The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-01-09
STANDS BY HIM
Texas Senator Speaks on the
Foraker Resolution as to
COLORED SOLDIERS

| Performance in the Br0W1SVllle A1Talr.
After a Brief Response the Ohio.
an Agress TO Allow Matter
to Go Over Until Mon.
day.
Soon after the senate met today
Senator Foraker's resolution provid-
ing for an inquiry by the senate into
the discharge OF the negro troops OF
the Twenty. fifth infantry on account
Of the Brownsville, Tex, episode was
laid before the :enate and Senator
Culberson made an address on the
subject. He said that he would have
kept quiet but for the fact that great
Injustice had heen done the people Of
Brownsville.
MIR. Culberson said that the conduct
OF the nsgro soldiers had been very
Irritating to the Brownsville people
and especially so to the women. BE
related that on Aug. 4, last, the day
before the shooting Up" Of the town
criminal assault had been commit
ted by one Of the soldiers on the wife
Of reputable cit zen and said that no
arrests had been made for the crime.
Mr.. Culbe1son defended Capt. McDon-
aid OF the Texas Rangers, to whom
Mr.. Foraker had referred because OF
! Mai Blocksom's reference to hin as
a man who was so brave that he
would not hesitate to charge hell With
bucket Of water" Mr.. Culberson
sail that he knew Maj. Blocksom to
be gentleman.
DEFENDED TEDDY's COURSE.
In defending President Roosevelt
for his dismissal Of the troops Mr..
Culberson said the fact that the troops
were negroes had nothing to do with
their discharge. Confusion as to the
legal questions involved was, he said,
responsible for the statement that the
president had no authority to make
the discharge. The presidents consti-
tutional authority and the authority
given him by the article OF war clear.
| ly covered me ca p and made his &C.
tioa legal, he declared. He contended
thas discharges foS criminal o1anses
are also discharge made to effect pun.
ishment.
Mr. Culberson said that there was
a distinction between discharge
without honor" ard "a dishonorabls
discharge" In the former case the
president could exercise his discretion
as he had done in this instance, while
= dishoncrable dischsre could only De
made ss the result Of courtnartisl.
He instanced several cases to sustain
his petition.
TO estab lsh the motive sctuating
the negro soldiers In creating the al.
legged disturbances, Mr.. Oulberson read
resolutions recently adopted by negro
citizsns OF Boston, which admitted
that the soldiers shot up'' the town
and said they 'twere determined to do
for themselves what the uniform Of
their country would not do-protect
them from insults and punish at the
same time the suthors Of their mis-
ary."
CAUSED WAVE OF MERRIMENT.
Disclain1ng an7 psrtizanship for
the president. Nj. Culberson created
wave Of msrrinent by saying: Il
have nothing to do with the p,esl
lent IN this matter. I care nothing
about him. My personal relations with
him are about as cordial as those OF
the senator from Ohio' (Mr. FoIakey).
In all fairness, Mr.. Culbsrson said,
the country ought to know that the
report made to the president was re-
liable.
After reading much OF the testt-
mony taken before the Brownsville
grand jury, Mr.. Oulberson drew the
conclusion thSt the fsct that no In.
dictme at was returned was not an eY-
tdencs of the weakness Of the case,
but rather OF the fairness Of the peo-
pie Of Brownsville, who did not wish
to do injustice to the innocent. The
evidence, be contended, proved be.
ycnd doubt that the shooting was
done by the negro soldiers. but failed
to identify the guilty ones.
he concluded bis speech by q brief
reference to the negro question IN
general, saying it had existed from
the early history Of the country down
20 the present time and still continu.
ed to be the most important and the
most dangerous question which con-
fronts the American people. He refer
ed to the growth Of this question lead.
ing to the Civil war wherein nearly
million white men lost their lives.
Wednesday, he said, the condition Of
the black race with its ages Of slaV.
cry, its ignorance and poverty, excited
the deepest sympathy Of the grest
body Of the white people Of the South.
STILL THE GREATEST PROBLEM.
but" be continued, lin spite OF
the past. with its conflicts and sacrif
ces, sorrows and destruction Of life
and property, this problem is still the
greatest with which we have to deal.
It involves labor, education, suffrage
social order, civil liberty self-govern.
meat and the integrity OF the white
race. The end no man can see. South.
erners feel deeply and profoundly on
this race problem and It's ultimate So
luton.
Senator Foraker at once took the
floor, remarklng that it beIittled the
present question to make it a vehicle
for discussing the race question. He
did not propose to discuss that Ques-
tim or the inertia of t1e Brownsville