Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1894 — USE OF FEDERAL TROOPS LEGAL [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

USE OF FEDERAL TROOPS LEGAL

PreAident Cooley of the American Bar Association on the Strike Riots. The Ameiican Bar Association, of which Judge Thomas M. Cooley, of Ann Arbor, Mich., is President, held

its seventeenth annual meeting at Sa rati ga, N. Y. The President being absent, by reason of illness, his address was read by the actingpresident. Judge Samuel F. Hunt, of Cincinnati. It was very lengthy and communicited the [most noteworthychanges in statutory .law on points of general interest which

have been made in several States and by Congress duringthe preceding year. In part it dealt with the “protest” of Gov. Altgeld, of Illinois, against the use of United Stafet treops in quelling the recent riot, showing that Altgeld s j>osition was entirely wrong and toat of the government perfectly lawful. The speaker condemned the Coxey demenst ations and the sympathetic strike, as well as Gov. Altgeld’s position re--1 arding the use of Federal troops.

THOMAS M. COOLEY