Show OT WAR IS ENDED HERE ERE HEREn President Preside n Taft Confers Co ners With Chief Forester Then Issues Statement Praising Him HimAs H mil milAs As a result of several long conferences with Chief Forester Gifford Pin Pinchot Pinchot Pinchot chot here today President Taft tonight toni ht caused to be issued a Ii statement in which it is declared that never at any time during the controversy has the President intended to reflect upon Mr and andin andin andin in which Mr Taft takes a more forward stand than ever in ia favor of the Roosevelt policies of conservation of natural resources The President indicates that what is to be done in the way of reclaim reclaiming r reclaiming ing arid lands must be done within the law lw but lie he announces his intention intention intention tion of applying to congress for such confirmatory and enabling legislation as will put the Roosevelt policies on the firmest possible basis Mr Pinchot before leaving tonight for Washington also issued a statement in which wh he makes mak public a portion por lon of f Press Fres Pr dent ident Tafts letter written to the chief ehle forester at the time the letter to Secre Seer Secretary tary lazy Ballinger was dictated The Preal President Pre I Ident dent said he hoped Mr Ir Pinchot would noc not find reason reason in the Ballinger letter Jetter for tor re resigning resigning resigning signing I shall not resign declares declare Mr Pin Pinchot Pinchot chot and he adds that he Is going to con continue continue continue to government along the same line he has pursued In the past concluding con concluding concluding with the statement I believe In Inequality inequality equality of opportunity and the Roosevelt policies and I propose to stand for them themas as long as I have the strength to stand for anything Thinks Pinchot Valuable Mr statement was Waa shown to the President before it was waa given out The Presidents statement was as follows In view of the published statements that the letter of the President Pre to Secre Secretary Secretary Secretary tary Ballinger was to be considered in some way a reflection on Mr dr Pinchot the President today authorised authorized the publication publication publication cation of the following That at t the time that he wrote the letter to Secretary Bal Ballinger Ballinger Ballinger linger he also wrote a letter to Mr Pin Pinchot Pinchot chot assuring him that the conclusions stated therein were not intended in any anyway anyway anyway way to reflect on him that the President deemed Mr continuance in the public service as of the utmost value that he expected to continue the Roosevelt policies as to the conservation of re resources resources resources sources including the reclamation of arid and lands and preservation of our forests and the proper restriction In respect to the use of coal lands and water power sites Bites as u aswell aswell well as the improvement of our water waterways waterways ways and to ask Congress for such con confirmatory confirmatory confirmatory and enabling legislation as would put the execution of those poli poll des cies on the firmest baste bails bas and that ha hs would deem it a great eat loss Iou if in respect to the matters with which Mr Cr Pinchot had been concerned the th administration would be denied dented th the benefit of ot his future service The President held a long conference with Mr Pinchot at the Knutsford hotel alter after the banquet given by the Fifteenth Infantry Statement by Pinchot Mr statement which was wU made public at the same sam lime time lime follows At the then suggestion of the President I make public the following extracts from his letter to me mentioned in the state statement statement statement ment he baa has just authorised I wish wl h you to know that I have th the utmost confidence in your conscientious desire to serve the government and the public in the intensity of your purpose to achieve success Bucce in the matter of 01 con conservation conservation conservation of natural resources and in th the immense value of what you have done and propose to do in reference to forestry and kindred methods of conservation con and andI I am thoroughly in sympathy with all these policies and propose to do every everything everything everything thing that I can to maintain them in insisting elating only that the action for which Y X become responsible or for which my ad administration administration administration ministration becomes become responsible shall shaU be within the law I should con coni eider alder it one of the greatest losses loue that my mp administration could sustain If you were wera to leave it and aDd I sincerely hope that you yO will not think that my action in writing the enclosed letter to Secretary Ballin Ballinger ger ser is reason for your taking a step 08 oo 0 this