Evening star., 1908-12-04
TO RENEW THE FIGHT
Senator Foraker Will Brinq Up
the Brownsville Affair.
BILL BEFORE THE SENATE
Measure to Be Taken Up by That
Body December 16.
JUSTICE FOR THE INNOCENT
Proposed Re-Enlistment of Those
Who Swear They Were Not In
volved in the Disorder

Senator Foraker of Ohio has returned
TO the city in readiness for the approach
ing session of Congress in which he eX
| poets to actively participate. He will
bring up the Brownsville affair again, in
the shape of the bill authorizing the re-
| enlistment of the dismissed men of the
| 18th Infantry. The bill is. under an
agreement reached at the last session.
the special order of business for Decem-
! Der l6.
! Il expect to ask the Senate to keep
! the bill before it until vote is taken.
said Senator Foraker to a Star man today.
| Il cannot say how much debate there
may be upon the measure. and do not
know how many senators may desire to
! discuss il. Before We adjourned Senator
F., Lodge gave notice of his intention to dis
| cuSS tie bill, but Illness in his family
| called him away and one OF the reasons
| for the consideration of the bill going
| oyer until this, session was to allow him
! opportunity to speak upon it,
Has Not Canvassed Prospects.
/ Senator Foraker said he had made no
canvass of tho prospects of the bill as
| it stands today. He thought it would
| have passed if brought to vote at the
| last session. Senator Foraker is as
| deeply in earnest about the measure as
| he Nas from the outset, and his interest.
! at any rate. has not been affected by
! the past campaign.
Senator Foraker is in fine health and
i spirits and ready for d busy winter He
Will not talk for publication about the
Ohio senatorship contest He will return
! to OHIO prior 10 the assembling of the
legislature in January for a short visit
! and at that time may have a few re-
| marks to make on the senatorship.
To Re-Enlist the Innocent
| Tho Foraker bill provides that any non
commissioned officer or enlisted man of
| the 10Th Infantry. discharged without
honor, who shall make oath that he did
not participate in the Brownsville affair
does not know of any soldier partcpat-
! ing. that he is not Withholding knowledge
of the affair. which, if made public would
or might lead to the Identification of any
/ participation iii the shooting affray or
any accessory thereto. either before or
after the fact. and hat he has answered
| fully to the best of his knowledge aud
ability al? questions that have been law
| fully put to him by his officers or others
| in connection Herewith, shall. he made
! eligible TO re-enlist in the military or
| naval forces of the United States on his
, application therefor AT any time within
three months from and after the passage
of the bill, and that upon such re-enlist
| ment he shall be allowed full pay, accord
| lHS 10 TIE RANK ne neld and the he
Was receiving at the date of discharge,
| until his re-enllStmcnt
Restoration of Rights.
1t is provided that ali the rights and
privileges to which such soldiers re-en-
listing were entitled, respectively. at the
time of their discharge shall be fully re-
stored to them and the record showing
their discharge without honor shall he au-
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is also provided that the time elapsing
since their discharge without honor un-
| I'll the date of such re-enlistment shall he
computed in determining all rights to
which they may be respectively entitled on
account of continuous service as though
| they had, been in the service, without in
terruption. and they shall not suffer any
| forfeiture of any right or privilege by
| reason of such discharge
The bill provides further that In any
| case where the regular term of enlist
| ment which the soldier was serving at
| the time when discharged without honor
| has In the meanwhile expired his record
shall be corrected so as 10 show an hon
| orable discharge at the time of the eX-
| pration of such enlistment and he shall
| be allowed full paN and all rights and
| privileges until that time: and in the
| event of the re-enliStment of such sol
| dier under the provisions Of the bin his
term OF Te-enllStment shall he deemed
| to have commenced of the time when
| his previous enlistment expired and his
service under such re-enlstment shall he
without prejudice of any kind by reason
Of his former discharge without honor
Justice to the Dead.
| The bill also provides that in case any
OF the on-commissioned officers or en-
listed men belonging to the companies
and discharged without honor shall have
died since they were so discharged and
| before the passage Of the bill but who
| shall have testified under oath or made
| affidavit before their death that they did
not participate in tia" shooting affcav OF
| have any Knowledge with reference
thereto. their records shall be correct ed
in accordance with tho provisions of the
bill and their legal representatives shall
be entitled to all pay that would have
become due 10 them from the time of
their discharge until the time Of their
dccCaSc.