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Show COLLEAGUES Of MARTSNE SUPPRESS HIM Senator Kenyon Is in Sole Charge of Examination of Witnesses. WITNESSES FOR OPERATORS TESTIFY Coal Probe Committee Ez- neets in Dotnrn tn W.nth. pectS IO Keiurn 10 vrasn- ington Tonight CHARLESTON, W. Vs., Jane 18. The senate committee Investigating ths West Virginia coal strike today rushed along the examination of witnesses in order to hear as many as possible before be-fore leaving for Washington tonight. The coal operators had on hand a score or more of witnesses, whose testimony was brief. The sttitude of Senstor Martine of New Jersey, who yesterday clashed with Quinn Morton, one of the operators opera-tors on Paint creek, and the attorneys for the operators, became a matter of concern today. The operators' lawyers declare that Senator Martine has been unfair in his examination of witnesses snd has been prejudiced in his attitude toward the operators. They eaid that when the committee reaches Washington thsy will put into the record evidence of oral and written statements by Senator Sen-ator Martine to show that he has "prejudged "pre-judged the case. ' ' The other members of the committee will take up this questiou among themselves and will probably place it before the full sea ste committee on education snd labor. Operators After Martine. A statement purporting to come from Senator Martine and reproduced in facsimile fac-simile of bis haadwriting by a newspaper news-paper circulatiug throughout the state today aroused considerable discussion. The statement set forth that Senator Martine "would rather sweep the streets" than ram his money ' as the 11'.., Vl..i.i. -ml n.ratnri An " At. West Virginia coai operators ao. attorneys at-torneys for the operators deelsred that tbey wool,! place this statement with others masle by the senator in the record. rec-ord. Toxigv Senator Martine took little part in ths proceedings. Although he sat at the committee table throughout the bearings, he asked ao questions, under an sgTeement resehed sfter ves trrdsy's outbreak, that Senator Ken von was to take sols ehsrge of the ex smiostion of witnesses. John A. Green, superintendent of the Murklow mrne of the Paint Creek Collieries Col-lieries company when the strike broke out was a witness. lie said that guards were not placed on Paint creek until men st work had been Interfered with by the striker. When the guards sr-rlved sr-rlved tbey were not armed, hut efter nfty or seventy-five strikers, carrying guna. had made a demonstration, ha said, the guards were Increaaed and armed. He deWared thst the conduct of the guarda wsa not the cause of the vsrloua outbreaks of violence. Defends Conduct of Guards Walter Relk. who ervst on Paint creek t, -.-p' -... ' - i -.- in '-ouuaucu on uskc fcVJ COLLEAGUES OF HARTINE (Continued from pag 1.) charge of the guards, defended their conduct. con-duct. He described the first battle of Mucklow. May IS. IBIS, when the town eras attacked from the hills. The firing, he said, continued for about half sn hour, snd after It ceased h searched the hllln and found places carefully prepared for ths shooting. Hs said men had evldently baeo In these plsces for hours before thev began firing. Belk described another battle In the hills whsn the guards killed one miner and wounded snother. He denied the story (old to the committee by Mrs. Se-vllla Se-vllla that she had been brutally assaulted by mine guards. Senator Kenyon examined exam-ined him at length as to the general plan of the Baldwin-Pelts guard system and the general conduct of guards In the strike sone. Attorney Belcher caused a stir In the committee room when hs asked Belk: Isnt It true that fifteen or twenty srmed men, connected with your agenrv hsv been In this room throughout through-out this Investigation? "T couldn't ssy as to that," answered Belk. ''Don't you know that your men have been hired to shsdow gentlemen connected con-nected with tha investigation."' "I could not say as to that, because It Is not my line of work." This prerlpttsted sn argument between counsel. In which Attorney Knight denied de-nied vigorously thst detectives had been hired by the operators to nhadow men connected with the investigation. |