Bisbee daily review., 1906-12-01
GEN. NETTLETON WILL MAKE
 REPORT
Citizens of Brownsville. Texas, Ask That Me make an Im- partial Investiga.ica and Re- port to President.

BROWNSVILLE, Nov. So.-Because of the apparent misunderstanding in portions of the country of the facts which called forth the order discharg- ing the three companies of colored troops recently stationed here, and in view of the resultant criticism of the presidents course in the matter, 8 citizens committee of Brownsville re- gently requested Gen. A. B. Nettleton of Chicago. formerly assistant secre- tary of the treasury, now here on a business mission, to make in his own way thorough and disintereSted in- vestigation of the Brownsville trage- dy of August F, and report his con ciusions.
 Gen. Nettleton has embodied his findings in letter to the secretary of war. He says in part:
 An absolutely unprejudiced inves- tigation made after the local excite ment had subsided confirms in every particular the conclusions reached by The two army officers sent here by the war department on the strength oT which the president took his ac- tion, as well as the clear and temper ate statement published immediately after the tragedy by Chairman Kelly, Of the Brownsville citizens commit tee"
 After summarizing the facts hither- to published as to the killing or one citizen, the maiming of the chief of police. the firing of voileys into and through hotels, saloons and many pri- Yate residences, and terrorizing of the entire town. the letter says:
 ne well attested evidence is that the cciored troops were treated here With the same consideration that col ored soldiers of like bearing are treated in most garrison towns of the northern states That on the other hand the street conduct of some of them was often aggressive toward white men and women; that there was no proyocaticn for the murderous raid by the soldiers unless it can be called proyocation that the drinkers among them were provided with separate bars in certain saloons, and that on two occasions individual insolence was resented by individual citizens. both of which happened to have been Republican Federal officials.
 There was no riot and no street rows, as many newspapers persist in calling the occurrence. It was sim ply a most cowardly conspiracy to terrify, wound and kill unoffending men. women and children at the hour of midnight. when defense or resist. ance was impossible. and was not even attempted. Evidently not an oppos- ing shot was fred
 Gen. Nettletcn's iettery sharply rais- cd the question of what were the white officers of the garrison doing on the night of the raid?" and closes rzaus:
 Tn view of the facts as find them here. the persistent attempt on the part of some to make martyrs of any portion of the discharged men would be appalling if it were not grotesaue.
 The conspiracy of silence on the part Of all members of the battalion prevents the government from punish ing the previous conspiracy of vio- fence and murder, and the separation Of all alike from the service which they have disgraced becomes inevita- ble. believe no course other thaA the one which the president has pur- sued was, or Is, open to him, unless all sembiance of decent discipline in our army is to be ended. and unless every American community, North snd South alike. is to be given cause to dread proximity from garrisons of eolored troops as it would that of an encampment of armed and uniformAl Assaiiants."
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