Show TAKES B BLAME LAM E BLAMES Responsible For Eor Affairs Afia In IIi Inthe 1 S the Coeur 1 4 I MARTIAL ARTIAL LAW LA W WAS DECLARED D BY Hill SITu L 4 t And He Was at tIle the Head Heal of the th e lWi Military tary 4 t Declares Before the House Reuse Invest Investigating Investigating L gating Committee That He Re Stood a aBy By His Acts and Also Those of c if the Subordinate Officials Why the th Le Permit ermit System Was Put in Force Pore n Will Continue Military Control Contras 1 as Long as Necessary 4 I Washington March 23 Governor ir of Idaho continued his tes tex testimony testimony in the Coeur dAlene investigation L tion today being cro examined by F FC FC I IC C Robertson attorney for those prose pros outing the charges The governor stat stal stated stated staled E ed that if any arrests were made prior pric r rit to the issuance i of his bis proclamation it was with his authorization and ap at approval approval and because of his general au at authority L ata Y as chief executive of the state stat a Before General Merriam went to the tI ie tIa scene ene of at disorder the governor had a talk with him and told him to take tali e such steps ae lB were necessary to main maim maintain I tain tam order When further questioned as to just Juat who ulie hO was responsible for ar ax arrests arrests rests Governor said saidi saidI I r assume responsibility for every ar arrest arrest a arest rest in Shoshone county by General Genen Merriam or anyone else He was asked if he assumed this re responsibility responsibility in the case of a man ins brought from Montana and amount 5 ing it was alleged to Governor answered that th 1 if it it amounted to that he assumed re responsibility r 5 for lor it Chairman Hull at this point stated stat statI 1 that he had received a letter tetter from from Ad Adjutant Adjutant A I General Corbin saying that the ti r war department was not hot in possession si n a of ot the he official rolls of Assumed All Responsibility The governor went on In n to testify t that he be assumed 1 responsibility for any ar arrests arrests arrests rests made by deputies outside the state although he did not claim au an authority beyond the state He did ld not know that his deputies made these theae ar an arrests arrests rests but b t if they did he was the responsible responsible sible official Mr lIr Robertson asked if the regular I a Continued on Page 2 tN ERG l Mt Continued From Fm Page 1 1 j jr prison r on in which the federal federl prisoners Ida ML were confined conned was vas no nez at Moscow lo cw i The Tho To governor gOVenor did not know of 0 this I The Te use u of the stockade or bull bul yen pen en was not nt the result of any or ordes ders des but bu was ws due de to the requirements of the occasion A spirited controversy among mem members member bern bers ber of the committee whet when whet Mr Sir Cheney an attorney for the de tie e fenee ferse interposed an objection to one of Mr r questions Represent l I atye Sulzer Interposed a a vigorous vigrous pro protest test against objections from private counsel He asserted that It had become apparent that the majority of the thE corn com through h an attorney was wa try tr trying mg ing ing to shift responsibility He declared this thi was an a outrage on the te minority Chairman Hull Hul replied that he resent ed oil e the Insinuation that tat the th majority represented one side or the other othe and he denied dene that the majority had taken any such attitude as a that suggested by Mr Sulzer The Te Permit Pet System When asked aked if he was consulted c as to instituting the permit perit system Gov GOY Governor Governor eror said Attorney Gen General General eral er Hays Haya Ha f reported to him that tat after with mine and citi citizens I consulting wih owners owner ad zeus zens zes of or Coeur dAlene district he I had found evidence of a conspiracy dat dating ing lag back several years ers and that he be had accordingly written out outa a proclamation forbidding mine min owners from employ employIng employIng Ing men belonging bl to organizations be believed bI leyo to be criminal I IThe The previous testimony had shown that tat the governor approved the course cue of Lieutenant Lyons in putting union I men mets to work at mine min minT The T governor said sad he did not consider this a violation of his own proclamation Con tion ton as the te ease cass cs was wa exceptional e anti and the mine min was wa In danger daner of being beng flood flooded floI flooded ed e He reserved the right to act as cir circumstances circumstances required required At noon the corn com committee took tok a recess reces At the session Governor was questioned on his hi ex ax extension e tension of the proclamation on the per permit permit permit mit system so 9 as a to include men me above aboveground aboe aboveground ground as well wel as the underground men men When Wen asked aked If he gave blanket authority to make arrests he said sid the authority went to the extent of mak making ma lag ing in arrests of all persons p rons disturbing peace pa and order and violating martial law He Ho did not know that Dr Di France Fre Frethe the coroner corner had made arrests because the permit system had not been ben ob observed served s Stands By But whatever Dr France did the governor gov r said sid I stand by bj I He stated that no warrants warts were Is Issued Issued sued sed The issuance of ot writs wis of habeas I corpus would have been a great gt hind hindrance hindrance hindrance rance to the te military authority When asked if he wanted the te writ lengthy controversy occurred and the commit committee tee t finally ruled out the question queston The questions were directed to show showing lag ing in that the writ mit of habeas corpus had been suspended The governor main maintained man tamed however that tat there thee was ws no n de tie declaration de that the writ was suspended He stated state that while he did not repudiate repudiate repudiate diate any action acton the attorney general genera took the pleading that the th writ tok t was sus ens suspended pende that tt officer acted on his own re responsibility on ott law pleadings SI The The govenor venor said sd his hl attitude as a to tote the te military was wa that of ot commander corade of the militia forces fore In the state He did not nt believe beleve the condition of insurrection was wa suppressed at this time and ad he said sid it i would be difficult to say how much longer the condition would continue When asked it if he Intended to 0 con continue cn continue I the military control indefinitely he said sid it would be continued contInue until I there tere was full ful assurance that order was as restored and all al rights secured from violence Without concluding con luding Governor Steu jore nee s testimony the te committee ad adjourned adjourned |