Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-04-25
ordered Out to Restrain tho Mon
tana Train Sellers.
ACTION OF THE NATIONAL AUTHORITIES
!he Train is to- Be Stopped and
the Men Arrested.
OPINIONS AT THE CAPITOL

The President has at last taken official
coSnizance of the conduct Of the so-caIled
armies en- route to Washington and has
clearly indicated his purpose of lending
federal aid for the Suppression of law
lessness. the preservation of the peace and
the protection of property.
The case in point was the seizure Of
train Of cars at Butte, Mont, by band Of
men. comprising the Butte contingent of
the Coxey army. The train was manned
by members OF the mob. 1t crossed the
main range Of the Rocky mountains early
yesterday morning and was expected to
reach Bismarck at noon today.
United States Marshal Bede of Mime
sofa reported the case to the Attorney Cen
eral at Washington and was instructed by
telegraph as follows:
Execute any Injunction or other process
placed in your hands by United States
court for the protection of persons and
property against lawless violence by en-
ploying such number of deputies as may
be necessary; if execution is resisted by
force which cannot thus be overcome, let
the judge issuing the process wire the facts
to the President with request for military
Assistance"
The Circuit Judges Order.
About the same time Marshal Bede re-
ceived the following from Judge Casdwell
OF the United States circuit court:
LITTLE ROCK, Ark, April "a
ITO the United States Marshal District Of
Minnesota, St. Paul. Mimi:
IF the persons who forcibly and Illegally
seized train of cars on the Northern
Pacific in Montana belonging TO the receiv-
ers of the said road should bring the anne
into your district it will be your duty to
seize the same and restore the possession
thereof to the receivers appointed by the
United States circuit court for your district.
sufficient for this purpose The attorney
general Of the United States has been re-
Quested TO procure direction to the general
commanding the department to render you
any assistance necessary to execute this
order
Troops Ordered Out.
Attorney General Olney had conference
with the President last evening in regard
30 the employment of troops to recover the
train, the result of which was that Gen.
Schofeld last evening telegraphed to the
commandant general of the Department of
Dakota at st. Paul. to send sufficient
force of troops to arrest all persons en-
gagged in the unlawful seizure of the North
ern Pacific train at Butte. Montana. and to
hold the train and the persons until they
marshal for Montana, subject 10 the orders
of the United States district court"
PETER Reads an Indication.
Senator PETER. when informed that troops
had been ordered out to recapture the
Northern Pacific train taken by Coxey's
men In Montana, said that of course the
taking of the train was an act of lawless-
ress. This whole matter" he continued,
''win result in bringing prominently before
the country the subject of governmental
ownership and control of railroads"
The Government Plan.
The plan of the military authorities is to
capture the train stolen at Butte by the
Coxey men at Keogh, Mont. 1t will be
rEo-1 nd he man in nhar nf
II will be arrested and turned over to the
civil authorities Gen. Scofed told Star
reporter at O'Clock this afternoon that
the train had not reached Keogh so far
he knew. but that as the Presidents order
had reached that place il will be impossible
for the train to get farther east than that
Statesmen Express Opinions.
When word reached the Capitol that gov
ernment troops had been ordered to seize
the Coxey train at Butte, it excited much
comment among members. Doubts were ex-
pressed as to the right of the government
to interfere before the governor OF a state
had asked for help. even though the North
ern Pacific was In the hands of the United
States courts
Representative Kyle Missy of the Pacific
railroad committee expressed this view. He
said that II the road was in the hands of
vary this requisite of receivers request for
federal aid as IL was his first duty to main-
tain the peace inside the state and IL was
presumed he would do it
Representafiye Reilly, chairman of the
Pncidc roads committee, said the federal
courts could not call state authorities
10 execute the federal decrees- The United
Stats u1aTshalS were the executive force
Of the federal courts and in Mr.. Reilly 8
tuagnent the marshals could be REINFORCED
by the federal military forces IL Ii l,ecame
eSen1fa1 to preserving property under fed
erzl contraL This could be done, he said.
without waiting for the request OF a state
governor
RApresentztive Boen of Minnesota ex-
ure<Sa1 the prevailing view among the pop-
paiszS- He said there WAS grave apprehen-
SION Over the situation The popuiIst men,
hers di1 not indorSe the laWlessness, yet
thy hoped TIE goTerrment would exercise
n wise discretion Ia such critical emergen-
c5% when frj0dicioUs use of troops
might invite disorder rather than subdue il