The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-01-09
SENATOR DANIELS APPEAL.
virginia soIOn Takes Floor for Presa-
 dents Action.

Washington. Jan. S.-The discussion in inc Senate of the Presidents course in discharging the negro troops was resumed as soon as the floor could pc secured, Senator Daniel being the llrst sneaker In the main he supported the President, saying:
 From the beginning of the history of the country there has never been question of the power or the FresloenI to drop from the roll any private sol dier. The people ought not to be de- ceiyed by any misunderstanding on thls subject. Public sentiment should al- ways stand by the chief executive and commander in chief of the army when he is clear in his great ofnce, and In this case I think he is clear.
 Senator Daniel did not. however, en- dorse the position of the President In forever debarring from entering the civil service the men discharged from the army.
 q think in that respect" he said. "the arrow from his bow went too far.
 MT. Daniel analysed the articles or war and army regulations to sustain his conclusion that the power to dis miss is equal and conclusive In the President, the Secretary of War, the commander of department and courtmartial This, he said, had been so for a hundred years and must nec- essarily be so.
 q am neither the lover, the friend, nor the advocate of autocratic power, he said, but no people in all the tide of time have ever been able to make aggressive or defensive war without pursuing it though the discipline and organization or armies by putting pow CT into the hands of those who com mand it."
 Referring to the army regulations, MT. Daniel said they were made by the President, and he continued, what ever criticism has been mage on the present President from the Republican side of this chamber, none have ever | intimated that he is engaging in seek ing to curtail his own power. In fact some have delicately intimated that he was seeking to extend it beyond the lines which they would prescribe as legitimate and proper.
 Justifying Democratic support for the position of the President, MT. Daniel said
 Nothing has ever prevented anybody looming from South of the Potomac from declaring his honest judgment as to the meaning of the constitution, nor In upholding the power of the President and the army on all occasions where patriotism invoked adhesion, or where clear understanding produced convic- tion."
 MT. Daniel denied that the race ques- ton was involved. And" he exclaim- ed. may God forbid that the people oi the United States shall raise racia questions when it is possible for ther to avoid them"
 He proceeded; "I have no particle of prejudice against the colored people
 If felt that they had been unjustl!
 dealt with in this case there is not
 man on this floor more willing than
 would be to defend them. But 1t |
 not the color of a soldiers skin whlcl
 gives him any right, and we shouli
 teach the colored men of the Unlte'
 States. even as we tach the white mer that obedience to the law, whatever tn law may be, is the first duty Of sol dier, and the man who does not ope. shall feel it's power"
 Tn all the Southern outrages l nay ever heard of," continued MT. Danie
 "this Is the first time that the huma mind has been distorted into the sue
 restion that a Southern town WE
 shooting up itself.
 ITO sustain the President" he sal I in conclusion, Ifs not friendship fo
 autocracy; it is simply friendship f'
 government; it Is respect for law. MI Senator Foraker asked that tl Brownsville resolution go over unt tomorrow, and this order was made.