The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1910-07-21
Will INVITE TAFT
MINNESOTA DELEGATION Sc
CURES A MODIFICATION OF
PINcHoT's PROGRAM.
AT MEETING in CHICAGO
Request That Northwest Be eette'
Represented Is oranted.-Factions
Agree in Conference as to
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
at a conference between warning con.
.servation 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 Giffor-
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 CT
safeguarding the nations
On this account, his accusers say he
neglected to invite President Taft, who
is regarded as chief champion of Sec
rotary Ballinger and whose espousai
of B%allingeT'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 we're notably absent on the pro-
gram.
AS hosts to the convention body
they scored the plan to have formet
President Roosevelt, Pinchot, Senato'
City Star, w. II. Newell, of the recla.
nation bureau, and Louis d. Branded
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.
ISOLATION and received the protest o.
the Minnesota men with an air of TIM
greatest Difference and consideration.
They had come to confer they saiG,
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. NJ. Baker, president of the con.
gress, will confer further with the eE'
ecutive committee and will arrang !
the details.
The request that President Taft od
invited was agreed to at once. Tho
Pinchot people readily did so beclus1
as one of their number said, they d.
not believe he will attend, Othe:
changes which have been left to tho
executive committee and b. M. Baker,
representing the prQtestants, will, 1t
is stated, be few.
Apparently, a split in the organiza'
ton has been avoided. The program
will be sufficiently divided between
adhereuts of Pinchot and Ballinger to
be interesting.
1.-THE association is a 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.
II 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,
il was stated that the latter brought
forward the name of Judge C. II. 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, ard the extreme
anti-conservation element of the north
west.
Roosevelt, Most Important.
Whatever else is done to the pro-