The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1907-01-10
RED HOT MESSAGE
BEING PREPARED
Concerning Brownsville Incl
dent, II Is Said
Foraker Sees He Has Gone Too Far
And Is Now Ready TO Grace
fully Retire.
THE COLORADO RIVER CASE

Washington, Jan. TO- Another
red hot presidential message to con-
gress is being prepared at the white
house. It will deal with the Browns
ville affair. and is scheduled to reach
the senate the first of next week. Ac-
companying the message will be the
new evidence gathered in Texas by
Mr.. Purdy. assistant to the attorney
general, which will show in all prob
ability, that there is no need Of a con-
gressiona8 investigation.
It is understood that e will come
pretty near clinching things as far
as the facts are concerned, and I'M
less the senate acts on the Foraker
resolution this week the main fight
of the Ohio senator will have been
in vain
Information reached Washington
tonight regarding the nature of the
report that Mr.. Purdy viii make the
president. He has established be-
yond doubt 1t is said, that the first
shots fired in the Brownsville affair
came from inside the barracks; that
colored soldiers and not white men
with b,ackoned faces, as charged by
the constitution league, ran through
the streets of Brownsville firing MUIR
derously as they went that bullets
fired on the night of the shooting
up'of the town have been found, and
they are of the kind used in the rifles
carried bv the soldiers.
In addition TO those essential points
Mr. Purdy will present afidavits bear
ing on various other features all tend
ing to prove beyond question that
colored soldiers stationed at Fort
Brown were guilty of the outrage.
President Roosevelt is not relax
ing attention for moment from the
situation now existing IN the senate.
He mad several conferences yesterday
and today with administration SEN
ators hooking TO plans for meeting
any coup that may be sprung by the
other sc. Among those he talked
with today were Senators Lodge and
Knox Later in the day Senator
Knox and Senator Foraker conferred
together for long time in the sen
ate chamber over a new formof com
promise resolution.
Senator Foraker apparently real
lies that ne has overpiayed himself
to some degree and is now willing to
save himself as best he can in the
eyes of the country. 1t is true that
the original Lod0a amendment speci-
fieally recognizing the presidents
power to discharge soldiers would
have been defeated if put to a direct
vote. but That does not mean that a
majority Of the senate at heart doubts
the presidents power. 1t does
mean that a good many senators on
the one hand are afraid of the "big
stick" and that several ambitious
statesmen on the other, fear the col
ored vote. The situation is such as
to make a so-called compromise most
acceptable all around. but it will not
come until there has been a good deal
of noise.
The speech of Senator Daniel
(Dem.) this afternoon was a most
logical presentation of the summary
power of the commander-in-chief of
the army, both constitutionally and
under the articles of war and otner
statutes. As in any other instances
where he has gone up against the
senate. it now, as though the presi-
dent will achieve a victory that will
be highly pleasing to him, altnoughas
in other cases, the situation looked
dark for a time.