Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1910-03-16
TWO MISHAPS
To PRESIDENT
He Starts Out on Chicago
Trip Under Rather Un-
favorable Auspices
WILL MAKE NOTABLE ADDRESS
Executives Position on Conserva.
ton Will Be Further
Defined.

Washington, D. c., March 16.-Pres-
ident Taft left here this morning for
Chicago, where tomorrow he will at
tend the St. Patrick Day banquet of
the Irish Fellowship Club. From Chi
cago. the President will swing around
the circle to Rochester, Albany, New
Haven and Providence and will return
to Washington on March %. The
Presidents automobile narrowly es-
capped running down a woman while
the President was on his way to the
station this morning. The car stopped
just in time to prevent an accident.
Then, when it started again, it came
close to hitting trolly car Taft
will make only one speech bearing
upon legislation sought by the admin
istration but this one is likely to
Rprove of far reaching effect. This will
be the talk on conservation he will
make in Chicago. In addition to
further defining the administrations
conservation policy-and incidentally
|
showing how the President now
stands with regard to the Ballinger-
Pinchot controversy-thi talk may
also cause realignment of Republi-
can forces in Illinois. In view of re-
cent developments in that state in the
waterway department of conservation,
the Presidents talk will prove OF
great importance in the fight between
Governor Charles S. Deneen and Sen
ator William Lorimer. The junior
senator succeeded in blocking the gov
ernor's efforts to secure state water
way legislation at the recent extra
session of the Illinois legislature; his
plea was that the state should not
spend the $20,000,000 voted by the
people for deep waterway construc
ton until after the national govern
ment had taken steps to cooperate il
| the work. The view of the administra
ton with respect to such cooperation
both, in Illinois and in other states, is
.
by the Presidents talk. 1t is known
that the administration holds it viii
be dangerous to neglect conservation
legislation and the advocates of deeI
waterway systems in the Mississippi
Missouri and Ohio valleys hope the
! Presidents Chicago speech will show
that he has receded from his position
! taken last winter when he declared
against a comprehensive waterwa.
plan, and in favor of doing the worl
by piecemeal. incidentally, the Chi
cago conservation speech narrowly es
capped not being made at all, becaus'
of the possibility that it might resul
in a PERSONAL debate between th
President and Clifford Pinchot, lat
chief forester The President was in
vited to attend the annual banquet o
the Irish Fellowship Club At tn
same time the Chicago committee O
the National Conservation Association
invited the President to be the prir
clpal speaker at a conservation mas
meeting in the afternoon of the sam
day. The President was about to az
cept when he learned that Mr. PHI
chot might also be one of the speal
ers. The Chicago committee assure
| the President that there would be n
embarrassment from coinciden
talks. He will return by way of Ne'
Haven and Providence to New Yorl
', where he will attend the banquet {
the American Peace and Arbitratio
League.