Weekly journal-miner., 1910-01-12
PINCHOT IS FIRED
 BY THE PRESIDENT

WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. z. - Clifford Pinchot, chief forester, and an intimate friend of Roosevelt, wa: dismissed tonight by the president for insubordination.
 Associate Forester Overton Price and Assistant Law Officer Alexander K. Shaw were also dismissed by let ters written in as angry a tone as that which conveyed the news of the discharge of Pinehot. s-
 Indignant at the action of Pinchot in inducing Senator Deliver to read his letter in the senate yesterday, Taft would not listen to any advice nor overlook the forester's violation of the executive order, pending a congressional investigation.
 He declared that the dignity of the presidential office had been attacked and that he would submit no longer.
 Taft realizes fully what the dis missal of Pinchot means in a polit- ical way. He is convinced that at some time the insurgents, and other critics of the administration, will enlist against.
 Pinchot's latest letter, few doubt, was written for the direct purpose of "putting it up to the president. "
 Taft has picked up the gage of battle, and with the administration supporters, is ready for the fray that is certainly coming. Political ob- servers declare the situation created by today's developmtns are most acute, and replete with dangerous possibilities for many years to come
 Regarding the outcome none are willing to prophecy.
 Taft's Letter.
 Taft's letter informing Pinchot of his dismissal, is as follows:
 Sir:-The Secretary of Agricul- ture informs me that on December 2sth, Associate Forester Price went to him and proposed 10 resign, on the ground that he had engaged with Shaw, as his assistant and law officer, in instigating publication in various newspapers and magazines, attacking the good name of Secretary Ballinger, and charging the Interior Department and the General Land Office with corruption.
 "The secretary thereupon wrote, asking your resignation. You did not answer, but on January 4th you had conversation with him in which you said you wished to make a state ment to be read in congress at the same time my message was sent transmitting the record of the Glavis case, and that you thought you could induce Senator Deliver to introL duce it.
 The secretary advised you against this course, but asked your recom mendation, regarding the acceptance of the resignation of Price, in order that he might bring this matter to me, to whom, he said, it must ulti- mately come, because I had consider ed and passed upon the Glavis charges.
 Without further conference with the secretary, and before making a report to him, you succeeded in mak- ing public a letter stating you had had sufficiently disciplined Price and Shaw, and recommending no further punishment was required.
 "In order to understand the full purport of your letter, in which you admit complicity with Price and Shaw, in the publication in the press, it should be said that grave as the Glavis charges were against Ball finger, others, it was intimated, were all affected by a corrupt wish in the patent of No. 63, so-called, on the claims in Alaska. With the facts understood, the plain in- timatiOns of your letter shows that at that time you had reached wrong as to the good faith of Ballinger and the officers of the land office, although you and your had only seen the evi- dence of Glavis, the accuser, and never had seen nor heard the evi- dence of the accused.
 "Seeond, only under the circum- stances, without exploitation by Price and Shaw in the press, of the Glavis charges, the administration, including the president, and the of ieers of the interior department would have allowed certain fraunds, it is intimated.
 "You solicited an opportunity to make the declaration to congress for he purpose of offsetting the public mind.
 HThe nresident, ,s decision in the