Show I MARlAL LAW TN IDAHO I Resolution Regarding Cocur dAlenes I Introduced in Congress Washington March 23 Senator Allen Al-len in the Senate and Representative Lcntz in the Holies today Introduced a joint resolution setting forth the continued con-tinued maintenance of martial law In the Coeur dAlene mining country and closing with tho following Be It resolved that the further use of the troops of the United States in aiding assisting In the maintenance of martial law within the said county of Shoshono IB I Improper unnecessary and unlawful and that the President of the United Stales be requested i forthwith forth-with to withdraw said troops now in Shoshone cpunty unless the said permit system be forthwith revoked re-voked the writ of habeas corpusre stored to the citizens of salq county and martial law declared to be at an end Be it further resolved that the sense and purpose of the resolution Is in no wltfe to Influence the President of tho United States Inmaintaining and keepIng I keep-Ing said troops within the limits of the said county of Shoshone to aid th6 proper olllcere In the execution of the civil law therein The resolution is preceded by a long recital of the alleged Improper conditions condi-tions existing In part as follows Whcreny At all times since the 3rd day of May 1899 the county of Shoshone Sho-shone hns been In a state uf pcace and not of war nor invasion nor insurrection insurrec-tion nor rebellion I 1 Vherens It Is not within the pow or < or authority of live Governor oC Idaho or the President of the United Slates In atlmo of pence to continue martial law on ebuntot any fictituoug necessity and i i Wheicas Jn violation of the fourteenth four-teenth amendment of the Constitution Tllltfenshavtbeen arrested wlthouttll1c piocepa of law and held for indefinite periods fit the wfll of tileAuthorities claiming to exercise I martial law In said county without any Judicial proc sJor legal warrant and Whereas The form of committment f und warrant of arrest is revival of the infamous system ot letters do cachet by which Innocent cltlTins wcre arbitrarily arbi-trarily arrested atid hold during the reign of Louis XLV France and hla despotic Minister resulting In the revolution rev-olution of the people against such despotic des-potic tyranny and the same js but a repetition of the unlawful arrests made under the warrant of the early Kings OC England abolished by the 13111 of Rights and the Magna Charta and such warrants are Illegal unconstitutional I Und unprecedented In the United States and abhorrent to all classes of citizens etc I |