Omaha daily bee., 1907-01-17
END OF DEBATE IN SIGHT
Senator Foraker Submits Substitute for
Resolution on Negro Troops
PROVIDES FOR INVESTIGATION OF FACTS
Carmack, Money, stone and KnOx
Speak and Ohio Man L. Expected
to Close Discussion
Today.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 16.-Senate leaders
tonight regard the end of the Brownsville
discussion in sight and It Is confidently
expected that a compromise resolution Of
fered by Senator Foraker just before the
close of today's session will be adopted.
Mr.. Foraker had the floor to make what
he today expressed the hope would be the
concluding speech on the subject. He will
proceed imediately after morning business
tomorrow. unless interfered with by the
special order of the day, which is the deliv-
cry of eulogies on the life of the late SEN
ator Bate of Tennessee. Whether he speaks
tomorrow or Friday 1t is expected a vote
will soon follow, though it is possible that
other brief speeches may be made before
the end Is reached.
Mr.. Foraker offered a substitute for all
of his previous resolutions on the Browns
vile affair. as follows;
Resolved: That the committee on mill
tary affairs is hereby authorized and di-
rected by subcommittee or otherwise 20
take and have printed the testimony, for
the purpose OF ascertaining all the facts
with reference to or connected with the
ARRAY at Brownsville, Tex, the night of
August 10, 1905. Said committee is author
lied to send persons having papers, to adj
minister oaths, to sit during the sessions
Of the senate, and II deemed advisable at
Brownsville or elsewhere; the expenses of
the investigation to be paid out of the con-
tingent fund of the senate.
The language of this provision is salts
factory to Senator Lodge and other sup
porters of the administration in the dis
charge of the negro troops and it is said
by the senators that it will be quite un-
animously accepted.
The feature of todays debate was the ar
raignment by Senator Carmack of repub-
lcan senators who have criticised the
president for his action in the Browns
Vile matter. He regarded it as an attempt
to "dethrone" the president as the leader
Of the party and declared that either the
president must be renominated or the plat
form on which he stood returned to the
democrats. Senators Stone, Money and
Knox followed. each unfolding the au-
thority of the president to take the action
| he did and favoring an investigation of the
| facts connected with the Brownsville af-
| fray. Senator Foraker started to make his
closing speech, but before he concluded
the senate adjourned for the day, leaving
him in possession of the floor.
! Carmack Defends Presidents Act.
Addressing the senate today on the
Brownsville ARRAY. Senator Carmack an
nounced that he heartily supported the pres
ident in his action dischargng the negro
soldiers. The action of the legislature of
| his state, taking the same position, met
his personal views.
Mr.. Carmack then paid his respects to
the president as follows:
| II think IT proper tosay that any report
that senators may have heard that the
president personally solicited my support
in this matter; thai he urged me to for
give and forget certain energetic personal
remarks and begged me to stand between
him and those twin enemies of his admin
istration, the senators from South Carolina
and Ohio. is a gross exaggeration. l will
not say that it is an infamous falsehood,
because such language belongs to the vo-
cabulary of presidential controversy rather
than that of senatorial debate.
Nor is 1t true, as senators may have
heard, that have been moved to under
take 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 Seriously. 1 suppose there is
no senator, always with the exception OF
my friend from South Carolina (Mr. Till
mani, who is less likely than myself to be
suspected of excessive Partially for ouI
present GnteI executive. Inc DTeEluenI once
said that he would see a certain member
of the Tennessee delegation in hades before
he would do anything for hiIn-a remark
entirely gratuitous in view of the fact thai
the person supposed to have been referred
to had never asked favor at his hands
but with supreme indifference to his gooC
opinion had criticised him when he was
wrong and with like indifference to hii
good opinion can support him when he Il
right I care so little for the hasty
ebullitions OF that remarkable man that
can see-what he himself could never Sc,
in any man, who expressed an opinion
contrary to his OWL can see the good al
well as the bad in his public conduct, apC
Judge both without passion or prejudice.
Freedom from Impulse.
"In this case 1t seems to me that he hal
acted with remarkable freedom from i'm
pulse, with unusually careful elaboration
and with anxious effort TO do nothing NOR,
or less than complete Justice to all con
cerned Indeed. 1 am haunted by the sus
. picion that the president was the NOR
careful to ascertain the facts and to keel
within the limits OF the law, because tn
offenders were colored. than would hav
been II they were white
80 far as the negro race is concerned
the only charge that can be justly mad
against the president is that he has Loves
. the negro not wisely, but too we'll Their
, is something pathetic in the president
plaintive recital OF all that he has done an,
attempted for the negro race. Yet there i
no man in this country today, not evel
the senator from South Carolina who 1
so universally and bitterly hated b.
, the negroes as the man who abolished tn
Indianola postoffice and dined with Booke
T. Washington. All that he has done 70
the negro. all the evidences OF friendship h
has shown in the past have been utterl
forgotten. simply because he has not show
that sympathy with the criminal negr
which pervades the negro population of thi
country from one end of II to another"
CANNON TALKS ON RECIPROCITY