The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-13
The Last Uniformed Militia
Man Has Abandoned Cabin
and Paint Greek
Districts.
GOVERNORS ACTIONS
Senate Investigation Commit
tee Has Former Governor
Glasscock as Star
Witness Today.
lBy John Edwin Nevin, star CORES

tBy John Edwin Nevin, staff cores
pondent United Press.l
CHARLESTON, W. Va, June 1S.-
Martial law ceased to exist in ths
feud ridden coal fields of West vir.
ginia today The last uniformed mill.
tia men abandoned the Paint and
Cabin creek districts and in their
stead the rule of the civil authorities
was restored. Today the sheriff Of
Kananawaha county is the chief peace
officer of the troubled region where
civil war has reigned for more than
year. All offenders against the law
viii be punished from now on by the
constitutional courts of the state.
BY a proclamation issued by Gov
ernor Hatfield the power of the courts
was restored. And the senate com
mittee on the ground Investigating the
allegations that the constitutional
rights OF citizens had been ruthlessly
violated, accepted the action of the
state officials as admission OF guilt.
The subject of the first section Of In
curry ordered by the United States
senate has therefore been closed by
the inquisitors. They will report to
+ the senate that civil authorities are
doing their duties to safeguard the
safety OF the miners. The inquis-
ftors will also tell the full senate COM
mittee on education and labor when
it returns to Washington that evil
dence was produced snbstantiating
charges that miners were actually in
terfered with In getting their mail at
the postoff1ce maintained in certain
company stores in the strike zone.
Responsibility for this will probably
not be specifically placed The facts
will be stated and 1t is likely that
legislation will be recommended which
will preclude recurrence OF such
condition in the futurs The commits
sion has been unable to suhstantiate
charges of peonage in the district,
only the most vague suggestions along
this line have been forthcoming and
1t was considered certain today that
this line Of inquiry would be abandon
ed. It still has under consideration
the general causes of trouble, that
fire arms were Illegally imported into
the fields and that conditions existing
in the coal fields have been caused
by agreements and combination in
violation of federal laws for the pur-
pose of controlling the production,
sale and transportation of coal.
Today the question of the general
cause was taken UP. Former Governor
Glasscock was scheduled to be the star
witness and he was expected to ex-
plain to the committee why he acted
as he did in declaring martial law.
This was planned to be the biggest
day in the inquiry.
In addition to the senatorial in
quiry which was split In two with
Senator Kenyon conducting independ-
emily the balance Of the committee
the inquiry into general conditions
and actual causes and the other four
members investigating the remaining
subjects Of the inquiry there was ar
raignment OF officials of the United
Miner Workers of America on the X
dictments returned against them
charging them with violation of the
criminal conspiracy clause of the
Sherman antitrust law
This was expected to be aaformaI
court procedure with the accused en-
tering technical pleas of not guilty
s. =.