The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-28
Nothing But New Evidence Will Make Him Change
NEGROES PRESENT CLAIMS
In All the Protests Being Made On She Brownsville Affair President Is Unable to Find Any New
 Evidence.

Washington, November 2I-(SpeciaL)- President Roosevelt today refused to "eal crow" He may nibble into it later. but just at present he has no idea of re vokfng his original orders, with refer- ences to the Twenty-fifth infantry.
 Appeals have been pouring in at the White House for nearly week from negro organizations and others in be- half of those members of the three com panies who may have been innocent ol knowledge of the perpetrators of the Brownsville 'shoot up," but not one scintilla of evidence has been submitted of character that would add anythin g to the facts which were before the Pres ident when his action was taken.
 Present Claims of Soldiers.
 For an hour this morning before the meeting of the cabinet, the President granted an interview to Emmet Scott. Booker Washingtons secretary. and one Anderson, the negro collector of inter nal revenue at the port of New York. They laid before the President the claims which are being made by negro orsani- cations in behalf of members of the three discharged companies, but it is understood that they failed to lay before the Presi- dent any evidence upon which the Presi- dent could base a reversal of his action in the case of any members of those companies.
 The Presidents position is clear in the matter. Unless clear new evidence is submitted to him the case will remain in statu quo, and the statu quo makes the case a closed incident so far as further executive action is concerned.
 The President is entirely willing to con sider siy new evidence that may be ino- dueed If any such evidence is forth coming he will give it thorough examina- ton and take such action as crcum- stances warrant If any evidence can be adduced showing that any individual member of the company, who has been discharged, is absolutely innocent of any connection or knowledge of the outrage, the President would probably take such action as is warranted.
 New Evidence Must Be Submitted.
 However. the President seems very posi- tive and determined in insisting upon the production of nothing but evidence. He will not consider or receive as evil dence mere statements or deductions from the evidence already in hand or any othr kind of deductions. Not only has no evidence establishing the innocence of the accused been received but so far as can be learned it is not known that any such evidence will be forthcoming. In the near future the President will make some kind of statement on the sub feet of his actions, but it will probably be made in response to communications which will be sent him regarding the mat ter It is understood that these are new communications but they may make assertions which can be used as the basis for an answer.
 Visitors Decline to Talk
 Scott and Anderson came to Washington this morning from New York. where, it is understood, Booker T. Washington is at the present time. The presentation of the two negroes was made verbally and when they left the White House they declined to state what had occurred fur thor than that the discharge of the ne groes was the topic of discussion. An derson took things good naturedy. He is a big negro weighing about two hundred and thirty pounds, and he re- marked:
 ',rhis whole thing is too thin for me to skate around with my weight on."