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Mr.. Warren said ne thought the
committee bill would restore all
rights, with pay TO con 'ence at the
time of the re-enlistment.
Il agree as to that" sail Mr.. For
aker. May we exDrs lfhe bill to
be introduced at an early day?" ask
ed Mr. Foraker.
think Il will be introduced at
an early date" replied Mr.. Warren.
Mr.. Tillman reverting 10 his re-
quest that the Presidents order dis
missing the men be printed with the
testimony at the beginning OF the
pamphlet separate from the Presi-
dents more or less arbitrary action
added that the President had mad e
progress toward giving these Negroes
justice.
The Senate agreed to print the sew
eral reports and the Presidents mes
sage in a single volume as suggested
by Mr.. Tillman.
MAJORITY SUBMITS REPORT.
There We're four reports from the
committee, the majority being signed
by Senators Warren. Lodge, Warner
Dupont. Taliaferro, Foster, Overman
Frazier and McCreary The minor
ity report was signed by Senators
Foraker. Scott, Bulkley and Hemen-
way The majority report found as
follows:
That. in the opinion of the COM
mittee, the shooting was done by
some of the soldiers belonging 10 the
Twenty-ffth Infantry; that the tes-
timony fails to identify the particu-
lar soldier or soldiers. who partici-
pated In the affray. 1t is stated that
there is considerable contradiction in
the testimony. but that taken as a
whole and recOnciling it wherev-
er possible, it proves the case out
lined in the majority's decision.
The principal minority report was
presented by Senator Scott and takes
the position that il has been impos-
sible to ascertain who did the shoot
ing, and makes the recommendation
that the Negro soldiers be restored .
But TWELVE MEN IMPLICATED
THE strongest evidence, if undis-
puted, says the report, duplicates
no greater number than from seven
to twelve, and admitting for the sake
OF argument, that this number were
guilty which the report says has
not been proven lit is held that that
fact should not justify the discharge
of an entire battalion
The report continues: 'It Is not
our purpose, nor desire, to uphold
any guilty party. nor to criticise ne
cessary army discipline, but we do
feel that IL is essential to stand by
those who are giving their services
to the country and who obey the law. 8"
dt is held that the testimony fails
TO identify those who participated in
the shooting, that il fails TO show
any agreement or conspiracy of si-
lence; that II is contradictory, and
much of il so unreliable as to be in
sufficient to sustain the charges.
and that the testimony shows that
the discharged men had good records
and that beyond reasonable doubt
that whatever may be the facts as to
who did the shooting, many OF the
men so discharged were innocent of
any offense connected Herewith, and
IL is the duty of Congress 10 provide
for the correction Of their records
and re-enlistment, and the restora-
ton TO them OF all the rights OF
which they have been deprived
CALLS TESTIMONY UNRELIABLE.
In addition TO this minority report
Senators Foraker and Bulkeley join
ed IN a supplemental report, which
was presented by Senator Foraker.
Senator Foraker's report declared
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Wanted!
Wanted!
Wanted!

, Tenor Singers, / Alto Singer,
l First Glass Soprano. All must
be sober ladies and gentlemen. A
knowledge of music preferred. Ad-
dress.
MR.. L. n. PHILLIPS,
239 Clinton Avenue,
Detroit, Mich.
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THE DEMOCRATS EMBARRASSED.

The affair which has come to be
known as the Brownsville ARRAY. &"
was removed from the Senate Com
mittee on Military Arairs yesterday.
and reported 10 the Senate. Al
though IL was the intention TO sub
init these reports promptly upon tho
convening OF the session, the Presi-
dent butt in first with a message re-
commenting legislation that would
enable him TO reinstate such men,
bers OF the colored battalion as could
show their innocence Of participa-
ton in the shooting up of the Texas
town.
Secretary Latta was at the door of
the chamber at noon waiting for
that body to be called to order. and
he appeared promptly following the
opening prayer with a message from
the President" which Immediately
was laid before the Senate. II fol-
lows:
To the Senate: On December IL
1906 the Secretary OF War, by my
direction. Issued the following order:
Applications 20 re-enlist from for
mer members OF Companies B. L..
y
were discharged under the provis-
ions OF special orders, No. 266. War
Department, November 1906 must
be made in writing and be accompan-
led by such evidence, also in writing.
as the applicant may desire to sub
NIT TO show that ne was neither i'm
plicated in the raid on Brownsville.
Texas, on the night OF August IS,
1906, nor withheld any evidence that
might lead TO the discovery OF the
perpetrators thereof"
RECOMMENDS LAW FOR REIN
STATEMENT.
Proceedings were begun under
this order; but shortly thereafter an
investigation was directed by the
Senate and the proceedings und er
the order were stopped The Senate
Committee intrusted with the work
has now completed its investigations
and finds that the facts upon which
my order of discharge of November
3, 1906, was based are substantiated
by the evidence. The testimony Sc
cured by the committee is therefore
now available, and l desire to revive
the order OF December u, 1906. and
to have il carried out in whatever
shape may be necessary to achieve
the purpose therein set forth; any
additional evidence being taken which
may be of aid in the ascertainment
OF the truth. The time limit during
which it was possible to reinstate
any individual soldier in accordance
with the terms of this order has,
however. expired. l therefore re-
commend the passage of a law ex-
tending this time limit, so far as the
soldiers concerned are affected
until year after the passage of the
law. and permitting reinstatement by
direction of the President OF any
man who, in his judgment. shall ap-
pear not to be within the class whose
discharge was deemed necessary in
order TO maintain the discipline and
morals of the army.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
The White House. March IL, 'OS."
INTENSE INTEREST SHOWN IN
REPORTS.
The four reports emanating from
the committee were made to the
Senate as soon as the reading of the
message had been concluded. The
reading OF these documents command
ed the undivided attention of every
Senator, and nothing that has been
submitted TO the Senate recently has
been listened to with mere interest
There was an unusual attendance on
both sides of the chamber, and no
Sauaf0r left t1fQ scat during fha h,.fof
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KNIGHTS OF PYTHuAs.

