Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-05-14
TIE PRESIDENTS PRocLAN,rIos.

that would continue to be in Cochise county.
 THE PRESIDENTS PROCLAMATION.
 4 great deal h=s been published by the Tombstone press and the Demo cratic press of the Territory characteriz- ing the Residents proclamation as an outrage and an infringement upon the rights of individuals and local govern
 ments.
 Before too much is said 1t would be well to consider the situation and the available means to correct a terrible evil
 whose paralyzing effect is felt not only m the section more especially affected, but throughout the whole Territory.
 Of the existence of lawlessness sufIi- ciently well organized and strong enough to successfully set at defiance the constituted authorities Of C6chise county is q notorious fact. The state ments Of the papers If that e unty and the Democratic press of the Territory to | the contrary deceiyes no one. Their news columns give the lie to such editorial utterances. l. IS notorious fact that lawlessness prevails and 1t Is equally well known that a reign of terror exists in the city of Tombstone that makes it to next impossible to correct the existing disorder of th'Jgs by tine ordinary means of civil justIce. Officers will not or cannot arrest, jails will not hold their inmates and juries dare not cOnvi.t. That is the s;tua- | ton in nutshell, and ii IS n well established fact that stag lines, express companies, ranch men and min CTS fird themselves forced to purchase immunity from robbery and condone i crimes for which the perpetrators should stretch. A country may be full nf bon anzas but 1t cannot stand thIs continual UIe.u nI4Iai .ior the almost IncessaaI murder of innocent citizens. It is case requiring heroIc treatment and was so recognized by the press of the Territory irrespective of party less than one month ago. The Democratic press hrs seen fit to change its position quite recently, but that does not alter the facts.
 In answer to the demand of the law abiding citizens of Tombstone, Governor Tritle visited COchise county and after a careful investigation of the situation or ganized small band of irangers under Deputy L. 5. Marshal Jackson and placed them in the field and at the same time he wired the President a statement of the condition of affairs here, just as they werr stat, d by the press ofthe Ter ritory at the time, and requested an ap- propriation of Sl50,O00 to maintain force on the border to suppress lawless- ness and smuggling and take in maraud ing bands of Indians.
 This action of the Governor was ap- proved by good citizens generally. If the request of the Governor had been complied with a bill substantially as | follows would have been passed: Be 1t enacted, etc, That the sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars be and the same IS hereby appropriated ont of any moneys in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, to be used, CT so much thereof as may be nc cessaTy, by the Governor of the Territory of ArizO- | 7a, to pay and maintain such volunteer militia force as may be ganized and i called out by him m sad I rritOry, to | suppress violence, cattie-siealing and smuggling, and to aid the civil. authori- ties iu executing civil process; also to | hunt down such Indians as have left the reservations without permits and treat ! them as hOstiles.
 | Every member of such organized vol unteer militia force, when the same shall | be called out by the Governor, Is hereby invested with the same powers and au- 1 thority as are conferred by the laws of the Territory of Ariz"na upon peace officers in said Territory, in the matter of making arrests.
 The President, doubtless after consul | tatiun, came to the conclusion that Con gress would not make the appropriation, | and therefore recommended the passage of d bill permitting the use of the army | as posse comitatus m the territories. | This question was referred tOthe Senate | Judiciary Committee and its chairman, ! Senator Edmunds. made the following verbal report, which we reproduce in | full fir. m the Congressional records: AFFAIEs IS ARIZONA.
 ! MT. EDMUNDS. Mir. President, am | directed by the Committee on the Judi | c:ary, to which was referred the message | of the President of the United States of ! the 2Sth of April-it k ID the RECORD of the 2Sth. but by some iRextricable ac- cident has not vet been printed in docu- ment form-touchiug the condition of things in Arizona, and suggesting to | Congress c rtain legislation by amend inr the provisions Of law as th,y now stand in the act of 1878 regarding the use of the army as Do: SC cOmitatus, to report that the committee las carefully considered the message; and I make the l report orally, becanse, ns iE is a matter of urgent concern, We have had no time to draw up a written report. The com
 mittee instruct me to say that, in our opinion. there is no necessity in the case
 named for further legislati' n. and that
 the President of the United States has
 now ample power to put down the law lessness in the Territory of Arizona re-
 ferred to by him, and to restrain the
 maraudiug expeditions to which be re- ] fers, organized in that Territory to enter
 into the territory of the Republic of
 Mexico.
 The reason for our "pinion is this: As to expeditions into Mexico section 52s6 ! of the Revised Statutes provides:
 Every per-on who. within the territory or iu-
 risdiction of tho United States begins or sets on l foof or provides sr prepares the mears for any
 mi itary -xp- ditiou enterprise. to be carrietl , on from c ence against the tsrritory or domin.
 ians of any foreiEn prince or siGte. or any colo } uy. district. or people, with whom the United