Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1910-01-13
TAFT coNsuLTs WITS HIS cAsI.
NET PRACTICALLY ALL
DAY OVER QUESTION.
AIDS PRICE AND SHAW ALSO co
Chief of Forest Service Ignored Both
Advice and Request Of Secretary
Wilson to Recommend Dis
ciplinine Subordinates.

N8oI Forest service and intimate
4 friend of Theodore Roosevelt. Pin
chot's two 's"ubordinates, Overton
Price and A. B. Shaw, who were de-
Tended by Pinchot in the letter read
in the senate, will follow him out of
the service.
characterization, which may be
termed rank" is the cause for this
action of the president, who advised
fully with his cabinet, in practically
an all-day session, considering the
case of Pinahot.
Thus before the congressional in.
vestlgation of the Ballinger-Pinchot
controversy, which has waged hot for
practically a year, growing hotter as
time elapsed, due to the constant stir
ring given it by the attacks of the
publicity agents of the forest service
against Secretary Ballinger and the
general land office, gets started one
Of the principals in the controversy
Is removed from office, but not from
the conflict,
Nobody expects rinchot to quietly
submit. That he and his friends will
continue the fight wherever possible
is certain. That Pinchot lost many
friends by his deliberate act of in
subordination, which could be consid-
cred in no other light than a court
ing of the discipline which any presi-
dent must administer under similar
provocation, is an ~indisputable fact.
That the whole affair is regrettable
is equally. Incontrovertfble. But the
new facts brought out in the letter
given out by the president following
the adjournment OF the cabinet, after
a second session beginning at 8
o'clock, put Mr.. Pinchot in a much
worse light, showing as they do that
he had ignored both Secretary of Ag-
riculture Wilson, his immediate SUI
perior, and the president besides.
Rumors were af1oat that Secretary
Wilson was supporting Pinchot and
would not dismiss him without an or
der from the president. Secretary
Wilson was at the cabinet meeting
and gave full information regarding
Pinchot, and it is extremely doubtful
If he made any serious attempt to
save Pinchot after what happened pre-
viously.
That Pinchot deliberately ignored
both the advice and request Of Secre-
tary Wilson in failing to make a rec
o~mmendation relative to the disciplin-
ing of Price and Shaw and in getting
his letter to Senator Dolliver before
the senate on the day the resolution
calling for the investigation of the
Ballinger-Pinchot controversy was UP
for consideration, came out at the
cabinet meeting, and is so stated in
the presidents letter to Pinchot, made
public.
President Taft was so indignant
that he called together all the mem
bers of the cabinet he could reach by
telephone. He was mad clear through,
and his first impulse was to order
Pinchots Immediate dismissal. His
i judicial nature restrained him, how
ever, until he could counsel with his
advisers, as well as to get all sides of
the situation.
The cabinet met in regular session
M Ii O'clock, and took a recess two
hours later. Secretary Ballinger was
present at this session. Later, at 8
O'Clock, the cabinet, with the excep-
ton of Secretaries Ballinger, Dickin-
son and Nagel, reassembled and re-
manned In session until 7. Messrs.
Dickinson and Nagel are absent from
Washington. The members of the
cabinet, as they left the White House,
declined to discuss the subject of
their long conference, but the presi-
dents letter Diminishing Pinchot was
given out.
Washington, d. C~.-Secretary Will
a swift in carrying out the
decision of the president. He adj
dressed to Clifford Pinchot, forester;
Oyerton w. Price, associate forester,
and Albert G.. Shaw, assistant law Of
fcer Of the forestry bureau, letters
substantially identical. That to Pin
chot reads:
"Sir-RV diraction nj +ba nroc;don+