Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1908-12-15
BROWNSVILLE
CASE AGAIN
REVIVED
SUBJECT OF SPECIAL
MESSAGE TO CONGRESS-
Senator Foraker Champions
Cause of Negro Soldiers Dis
charged for DisgracefuI Raid
on Border Town.



Washington, Dee. IA. - President
Roosevelt today sent message tC
congress, inclosing a letter from the
secretary OF war in transmitting a
report of the investigation made by
Herbert j Browns, employed BY the
department in conjunction with Cap
tain w G.. Baldwin. of the Browns
Vile shooting affair of August l3 and
IA, 1906. The message in part is as
s:
is report enables us to fix with
y4eraDlc definiteness, at least the
identification of some of the Grim
mails who took the lead in the mur-
derous shooting of private citizens
at Brownsville 1t establishes clearly
the fact that colored soldiers did the
shooting, The investigation, how
ever, has not gone far enough to en-
able us to determine all the facts and
We will proceed with it,
1T appears that almost all the
members of company must have
been actively concerned in the shoot
ing, either TO the extent of being par
Elephants or to the extent of virtually
encouraging those who were partici-
pants.
'As to companies C am d, there
can be no question that practically
every man in them must have had
knowledge that the shooting was
done by some members of b troop,
and possibly by one or two others
in one of the other troops. This con-
cealment was grave offense of
Itself and was greatly aggravated by
their testfying before the senate
committee that they We're ignorant
of what they must have known. -.
Nevertheless, il Is to he said IL
partial eXoneration that they were
probably cowed by threats made by
the more desperate men who had
actually been engaged in shooting, as
TO what would happen to any man
who failed to protect the wrong do
ers Moreover, there are circum-
stances tending to show that these
misguided men were encouraged by
outsiders to persist in their course of
cOncealment and denial
II feel, therefore that some meas
ure of allowance should be made for
the misconduct of these men. In
other words, | believe we can afford
To rcinstate any of those men who
now truthfully tell what happened.
CIV e"l
really guilty, and show that they,
themselves, had no guilty knowledge
beforehand and We're in no way inn
plicated in the affair, save by having
knowledge of it afterwards and fail
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