The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-01-23
AT LAST IT'S OVER
THE COMPROMISE RESOLUTION
 ADOPTED BY SENATE.
Does Not Mention Authority of Presi- dent But simply Provides for Investigation of the Out
 rage at Brownsville.

Washington, Jan. 22. --At 3:20 D. m in the Senate the Brownsville reso- iution was laid before the body and senatorl Mallory of Florida addressed the Senate on the legal questions in- volved in the presidents discharge of the negro troops.
 MT. Mallory offered substitute for the compromise Brownsville resolu- tion presented yesterday by Mir. For aker.S The resolution provides for an investigation after resolving as fol- lows:
 That in the judgment of the Sem ate, the recent action of the president in discharging without honor enlisted men of companies B, and D of the 18th infantry was within the scope of his authority and power and the prop CT exercise thereof"
 MT. Mallory said he could not sup port the Foraker resolution because It's language as to the presidents power was equivocal.
 Senator Teller opposed the idea ad- vanced in a recent speech by Senator Lodge that the president Inherited" power from the king.
 While willing to have an investiga- tion to secure the facts of the Browns ville affair. Mr. Teller said he could not support any provision with any expression either way as to the presi- dents authority in the matter. The Senate. he believed. should not raise that question at any time.
 Senator Bacon of Georgia supported the Mallory substitute. He character ized the agreement among the Repub- licans on the Foraker resolution, as an illustration of their 'extreme dex- terity in forming measures for which they can all vote, although some of them are directly opposed in senti- ment, as in the matter to which that resolution relates"
 The Foraker resolution, he declARed to be equivocal and ambiguous
 When Mir Bacon remarked Nthat if the president was contetnt with compro mise in such language on which those who opposed and sup ported him could unite. Mir. Aldrich asked, Did I understand the Senator to say that the question whether the president is content with the resolu- tion is the main question:"
 MT, Bacon replied that he thought and had said that what the president might think was far from the impor- tant feature. And" he added, 'I think the Senator from Rhode Island had but one purpose in his question and that was for me to emphasize what Ishad said tn the contrary
 Replying to MT. Bacons argument, MT. Foreaker reviewed the history of the Brownsville controversy in the Senate to show that the question of the presidents power had been raised by the message the president had sent to the Senate on December IT last
 MT Bacon said in reply that while he was far from being an advocate of the President. he yet believed the language proposed In the ForakeT resolution was an injustice to the President
 Mir Bacon wanted an opportunity to vote directly on the question whether the President had the legal power to discharge the negrp troops and not on the question of tablfng the resolutions. He spoke of the affray at Brownsville as "an unspeakable outrage"
 At the conclusion of Mir Bacon's re- marks. roll call was taken on For aker's motion to lay the Mallory substi- tute on the table. This motion pre- vailed 4S to 22. Messrs. McCumber, Warner and La Toilette voted with the