The record-union., 1891-07-22
The Miners Resolve to Resort to
No Further Violence.
GOVERNOR BUCHANAN IS IN A
PECULIAR PREDICAMENT.
The S'Black Pearl'' Defeats Filings
Midd1e-Weight-Th Plan to Boy
Believed to be Inefrective-New
Yorlk's Leper.
Special to the REcoRp-UN1oS.

cpeciHi 10 the tSECORD-UN1ON.
NASHVILLE CTenn.), July PA spe-
cial from Coal Greek, Tenn, to the 1n2cr-
| icGn, says: A meeting of the miners was
held this afternoon. When the men first
assembled there were a few hot-heads,
but they We're quickly suppressed.
| There were speeches by a number
Of the leaders, all of q conservative
tone and advising against any violation
OF the law. The men said they simply
wanted the convicts sent away and moth
| ing more or less. a resolution was unan-
imously passed to appoint committee of
! five to go to Knoxville and Nashville, if
necessary to confer with Governor Bu-
chanan, and arbitrate the present difficult
! ties.
! Commissioner Ford and Assistant Alte-
man were invited and asked to so with
! the committee. Resolutions were also
unanimously passed that each man
! pledge himself on his honor that not one
dollars worth OF property would be de-
stroyed and the company's property be
! guarded.
1t was further determined no one
should offer violence to any one except in
self-deiense. There is a sense of relief
! and quiet since the meeting.
| y telegram was received from the
F.! Kentucky side at Joyce to-day Offering
/ large number of men in case help was
needed. The reply was for the men to
| hold themselves in readiness in case they
| We're called Tor. Nearly every man pres
ent at the meeting had a shotgun or
| Winchester rifle besides reyolvers.
THE GOVERNORS PREDIcAMENT.
KNOXVILLE (Tenn.), July d = The
mine trouble is in statu quo, and the end
! no one can see
Five hundred militiamen have arrived
1 ana are now IN camp. Brigadier-Gen-
eral Carnes says he is simply waiting
! orders from Governor Buchanan.
The Constitution and laws of TenneS-
/ see are peculiar and anomalous The
! Governor of the State is III doubt whether
! he can order out the military legally, and
| 1t is sure that he cannot proclaim martial
law throughout the mining region. TO
! endeavor to proceed against the miners
ciyilly would be folly, as the sympathy
| of all classes is with the miners, and con-
viction would be almost impossible.
MEMPHIS, July 2l.-A special from
! Nashville says: Governor Buchanan and
Attorney General Pickle have been clos
| eted to-day concerning the question of
the legality Of the Governors action in
ordering the militia to Briceville after the
! Sheriff had left the scene. Pickle late
this afternoon handed in "a written opin-
| ION to the Governor, in which, it is un-
derstood, he says the Governors action
was justified by law in sending the
| troops, but they can only be used under
civil authority, and unless the Sheriff
comes forward and again asks for assist
ance, the militia viii have to be called,
The Governor is very indignant at the
| Sheriff for failure to uphold the dignitylof
the law. 1t is also understood that the
| Governor will make another attempt to
pacify the miners. Should he fail, he will
! probably call an extra session of the Leg
islature and leave the matter in the Gen
eral Assembly's hands.
STILL QUIET.
COAL CREEK, July 21.-At 10 O'Clock
this evening everything was quiet. The
miners are firmly convinced that they
will eventually triumph, and so long as
this feeling prevails no violence will be
done. The belief is increasing that the
| Governor has no authority to send the
militia here. The men renew their as
surances made at this afternoons meet
ing that no violence viii be done to the
| mine property.