The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-01-13
REDHOT LETTER
TO GOV. SPARKS
No Warrant Whatever Existed
for Calling Upon the
President for Troops.
ROOSEVELT WAS DECEIVED
SOLDIERS WILL BE WITHDRAWN
AT ONCE.
ROOSEVELT WAS DECEIVED

Washington, Jan. 12.-President
Roosevelt has determined to withdraw
the federal troops from Goldfield, New,
shortly after the legislature begins its
special session Tuesday. This inten-
ton was made known at the White
house today when the report of the
special investigating commission was
made public, together with a letter
from the president to Governor Sparks
dated Jan. 4. The president says he
shall be governed by the recommends
tions in the report unless the governor
can show that the statements in the
report are not in accordance with the
facts.
The report says;
THE conditions did not support the
general allegations in the governors
request for troops, nor were his spe-
cific statements established to any such
extent as to justify his use of these
statements for the purpose of getting
, federal troops"
1t concludes with this recommends
ton:
Responsibility Upon Nevada.
But we most firmly believe that up
on the assembling of the legislature.
or within a few days thereafter, the
troops should be removed. regardless
of any request for their retention that
may be made by either the legislature
or the r~vernor of Nevada, it being es-
sentiaI lat the state of Nevada shall
understand this situation completely;
shall recognize the fact that there viii,
at that date, be thrown upon it, and
it alone, the primary responsibility of
keeping order, and that recognizing
this responsibility, it may take such
action as is the duty of the state. and
as will be sufficient in the premises"
I'm his letter to Governor Sparks, aft
er reviewing the steps so far taken in
the Goldfield mining trouble. the presi-
dent continues:
No Cause Whatever.
Il have just received the report of
these three gentlemen Murray, Smith
and NeilD. which sets forth in the
mCst emphatic language their belief,
after a careful investigation on the
ground. that there was no warrant
whatever for calling on the president
for troops, and that the troops should
not be kept Indefinitely in Goldfield.
Z he report further states that there
was no insurrection, and that none of
the conditions described in Sections
5297-S-9 of the revised statutes, as war
Tanting Interference by the federal
government, existed, and that the eff
fort was and is plainly an effort by
the state of Nevada TO secure the per-
Torrance by the United States of the
ordinary police duties which should
as a matter of course. be performed
by Nevada herself. The report fur
Their says:
No Question About 1t.
g." There is absolutely no question that
if the state of Nevada and the county
d of Esmeralda exercise the powers at
their disposal they can maintain salts
factory order in Goldfield; that SO far
these authorities have done nothing but
rely on federal aid, Sand their attitude
now is expressed by that of refusing
TO do anything and desiring to throw
their own burdens on the federal gov
eminent for the maintenance of those
elementary conditions of order for
which they and they only, are Tespon-
sible.
THE signers of the report express
their conviction that the troops should
remain in Nevada until the assembling
of the legislature, so as to preserve the
status quo in order that the legislature
may deal with the situation as it ex-
lists, but that shortly thereafter the
troops should be removed.
Agrees With the Report.
Il agree with the recommendations
of this report, of which I enclose a
copy, and shall act accordingly. Unless
It can be shown that the statements of
the report are not in accordance with
the facts. il will be incumbent upon
the legislature of Nevada, when it con-
Venes, itself to provide for enforcement
of the laws of the state- The state of
Nevada must itself make a resolute
effort in good faith to perform the po-
lice duties incident to the existence of
a state"
LAS the operators association had
instigated the call for federal aid, the
commission on reaching Goldfield al
lowed its counsel to present the opera
tors side of the case fully. This occu-
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