People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1894 — ANOTHER PROCLAMATION. [ARTICLE]

ANOTHER PROCLAMATION.

The President Also Warns Rioters in the Far West. Washington, July 11.—After the president returned from his drive Monday evening he found secretary Gresham and the attorney general and Postmaster General Bissell and Gen. Schofield awaiting him In the cabinet room. Their information was of such a nature that within an hour after the president reached the white house another proclamation was drafted. This related to the troubles in North Dakota, Idaho, Utah territory and other points along the line of the Central and Southern Pacific railways. In his latest proclamation the president of the United States dir cts all people to cease Interfering with United States mail trains or interstate commerce traffic by 4 o'clock to-day. Commenting upon the proclamations issued by the president Gen. Schofield said that they did not in any way affect the authority of state or federal officers, but were merely in the nature of warnings to the people. This warning was necessary and proper, but was not tantamount to a declaration of martial law. Under martial law the authority of state officials would be superseded by federal authority.