The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1908-03-05

them had by their long and faithful
service acquired valuable rights Of
which they are deprived by dis
charge, without honor. and %''2. -
I Whereas, the testimony shows be-
Iyond a reasonable doubt that what
ever may be the fact as to who did
the shooting many. Of them so dis
charged were innocent. Of any Of
Tense In connection Herewith
| 'Therefore, 1t is in our opinion the
duty of congress to provide by ap-
propriate legislation for. the: correc-
tion Of their record and for their re-
enlistment and reinstatement I'M the
Earmy, and for the restoration to them
Of, all the rightscof which they have
been deprived, and We SO recomend.' -
The same eight senators voted
againat this proposal, and the same
! five who had favored the preceding
substitute voted for its adoption.
r Senator Du Pont then took up the
cudgels against the Lodge1resolution,
| and submitted the = following as a
compromise, but 1t was defeated, IL
to 2: ..
THAT the testimony shows that the
lshots fired during the shooting af-
fray which occurred at Brownsville,
Tex. during the night of August 49,
IA, 1905, were discharged from
l:springfield rifles, which had been is
sued to the comGissary officer of
Company B, Twenty-fifth infantry,
and which were in> the hands of or
accessible to the enlisted men Of said
company" D..
Scott Proposes Compromise.
Senator Scott now took up the
fight. and his resolution, which was
voted down, 8 to 4. was as follows:
That in. evidence before this COM
mittee Is not sufficient, in the iudg-
| ment Of the committee, to justify the
persons did the shooting are to the
committee unknown"
No more substitutes being offer
ed, the original resolution by Sena-
tor Lodge was taken up for a vote,
and the eight senator's voted for it's
adoption, Senator Foraker and the
other senator's, except Mr.. .Du Pont,
who, did not vote, voting against It'll
Senator Warner then moved the
adoption of an additional resolution
declaring that the Identity OF the par
t:ticular persons who did the shooting
had. not been developed by the evi-
asnce, 3 aAdiHEhe eight senatQTs who
ihat voted Tor the Lodge rssoln ntion
tHei oteg for the amend dment,
ffhe fiye@,-Who had snpportea9 the. adj
verse view On the hedge resolution
i:abstatning from voting, :, - =. 20 =
!'Ehe committee aV 4:45 p. m. adj
jonrned, subject to the call OF the
chairman, and IL Is understood that
the next meeting will not be held
| for about ten days, as the members
| will be kept busy for that period by
other matters.
When the committee does meet
again, however, it will probably be
merely to formulate the reports
which, it is understood, there will be
three.
The majority report, embodying
the sense Of the resolutions adopted
at yesterdays meeting, and, in ef-
feet, If not in expression, upholding
! the action of the president, will be
signed by the eight senator's who vo-
ted for those resolutions, and Sena-
tor Foraker and the four senator's
who sustained mis- Views Will sign one
minority report declaring that the
evidence given before the committee
has not sustained the guilt Of the
Negro soldiers. An additional and
more radical minority report, it is
stated, will be submitted by two or
three memoirs Of the committee.
Would Reinstate Negroes.
Senator Foraker will submit bill
In the senate at an early date, after
the reports are made from the COM
mittee, which will embody substan-
| TALLY the sense Of his last resolution
| offered in the meeting yesterday. 1t
will provide that all Negro soldiers
| dismissed without honor by the pres
I ident as a result of the Brownsville
ARRAY, shall be re-enlisted In the ar
pay which they would have received
in the period intervening between
fthe date Of their dismissal and the
date Of their proposed reinlistment,
and that their records shall be clear
! ed of the charges upon which they
| were dismissed.
+ Senator Foraker will address the
senate On this resolution next week.
His speech will be exhaustive, and
lprobably will take two or three days
1 to deliver.
Following the adjournment Of the
| committee the following bill was In
| troduced in the senate by J. 3. Fora
| ker, Of Ohio:
"Be it enacted by the senate and
| house of representatives Of the Uni
| ted States Of America in congress as
lsembled, that any non-commissioned
officer or enlisted man belonging to
| Company 3, G or D, Of the Twenty
| fifth u S. infantry, discharged with