The Cairo bulletin., 1910-01-07
MADE so BY READING or A LET.
TER FROM PlNcHoT TO
COLLIVER.
|. R. CLAWS IS UPHELD
Aid Of Two Others, Tried to
Save Some Pub
lie Land.

Washington, Jan, 6.-The Baliinge..
Pinchot controversy was today made
doubly intense by tfe reading in the
senate OF a letter from Pinchot 70
Dolliver, in which tie course ad0p et
by l.. r CLAWS, with lie assistance Of
Price and Shaw Of the forestry uu-
!reau, was. warmly approved. The ies-
ter upheld CLAWS criticisms of Eai-
inger and suggested that Taft was
mistaken in the facts when he re-
lmoved CLAWS. Senator Hale severely
lrebuked the chief forester for ignor.
ing the recent order by the president
directing that no subordinate officer
should give information concerning
1.-THE affairs of the government except
| To his superiors
Preceding this incident Senator
Jones Joint resolution Tor an investi.
cation of the interior department and
forestry bureau was referred to the
committee on public lands.
The reference was not made until
after considerable discussion OF the
resolution by Newlanas, instrueting
the committee on public lands to re-
port within two weeks, recommends
tlon for legislation putting into ef-
fleet the recommendations made In
Ballinger's annual report for the CON
Bservation Of the national resources,
The Newlands resolution also referred
TO the commistee on public lands.
While the senate was taking this
action the house postponed until to.
morrow discussion of the Joint resulu.
.tion introduced by Humphrey
In lis letter to DolIiver Piuchot in
.dicateG that II was written at DolIi-
veFs request. but il was addressed tp
him as chairman Of the committee on
agriculture thus making 1t official He
said Price and Shaw prepared the Of
fetal report trpon their actions which
he transmitted to the secretary of
agriculture.
This report" said Pinehot, shows
that Price and Shaw eountenanced
the publication by CLAWS of facts
concerning the Cunningham, Alaska.
coal lands claims, after he had been
dismissed from office. and that in
other ways they directed public at
tention to the imminent danger that
the Alaska coal fields might pass into
private hands with little or no COM
rensation to the public"
This information Pinchot adds, was
lproper to be made public unless
there are secrets which the people are
not entitled to know concerning the
sourse, nature and progress for the
claims made for public lands"
Piuchot continued THE refusal
| of tie secretary Of the interior to re.
sumo responsibility in the cases left
llheir conduct wholly in the hands of
subordinates. each OF whom was ap-
Barently committed to favor the pat
enting Of these claims.
Price and Shaw, he said deliberate
llY transgressed officials propriety ami
risked their positions rather than per-
NIT what they believed TO be wrong
full loss of public property. They ac-
cordingly directed public attention
to the national danger. Increased the
peoples interest in the peoples prop
erty and powerfully fostered the de-
sire to conserve it, There is now far
less chance that the Alaska coal
fields VIII pass in to the hands of
fraudulent claimants. Many consid.
siderations which were not brought
home to the presidents mind. as APP
Ipears from his letter OF Sept i3. had
weight with them. II the rules OF
official decorum are used to prevent