The Mena weekly star., 1908-01-02
|8[ TROOPS MAY REMAIN
War Department Willing to Keep Soldiers in Goldfield if Legisla-
 ture Is Called.
ACTION URGED BY SENATOR NEWLAMDs
He Asks That Withdrawal Be De- Iayed Until Gov. Sparks Could Be Communicated With and an Effort Made to Induce Him to Call State Legislature Together.

Washington, Dec. 29.--Senator New | lands of Nevada Is endeavoring to | prevent a withdrawal of the govern | ment troops from Goldfeld until | some other means of protection is | had. Friday he called upon Secretary | Taft at the war department and strongly urged that the execution of the order issued by the secretary for | the withdrawal of the troops next | Monday be suspended until he has had an opportunity to communicate | with Gov. Sparks and endeavor to in- | duce him to call the Nevada legisla- I ture together. Secretary Taft has | been advising with Secretary Root on | this subject and it is probably that | the president will be communicated | with at Pine Knot. There is every | disposition to refrain from breaking | in upon his privacy at this time and | the only excuse for doing so is found | in the fact that unless the original | order is modified the troops must ! leave Goldfield next Monday morning | and before the president returned to |
 The administration feels that the | present situation in the matter of | Goldfield's case cannot be continued in view of the doubt that exists as to l the constitutional and legal right of the executive to employ any part of l the regular army in Nevada under l present conditions. Gov. Sparks at | ha lad tn | the fact that this constitutional doubt
 might be removed by the simple de- | vice of calling together the state legis- | lature when that body could either | give it's warrant to the use of the fed
 eral troops or provide by legislation
 for raising a state force of some kind,
 either militia or police, sufficient to | insure the maintenance of peace and the observance of law in Goldfield It
 Is believed that Senator Newland's appeal is an indication of the willing
 ness of the governor to recall his re-
 fusal to convene the legislature in ses-
 sion and if this belief is well founded
 the government troops would prob
 ably be retained at Goldfield until
 some other arrangements can be l made.
 In answer to the question as to | whether it had been determined to | suspend the operation of the order for the withdrawal of the troops from | Goldfield, the reply was made at the
 war department Saturday that 1t
 would be for the president to deter | mi i'm huf h..f ha disposition was shown by the gover-
 nor of Nevada to call the legislature In special session to deal with the | subject of the disorders in the mining | section the war department probably | would be willing to permit the United | States troops to remain in Goldfield | reasonable length of time, up to about | three weeks, in order to enable the legislature to meet and pass necessary | legislation on the subject. The war department is particularly desirous of being relieved from the charge that | it is maintaining the troops there fin | defiance of the constitutional provis
 ion that aid should regularly be called | by the legislature. It is true that the | VI SbtttC ido d iiSht " make such a call when the legislature
 is not in session, but only when he cannot convene that body, which is
 not the case at present.
 | President Roosevelt Saturday indi-
 cated by telegram to Gov. Sparks of
 Nevada that the federal troops now at Goldfield will be ordered to remain
 there for a further period of three
 weeks, provided the governor within five days issues a call for a special
 ression of the state legislature. The telegram of the president was in re- sponse to one from the governor in
 which he sets forth the need of armed intervention ard expresses the doubt
 that to call the legislature would re- suit in the necessary request of that body for federal aid.