Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1910-03-25
Why and Wherefore o. the Trip Sets
All Washington TalkIne-Root
Said to Nave Mailed Letter
Explaining the situation.

4 The widely current rumOr 10 that
Mr.. Pinchot goes to meet the return
ing traveller in compliance with sum.
mons received by cable last Friday.
| Nobody in position to know would
|seither confirm or deny this part Of the
story. there is no disposition to deny
that Mr.. Pinchot's principal errand
abroad is to meet Mr.. Roosevelt.
1t is to be taken for granted that the
ex-president will receive from the de-
posed chief forester, with whom he
was on peculiarly intimate terms, his
first direct information bearing on the
Ballinger-Pinchot controversy from
any of the principals in that dispute
| Root Already Written. ~
Il is rumored here that Senator
Root, a member Of the investigating
committee, and secretary Of state in
the Roosevelt cabinet, had written to
Mr.. Roosevelt at Khartoum on the
subject. Senator Root would not talk
about the matter. and no confirmation
of the rumor was obtainable from any
other source. II 1t were true. 1t might
afford at least partial reason for the
supposed cablegram to Mr.. Pinchot.
Mr.. Pinchot's friends here scoff at
the suggestion that he would quit the
investigation Of the controversy in
which he is SO deeply concerned on
the eve Of Secretary Ballinger's going
on the stand. In order to seek, unin.
vited, an interview with the sex-presi-
dent. On the other hand, those who
know Mr.. Roosevelt, say he IL too
good q politician not to realize that to
give Pinchot an unsought hearing be-
fore he had had an opportunity to dis
.cuss the matter with President Taft
or some member Of his political fam
fly, would be generally regarded as a
direct slap at an administration he
would naturally feel bound to support.
To Visit sister.
Thomas R. Shipp. secretary Of the
National Conservation association. of
which Mr.. Pinchot is president, issued
the following statement:
"Mr. Pinchot sailed for Europe on
the steamer, President Grant of the
Hamburg-American line. last Saturday
afternoon. He will go to Copenhagen,
Denmark, where he will visit his sis
ter. Lady Johnston. Mr.. PinchOt has
been working hard and felt that q va
cation for while would do him good.
1 do not know when he will return.
He had engagements in the United
States early in May. Mr.. Pinchot's
secretary, who Is left behind, said Mr..
Pinchot was expected back. about
April 20, in which event the meeting
would have to take place before Mr.
Roosevelt reached London, as he is
not due there before May 15."
In former days no one was more
welcome, or 1t might be added. a more
constant to the White House
than Clifford Pinchot. He became q
member Of the now famous Tennis
Cabinet" and to all appearances Pin.
chot was the synonym for President
Roosevelt's last word In conservation.
When Mr.. Roosevelt retired he com
nlended Pinchot highly to Taft, and II
was not until the ex-president had. en-
tered the Jungle that evidences of dis
cord between Secretary. Ballinger and
Forester Pinchot came publicly to the
surface.
OF the controversy which ensued.
causing the president much embarrass-
ment Mr.. Roosevelt knew little or
nothing until he reached Khartoum,
Monday of last week. There he doubt
less learned, from American newspa-
per correspondents who awaited him.
that his friend had been ousted from
the government service and Of the In
vestigation which has followed.