The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-04-24

Review" and depicted the villainy of tn,
/ miners who hsd formed unions and CAV,
a history Of the troubles
/ There was something OF a tilt between
/ Mr.. Sulzer, Mr.. Hay and Chairman Hull
| on the matter Of admitting a large bunch
Of newspaper clippings as evidence. with
! out reading the. clippings or knowing what
! they contained. The Republicans voted
| solidly in favor Of admitting the matter.
Il want the world TO know that this
! committee has taken this action" said
| Mr.. Sulzer 1t is an unheard of proce-
| dure"
The gentleman is out of order" said
| Chairman Hull
He is more in order than the chairman
who has fostered and upheld such a thing
as that just adopted replied Mr.. Sulzer
When the witness had read from the clip
pings for several hours. a motion was
made to stop the reading and strike out all
! that had been read. Mr. Sulzer objected in
very strong terms.
You want to keep it out now because
the facts are against you and in favor
OF the miners" said he. 1t shows how
hypocritical you are in conducting this in
vestigatiOn" The reading was stopped
In continuing his testimony Mr.. Sin
clair told OF his discoveries in Wardner
after the destruction of the cOncentrator.
He saw Sheriff Young and stated that the
latter had done nothing to apprehend the
guilty people. He stated that there were
only two classes Of people in Wardner the
'dynamiters' and law and order people. ."
The dynamiters were the union miners.
He was sure that the county government
was perfect farce, and, with this in view
he wired the Governor to declare martial
law in Shoshone at once. He then ordered
the arrests Of the > 400 men who we're
members of the miners unions as he was
certain that they had all been concerned
in the ublOwing up of the mill. He began
to make arrests on May 1, and said that
his instructions were wired to him from
Boise. He could not produce his commits
sion and was instructed to telegraph for
a copy OF it. Continuing, he said:
Acting under martial law, | began to
make arrests. I directed my men to arrest
every man suspected of having been con-
nected with the riots, and to bring them
to Wardner. General Merriam gave me
details to protect my deputies. That night
l chartered a special train and arrested a
large number of men. / also ordered that
every house be searched for firearms and
secreted guilty parties. The prisoners l
had. l placed in an old warehouse, known
as the bull pen This place was cleaner
than many of the homes of the miners"
The witness admitted that he had seized
the safe belonging to the Burke Miners
Union, and had broken it open without
process of law. He then related the issu-
ing Of the permit proclamation, and stated
that he had had this pasted all over the
Coeur d'Alenes. This was done. he said. to
keep the criminals out of the county. and
he devised the permit as a novel and eff
fective method.
In regard to the action taken by the
State officials at the coroner's inquest, the
witness stated that he was Obliged to have
a guard of armed troops to threaten men
and keep them out Of the building. You
see" said he. there was a horde Of law
yers who came down from Seattle There
were about 200 of them l refused to let
the prisoners have any counsel because Of
the fact that these lawyers were leeches
and l was afraid that they would rob the
prisoners"
At O'Clock the committee adjourned un-
til this morning at II o'clock.