The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1910-04-01
NEWS FROM .TKE
NATIONAL CAPITAL
DOINGS OF CONGRESS AND ITEMS
OF INTEREST.
VERTREES LAUDS BALLlNGER
Prosecution Closes In Ballnqer Pin.
chot Controversy.-Canno May
Yet Be Ousted.

WASHlNG1ON, ID. Cine prose
cution in the Ballinger- -Pinchot con
troversy concluded its case with an
ineffectual attempt to force the COM
mittee to call Ballinger as witness
for the prosecution.
Attorney Vertrees, in opening the
case for the defense, warmly COM
mended Secretary Ballinger and
flayed the "Pinchot Service" in caus-
tic terms.
when Mr.. Ballinger has been
heard" said Attorney Vertrees. at
will be seen that true conservation
has no steadier supporter than he
He holds that conservation is not
thing of caprice, but of law; that
| those who have already been born
and now breathe have rights, as we'll
as those yet to be born and to
breathe.
I'm restoring to entry vast acreas
of the public domain, which he be-
lieved to have been wrongfully with
drawn, Mr.. Ballinger still believes he
| was right, but if he erred, he denies
that it was an error for which the
good faith of his official action
| should be questioned by those who
would substitute opinion for law"
Trouble Brews For Cannon.
All the fighting is not yet over in
the House. Several revolutions are
brewing, among them propositions to
oust Cannon, elect the various COM
mittees Of the House and provide
machinery whereby members can
draw from committees bills that now
slumber in pigeon holes.
I Several insurgents advocate the re-
moval of Speaker Cannon by means
of the combined vote of Democrats
and insurgents and to substitute in
his place Asher G. Kinds, the parlia-
mentaran of the House. The idea of
placing in the Speakers chair a pure
parliamentarian, not a member of the
House, who would be entirely unin.
| fluenced by considerations of parti-
san advantage is suggested as the
logical and proper course.
States May Trade School Sections.
! Progress is being made with bill
| hn rfo
lect compact bodies of land in forest
reserves in exchange for scattered
sections 16 and 36, which are mac
cessible and of little value. There
would be fair prospect for the pas
sage of such bill but for the fact
that Senator Hepburn is bitterly op-
posed to it.
Representative Hamer, of Idaho,
started this legislation going by in
Producing bill at the special session
authorizing the states to exchange
their school sections in reserves for
compact bodies of forest reserve land.
This session Representative Hawley,
of Oregon. introduced another bill
aiming at the same accomplishment.
irrigation Bill obviates Bones.
Whatever legislation may be en-
acted looking to the raising of addi-
tional funds to complete Government
irrigation projects will probably fol-
low the general lines of the bill pre-
pared jointly by the Senate COM
mittees on irrigation and finance.
The bill differs radically from the
bond issue bill originally introduced
by Senator Borah, in fact, if passed,
it will be more acceptable than the
original bond issue bill, for in effect
it provides for direct appropriation
of $30,000,000 out of the Federal
Treasury, that amount to be reim-
bursed out of the reclamation fund
Pullman Fares to Coast Must Be Cut.
Pullman fares from st. Paul to
North Pacific Coast cities will be ma
toiiaiiJ ieuuCeu ny du oTuer 10 De
| issued by the Interstate Commerce
Commission. The commission has
! reached this decision in the case be-
gun by the Shippers League, headed
by George Lotus of Minneapolis. 1t
is understood the commission will
also include in its decision that the
Pullman company must sell upper
berths for less than lower.
Settlers Given More Time.
The Senate irrigation committee
has ordered a favorable report on a
bill authorizing the Secretary O; the