The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-05-17

You thar my constitutional obligation
with regard to maintenance OF order
IL Colorado are not 10 be indefinitely
continued by tf,s iuacrion OF stats
Legislature The federal forces are
there only until the state of Colorado
has time and opportunity 10 resume
complete sovereignty and control IN
the matter
II cannot concievs that EEe state is
willing to forza her sovereignty or 10
throw herself entirety upon the gov
eminent Of the United States and I
am quite clear mat she has no con-
stiruticnal right TO 90 SO when K Is
within the power OF her Legislature
to take Legislative action
fsignedl woodrow wilson
When President Wilson originally
ordered the federal troops into C1lo-
RADIO, he urged the governor 70 take
such legislative action a. world be
necessary to settle the strike and
remedy conditions resulting from It
The last paragraph Of hfs telegram
WAS regarded as stern rebuks and
charge that the governor and Iexista-
fure had failed to meet tnis demand
As soon az the message arrived, the
governor replied asserting that the
president had been n1ssintorned and
defending the assembly from the
charge OF inaction He served notice
that the state could and would DO
without the federal troops as sooH Al
It's funds had been replenishsc
II regret exceedingly that ron have
been misinformed, he wired Il re-
ply The Legislature has iust pass
ed an act which have approved, pro-
viding for bond issue OF one million
dollars for the purpose Of paying the
indebtedness which has teen Incurred
and which may be incurred IN sup
pressing insurrection and defending
be issued, these funds will be avail
able and tflts state can and will coz
troll the Situation TFts Is the only
constitutional method OF raising funds
In the Immediate future. In addition
to tfTts act, the Legislature has enact
CA . f6~ p~8 lAtbtAbz Liz EHFcAELE "a
close saloons in times Of disorder and
also law prohibiting the carrying
and disposition OF fire arms IN tines
Of disorder Moreover. a COMMITTEES
on mediation of the present strike has
been provided for and appointed
Governor Ammons decided not TO
submit the presidents message TO the
assembly and he informed a commit
tee from the two houses sent TO con
fer with him, that he had 10 further
desire TO submit. Newspaper men,
however. had supplied Senators Tier
nsy and Helen Ring Robinson with
copies OF the presidents telegram ard
the latter read It. after a motion to
demand that the governor subraft the
message and his reply, haa been de-
feated Hot oenuncistion and defense
Of the governor, consumed an hour
before both houses adjourned.
All sorts OF r1mors vera afoat TO-
One was that President Wilson would
give the governor ten days In which
70 get ready 70 pat the militia back
into the field. 1t Ia predict I'd gener-
siIy that II federal troops are with
drawn a1s national ggardsmen take
fharge, disorders will be renewed
There "a intense bitterness between
the militia and st-ikers az the result
Of the battles 81 Ludlow and waIsen-
burg three weeks ago and this will
quickly manifest Itself IN disturbance,
possibly exceeding anything that the
strike has yet produced
The federal troops have dfsarmed
many strikers but it is generally be-
Heved hundreds OF rifles have bssn
buried. These Wo8i6 be quickly re-
covered should fighting start.
Tonight the eleven minority sena-
tors sent telegram TO President