Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-01-04
SPEAKS FOR TEXANS.
Chlberson Upholds President
 Roosevelt In Senate.
RIGHT TO DISMISS NEGRO. TROOPS
uRacial Question Is Greatest Problem With Which the Union at the
 Present Day Has to Deal, It Caused the Civil War;"

SuCscu thc SASA W uE.
 WASHINGTON, Jan. 1.-The debate on the resolution offered by Senator Foraker concerning the discharge by the president of the three companies of negro soldiers of the Twenty-tifth United States infantry for participa- ton in the Brownsville riots which had been begun before the holiday re- cess, was resumed in the senate by Senator CuIberson Uex.). who opened the debate with a stirring speech in condemnation of the discharged negro soldiers.
 He declared that the troops were responsible for the trouble in Browns vile because of the insults they had { offered to citizens of that town.
 A white woman had been insulted by a ruff1anly negro soldier, he said. Con ditlons had finally become so chaotic that the mayor was requested to deny . the troops the right to go upon the streets. Such an order was made With much emphasis Mir. Culberson pointed out that in the face of the facts people were asked to believe that the citizens of Brownsville ''rioted among themselves, shot and wounded their lieutenant of police and killed an un- offending citizen.'
 MT. Culberson contended that the president, as commander in chief of the army, had the right to discharge any soldier without honor. But he ad mitted that in so far as the order pur- ported to disqualify the discharged sol diers from re-enlistment or from hold ing any civil office the presidents order was imperative.
 Discharge without honor,'' was dis tinct class of discharge recognized by the statutes over which the president had control. He read from the statutes and from the army regulations made pursuant thereto authorizing such dis charges and added that 352 enlisted men, both white and colored, had been discharged ill that way in the last year.
 Mir. Culberson enumerated the incl dents leading up to the riot. A white woman had been assaulted by a colored soldier. There had been quarrel over the denial to the negro soldiers of equality with the whites in some of the saloons. A negro soldier had clashei with white customs officer and an other negro soldier had been struck over the head with a revolver by a white customs officer for insulting the customs officers wife.
 T care nothing about the president" exclaimed Mir. Culbersop. My per sonal relations with him are about as cordial as are those of the senator from Ohio.''
 MT. Foraker laughed heartily and s blushed furiously. Other senators shar- ed in the hilarity at the expense of the Ono senator.
 He concluded his speech by brief reference to the negro question in gen eral, saying it had existed from the early history of the country down to the present time and still continued to be the most important and the most dangerous question which confronts the American people. He referred to the growth of this question leading to the civil war, wherein nearly d million white men lost their lives. Today, he said. the condition of the black race. with it's ages of slavery, its ignorance and poverty. excited the deepest sym pathy of the great body of the white people of the south.
 But" he continued. 'in spite of the past. with its conflicts and sacrifices. 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 ment and the integrity of the white race. The end no man can see. South erners feel deeply and profoundly on this race problem and its ultimate so- lution.
 Speaking in part for the people of Texas-and plainness of speech is best Lit is not improper to say that they have dealt fairly and generously with the negro in all essentials-in educa- tion. in charity. in helpful sympathies and in the protection of life. liberty and property. But would not he can did with you if I did not say that in other respects their purposes are equal ly resolute and rnalterable.
 "They are opposed to political domi- nation by the ignorant or vicious: they are opposed to social equality with the negro: they are opposed to every tend ency which will ultimately he destruc- tive of the purity and integrity of the white race. And above all these. how ever vital they may be there Is that in the testimony in this case and which to degree underlies this trouble which impels me to declare even in this great chamber that they purpose to protect even with their lives what in their wO- mankind is the immediate jewel of their souls"
 Court Martial Postponed.
 SAN ANTONIO. Tex. Jan. 4.-The court martial of Major C. W. Penrose and Captain F.. A. Macklin of the Twenty fifth infantry on the charge of
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