Bisbee daily review., 1906-12-30
PRESIDENT WILL FIGHT NEGRO
 QUESTION
Believes He Is Right On Negro Question In Regard To the Discharge of Riotous Troops at Brownsville, Texas.

WASHINGTON. D. C.. Dec. 2S.-- President Roosevelt called in coterie | of newspaper correspondents last Sat lurday and told them he would fight congress to the last ditch on the ne gro troop question, even If II leads to impeachment proceedings. On this issue he invites impeach- ment. or any other form of contest congress may select.
 The president announces that if congress attempts to reinstate the dis. charged soldiers he will veto the bill or bills reinstating them. If congress passes such a measure or measures over his veto he will find the means to annul the law or laws so enacted.
 The president defies congress. His declaration of position is that, despite
 what congress may or may not direct. his order shall stand.
 The president thinks ke acted with in his authority under the articles of
 war and the constitution in dismiss ing the negroes. If congress decides otherwise, President Roosevelt an nounces beforehand that he will pay no heed to the congressional interDre- tation of the law and constitution. With what the president regards as spacious logic, Senator Foraker and other critics of the order dismissing the three companies of the Tewnty- lffth infantry have said the testimony taken by the military authorities bear ing on the Brownsville shooting amounts to nothing
 Senator Foralzer declared that the testimony has no legal value and proves nothing. To offset this, the president puts one of his own lawyers on the case.
 He calleG in Milton D. Purdy. as siStant 10 the attorney general. and sent him of on the first available train for Brownsville. Purdy has been the presidents confidential man in all the big trust busting proceedings. He left here Saturday night and is Scing to Brownsville to get up afii- dayits regarding the happenings of the night of August 13 and regarding the probable perpetrators of the shoot ing
 What the president wants is some
 thing to stand the test of senate law yers. The president sad in his mes
 sage that 'scores of eye-witnesses' testified that the negro troops did the
 shooting. Foraker dry,y said that. all
 told, there were only twenty-one wit
 nesses. and of these only eight were eye-witnesses. Purdy must make
 good on the "scorcs.'
 Admits Being Tipped.
 The president admits that he has been tripped ur on technicaiities by ForaRer, but be is confident of his position. As for Foraker, the prssi- dent is informed that he is playing ,ueEsonal politics The president also lis told that fof,rvvr- .--is-4s. |. I2l: lowing in this matter, both in and out of congress
 It gals the president to find him. self in a position which weakens his
 popularity with the negroes Of the country-a popularity he believes 10
 ave been justly earned-but the pres ident is more than pleased to have an |out-and-out bout with Foraker.
 Roosevelt dislikes Foraker of olc, and would like to crush him. Foraker
 detests Roosevelt and hopes to hu-
 initiate him
 The president attributes the shoot ing of Captain Macklin, at Fort Reno. to the agitation stirred up among the negroes by the course of Foraker and of the constitutional league. Bills are now pending in both branches of congress 10 -einslate the
 discharged negroes.