The Carlisle independent., 1910-02-03

SihSV tAS SeCFeldEy Ol tue IHLeFiOI came into office in the Taft cabinet he has stood like a rock against propo- sitions made to him to compromise some of the land cases which have 1 been tried in the lower courts and which Ire now on the way to the su- preme court
 Secretary Bsilnger's Position.
 No one has intimated that Secretary Ballinger did anything excepting to express an opinion that the lower court which decided adversely to the 1 government in one case had based it's decision on good law. This would do nothing more than to show that Mir l Ballinger believed that under the laws as they stood, the men who got pos session of some coal lands in a certain way, acted within their legal rights. The point is, however, that the su- preme court overturned the decision of the lower court so that if Mr Bal l finger agreed with the lower court the supreme court also overturned him.
 Now that Chief Forester Pinchot is out of the service, it is understood that he will be the chief figure in what may be called the prosecution of Sec retary Ballinger. Of course the in- vestigation is not trial, although 1t may have the form of one, and the l lines are drawn with the Pinchot in- terests on one side and the Ballinger interests OF the other, and there is to be an exceedingly hard-fought contest | hnfnrn no lu ic is known that to his friends the form CT forester of the government has ex- pressed his determination to see that the officials who were discharged with | him, and one who was discharged some time previously, have their cases presented to congress in the most l forcible way in which 1t is possible | to set them forth
 Pinchot is fighter He Is a tall, l slender man who looks more or less l like the popular conception of a poet He IS a bundle of nervous energy, l however, and his courage is of the l highest order. Secretary Ballinger is short man with a well-knit figure, and with a force of determination that i has shown itself on many occasions. 1 Between him and the chief forester there is little to choose in the mat ter of pertinacity of purpose. They are champions well worthy of try ing each others metal.
 Hearings to Be Public.
 The public will be allowed to attend the hearings before the committee of l l take the widest kind of range and will go way back of any matters pertain 1 ing to the immediate controversy in hand. It is understood that the Pin ehot forces, if they may be so called, will attempt to show that the whole trend of the secretary of the interiors i life was toward the corporation inter- ests, that is, that he believed that it was far better that in some cases 1 there should be private ownership of mines and water sites and that the people should get their benefit, not 1 from leasing the sites and the mines to the corporations, but from the serv- ice which the corporation by intro ducing economy measures could give 1 to them.
 The secretary of the interior has plenty of ammunition. it is said, to use | in retaliation. There are all kinds of charges which it is understood will be hurled at the former chiefs of the forestry bureau.
 Conservation to Go On.
 With the president, the former chief l forester Clifford Pinchot, and the Dem ocrat and Republican parties all com mitted to it the cause of conservation ought to go marching on. The pres ident has said that he wants to save the trees, the streams, the soil and the wealth of the mines. Mir. Pinchot who is now in private life but still as enthusiastic as ever, says the same thing The Republican party in its platform declared for conservation, and the Democratic party says that it is the father of conservation-and there you are.
 As things stand at present two great organizations are leaders in the resource-saving plan. One of them is known as the National Conservation
 
 Committee on Conservation. Of the former Charles w. Elliott, formerly the head of Harvard college. is the president Walter L. Fisher of Chica- go vice-president, and Thomas R. Shipp of Washington secretary. Of the latter Clifford Pinchot, who re- gently was dismissed from his office of chief forester by President Taft, is the chairman and James c. Gipe of Indi- anapolis, who is now living in Wash ington, is the secretary.
 Pinchot Will Continue Active.
 Clifford Pinchot has let his friends know privately that notwithstanding the fact he has been busted from his place as chief forester he is going ahead with the cause of conservation 1 just as strongly and just as enthusias- tically as ever he did. It is probable that because he is no longer ham l pered by department rules and regu-