Bisbee daily review., 1907-01-17
PULLMAN AND SPOONER CLASH
 ARGUING TIE NEGRO QUESTION

firm the presidents statement of what the facts are l am profoundly inter- ested to see the president vindicated. ]"
 MT. Stone said he was aware that there was a disposition among some of the Democratic members of the senate to vote against the resolution, but as there was a family feud among the Republicans involved, he saw no good reason why Democrats should smother the fire or burn their fingers by pulling out hot chestnuts for the Republicans.
 Senator Hepburn, following Stone, laid down the general principle that the senate has not the power to review a competent act of the president.
 Senator Knox declared the com mander-in-chief of the army had the power to dismiss troops. Knox cited laws bearing out this conclusion, as we'll as judicial interpretations of these acts. ...
 Senator Foraker then said he de- sired to close the debate. He dis claimed that he had attacked the pres ident. He said he believed the presf- dent had been imposed on in the evil dence upon which he had based his action.
 After his long service, Mir. Foraker said, he did not like the hints that had been thrown out that his motives were other than to promote the public good. To meet all obections which might possibly be raised Foraker said he had prepared another resolution, which he offered as a substitute Ssor the one pending.
 He then yielded to a suggestion of Senator Spooner that he proceed to- morrow, and the senate adjourned.
 q never heard until yesterday, said Spooner in the senate today. that the president had not the power of sending forces where he chose. I never heard that was not part of the power of the commander-in-chiefu until this was pro- claimed yesterday by the senator from Georgia"
 The point made by MT. Spooner was that the constitution does not say that congress has power to govern the mil itary forces, but to make rules for the government of the army. He claimed the words Ito make rules" meant that of enforcement.
 Mir. Spooner explained the failure to turn over to the civil authorities the perpetrators of the Brownsville crime by saying it has been impossible to identify them.
 MT. Spooner said in his debate with Tillman:
 "The president will never require any defense from the attacks of the senator from South Carolina. He has developed a mania for attacking the president. have never been so sur prised by any mans attitude as have by that of the senator from South Car olina. He is so filled with animosity for the president that do not believe his attacks will be taken seriously"
 MT. Spooner's remarks were ques- tioned by Tillman. and the two en- gagged in heated controversy. Spooner made bitter attack on the South Carolina senator. TiTlman was not permitted to reply at length, but at the conclusion of SDooner's speech he declared that at an early date he would take occasion to defend him self against the insulting allusions made to him."
 During the course of MT. Spooner's speech MT. Tillman attemped reply, but Mir Spooner declined to yield. He criticized Tillman for the harsh words he had hurled at the president in his untempered speeches. He con demned Tillman for impeaching the motives of the president and ridi- culed TiIlman's claim that he stood for the fundamental principles of liberty.
 Quote me accurately" shouted Tillman.
 You quote yourself" replied Spooner.
 The South Carolina senator took his seat, and was then subjected to one of the most direct and stinging in- dictments ever delivered by a senator against a colleague. Mir. Spooner quoted from TiIlman's utterances de fending the burning of negro at the stake, and said
 "No man ought to encourage such a horrible thing as that. It is crime against civilization to encourage it.
 q have often been shocked by the attitude of the senator from South Carolina when he has sDoken here in justification and support of lyHching. If there is one man who ought not to encourage it, it is the man who sits here as maker of laws. Any man who encourages lynching, murder, lawlessness, will have much to answe for. The higher his position and the mightier his influence, the more he will have to answer for. No man can come, here with good grace to impeach the pregident for his dismissal of men becafse they were not identified as criminals, who comes to that accusa- ton from lynching bee, or who jus tifes one"
 Senator Spooner declared his belief that the majority of the people of tn south did not entertain the radif views expressed by Tillman. He ad- mitted the difficulties of the problem in the south, and said the people of the north felt that the best way to aid in its solution was to refrain from dis cussing 1t.
 Tillman said he would reply soon.