R. H. FIFE,
_Sheriff, Pittsburgh, Pa._:
Have directed General Pearson to place one regiment on duty to aid
you in suppressing disorders.
JAMES W. LATTA,
_Adjutant General_.
Q. What time did you send those despatches?
A. Two thirty-five, A.M., in the morning of the 20th July, on the way
from Lancaster to Harrisburg. We were running very fast. It was a
matter more of form than anything else, to prepare a proclamation. The
proclamation I did not conceive to be of any moment, and I thought, as
a matter of form, I would let one go out. I got it pretty well finished
by the time we got to Harrisburg, and at Harrisburg we met Mr. Farr,
and I told him to complete it, and let it go out. That is the
proclamation that has been referred to in his testimony and the
Governor's, and which appears in the Governor's message--in the
appendix to the Governor's message.
Q. The first proclamation that was issued?
A. Yes, sir; the first proclamation.
Q. State what advice you gave them?
A. At Harrisburg--we moved on Friday quickly from Lancaster, and when I
got to Harrisburg--an hour and a half afterward I sent the dispatch,
which appears on page 2 of my report, as follows:
Governor J. F. HARTRANFT, (care S. H. H. Clark,)
_Omaha, Nebraska_:
Mob stopped all freight trains at Pittsburgh. Sheriff called for
troops. Ordered Pearson to take charge, and to put one regiment on
duty. Says he may need more.
JAMES W. LATTA,
_Adjutant General_.
Q. What time did you send them?
A. That was about four o'clock in the morning.
Q. When did you inform the Governor that you had issued a proclamation?
A. Not until eight or nine o'clock that morning in another dispatch
that the Governor produced. The proclamation really had not gone out
then.
Q. Did you inform him before or after the proclamation had gone out to
the public?
A. I think the proclamation went over the wires about that time, but it
had not really become a proclamation and about the time.... I did not
recollect of anything of moment or importance occurring between that
time of the sending of that dispatch, about the proclamation, which was
read here on Saturday, until some time during the morning. I sent a ...
General Pearson, to know how things were progressing, what things had
been done, and at two o'clock I received a reply, which appears in my
report, on page 2. It left Pittsburgh one-fifty-eight, P.M. Reads as
follows, addressed to me: