New-York tribune., 1910-12-02
ROOSEVELT AND P|NCHOT|
Report of Break Between Them
Amuses Washington.
IT HAD BEEN EXPECTED
Deposed Forester Said to Seek
Presidency-His Friends At
tacking Roosevelt.
tFron1 The Tribune Bureau. !

Washington. Dec. 1.-The only surprising
feature of the report in a Philadelphia
newspaper of a break between Theodore
Roosevelt and Clifford Pinchot is that this
highly important information has not been
given to the public sooner. The fulnina-
tons of all the Pinchot satellites against
the ex-President have for some time af-
forded choice morsel of gossip to an
amused circle in Washington These dis
cipIes a1lege that Mr. Roosevelt fears Gift
ford Pinchot as "a dangerous rival in the
national convention of 1872, and that to
jealousy and apprehension are to be at
tributed the ex-President's refusal to
espouse the cause of the deposed forester;
his declaration at Saratoga that William
Howard Taft is an able. upright and dis
unguished President" his recent call or
respect at the White House and his polite
reception of Secretary Balinger on his re-
cent visit to Washington.
According to these friends of the ex-
forester President RooseveIts adrninistra-
tion wholly lacking in constructive
features until Clifford Pinchot proposed the
conservation policy and that alone made
its success. Therefore that Mr.. Roosevelt
has proved himself "a base migrate to his
former subordinate, but actual creator. is
the charge freely made by disciples of the
modern Sir Galahad," whom unfeeling s
and greatly amused Washington public IS
disposed to call a modern Don QufXote.' -
The denunciation of these satellites and
disciples makes clear the reason. ludicrous
though II may be, for Mr.. Pinchot's atti-
tude in the West. where he gave more than
taCit announcement to the idea that Mr..
Roosevelt was an 1nsurgent in the West
and a regular in the East; that his attitude
toward the tariff was wholly illogical. and
his willingness to support Senator Lodge
was rankly inconsistent with his support
of Senator Beverdge.
The announcement of Mr.. Pinchots Pres
idential ambitions first reached Washing
ton through diplomatic channels from
, Copenhagen considera bly, more than a year
ago. but was treated as a joke. Subsequent
predictions by members Of the ex-forester S
family that the conservation issue will
sooner or later make Clifford President,
uttered in social circles in Washington,
gave verisimilitude 10 the Copenhagen
story and the deposed forester's own pre-
diction that Mr.. Roosevelt on his return
to this country would start a new party,
seemed to give further confirmation of his
own expectations.
The declaration OF the Pinchotites that
I
velt." and that Mr. Roosevelt owes the
entire success of his administration to Gif-
ford" adds the finishing touch to one of
the most highly entertaining little comedies
which has served in recent years to relieve
the tedium Of politics and craftsmanship in
the national capital.
A report OF the Ballinger-PinchOt case
Will be submitted to Congress before the
holiday recess. This was decided to-day at
a meeting of the majority members of the
special committee appointed by the Senate
and House TO investigate the conservation
fight in which the Secretary of the In
terror and the former Chief Forester were
the central figures It is probable that a
minority report. signed by Senators Fietch-
er and Purcell and Representatives Madison,
James and Graham, will be submitted to
Congress early in the approaching session.
4 tentative draft of the majority report
was prepared in the summer by Senator
Nelson. chairman Of the committee. This
raror+ was gone over to-day at a meeting
attended by Senators Nelson. Root and
Sutherland and Representatives Mccall and
Olmsted Representative DENLY, who will
sign the ma tority report, has not returned
70 Washington.