Arizona republican., 1907-01-15
THE PRESIDENTS ORDER
 IS SLIGHTLY MODIFIED
The Discharged Negroes Are Admitted 10
 Be Still Citizens if Not Soldiers
Special Message On the Brownsville Affair Ada. New Life to the Senate's Debate On That rn,.r-.s
 ing Subject.

Washington. Jan. 14.-Taking only q brief time to pass the legislative. exec utive and judicial appropriation bill carrying nearly S3I.OOO. 900. the senate devoted the rest of the day to the Brownsville affray.
 President RoOsevelt's message ac- companied by many additional affidav- its and a cigar box of bullets and empty cartridges was received. read and ordered printed.
 The message included evidence ob- tained by Assistant Attorney Genera! Purdy and Major Blockson. who were sent to Texas by President Roosevelt to investigate the affair
 Among the various exhibits. were maps. three empty shells. seven bat: cartridges. picked up on the streets | few hours after the shooting. two steel jacketed bullets. some scraps of the casing of other bullets picked out of houses into which they had been fired
 President Roosevelt says the evil dence is positive that the Outrages on August 13 were committed by some of AAAt NOAfitu AiOhHS AlAtN nave been us missed. and that some or all of th@ members of the three companies of tha 2Jsh infantry had knowledge of the deed and have shielded the guilty ones
 The negro troops are referred to b. the president in his message as mid night assassins." and he declares few if any. of the soldiers dismissed without honor could have been ignO- rant of what occurred.
 That part of his order which bars the soldiers from all civil emplOymen under the government is revoked Oy the president. This clause. the presl dent says. is lacking in validity and disparaged the troops. However they will be forever barred from reenter-
 ing the army or navy. and as to this the president says that there is no doubt of his constitutional and legal power"
 Speech making on the subject con tinued until 5:3O o'clock. Senator Mallory endorsed the action of thc president. and opened the discussion The president. he aid.might have gone too far in his order. preventing the reenlistment of the soldiers in @ vOlved. but otherwise he approved the presidents order of discharge.
 NIT. Clay took the floor and the de- bate was given a lively turn by Sen atOr Tillman's interruptions. MT. Clay said the people of Georgia heartily en- dOrsed the presidents action. Senator Bacon followed with what he said was reported as a precedent for the Brownsville order in the discharge of a company of soldiers from the South Carolina national guards by Senator Tillman when he was governor.
 Mir. SpOOner was In the midst of a constitutional discussion of the au thOrity of the president in the case when an adjournment was taken. Mir Spooner holds that when the president exercises his power of commander m chief of the army. the senate has no jurisdiction 10 review his actions. He also cOntsRded that congress has n . power to 'legislate specifically to re- store the soldiers discharged in the present ease. He declared that a re- view could only be had by impecch- ment proceedings which must originatS in the house of representatives.
 Several senators have indicated that they intend to discuss the question and the Brownsville debate therefore Is likely to absorb the attention of the senate for several days.
 Senator Mallory told the senate he could see no benefit in the proposed senate investigation of the Browns vile affair. as the evidence submitted by the president was enough to con vict the soldiers. However he would not oppose the inquiry.
 Mir Clay of Georgia. held that d court martial would have resulted in nothing. He insisted that in evidence of former escapddes of this regiment