The Green Forest tribune., 1910-01-28
Indications are that the congression-


 has demanded, will take on much the form of an actual trial, a stout de- fense and well-defined prosecution. Several of the land cases which have had or are yet to have their day in court, probably will figure prominent ly in the proceedings before they are ended There are several cases which were tried in different parts of the country when Mir Ballinger was com missioner of the land office under the Roosevelt administration, and it is said that some of the opinions that he expressed as to the results of one or two of the cases will be used by his opponents to show that he is not in sympathy with the cause of saving the natural resources of the country from private ownership.
 On the other hand it is said that since the secretary of the interior 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 been tried in the lower courts and
  preme court
 Secretary BalIinger's Position.
 No one has intimated that Secretary Bailinger did anything excepting to express an opinion that the lower court which decided adversely to the government in one case had based it's decision on good law. This would do nothing more than to show that MT ] Ballinger believed that under the laws as they stood, the men who got pos session of some coal lands in 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 MT. Bal 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 a trial, although it may have the form of one, and the lines are drawn with the Pinchot in- terests on one side and the Ballinger interests on the other, and there is to be an exceedingly hard-fought contest before the thing finally is decided. It 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 forcibe way in which it is possible to set them forth.
 Pinchot is fighter. He is a tall, slender man who looks more or less like the popular conception of a poet. He is bundle of nervous energy, however, and his courage is of the highest order. Secretary Ballinger is a short man with well-knit figure, and with force of determination that has shown itself on many occasions. Between him and the chief forester there is little to choose in the mat ter of pertinacity of purpose.
 Hearings to Be Public.
 The public will be allowed to attend the hearings before the committee of investigation. The proceedings will take the widest kind of range and will go way back Of any matters pertain ing to the immediate controversy in hand. It is understood that the Pin chot forces, if they may be so called, will attempt to show that the whole trend of the secretary of the interiors life was toward the corporation inter- ests, that is, that he believed that it was far better that in some cases there should be private ownership of mines and water sites and that the people should get their benefit, not from leasing the sites ard the mines to the corporations, but from the sery- ice which the corporation by intro ducing economy measures could give 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 1 be hurled at the former chiefs of the l forestry bureau.
 Conservation to Go On.
 With the president, the former chief l forester, Clifford Pinchot, and the Dem- ocrat and Republican parties all con- mitted to it the cause of conservation ought to go marching on. The pres i ident has said that he wants to save the trees, the streams, the soil and the wealth of the mines. MT. Pinchot who is now in private life but still as enthusiastic as ever, says the same thing The Republican party in it's 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 association and the other as the Joint 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. Oi the latter Clifford Pinchot, who re gently was dismissed from his office ol 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.
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