The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1910-09-17
will Shape Course on Cab
inet's Suggestion
ON WAY TO WASHINGTON
If His Colleagues DO Not Take Some
View That President Does,
He win Resign at
Once.

Washington, D. G.. Sept, Wheth.
er Richard A Ballingers resignation
as secretary Of the interior win fol.
low Immediately upon the meeting Of
the cabinet September 20, to attend
which he is now en- route from Seat.
tle, or whether he viii retain his pos.
iiion indefinitely. at least until after
the delivery to Congress Of reports Of
the committee which investigated his
stewardship Of the public domain, de-
ponds now upon the attitude Of bis
cabinet associates
Mr.. Ballinger u coming 70 Wash.
ington. his friends here insist. wholly
unconscious of any act on his part
for which be should be condemned.
and has determined 10 force bis cnief
and his official colleagues to be his
judges
II they concur in the view At pres
emit attributed 10 Mr. Taft, that the
accused secretary shall be sustainel
az innocent and prosecuted he will
retain his positions II they fail SO d
back him up he viii resign forth.
with.
That this II substance 4 Mr.. BAL.
linger's position was learned here to-
day, upon authority hardly % BE- ques.
toned.
At the first meeting OF the cabinet
after the summer recess, Secretary &c
War Dickinson, the Democrat viii
not have returned from the Philip.
pines and VIII therefore b saved the
embarrassment Of participation ID
what is regarded largely Al q problem
81 Republican policy. The meeting
is expected % last three days. and the
President expects 20 clear 90 mum
Der Of important matters, but il will
surprise nobody here II the Ballingcr
case occupies large part Of the time.
Rumors have been constant aud De-
oidedly definite here during the past
few days 10 the effect that Mr. Bal.
fingers resignation would Be one ~
the first developments 81 the cabinet
meeting, bnt Ms friends have refused
% believe that he would retire under
FIRE.
Nobody here doubts that 4 MAJOR
" all but one Of the Republican
members Of the sosealled Ballinger
Pinehot Investigation committee will
sustain Secretary BalliugeF Ia their
report To Congress. But secre
taFy BalIinger and his partisan
here were greatly disappointed az
tie the ahseRee 81 Senators Root and
Flint from the Minnesota meeting
which left the pro. Bailinger portion
OF lie committee III fhe minority ana
permitted the Democrats and the In
sprgent Republican member To put
forth reports condemning him, which
for many weeks viii stand before the
country as the only findings 81 The III
vestigating committees whereas he had
relied spon the majority for vindi
cation.
It is this failure Of tho committee
70 take final action which, is is said,
has determined Secretary Ballinger
course. 1t was said here to-day by
close friend Of the secretary that had
The majority Of the committee been
ready to report at the Minneapolis
meeting, he would have then rendered
his resignation 70 the president, and
urged its acceptance on the ground that
the dissentions to which he has been
party were detrimental 70 the public
When il became apparent that no
decision could be looked for
for several months, Air Ballnger, I'M
able al he sees TO resign, has decided,
IL is said, to demand 81 his superior and
his cabinet associates either yiudica-
tion or condemnation