Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-06-17
MARITIME is GLAD
He ISN'T LAWYER
Senator Raises WOrdy Warfare
by Query in Mine
Probe.
SAYS OPERATORS SHOULD
PROTECT MINERS HEALTH
I'VE Needn't Go to Mosquito
Ridden Jersey to Learn SAM
tation," Is Retort.

CHA RLESION, w. a., JuuS IL.
A wordy controversy between C. c.
Watts, of counsel for the operators,
and Senator MARITIME enlivened tho
opening of todays session of the SEN
ate probers into conditions In the coal
fields.
Senator MARITIME was examining DR..
J. W. Ashby. physician for the Cabin
Creek Consolidated Coal Company, as
TO the sanitary conditions in the
strike zone. DR.. Ashby said sani-
tary conditions were as good as
they were anywhere else around
mines" The senator contradicted this
statement, and when he and the wiz
ness engaged in an argument Mr..
Watts interfered.
"Mr. Chairman, | object to the sen
ator, who is supposed to be sitting as
a fair judge he shouted, "browbeat-
ing and bullying this witness. he
should not take advantage of his po-
sition as a senator of the United
States
Senator MARITIME leaped to his feet
and shouted: II am a senatorof the
United States, and I am exercisins
my prerogative as a senator. You
gentlemen with wealth and power at
your command should provide san.
itary conditions to protect the lives
of these workingmen."
west Virginia." interrupted Mr..
Watts, docs not need to go to the
mosquito ridden swamps of New
Jersey to learn sanitation"
Heated Argument Continued.
Both Senator MARITIME and Mr..
Watts were arguing heatedly when
Senator Kenyon interrupted
EITHER stop this or let's adjourn
he said, and Senator Swanson took
of the situation.
Senator Swanson defended the posi-
ton of Senator MARITIME and repri-
manded Mr.. Watts.
Quinn Morton, who owns several
mines on Cabin Creek and VINO was
by Lee Calvin, former mine
guard, with participating in the at
tack on Holly Grove with the
train, was examined at
length as to negotiations which pre-
ceded the strike. He said the con-
tracts for the output of his mines
were made in 1910 and ran for five
years.
This precluded his paying the in
crease in wages demanded by the
miners. He went into detail on the
miners demands and replies of the
operators and said the fight finally
settled down to a question of recog-
milton of the union.
Senator MARITIME interrupted Mr..
Morton's story of NEGOTIATIONS to de-
mand that he tell what he knew of
the armored train attack on Holly
Grove camp. Mr. Morton described
arranging for the trip with Sheriff
Bonner Hill, and buying thirty-one
rifles In Charleston to arm the men
ON the train. Mr.. Morton asserted
that before the train reached Holly
Grove the lights were turned down
on the train because Sheriff Hill said
the train was likely to be shot up.
Sheriff Hill was in charge of the
train, according to Morton
He said he saw q cabin crowded
with women and children Just before
the train reached Holly Grove. 1T
was our belief" he said, that women
and children had been removed from
there by the miners, and that we
were going to have trouble.
Tells How Hattie Began.
Just as we got to Holly Grove"
he said. II heard two shots that
seemed to come from the camp. One
window in the car was broken, and
a second later a general fusilade, botn
from the train and from the camp,
was on. shot. of course, just as
everybody else did"
Here Senator MARITIME again clashed
with the lawyers. Mr.. Morton and
ATTORNEY Vinson demonstrated ex-
citediy when Senator MARITIME de-
manded: I'm your conscience do you
approve of the use of machine gun
to shoot up village Inhabited by de-
fenseless women and children"
AS the lawyers argued over the
question Senator MARITIME shouted:
IT thank God l am not lawyer"
Senator MARITIME, Attorney Vinson
and the other senators engaged In
vigorous dispute.
Senator MARITIME has already made
an outrageous attack on me-" said
Mr. Morton, excitedly, when Lee
Calvin was on the stand. The senator.
without any proof, has by his ques-
lions accused me of attacking women
and children in their homes with a
machine gun. This treatment Is out
ra geous, and not even United
States senator should be allowed to
PREJUDICE q case In this manner"
Senator MARITIME said that he had
not prejudged the case. and again do
manded of Mr., Morton whether there
was any justification of the use of the
machine gun. Mr.. Morton declined to
answer well, | can stand the
silence, and so can the people" said
Cam Tor Mo ,rtinn ,,if ,,ni1 en- -