character These expressions by the President nt which are most moat kind toward me and most favorable toward my work as well as 8 the tha statement authorised authorized by him define his Continued on Page 2 PINCH ER WAR IS ENDED HERE Continued from Page 1 attitude toward the conservation policies with convincing cO clearness I shall not resign but shall remain In the government service I shall give my m best efforts In the future as In the past pa t to promote the conservation and devel development development development of our forests waters lands and minerals and to defend the conservation policies whenever the need arises Espe Especially Especially daily I shall continue to advocate the control of water power monopoly In the public interest and the use of oC our institutions institutions laws and natural resources for forthe forthe the benefit of the plain people I believe in equality of opportunity and the Roose Roosevelt Roo e volt veil policies and I propose to stand for them as long as I have hare the strength to stand for tor anything GIFFORD PINCHOT It was thought on OD Friday that the meet meeting meeting meeting ing here of the President Secretary Bal Dab linger and Mr Pinchot might call out some Bome further statement from Mr Taft Mr Pinchot came on especially from Cal California CalIfornia California to seek an Interview with the President With the exception of the meeting at the station yesterday when neither attempted to speak to the other Secretary Ballinger and Mr Pinchot were not thrown in contact during their stay in Salt Lake Mr Ir Pinchot attended sev several several eral oral functions along with the party p es escorting escorting escorting the President today but Mr Bal Ballinger Ballinger linger pleading a sore throat remained indoors most of the time Ills His private sec see secretary secretary rotary met him here and he devoted much of his time to disposing of ot business mat matters matters matters Ballinger Keeps Silent Mr Ballinger had no comment to make tonight on the latest phase of ot the dis discussion cus lon Friends of ot both Mr Ir Ballinger and Mr lIr Pinchot declare that the Presidents Presidents Presidents dents statement Is such that both officials can consistently remain in the gov government government government service and work toward the same ends Mr Pinchot has declared him himself self in favor of a strong conservation pol policy polley polIcy icy ley Mr Air has declared himself in favor of keeping within the law Pres Free President PresIdent ident Taft finally declares himself as be being beIng being ing in favor of a strongly progressive pol policy polIcy policy icy kept within the law with such amendments to the law as Ail may ma be 00 necessary necessary sary aary to carry out Mr rr ideas In his address at Liberty park this I afternoon Mr Taft Tatt had this further to say regarding conservation We Ye are going to move on Congress and ask Congress to help us out Of course Curse Congress may have a differing view and perhaps those of us that are most enthusiastic enthusiastic enthusiastic those of ot us that have a clear idea of ot what will have to be done will have to modify our views in some way and arrange a compromise But life is isa isa isa a compromise progress is a compromise popular government is a compromise be between between between tween ninety millions of people The conservation of resources is the is issue Issue issue sue which the President will be confronted with during the next two or three weeks of his travels Senator Borah of Idaho saw him with regard to the proposition of ot the government issuing bonds to carry carryon on the conservation work more rapidly I than is now possible Senator Borah Bomb will accompany the President through Idaho and will take tak the matter mat r up again Secretary R H A Ballinger was visibly nettled last evening by the statements tat ments Is suei by President Taft and Mr Pinchot Mr Ballinger r emphatically refused to dis die discuss discuss cuss the statements made by the President and the chief of f the forestry service I have not the statements of the Pres Pros President PresIdent ident and Mr Ma Pinchot said Mr orr Baum Ballin Ballinger ger However I feel that I am with their Import and will decline to die dis discuss cuss cues them I do not think there Is Js any call upon me to make a statement of tiny ony kind i My position on en n the conservation of ot our resources has bas been made clear on an 0 s sty BEV v voral oral occasions and has been given some considerable con i erable circulation I stated my po pc position clearly when I was In Denver DenV I Iam Iam Iam am heartily in favor of ot the i of at our forests and of ot the conservation of our water VAter sources so far is at may be done within the law Farther than that I cannot and will wUl not go o I |