The Sentinel=record., 1910-01-08

It was at the end of this special session tonight that the president gave out the letter he had written to Mir Pinchot, notifying him that his usefulness as a public servant under the present admlnitraiion was at an end.
 Secretary Wilson, Pinchots imme- diate superior, it appears was one of the forester's chief accusers. He told the president that he had advised MT. Pinchot not to send the letter to Sen ator Deliver; that Pinchot had old him he had such a letter in mind and could induce Senator Deliver" to read it on the very day that Presi- dent Taft's special message transmit tiig the attorney generals exonera- tion of Secretary Ballinger. was to be presented to the senate.
 It was this story of Pinchot's ap- parently calculated insubordination that aroused the president to keenest resentment.
 Mr. Taft accuses Pinchot of having taken his stand against Secretary Bal finger wholly upon the evidence ao- duced by L. R. Glavis and without re- gard for the evidence on the other side on file in the interior department.
 The letter directing Secretary Will son to dismiss the forester forthwith was carefully framed during the af- ternoon sitting of the cabinet and was revised several times before finally he made public It is the presidents own statement of the case.
 Secretary Wilson was swift in car rying out the decision of the president. He addressed to Clifford Pinchot, for ester; Overton w. Price, associate forester. and Albert C. Shaw, assist ant law officer of the forestry bureau, letters substantially identical.
 That to Pinchot reads.
 By direction of the president you are hereby removed from your office as forester You will deliver posses sion of your office affairs. belonging to the government, to Mir. Albert F. Potter, assistant forester.
 JAMES w. WILSON.
 Secretary of Aoriculture.
 Mir. Pinchot received tonight the let. ter of the president and Secretary Wilson's peremptory note of disnis- sal, but nothiig about his demeanor indicated that he was surprised or lis tressed by either To an accomoani- ment of sounds of merriment floating down from above stairs, where was party of guests, MT. Pinchot came down to meet the reporters in perfect evening dress, and with shining silk hat in hand, smiling and undismayed.
 Tt will suit me just as well if you will make for me just that simple statement:
 I have nothing to say"
 MT Pinchot added that he probably would say nothing tomorrow hut he would not say how long Ee would maintain his silence.
 The dismissal of the principal off cers of the forest service will in 10 way defer or divert the congressional investigation One of the subjects eagerly debated here tonight was the question whether the dismissal will rob the investigation of much or It's public interest or will make it more sensational than before. F'rieids of the administration held the former view and today urged it upon the pres ident and cabinet officers as argu- ment against the summary dismissal.
 Friends of Pinchot, on the other hand, haye for weeks been declaring that the president would not dare dls- miss Pinchot, that it would cause d bitdCu uetW6SH idll anu ItOtStNtlt and that it would cause such a split in the Republican party ss has not been seen in years.
 Friends of the president said to- night, however, that the actual dis missal of Pinchot could add nothing tc the embarrassment of the admin istration.
 Inasmuch as all the ammunition of Pinchot anu his partisans has already been directed against Secretary Bal finger and, through him, against the president.
 As for possible breach between Mir Taft and former President Roose- yelt that subject is much debated, but any discussion of that obciously Is entirely speculative On the subject of party split. all Republicans have regarded the situation as exceedingly serious.
 Party leaders in the senate and the house declare the controversy and the summary action Of the president