Norwich bulletin., 1910-03-23
Ex-FoRESTER SUMMONED,
 ROOSEVELT CALLS PINCHOT
Ex-President Looking for Direct ln- formation on the BaIIinser contro- versy-Many Rumors in Washing ton.

Washington, March 22.-Washington today woke up to the fact that Clifford Pinchot, whom President Taft recently caused to be deposed from the position of chief forester of. the United States, was on the ocean, already four days out, on board the steamer President Grant. on the way to meet ex-Presi- dent Roosevelt, probably at Naples. MT. Pinchot is due at Hamburg next Monday; Colonel Roosevelt is to ar rive at Naples on the following Sat urday
 The fact of MT. Pinehot's departure was known only to a few persons here Saturday.
 The widely current rumor here is that MT. Pfnchot goes to meet the re- turning traveller in compliance with a summons received by cable last Fri day. Nobody in position to know would either confirm or deny this part of the story; there is no disposition to deny that MT. Pinchot's principal errand abroad is to meet MT. Roose- welt.
 It is to be taken for granted, then, that the ex-preSident will receive from the deposed chief forester his first di- rect information bearing on the Bal Hnger-Pinchot controversy from any of the principals in that dispute. It was rumored here today that Senator Root a. member of the Investigating committee. and secretary of state in the Roosevelt cabinet, had written to MT. Roosevelt at Khartum on the sub- Ject. Senator Root would not talk about the matter, and no confirmation of the ruInor was obtainable from any other source. If it were true, 1t might afford at least a partial reason for the supposed cablegram to MT. Pinchot.
 MT. Pilchot's friends here scoff at the suggestion that he would quit the 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- viii fy7<o -f<,-5- xr,o ident. On the other hand, those who know MT. Roosevelt say he is too good politician not to realize that to give Pinchot an unsought hearing be- 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 sup port.
 MT. Pinchot slipped away from Washington last Friday evening and next day sailed from New York for the Bal1inger- hearing attract ed little attention.
 Thomas R. Shipp, secretary of the National Conservation association. of which MT. Pinchot is president, said today that the former forester had gone to Europe for much needed vacation" He said MT. Pinchot's side of the case had practically all been presented ana ne felt IL was an OppOr- tune time for him to go away. He ad- mitted MT. Pinchot had made up his mind about the trip rather suddenly, but he professed to know nothing of the reported Roosevelt-Pinchot meet ing He did not attempt to deny that MT. Pinchot might see his former chief before he returned to the United States.
 Later MT. Shipp issued the follow ing formal statement:
  the steamer President Grant of the Hamburg American line last Satur- day afternoon. He will go to Copen- hagen. Denmark, where he will visit his sister, Lady Johnston. MT. Pin chot has been working hard and felt that vacation for while would do him good. do not know when he will return. He has engagements in the United States early in May"
 The only address MT. Pinchot left behind him at his Washington resi- 1ence was Copenhagen. and a large number of letters and telegrams are being forwarded to him there.