| Show T READY READ y TO Tl CALL ON OM ARMY 3 t M Made Ie Up Mind to En End l Co Coal l Strike Law or N No Law Didn't Even F Fear ar Impeachment NEW YORK May 27 Theodore Theodore Roosevelt as 38 president was ready to take measures equivalent to action In iii 1 time of war to to end ond the the great strike in the anthracite mines H He was wai was determined to take a action tion even even tho though gh an effort should be made later to impeach im tm- peach him for or it Mr Roosevelt so testified In giving I testimony here today before a a. referee referee- in the suit of Alexander T. T Wal Wales s a lawyer of or Binghamton N N. Y yg against g John P. P White Whit president of or the United Mine Workers of or America for fees fee he be alleges are due him for tho the part he took In settling the strike Miners Were Reasonable 41 In In September said id Mr lr Roosevelt II the the situation b began an to grow acute j It was a situation full of to the country I asked to appear before me nie representatives of the operators and ana a of tho the miners miner I 1 rc regarded the attitude of John Mitchell then head of tho the miners et as reasonable blo and the attitude of t the e operators as unreasonable and offen offensive sive After telling tellinE o ef cf his hia efforts to settle tho the strike through a u n of arbitration ar as which Grover Gro Cleveland con com consented Con seated to head he be continued Ready to Use Army II I I I ma made Ie up ray mind I rould ouid b have to hc eto to take drastic action unless the and miners g got t together I intended to send in the tho united States army I army I only wanted to get et it in there and l' l Id I'd tako take caro care of the time situation I I 1 told Senator Quay of Pennsylvania Pennsyl vania ania Id I'd act and I Ird d guarantee that the people o of the eastern seaboard would have coal and have it right away I told him if ho would help he could vote ote to impeach me mo later if he wished I J asked Quay to arrange to have Gov cruet Stone of Pennsylvania when I notified the governor send word to me he was unable to control the tho situation and then I would send in the army No Heed to Courts I 1 1 planned to have ha General Schofield take char charge e with the troops and act practically practically practically as a receiver for tor the tho mines I told the general it would be equivalent to action taken In time of ot war and that he must pay no heed to any other authority au au- au- au to to heed to a writ from a. a Judge or anything else except m my commands He said he lie would do so Colonel Roosevelt raid eald he ha kept his 1118 plan plait secret even from tram the tho members of ot his cabinet Tho TIme operators he said MId persisted per persisted in their uncompromising plan until finally a 8 change c came caine and after man many disputes about the membership of ot the commission one was appointed and the strike ended Colonel Is Angry Colonel Roosevelt was vas constantly sparring with Mr Wales who conducted his own case when under cross exam exam- nation Mr Wales frequently angered him and he lie bent forward shaking his finger tiner fin tin gee ger er at the law lawyer er and 15 scowling at him He Be said wd he had never seen Mr Wales Wale before and knew nothing of ot any part which tho the I plaintiff took In hi settling the strike Mr Ir Wales tried to make Colonel Roosevelt Roosevelt Roose Reese velt admit he wa was waa willing to violate the thel l laws w defy the courts and disregard the constitution to settle the tho strike To Follow Abraham Lincoln I I wouldn't accept your interpretation of or the constitution Colonel Roosevelt re retorted re re- toned I 1 proposed that every action I took schuld bo be in accordance with the constitution as Abraham Lincoln construed construed con con- It 4 Would you have settled nettled the strike law taw or no law persisted th the tho plaintiff Td rei have settled it ft Colonel Roosevelt Roose velt elt said Id have found a law la |
