A. Why, certainly they did.
Q. By calling upon the sheriff?
A. By the sheriff undertaking to order the crowd to disperse at Twenty-eighth street, and then immediately coming to the conclusion that the civil power had become exhausted, and then sending a dispatch by Senator Scott calling for the troops, and the troops being ordered out—that superseded me, suspended me. I went over that a dozen times. I am on this stand doing the swearing, and I am swearing for myself.
Q. I would not ask you any question that I did not think was a proper one?
A. I don't think that, but we differ.
Q. There appears to be a conflict of authority in this matter between the city and the county and the State authorities?
A. Not a particle of conflict of authority. I took pretty good care that there should be no conflict. When the county and the military and the railroad authority undertook to follow a course which I would have nothing to do with, that I could not approve of, that I believed would end in disaster, as it did, I stepped aside and let them have their way, because I could not control these men.
Q. We want to know where the responsibility should rest—which of those authorities should have taken command?
A. You have a right to form your opinion from the evidence before you. I have given my evidence, what I thought about the matter.
Q. For that reason I ask you the question whether you considered yourself superseded by other authorities, and should refrain from making any effort?