The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1907-01-18
MESSAGE NO. 2
FROM TEDDY
Regarding the Brownsville Affair
is Sent to Congress.
ALSO MATERIAL EVIDENCE
President Iasists That Guilt Of COlOEed
Soldiers is COnclUsiye--SubmttS
Empty Shells, BulIets, Etc.

FT6SluGuC EGOOs6fGlt AA0huSeJ SSA1e
to congress a special message re-
garding the Brownsville incident,
which gives the additional whence
collected by Assistant Attorney Gen.
eral Purdy and Major Blocksom, who
were sent to Texas by the president
to investigate the affair,
The report submitted with his mes
sage, including maps of Brownsville
and Fort Brown, a bandoleer, %
empty shells, seven ball cartridges,
picked up in the streets a few hours
after the shooting. three steel jacket
ed bullets and some scraps of the
castings of other bullets picked out
of the houses into which they had
been fired.
The president declares that the evil
dence fs positive that the outrage of
August was committed by some Of
the colored troops that have been
dismissed and that some OF all of
the individuals of the three eompa-
MES the twenty-ffth infantry had
knowledge of the deed and have
shielded the guilty cnes~
The negro troops are referred to by
the president in his message as mid
night assassins, and he declares. that
very few, if any, of the soldiers dis
missed without hoMor" could have
been ignorant of what occurred
That part Of the order. which bars
the soldier from all civil employment
under the government is revoked by
the president. This clause, the pres
ident says, was lacking validity. The
discharged troopers, however, will
he forever barred from enlisting in
the army or navy and as to this the
president says that there is no
doubt of my constitutional and legal
power"
Secretary Taft's report giving the
sworn testimony of witnesses is trans
mftted with the message. The testi
mony of fourteen eye witnesses is
given and the president declares thai
the evidence is conclusive that tht
weapons used were Springfield rife
now used by United States troops, in
cluding the negro troops who wer
in the garrison at Brownsville.
Taking but a brief time to pas
the legislative, executive and iudici,
bill, carrying nearl
$31 100000, the senate devoted til
remainder of the day to the Brown
vile affray
The presidents message was rel
and ordered printed.
The speech-making on the subje
began and continued until 5:
o'clock. Mr.. Foraker saying he was
going to make a speech, "but a few
marks observed that the testimo
amounts to great deal, for t
president tells us it is conclusiv
But it does not remove the
lection I have had FROM the beg
ming of the proceedings What 1 he
been trying to contend for, and I he
| will be successful, is to secure
hearing for the men charged with t
serious crime. This testimony !
been taken as the other was, beh
closed doors, without anybody reT
senting the men.
Stating that he did not agree "
the president in all he has done
this case, Mr.. Mallory of Florida
crossed to call attention to what
regarded as the best illustration t
could be given of the incomplete.
Of the negro to grapple with gr
questions. His illustration was
of the president by ne
mass meeting at Boston. A negro
said, held the most lucrative fede
Office in Florida, as collector of
ternal revenue; the collector of {
toms at Savannah, Ca, was a nee
and the collector of internal reve
Of the state of Georgia was net
and everyone knew the fight VIII
the senate had made against Crun
negro, made collector of the port
Charleston.
But" added Mr.. Mallory, 'the
riots of Boston, who probably are
best representatives of the negro
in this country, allow themselves
be carried away by the passion
The moment, unable to look fairly
and squarely at a proposition VIII
should be judged Justly and homes
forget that they are under great 0