Norwich bulletin., 1914-04-29
Federal Troops
 for Colorado
PRESIDENT EXTENDS PROTECT.
 ING ARM OF GOVERNMENT
ISSUES A PROCLAMATION
Ordering all Persons Engaged in De-
 bly to Their Homes Before April 30."

Washington, April 2S. - President Wilson today extended the protecting arm of the federal government to the state of Colorado. Torn asunder by riots and pitched battles between mine guards and striking miners, Governor Ammons found the state militia unable to cope with the situation, and asked for help. The Colorado delegation in congress, the mine owners and the miners themselves joined in the re- quest.
 It was one of the rare occurrences in American history when a state found itself impotent to assert its au- thority, but the president, in a tele- pressly stipulated that the federal troops would confine themselves to maintaining order only until the state can reassert it's authority and resume the enforcement thereof"
 The president issued a proclamation ordering all persons engaged in do- mesuc violence to disperse and retire peaceably to their abodes' before April 30th. Secretary Garrison, after a conference with the president, ordered Fort Leavenworth and two troops of | the Twelfth cavalry from Fort A. D.. l Russell, Wyoming, to Trinidad and Canon City, respectively.
 | Colorado members of congress, who have been following the situation i closely, say the mere presence of fed | eraI troops will restore normal condi- | dons and prevent rioting. Efforts of ! the federal government to settle the | strike thus far have failed On this | point the president made it clear that | federal troops were being sent mere | ly to preserve order and not to inter- fere in the strike controversy itself.
 T shall not by the use of the l troops, wired the president to Gov ernor Ammons today, ''or by any at tempt at jurisdiction, inject the power l of the federal government into the | controversy which has produced the present situation. The settlement of 1 that controversy falls strictly within the field of state power
 The president asked that the militia i be temporarily withdrawn until the l legislature, which is to meet next l Monday, considers the situation and | arranges for it to resume its police 1 duties in the state.
 The situation m Colorado occupied the president and his cabinet at a long l meeting, after which the president l telegram to Governor Ammons and the ! formal proclamation calling on mal- contents to disperse were made public
 The Proclamation.
 By the president of the United States of America.
 "A PROCLAMATION
 Whereas, it is provided by the con- stitution of the United States that the United States shall protect every state m this union, on application Of the legislature, or of the executive (wheT the legislature cannot be convened | against domestic violence,
 And whereas. the governor of the state of Colorado has represented tha domestic violence exists in said stat' which the authorities of said state ar, unable to suppress, and has repre- | sented that it is impossible to con vene the legislature of the state il time to meet the present emergency;
 And whereas. the laws of tn UrWed States require that in all case of insurrectiOn in any state or of ob struction to the laws thereof, when ever in the judgment of the presiden it becomes necessary to use the mil itary forces to suppress such insur rection CT obstruction to the laws h. shall forthwith by proclamation com mand such insurgents to disperse ant , retire peaceably to their respectiv , abodes within a limited time:
 Now. therefore, I, Woodrow Will
 son, president of the United States do hereby admonish all good citizen
 of the United States and all person
 within the territory and Jurisdiction : of the United States against aiding
 countenancing, abetting, or taking par
 in such unlawful proceedings and I d
 hereby warn all persons engaged i
 or connected with said domestic vio lence and obstruction of the laws t disperse and retire peaceably to thei respective abodes on or before the thir tieth day of April, instant.
 Tn testimony whereof. I have here unto set my hand and caused the sec
 of the United States to be fixed.
 Done at this city of Washington I | this twenty-eighth day of April in tn s year of Our Lord nine hundred an 7 | fourteen and of the independence (
 the United States of America the on hundred and thirtV-efphfh
 = WOODROW WILSON. ] "By the President:
 | William J. Bryan,
 | Secretary of State"