The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1910-07-22
Will Invite: TAFT
MINNESOTA DELEGATION sc.
CURES A MODIFICATION OF
PlNcHoT's PROGRAM,
AT MEETING IN CHICAGO.
Request That Northwest BE, Better
Represented 10 Standardization
Agree In Conference 40 TO
Event In st. Paul.

Agree In Conference ~ 20
Event In st. Paul.
Chicago, Illinois. = President Taft
will be invited to address the con.
servation congress which meets in st.
Paul in September. This was decided
ct . conference between warning con-
6ervation factions held at the Con
gress Hotel.
A delegation Of Minnesota business
men headed by Governor A. o. Eber-
hart came to Chicago from Minneapo.
lis and st. Paul with the firm determ.
ination of modifying the program pre-.
pared by former Forester Clifford
Pinchot, president of the National Con-
servation association.
He was accused to his face of pack
ing" the program with his own cham
pions to the exclusion of men who
agreed with the Ballinger views of
safeguarding the nations resources.
On this account, his accusers say he
neglected to invite President Taft, who
is regarded as chief champion Of Sec
rotary Ballinger and whose espousal
Of Ballinger's cause was the direct
cause for Pinchot's elimination from
the government service at the hands
of the president.
Western soIons Notably Absent.
They also charged that western gov
errors and western congressman who
were known to favor the administra-
ton were notably absent on the pro-
gram.
As hosts to the convention body
they scored the plan to have former
President Roosevelt, Pinchot, Senator
Dolliver. w. R. Nelson, Of the Kansas
City Star, w. H. Newell, Of the recla-
nation bureau, and Louis D. Brandeis
appear on the program to the exclu-
sion Of President Taft, the western
governors and western congressman.
The Pinchot following is in control
Of the executive committee Of the as
sociation and received the protest of
the Minnesota men with an air of the
greatest Difference and consideration.
| They had come to confer they said,
not to quarrel, and if there was any
thing wrong with their program, why,
of course, they would be most happy
to modify it.
B. M. Baker, president of the con-
gress, will confer further with the ex-
ecutive committee and will arrange
the details.
The request that President Taft be
invited was agreed to at once. The
Pinchot people readily did so because
as one of their number said, they do
not believe he will attend. Other
changes which have been left to the
executive committee and B. NJ. Baker,
representing the protestants. will. it
Is stated, be few.
Apparently, split in the organiza-
ton has been avoided. The program
will be sufficiently divided between
adherents of Pinchot and Ballinger to
be interesting.
1.-THE association is national body,
conservation is a national movement.
All sections Of the country have to be
represented. The northwest has been
favored at the meeting of the con-
gress."
The suggestion to add some names
will likely be listened to with more
grace than the demand that certain
names be omitted.
It has been suggested that Senator
Carter and Senator Nelson as we'll as
another speaker representing the ex'
IRENE northwest rated as an admin.
istration" man, should be added to the
program.
As an instance of the reputed Hill
domination of the st. Paul committee
1t was stated that the latter brought
forward the name of Judge c. H. Han
ford, Of Seattle, Washington, and de.
manded that he be put on the program
At the last conservation congress, held
In Seattle in 1909, Judge Hanford
fought the conservation idea on the
floor of the conservation congress. He
is said to represent the Ballinger in.
terests in Seattle, and the extreme
anti-conservation element of the north
west.
Roosevelt, Most Important. !.
Whatever else is done to the pro
gram, Col. Theodore Roosevelt viii
still be the most important Of the
| speakers. Following his attendance al
the congress in St. Paul, the former
| president will come to Chicago where
he is to be the guest Of the Hamilton
Club. September 8. Should Presiden,
Taft be placed upon the program. Al
was suggested. It is probable that Chi
cago would also entertain him. Presi
Isdent Taft's presence, It was declared
however. is mere conjecture.
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