| Show ALTGELD WRITES AND AIM ho he refers to olney as Soli aming for corporations springfield ill III july 6 governor astrid has ha s dispatched a lengthy reply to president Preal cleveland on the subject of if ordering federal troops into the ille state of 11 illinois no 9 lie ile says bays that it if the presidents assume cral troops into a community to the queston whether that community is ig able to enforce the law itself then hen the principle of ocal local government never existed in this country or has been destroyed llo ile says it Is A fundamental principle in the government except in time of war that the military shall be subject to tho the civil authorities ile he pro protests vests that the federal troops now lit in chicago a are r a not acting under the civil authorities he says the statute au aai th orlain trompa to be sent into the state scale in ceralo cerain cases contemplates that the state troops shall be taken there first this slon has been ignored end it Is assumed that tho the executive la is not bound by it federal interference with industrial disturbances bances in the cho various states Is certainly a new departure and it opens so liuga hurge a field that it will require but very little stretch of authority to assert to itself all tho the details or of ocal local government governor suggests that the executive corn nyi nil q not only the regular forces buethe but the militia and that under the presidents construction of the law it i bo be easy for an ambitious executive 0 to o establish a military government lie he claims that the presence of the federal troops in illinois ilia has proved to be an irritant lie ile concludes the belief that the state Is able to enforce legislation and expects the withdrawal of 0 federal iad cral troops Go governer Vurner altgeld on being shown at torney general critic lain upon hla his protest said d the rho country may inay bo be mr olney an injustice but the tha impression in some way become rooted that he Is the special representative of the great trusts and monopolies liea that have hae been plundering the public tho rho im creglon also alao pre mils that IL 11 Is he aho vho is urging the tha president Pies ident to hive the federal government interfere in labor troubles and thus assist mr plans plane |
