Z;
thoroughly in sympathy with all
S. these policies and propose to do eve
thing that I can to maintain them