The Oakes times., 1910-07-21
MINNESOTA DELEGATION sE
CURES A MODIFICATION OF
PINcHoT's PROGRAM.
At MEETING IN CHICAGO
Request That Northwest BE Bette,
Represented Il, Granted-Faetiens
Agree In Conference a. 70
Event In st. Paul.

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.
tnation of modifying the program pre-.
pared by former Forester Clifford
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 Of
safeguarding the nations resources
On this account, his accusers say he
neglected to invite President Taft, whe
is regarded as chief champion of Sec.
retary Ballinger and whose espousal
Of Ballinger'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.
ernors and western congressman who
were known to favor the administra.
ton we're notably absent on the pro.
gram.
hn
they scored the plan to have former
President Roosevelt, Pinchot, Senator
Dolliver, w. r. Nelson, of the Kansas
City Star, w. H. Newell, of the recla.
nation bureau, and Louis D. Brandeis
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.
sociation and received the protest Of
the Minnesota men with an air of the
greatest Difference and consideration.
They had come to confer they said.
not to quarrel, and If there was any.
thing wrong with their program, why.
Of course, they would be most happy
to modify 1t.
B. M. Baker, president of the con.
gress, will confer further with the ex.
ecutive committee and will arrange
the details.
The request that President Taft be
invited was agreed to at once. The
Pinchot people readily did SO because
as one Of their number said, they dc
not believe heaiwilI attend. Other
changes which. have been left to the
executive committee and B. M. Baker
representing the protestants, will. II
Is stated, be few.
Apparently, split in the organiza.
tion has been avoided. The program
will be sufficiently divided between
adherents of Pinchot and Ballinger to
be interesting.
"The association is 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.
It has been suggested that Senator
Carter and Senator Nelson as well as
another speaker representing the ex'
treme northwest rated as an admin
lstration" man, should be added to the
program.
AS an instance of the reputed Hill
domination of the st. Paul committee
It was stated that the latter brought
forward the name of Judge c. H. 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, and the extreme
anti-conservation element of the north
west.
Roosevelt, Most Important.