St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-07-07


White House Conference Does
Not End Until Midnight.
WASHINGTON, July cit was shortly
after lpidnight when Attorney General
Olns5 md Gen. Schofield came down
from TIE cabinet room and left the
White hsuse. Mr.. Olney said the out
come of the nights events at Chicago
had been better than they had counted
upon. Gen. Schotield also said that he
had been at the White honse rather as
Interested observer of the news than a
director. There was no new line of
action determined Oh, but renewed
decision to persist in the course already
marked Que and push every source for
the enforcement of the federal laws.
The meeting was one of anxious watch
ing rather than of counsel looking to
any other action. immediately after
the departure of the members of the
cabinet and Gen. Schofield the White
house was closed for the night aud the
lights put out.
The letter Of Gov. Altgeld came
over the wire to the White house, and
occupied considerable lime in trans
| mission. 1t was nearly midnight when
the following reply of Poesident Cleye-
land was given TO the press;
Executive Mansion, Washington D.
G.. July 6, lS94.-Hon. John P. Altgeld.
Governor of Illinois, Springfield, ILL.,:
While am still persuaded that l have
neither transcribed my authority nor
duty i'll the emergency that confronts
US, it seems TO me that In this hour of
danger and public distress discussion
may we'll give way to active effort on
the part of all in authority to restore
obedience to the law. and to protect life
and property. GROVER CLEVELAND.
ALTGELD STILL AN ASS.
SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, July Gov. Alt
geld has addressed lengthy address to
President Cleveland on the subject OF
the ordering federal troops into the
state of llliuois. He said that if the
presidents assumption that the execu-
tive has the legal right to order federal
troops into community without re-
gard to the question as to whether the
community is able to enforce the law
Itself, then the principle of local self
government either never did exist in
lhir country or else has been destroyed.
de says 1t is fundamental principle in
our government that except in times of
war the military shall be subordi-
nate to the civil authorities. He
protests that the federal troops now in
Chicago are not acting under the civil
authorities. He says the statute au-
IhoriZing federal troops to be sent into
the states In certain Gases cUntemplateS
mat state troops shall be taken first.
This provision has been ignored, and If
assumed that the executive is not bound
BY II, federal interference with indus
trial disturbances i'll the various states
is certainly new departure, and it
opens up so large field that it will re-
qulre but very little stretch of authority
10 assert to itself all the details of local
governments. The governor says it Is
claimed that the troops were ordered
into Illinois upon the demand of tie post
office department. All of these officers.
he says. are appointed by the executive
and In fact are part of the executive.
II several OF them cannot apply for
troops. one alone cad; that an exec
utive, through any one of his appointees,
can apply to himself to have the military
sent IN any city OF number of cities and
base his application on such showing as
he sees fit to make. The governor pro-
tests that this is not the law of the
land, and that the autocrat of Russia
could not possess greater power than
the executive OF the United States, if
the preSidehtS assumption is correct,
aGoy.Altgeld suggests that the executive
commands not only the regular forces,
but the militia, and that under the
presidents construction of the law
it would be easy for an ambitious
executive to establish military
government. He claims that the
presence OF the federal troops in Hill
nois has proved to be an irrltaut. lie
concludes by expressing the belief that
the state is amply able to enforce the
law. and again asks the withdrawal of
the federal troops.
Gov. Aitgeld. being shown ATTORNEY
General Olney's criticism upon his
protest, Said:
The country may be doing Mr.. Olney
an injustice, but tile impression has in
some way become rooted that he Is the
special representative of the great
trusts and monopolies that have been
plundering the public. The Impression
also prevails that 1t Is he who is urging
the president to have the federal gov
ernment Interfere in labor troubles, and
thus assist Mr.. Olney's plans."