The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-01-18
DECLARES ONLY PURPOSE or
PROBING IS TO LEARN TRUTH
TiIIman Still Remains Silent Not HAVING Uttered
Syllable But Looks as Full OF Utter
ances as Gymnotus or an EIeC-
trio Eel

Washlngton, Jan Us Senator For
akcr was tn dame Of ind gnation
this afternoon because he believed a
sug astion had been made to the ef.
fec that the debate on Brownsville
had other objects than Simply to find
ont the trHe facts and Ia AFFORD the
innocent negroes opportunity to ap-
pear before the committee of The
senate ana pl1ye how guiltless they
were. Mr. Foraker repudia ed with
soon any ulteIior motives in this agi
tation; il was all tran parent and
above board. and the very idea Of
anything Indirect or disingenous
brought the hot blood mounting to
his forehead and impaired a tremor
to his voice
This resolution" he shouted. calls
for an iuve stigstion of the facts-it
involves no crit. cisrn of the president
How could senators imagine such a
thing? ! don't care in what language
the resolution is embodied, 50 only
tha0 il enables MS 70 establish the
truth. Siace when have we become
SO sensitive about thj~ or that nicety
in the language Of the resolution?
Two resolutions aiming to elicit the
fac of the Brownsville tragedy were
introduced before the present one
one of these was mine and the other
by the senator from Pennsylvania
(Penrosel. The senator from WiscoE
sin CSpoouer) in his remarks in
dorsed my resolution"
Spoorer Offers Aid.
Here Senator SDOoner arose and
sail that If it were needed he would
do it again.
"Well, why shouldn't you?" eE
Gle med Foraker And why should
objection have been taken TO the
wording of the present resolution
which is in almost the anne Ian
guage? OF course. / could not have
intended 20 crtcise the president
knowing that no matter what a com
mittce might discover either In re-
gard to the proprie. y of the residents
orGer. or as to the facts of the riot
inc it did not lie within the power
of the senate 70 reverse the president
or to do anything except 10 learn the
truth, and afford 4 chance for limo
cent men. crushed by the terrible
stigma that their fismls al inficts
upon them 10 come before us and
plead their cause. / am sure that
were these men 10 succeed in estab
fishing their innocence. the president
would do all he could TO reinstate|
II I'm. II DE wsuId not I don't know
the man 7 think the president mas
been misied iu some respec- as to
this matter. and bel Ieve he VIII
think so himself before we have ccme
TO the end Of the subject If there be
any place in the world where these
discharged soldiers couid appear
mere properly than here ] don't know
IL. During their examination-aud We
would have more than a hundreI Of
thcm-in one way or another lie
truth would ome out"
Tillmsn Stln Silent.
And then The senator Offered a
fresh modification Of the original
Tt solution which was read from the
desk. and ar the suggestion of
Sn0Oner. the debate closed for The
dag without Tiilman having uttered a .
s}llable. Eat be looked as fuil Of u--i
teranccs as q gymnotHs. IT great elec- /
trtc eel. IS loaded with electricity.
rTz,.-,5r.r-rv- l. faa Faaf ga- auF shgss
We shall see what We shall see.