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Show WEREPATHETIGSCENES ' Washington, March 7. When James R. Sovereign, former grand master j workman of the Knights of Labor, resumed re-sumed his testimony today at the Coeur d'AIene investigation before the house committee on military affairs, Representative Lentz asked him if there was any law, written or unwritten, unwrit-ten, requiring the members of a labor organization to conceal the names of criminals. Mr. Sovereign answered in the negative. Speaking of the general conditions in the mining country while the men were imprisoned, Mr. Sovereign said he had seen mothers weeping for their sons, wive for their husbands and sis- j ters for their brothers. He denounced the military officers for the "reign of j bread and water," describing it as a repetition of the horrors of Anderson-ville. Anderson-ville. The members of the committee cross-examined cross-examined Mr. Sovereign at considerable consider-able length. Representative Hull again took him over the assembling of miners min-ers on the morning the mill was blown up. The witness said it was evident there was preconcerted action. At Mr. Hull's request, Mr. Sovereign Sover-eign read an article in the paper edited by him as to "Bunker Hill Destroyed, One Thousand Determined Men Wreak Vengeance on the Scab Mine." The article ar-ticle said that half of the 1.000 men were masked and armed with Winchesters Winches-ters and described the awe-inspiring scenes as 3,000 pounds of dynamite were placed under the mine concentrator, concen-trator, one of the largest in the world, and it was completely wrecked after i three terrific explosions. i There was no hearing at the afternoon after-noon session because of the lack of a quorum and the hearing went over until un-til tomorrow. |