Evening journal., 1914-05-04
say IMPEACHMENT
OF ANMONS WILL
FAIL OF SUPPORT
Meanwhile Colorado LegiS-
lature Considers Cost OF
Miners Strike
MORE STRINGENT Laws
TO PROTECT The State
RY ]. n. FURAY.


United Press star Correspondent.
DENVER, Col, May 4.-To pay the
price for the seven months strike and
civil war in Southern Colorado, the
State Legislature met here in special
session today in response to the call
Df Governor p. NJ. Ammons. Although
the principal purpose Of the session,
as specified in the call is the appro-
priation Of funds to meet the cost of
maintaining State troops in the field
and TO pass other laws suggested by
the strike, these will probably be
overshadowed at the outset by a plan
% impeach the Governor. That such
q resolution will be introduced in the
House, seems certain, but friends OF
the executive are sure II will fail.
With the impeachment matter out
bf the road, Il is probable that bills
providing for compulsory arbitration,
establishment Of a permanent con-
Etabulary and regulation Of the use
Of mine guards in strike disputes will
be introduced. Union members are
bitterly opposed TO the constabulary
measures as discriminating against
union men.
While the session is organizing. both
operators and mine leaders are turning
their attention to possible prosecutions
rs the outgTowth of the fighting during
the past two weeks in the coal fields.
gohn P. White, John R Lawson, John
McI.ennan, Edward Doyle, Frank Hayes
and other district and international
leaders Of the United Mine Workers Of
America, have been threatened by the
1nine owners, with arrest on charges of
murder or conspiracy 20 murder in con-
mection with last weeks battle at
Forbes, when seven mine guards were
slain, and the battle of Walsenburg
fhs same day, which cost the lives OF
Major II. p. Lester, of the hospital
corps and two strikers. The union
headers say they do not fear any such
prosecutions. hoveve-.
Il is reported that Judge Horace
HaWkius, attorney for the miners, viii
bring charges against John ID. Rookie.
fellef., Jrs Ia connection with the
''MaBsacre of Ludlow" II any of the
union men are accused. The miners
point to the verdict Of the coroner's
Jury, returned at Trinidad aud the re.
port of tho military board of inquiry
returned here Saturday night. The one
held the mine guards and militismen di-
rectly responsible for the deaths Of
eleven children and two women at Lud
low; the other held the operators re.
lnotely responsible for the battle Of
Ludlow.
Tho work Of disarmament Of mine
guards and strikers in all the coal
fields is proceeding rapidly under the
direction OF United States troops
Major w. A. Holbrook, commandinl
the Second squadrI y, Twelfth Cav,
airy, at Trinidad, tLHay ordered all
saloons I'm Las Animas county closed
until further notice. He also issueC
q drastic order to railroads and ex
press companies, forbidding them (
ship any weapons into Colorado ex
cept for use Of the Federal troops.
Two troops OF cavalry today re
iieved the militia on guard II
Boulder county, in the northern Goa
field, retiring the last State troops
from service except thirty men a
Oak Creek, Routt county. The Elev
enth United States Cavalry, Colone
James Lockett commanding, is dul
at Trinidad today, making a total o
nearly 1,400 regulars in that district
Iockett viii supersede Major Hol
brook in command at Trinidad.