Perth Amboy evening news., 1907-01-17
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PRESFbENT. I.
Southern Senator Stands by
Roosevelt Tenne see Also
Endorses His land.

WAsHINGT0N. Jan IL Senator
Carmaek Tenn), speaking in the SEN
ate on the Brownsville shoNing affray,
announced that he heartily %upported
the president in his action discharging
the negro soldiers. The action of the
legislature of his state taking the same
position had his hearty support.
Mr.. Carmack then paid his respects
to the president as follows:
Il think it proper to say that any re-
port that senators may have heard that
the president personally solicited my
support in this matter, that he urged
me to forgive and forget certain ener-
getic personal remarks and begged me
to stand between him and those twin
enemies of his administration, the SEN
ators from South Carolina and Ohio, is
gross eXaggeration. ! will not say
that it is an Infamous falsehood, be-
cause such language belongs to the vo-
cabulary of presidential controversy
rather than to that of senatorial de-
bate.
Nor is it true, as senators may have
heard, that | have been moved to un-
dertake the presidents defense because
of my infatuated devotion to the man.
/ have a great admiration for that
strong, brave, large minded gentleman,
the secretary of war. My admiration
for the president is more temperate and
subdued. In the language of Hamlet,
1T waits upon the judgment Ser-
ously, / suppose there is no senator,
always with the exception of my friend
from South Carolina (Mr. Tillman),
who is less likely than myself to be
suspected of excessive partiality for
our present chief executive.
"The president once said that he
would see certain member of the
Tennessee delegation in Hades before
he would do anything for him, a re-
mark entirely gratuitous in view of the
fact that the person supposed to have
been referred to had never asked
favor at his hands, but with supreme
indifference to his good opinion had
criticised him when he was wrong and
with like Indifference to his good opin-
ion can support him when he is right.
| care so little for the hasty ebulitions
of that remarkable man that | can see
what he himself could never see in
any man who expressed an opinion
contrary to his own-I can see the good
as well as the bad in his public con
duet and judge both without passion
or prejudice.
''In this case IL seems to me that he
has acted with remarkable freedom
from impulse with unusually careful
deliberation and with anxious effort to
do nothing more or less than complete
justice to all concerned Indeed, am
haunted by the suspicion that the pres
ident was the more careful to ascer-
tain the facts and to keep within the
limits of the law because the offend
ers were colored than he would have
been if they were white
$50 far as the negro race is concern
ed, the only charge that can be justly
made against the president is that he
has loved the negro not wisely, but
too WELL"
EocldlOI a ouOStitute
for all of his previous resolutions on
the Brownsville affair, as follows:
Resolved That the committee on
military affairs is hereby authorized
and directed by subcommittee or 9th
erwise TO take and have printed the
testimony for the purpose of ascertain
ing all the facts with reference to OF
connected with the affray at Browns
Vile. Tex, on the night of Aug. L3,
1906. Said committee is authorized to
send for persons and papers, to admin
lister oaths, to sit during the sessions
of the senate and If deemed advisable
at Brownsville or elsewhere"
Mr. sCarmack, approving the presi-
dents dismissal of the negro soldiers,
said the purpose of Republican oppos-
tion to it was to prevent Rooseyelt's
denomination in 1908.