The Yale expositor., 1910-01-14
P|NCHOT AND TWO
DISMISSED BY TAFT
AFTER CABINET MEETINGS PREsl-
DENT NOTIFIES PINCHoT THAT
HIS USEFULNESS HAS ENDED.
TWO AIDES ALSO LET OUT
Letter to Dolliver Was Too Big An
Offense--it Is Believed Pinchot's Act
Was Deliberate Challenge to Chief
Executive.

After cabinet meeting lasting
nearly four hours. which ended just
before O'Clock Friday night, Presi.
dent Taft caused the announcement to
be made that he had directed Secre-
tary or Agriculture Wilson to dismiss
OXFORD Pinchot from the Office OF for
ester OF the agricultural department.
Later on 1t was made known that
Secretary Wilson, in accordance with
decision of the president. and the
cabinet, had dismissed Overton w.
Price, associate forester and Mr.. Pin
chots chief assistant. and Alexander
c. Shaw. assistant law officer of the
forest service, as well as Mr.. Pinchot.
The action OF the president on the
eve OF congressional investigation into
the allegations and insinuations
against Secretary OF the Interior Bal
fingers conduct OF the policy Of con-
serving natural resources is certain
TO cause sensation. It's political eff
fects, according to opinion here may
be far reaching.
Coupled with the dismissal Of For
ester Pinchot was the significant ac-
ton OF the house of representatives
Ill connection with the Joint resolu-
ton for an investigation OF the
charges affecting Secretary Ballinger
Through a combination of Democrats
and Republican insurgents. aided by
personal friends of Mr. Pinchot among
the house membership, the house re-
Jected that provision OF the resolu-
ton which directed Speaker Cannon
to choose the representatives who
should sit on the congress commit.
tee OF inquiry.
The Cannon organization. which
stood behind the resolution for an
investigation. was overturned by a
bare majority Of three. Under the
resolution as amended the house mem
bers of the joint committee of inquiry
will be elected by the house itself
The decision to dismiss Messrs.
Pinchot, Price and Shaw was reached
at regular session OF the cabinet
which was begun at II o'clock this
morning and lasted until nearly
o'clock. The later cabinet session,
called for the special purpose, was de-
voted to the preparation and revision
or letter written by President Taft
to Mr. Pinchot. giving the reasons
why Mr. Pinchot was to be removed
from the government service Briefly
these reasons were that contrary to
the instructions from Secretary vii.
son, Forester Pinchot had written
letter TO Senator DolliVer to be read
publicly in the senate, defending Price
and Shaw after they had admitted
that they had inspired the magazine
and press campaign against Secretary
Ballinger: that Mr.. Pinchot had cast
reflections in the Dolliver letter on
the action of President Taft in di-
recting the dismissal of Louis r. Gla-
Wis, of the public land service. the
man who charged that Mr.. Ballinger
and other officers OF the interior de-
partment had been guilty of improper
official conduct in connection with the
Alaska coal claims and that Mr. Pin
chot had intimated in the Dolliver
letter that without the magazine and
press exploitation of Price and Shaw
the administration would have allowed
fraudulent coal land claims in Alaska
to be patented According to Presi-
dent Taft, Mr.. Pinchot wrote 10 Sen
ator Dolliver to Offset in the public
mind the presidents decision in the
CLAWS case.
Mr.. Pinchot in this letter paid a
high tribute TO Mr. CLAWS and indi-
Gated that President Taft had erred in
dismissing him. and, by inference, that
Mr. CLAWS charges against Secretary
Ballinger were based on proper
grounds.