The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-01-15
SPECIAL MESSAGE
 GIVEN ATTENTION Senate Discusses Brownsville
 Military Affair PULLMAN IS AROUSED Has Lively Tilt With Senators Clay and spooner Over the Negro Prob-
 em-Bullets and Cart
 ridges in Evidence.
PULLMAN IS AROUSED

| dents Brownsville message, accompanied by box neatly wrapped and tied with red tape containing cartridges and shells as exhibits in the case was received by the Senate today. The message was read immediately after its receipt and was att tentively listened to. The exhibit was not opened, however, but remained on the desk of the Vice President. At the con- cusion of the reading MT. Foraker re- quested that It be printed with the ae- companying exhibits.
 Mr. Lodge expressed a desire that the message and evidence be printed in the record, commenting that there was no way successfully to conceal completely information as to print it as document, 1 but he realized the present instance the exhibits were too long.
 Mir Foraker said he was not going to make a speech but few remarks that the testimony amounted to a great deal, for the President tells us it is constilu- tive. But it does not remove the objec- ton I have had from the beginning of this proceeding.
 What l have been trying to contend for, and I hope l will be successful, is l to secure a hearing for the men charged with this serious crime. This testimony has been taken as the other was, behind closed doors, without anybody representing l the men, That is the reason I shall not desist notwithstanding what the Presi- dent has said as to the character of it ] from pressing for an investigation of the subject where especially the men who are | lol,o ,,f jury and conspiracy can be heard to the end that if they can establish any facts in their favor they may have an oppor- tunity to do so"
 | MT. Foraker added that he should re- serve his decision of the new evidence submitted by the President until after the investigation.
 Later Mir Foraker went to the clerks desk and unwrapped the package and took from the cigar box for a thorough inspection the bullets and shells the Pres ident had sent.
 Added Strength in Case.
 The bullets and cartridge shells today sent to the Senate, Mir. Mallory held to add greatly to the strength of the Presi- dents case The evidence showed, he maintained, that the discrimination
  of Brownsville furnished the motive. They were not allowed liberty out of the fort l after 8 o'clock at night, and were not l served in the barracks.
 l Stating that he did not agree with the | President in all he had done in this case, l MT. Mallory digressed to cali attention to l what he regarded as the best illus tration that could be given of the incompetency of the negro to grapple with great ques- i tions. His illustration was the criticism of the President by the negro mass meet | ing at Boston.
 "The President of the United States, l of all Presidents who have sat in that chair since the close of the civil war" 1 he said. "has manifested more plainly and decidedly a disposition to lift up and encourage the colored race, by elevatlng | them on all occasions when he could 10 positions of honor and trust unoer the l government"
 l A negro, he said, held the most lucra- l tive federal office in Florida as collector of internal revenue; the collector of cus- | toms at Savannah, Ga, was a negro, and l the collector of internal revenue of the state of Georgia was a negro, and every one knew the fight which the Senate had made against Dr. Crum, negro, made collector of the port at Charleston, s. C.
 Patriots of Boston. l But" added Mir. Mallory, the patriots | of Boston, who probably are the best | representatives of the colored race In this country; the most enlightened and | highly educated, allow themselves to be | carried away by the passion of the mo- ment, unable to look fairly and squarely | at a proposition which should be judged justly and honestly-forget that they are ] under great obligation to the President and send forth a denunciation of the best friend they have ever had in that office. They will allow passon to get the better of their judgment on almost all occa- si:ns."
 Mir Mallory believed the President ought to have included in his order of discharge the prohibition against future | enlistment. He main tained that the dis charged men were not under the charge | of any crime whatever It might per | haps been better, he said, if a board had been ordered to effect the discharge. He said he should not oppose the resolution of investigation.
 MT. Clay of Georgia took the floor, as he said to reply in brief to the sweeping charge against the prominent people in the south made on Saturday by Senator Patterson. An injustice to his own state and other southern states had been done when the senator from Colorado had said that the public men of the south were in favor of mobs and lynch law.
 MT. Patterson dsclaimed making any such sweeping statement.
 Mir. Clay however believed the record would bear out what he had said. He ad- mitted that there were differences of opn- ion in the south on the question of the negro suffrage, but many states besides those in the south had restricted suffrage Ohio Massachusetts Vermont and others he said, were in this class
 He disclaimed any attention to discuss the race question saying he did not want to monopolze subject that belonged ex- clusvely to My good friend from South Carolina" CIr Tillman)
 TiIlman Is Stirred.
 This stirred MT. Tillman to action and MT. Clay was hotiy questioned as he pro- ceeded to defend the President on his Brownsville record. According to evil dence furnished by Mir. Tillman on Satur- day, Mir. Clay said the whole Twenty fifth infantry ought to havo been dis charged fifteen years ago.
 l 50 far as thees negro soldiers are con- cerned have no doubt of their guilt" re-