The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-01-15
HUMAN
 Al IT AGAIN Debate in Senate Waxed
 Warm. SP00NER AND cAR0LNIAN Pitrhfork Solon Says He Does Not
 Hate Negro. zs simply Believe. That Hi. Race |. ss6erior to the Black Man s-S Matter Goes over Again.

bundle Wrapped ana tied WlLn req tape containing cartridges and shells n exhibits in the case was received by the Senate today.
 The message was read immediately after It's receipt and was attentiyely listened to. The exhibit was not open | ed, however, but remained on the desk Of the vice president. At the conclus- ion of the reading. Mir. Foraker re- Quested that it be printed with the &C., companying exhibits.
 Mr. Lodge expressed desire that the message and evidence be printed in the Record, commenting that there were no way so successfully to conceal in ' Formation as to print as docu- ment, but he recognized that in the present Instance the exhibits were too long.
 Mir Foraker, saying he was not go- inE to make a speech but "a few re- marks. observed that the testimony amounted to a great deal flor the president tells us 1t is conclusive. but it does not remove objection I have had from the beginning to this proceeding. What have been trying to contend for, and I hope will be successful is to secure a hearing for the men charg- ed with this serious crime.
 This testimony has been taken as the other was. behind closed doors. without anybody representing the men. That Is the reason I shall not de- eist. notwithstanding what thes presi- dent has said as to the character of it. from pressing for an investigation of tho subject where especially the men who are charged with the crimes of murder, perjury and conspiracy can be heard to the end that if they can es- tablish any facts in their favor they may have an opportunity, to do so.' -. T a n |. n. serve his decision of the new evidence submitted by the president until after the inve stigation.
 Later Mir Foraker went to the clerks desk and unwrapped t4e pack age and took from the cigar box for a thorough inspection the bullets and shells the president had sent.
 Evidence Is Final. a Addressing the Senate today on the Brownsville affray, Senator Mallory. of Florida remarked that in his opin- ion the proposed senatorial investiga- ton would amount to nothing. The evidence that negro soldiers slot up Che town was sufficient, he said, to secure verdict of guilty by any im- partial jury.
 The bullets and cartridge shells to- day sent to the Senate. Mir. Mallory held to add greatly to the strength to
 
 showed. he maintained. that the dis- crimination agaigst the negro sold lers by the citizens of Brownsville, fur nlshed the motive. They were not al- lowed liberty out of the fort after 3 o'clock at night and were not served in the bar rooms.
 Stating that he did not agree with the President in all he had done in this case, Mir. Mallory digressed to call at- {. .-szer .I.7 ou he hoe Illustration that could be given of the fncompetency of the negro to grapple with great questions. His illustration was the criticism of the President by the negro mass meeting at Boston.
 ''The President of the United States, Of all Presidents who have set in that chair since the close of the Civil War" he said. "has manifested more plainly and decidedly disposition to lift up and encourage the colored race. by eie- vating them on all occasions when he could to positions of honor and trust under the Government"
 A negro, he said, held the most lucra- tive Federal office in Florida as Collec- tor of Internal Revenue; the Collector of Customs at Savannah, Ga, was q negro, and the Collector of Internal Revenue of the State of Georgia was a negro, and every one knew the light which the Senate had made against Dr. Crum. a negro, made Collector of the Port at Charleston.
 Turn On Their Friend.
 But" added MT. Mallory, ''the pa- friots 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 oi the moment. unable to look fairly and squarely at a proposition which should be judged justly and honestly. forget that they are under great obligations to the President and send forth de- nunciation of the best friend they have ever had in that office. They will al- low passion to get better of their Judg- ment on almost all occasions"
 MT Mallory believed the President ought not to have included in his order of discharge the prohibition against future enlistment He maintained that the discharged men were not under the charge of any crime whatever. It might, perhaps. have been better, he said. if a board had been ordered to l effect the discharge He said he should not oppose the resolution of investiga- tion.
 Mir. Clay of Georgia took the floor as he said, to reply in brief to the sweeping charge against the prominent people in the South md0e on SdLurQay 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.
 Mfr, Patterson disclaimed making any such sweeping statement.
 Mir. Clay, however, believed the Rec ord would bear out what he had said d. He admitted that there were differences of opinion in the South on the question of the negro suffrage, but many States besides those in the South had re- 4 stricted suffrage-Ohio. Massachusetts, Vermont and others, he said. were in this, class.
 He disclaimed any intention to dis cuss the race question, saying he did not want to monopolize a subject that belonged exclusively to my good friend from South Carolina" (Mr. Till man)
 TIIlman Gets Mad.
 This stirred Mir. Tillman to action, and MT. Clay was hotly questioned as he proceeded to defend the President on his Brownsville record. According to evidence furnished by Mir. Tillman Saturday Mir. Clay said, the whole 25th infantry ought to have been discharged fifteen years ago.
 "So far as these negro soldiers are concerned have no doubt of the guilt retorted MT. TilIman. T was trying