The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-01-15
SENATE IS HIT
WITH MESSAGE
president HurIs a Fe" Thous-
and Words at Members
of Upper House.
SATISFIED WITH HIMSELF
.rcpo SOLDIERS MIDNIGHT AS
SASSINS.
SATISFIED WITH HIMSELF

.,...,,prton Jan. 1.-THE presidents
.,-.,,sviIle message, accompanied by a
ID. nostly wrapped and tied with red
- containing cartridges and shells as
StAitq in the case, was received by
-. sonate today The message was at
.-.,,eIv listened TO. Mr.. Foraker re-
.-,od that IL be printed. with the ac-
.,nnsnying exhibits.
g. Foraker observed that the testi-
-, amounted to a great deal. for
~ president tells US It is conclusive.
-. a. does not remove the objection
: have held from the beginning OF this
-..,,eeding." said the senator. What
: have been trying TO contend for is TO
.a,,ro a hearing OF the men charged
IL, this serious crime. This testimony
has been taken, as the other was, be-
A,,5 closed doors, without anybody rep
reserting the men.
Foraker Will PerseVere.
.,rb,t IS the reason / shall not de-
.i-, Notwithstanding what the president
So said as TO the character Of it, from
r,ressing for an Investigation Of the sub
lot where the men who are charged
SSvf,h tho crimes OF murder, perjury and
,.,,gpiracv can bs heard, TO the end
that n they can establish any facts i'm
fheir favor they may have an oppor-
unity 10 do so.
MT Foraker added that he would re-
serve his discussion OF the new evidence
submitted by the president until after
inc Investigation. ''if we shah order one"
a. be made in accordance with the spirit
az American institutions. where every
man no matter how humble. shall have
an opportunity 60 be heard
After that Investigation, Mr.. Foraker
said he should have something to say
about the present testimony.
Later Mr. 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 Following is the mes
sage:
Presidents Message.
To the Senate. In my message to the
senate treating OF the dismissal with
cut honor Of certain named members of
the three companies OF the Twenty-fiftE
infantry. J gave the reports of the Of
TCers upon which the dismissal was
based. These reports were made in ac-
cordance with the custom in such cases.
for IL would. OF course, be impossible
ID preserve discipline in the army save
hy pursuing precisely the course that in
this case was pursued. InasmuCh. how
ever. as in the senate question was raised
as 10 the suffiCienCy OF the evidence. 1
deemed Il wise TO send Major Blocksom
and Assistant 10 the Attorney General
Purdy 20 Brownsville TO make a thor
Ough investigation on the ground with
reference TO the matter. I herewith trans
nit Secretary TaftS report and the tes-
tlmony taken under the oath of the va
Tlous witnesses examined in the course
OF the investigation. I also submit vari-
Ous exhibits. including maps Of Browns
Vile and Fort Brown, photographs of
various buildings, letter from Judge
Parks 10 his wife. together with a ban
eoeer' tmrty-three empty shells. seven
pan cartridges and four clips picked up
IN the streets OF Brownsville within a
lew hours after the shooting: three steel
ydcketed bullets and some scraps of the
cdSlhgs OF other bullets picked out of
Ine houses into which they had been
.iIeu, A telegram from United States
commissioner Creager at Brownsville an
Mounces that six additional bullets-like
M oIhers rom Springfield rifles-taken
from buildings in Brownsville with sup
porting athdavits have since been sent
10 the secretary Of war
Crimes Enumerated.
u appears from the testimony that on
W hbht on Aug. -. 1906. several crimes
VIZ committed by some person or Der-
sghs IN the city of Brownsville Among
'hese were the following:
lal The murder of Frank Mains
=. lbl The assault with intent to kill the
lieutenant Of police. Dominguez. whose
nurse was killed under him and whose
nm was shot so severely that il had
10 be amputated
,e' ihe assault with intent to kill Mr.
S1u Mrs. Hale Odin and their three Iit-
s Io1oy,. who were i'm the window of the
Miller hotel Va 'ii0
w me shooting into several prlvate
.ssuehces OF the city OF Brownsville.
,bn ts OF them containing women and
ing OF Precedio. "NuH"-
by somebody OOHiiiiit'eu
81 49, 70 me motive for the commission
~ e"e crimes. Il appears that trouble
crrr.a more ore or less serious kind had oc-
;be DetWeen individual members of
oo.ilpany and individual citizens ~
which lie ne, eliminating in complaints
fined rg,,SSulted in the soldiers being con-
on ~ "ltnin the limits OF the garrison
Tbe evening Of the day In question
l.vor, 'sIuence. as will be seen. shows
MAJ any possibility Of honest question
INDIVIDUALS among the colored