Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1896-10-01
FEDERAL INTERFERENCE
Government Rights not Jeopar,
died by the Pullman Strike.

529o OF the Revised Statute Ut the
the United States. The section he
quotes has long been held to be uucou-
stitutlonal by nearly every Leading
lawyer in the country, ineomuch AS
it as contrary both in letter and spirit
to Article III Section 4 Of the Consti-
tuition Of the United States which pro-
vides for the sendiuR OF U s. troups
into a State. The occasions when such
action can be taken are laid down by
the Constitution Wis: when the Legis-
lature or the Governor calls for them
This being the case no law could hold
water which confers upon the Federal
authority powers not granted by the
Constitution of the United States.
Mr.. Colcord holds that the plank in
the Republican Platform OF 1860 Tt
cred to the ate mpt Of ruffiaIs and
slave holders to force slavery upon
states where slavery did not exist:
Such. however, was only partly the
fact, the slave holders were attempt
ing to force slavery upon Kansas and
the U. S. troups we're on the soil Of
Kansas unsummoned by the State au-
thority, and abetting the Missouri
slave holders in carrying out their
program. Every Republican paper in
American denounced the Federal Gov
eminent in this unauthorized invasion
OF Kansas by Federal troups and since
then yearly every state Of the Union
has added to its Constitution a clause
in conformity with tn United States
Constitution on that subject.
If the Federal army can be employ
ed wherever it is asserted that q mob
is in any way ~Oistructing Interstate
commerce it would be difficult to con-
ceive domestic violence Of and kind
which did not interfere with interstate
commerce and authorize the use of the
Federal army. The movements of COM
nerce from q state to another are
continuous in every town and city in
the land.
A mob in the street of sufficient d.
mansions to block the highways
would interfere with some movement
OF Interstate commerce and, under in
depreciation Of Governor Colcord,
would furnish an occasion for the use
of the Federal army. If the Federal
army can be used in the States by the
presence that wherever the mails or
commerce is INSTRUCTED the President
has a right to order out the troops,
what occasion is there for the coDsti-
tutioDal provision above quoted. The
anxiety of the oddities to extend Fed
eral jurisdiction, and particularly to
establish the right Of the President to
govern the country by the military.
is most significant. 1t corresponds
to the expression we constantly hear
from the goldites that a stronger
government is necessary, aud also
with the declarations of Reed, Har-
rison, and Mckinley that the Repub-
lican party proposes TO suppress an
archy and restore peace at a time
when the people are pursuing their
lawful %avocations in the most orderly
and peaceful name
In 1894 there was a railroad strike
in this State, and trains we're OBJ
structed, but Governor Colcord did not
deem it necessary to call out troops or
ask the Federal Government for aid.
Contrary to law, however, the Fed
eral Government did send in troops
and tho Appr.J bolioyoS I h Of tba proc
ence of Federal troops here was an in
suit to the State and it's Executive
head which should have been resented
at the time, as the situation which
handled by the proper authorities and
local military companies.
Bryan does o. state that the Presi-
dent has no right to inforce the laws
of the United States until called upon
by the legislature or executive Of a
State, and the Chicago platform does
not refer to any such state Of affairs,
The platform and the letter Of accept
ance refer particularly to the calling
Of the q. S. troops to put the mails
! through at Chicago during the great
Pullman strike. They were not called
upon to execute the laws of the United
States. There was 40 law Of the United
States involved in the question. The
carrying Of mails were given out to
contractors at so much a year. The
contractors had given the Government
ample bonds to do it, and the contract.
ors had contracts with the Railroad
companies, and in most cases the rail-
road companies were the contractors
themselves. If the companies did not
carry the mails according to contracts
they were to fortit SO much money for
each failure. Has any one heard OF q