Norwich bulletin., 1910-01-07
Genuine Sensation in the Senate BaIlnser-Pnchot Controversy DoubIy Intensified by
 Reading of Letter from Pnchot Addressed to Sem
 ator Doiver-Senator Hale Rebukes Chief Forester.

Washington, Jan. 6.-The Ballinger- Pinchot controversy was made doubly intense today by the reading in the senate of a letter addressed by MT Pinchot to Senator Deliver, in which the course adopted by l.. R. Glavis with the assistance of MeSsrS. Price and Shaw of the bureau of forestry, was warmly approved. In this com munication the chief forester not only upheld the criticisms of Secretary Bal finger but suggested that the president himself was mistaken in the facts when he removed MT. GlaVis from the public service.
 Brought Senator Hale to His Feet.
 MT. Pinchot's letter brought Sena- tor Hale to his feet with a severe re- buke of the chief forester for having ignored a recent order by the presi- dent directing that no subordinate of ficer should give information concern ing the affairs of the government ex- cept to his superior officers. He also suggested that the adoption of this course tended to forestan all prejudice of public opinion in relation to the BaHfnger-P -Pinchot controversy.
 Jones' Joint Resolution Referred.
 Preceding this incident, Senator Jones joint resolution for an inVes- tigation of the interior department and the forestry bureau was referred to the committee on public lands but the reference was not made unt1l d1CeE considerable discussion of a resolu- tion bv Senator New1ands instructing the committee on public lands to re- port within two weeks recommends tions for legislation putting into eff feet the recommendation made in Sec retary Ballinger'S last annual report for the conservation of natural re- sources. The Newlands resolution all so was referred to the committee on public lands
 While the senate was taking this action the house was declining to en- ter upon a discussion of the joint resolution introduced by MT Hum phrey. The resolution went over un- til tomorrow.
 What Pinchot's Letter Said.
 In the senate. MT. Pinchot's letter caused a genuine sensation. In ad dressing his letter to Senator Dolli- yer. Mir. Pinchot indicated that it was written at the request of the Iowa senator, but it was addressed to him as chairman of the committee on az ricuIture. thus making it an official document He said that Messrs. Price and Shaw prepared an official report upon their actions which he was transmitting to the secretary of agri- culture
 ''This report shows that Messrs. Price and Shaw made public certain information regarding the so-called Cunningham claims for coal lands in Alaska said Mir Pinchot. "The ef- feet of the publication was to direct critical attention to the action of the interior department.
 'It shows also that they counte- nanced the publication by l.. R. Glavis of certain facts concerning these Il claims after he had been dismissed from office and that in other ways they endeavored to direct public at tention to the imminent danger that the Alaska coal fields. still in gov ernment ownership, might pass for ever into private hands with little or no compensation to the public"
 This information, MT. Pinchot adds, was of a nature proper to be made public, unless there are secret which the people of the United States are not entitled to know concerning the nature and progress of claims made for portions of the public lands"
 The rumor," he said, that the Gla