The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-11-22
NO STAY FOR NEGROES
Secretary Taft Rescinds Order
Suspending Sentence on Dis !.
obedient Soldiers. q
PRESIDENTS REASONS GIVEN
Reports of Army Inspector and Others
Unanimous In Recommending Dis
honorable DIsmissal-strons Feeling
In Texas Against Presence Of colofed
Resiment-euiIty Men Shielded.

Resiment-euiIty Men Shielded.
Washington, Nov. %. = Secretary
Taft, without waiting to hear from
President Roosevelt, dineted that the
presidents order discha ing without
honor" the three negro companies Of
the Twenty fifth infantry be executed
Immediately. a statement explaining
the secretary's action was issued by
the war department. Later a dispateh
was received from the president in
which he declines to suspend the dis.
charge unless there are new facts OF
such importance as to warrant cabling
him.
Secretary Taft made public the re-
ports of General Darlington, the in
spector general of the army. who in,
vestigated the case for President
Roosevelt and of Major Blocksom Of
the inspector generals. department,
who made the preliminary investiga-
tion
Inspector Generals Report.
General Darlington, Major Blocksom
and Lieutenant Colonel Lowering. the
latter of whom also investigated some
phases of the trouble. were unanimous
in recommending the dismissal of the
troops without honor. General Gar
hngton urged that forceful lesson
should be given the army at large and
especially to the noncommissioned Of
ficers that their duty does not cease
t1Don tho drill eYra,.Dd br4 +bo+ fl,ov
must know the character of their men
and that they are in duty bound to
inform their superiors of any spirit of
discomfort or intentions of mutiny on
the part of the soldiers.
Moreover General Darlington went
on to say, "the people Of the Gnited
States, wherever they live. must feel
assured that the men wearing the uni
form of the army are their protectors
and not midnight assassins OF riotous
disturbers of the peace of the conlmu-
nifty in which they may be Stationed
Major blocksom, in diseIaesiaass the
causes of the trouble, says that the
soldiers heard they were not to go into
Camp Mabry because Texas troops
against them in the maneuvers. They
knew that Colonel Hoyt had made
request that the Twenty-ffth infali
try be not sent to Texas. The people
of Texas did not want the negro
troops there, and several representa-
tives and some senators used their in
huence to have them taken out of Tex
as The men of the Twenty-fifth in
fantry were not allowed to drink with
white people at the principal bars in
the town of Brownsville.
Row Between Whites and Blacks.
All these things engendered bad feel
ing when a row occurred between
some negro soldiers and white men be-
cause the negroes went too near some
white women in passing down a mar
row sidewalk. After this the town
was shot I'D and the killing occurred.
General Darlington examined the
noncommissioned officers, but the evi-
dence shows that he asked very few
of the enlisted men if they knew any
thing about the shooting. 1t was i'm
possible to find which guns were used,
as during the ensuing excitement the
men had an opportunity to clean their
guns and replace them in the gun racks
in the barracks. General Darlington
says it was evident from the first that
the three companies had entered into
compact to give no information about
the affair.