The Anniversary Exercises Of tho
Knights OF Pythias will take place,
Sunday. March 29th, at the Sixth Mt.
Zion Baptist Church at 1880 p. NJ.
The Anniversary Exercises of the
Courts OF Calanthe will take place
the same afternoon at the Second
Baptist Church, 4 p. M
All members must be out wearing
the regalia OF the Order.
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DID NOT CALL A PASTOR.
Fifth Street Baptist Church Did No
Decide the Question.

The special meeting of the Fifth
Street Baptist Church. held last Mon
day night for the purpose of calling
pastor was without result. The
Deacon Board had decided to recon-
mend one minister at the time and as
a result brought in the name Of Rev.
l.. A. Carter. formerly of the Third
Street Baptist Church. but now the
pastor of a large church at Knox
Vile. Tennessee.
The vote was not in his favor and
some of the members got impatient
and the move to appoint a commit
tee to bring In two more names pre-
vailed. They brought IN the names
of Rev K. w Con Of Lynchburg and
Rev. J. ID. Buschel OF California.
These did not meet with sufficient Ia
voT and the meeting adjourned with
ont further action.
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that the testimony OF the eyewitness
es against the Negro soldiers Is not
reliable and that no motive for their
alleged connection with the ARRAY
had been shown. He summed up the
testimony taken by the Senate COM
mittec as follows:
That IL wholly fails 20 identify
the particular individuals or any Of
them who participated in the shoot
ing; that IL fails 20 show that any
OF the discharged soldiers OF the
Twenty-hfth Infantry had entered
into any agreement. or so called
Conspiracy OF silence" or that they
withheld information possessed by
them FOR the shooting: that the tes-
timony is contradictory and not suf-
ficient TO sustain the charge that the
soldiers were connected with the
shooting and that the weight OF the
evidence shows that none Of the
Negro soldiers participated In the af-
fray.
RECOMMENDS JUSTICE FOR IN
NoCENT.
a supplemental report signed by
Senators Warren Lodge, Warner and
DUPONT. declares that under the ev-
idonce IL is shown that the assault
was perpetrated by members of the
battalion, but that IL is reasonable to
believe that all Of the soldiers were
not concerned in the commission of
the crime, either as principals or ac-
cessories. They recommend that il
would be justice TO restore to all of
the innocent men the rights and priv
ileges which had accrued TO them by
reason of their previous service in
the army.
"A bill is presented authorizing the
President within one year after the
passage of the act 10 authorize the
enlistment of any of the men whom
he may be satisfied had no connec-
tion with the shooting.
Senator Foraker included in his
report a bill. previously introduced,
which provides for the same general
purpose. This bill. however. would
compel the War Department to ac-
cept the enlistment of any one of the
discharged Negroes who makes oath
that he was not connected with the
shooting.
The Brownsville ARRAY occurred
on the night of August 1914 1906.
The War Department conducted a
hurried investigation of the shooting
and as a result President Roosevelt
ordered the discharge without honor
of the three companies of Negro
soldiers who were then stationed at
Fort Brown. Senator Foraker soon
after Congress convened in December
1906, raised a question as to the
Presidents right to discharge the
men. and an investigation by the
Committee on Military Affairs was
ordered. The committee began TAX
ing testimony February 4, 1907 and
concluded March 10. 1908.
DESIRES TO APPEASE NEGROES.
That the administration intended
to make a determined effort to over
come the hostility of the Negroes on
account of the dismissal of the bat
talon has been known since last
week. The Negroes all over the
country have been organizing against
the administration political pro-
gramme, which includes the nomina-
ton OF Secretary Taft for President,
and while at first this movement did
not promise TO reach formidable pro-
portions, IL has developed into some
thing of menace TO the Presidents
plans. This hostility was directed
as much against the Secretary of War
as against the President even though
Mr.. Taft undertook to suspend the
execution OF the order of dismissal;
but he was estopped from making
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PoRTA DARK CLOUD
POWER TO REVOKE HIS
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Mrs John G. Smith is quite sick
Il her residence. 1901 Z. Leigh st.
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interchange OF words that took place
concerning the reports.
Senator Culberson inquired why
legislation was necessary to permit
the President TO reinstate the sol
diers of the Twenty-fifth Regiment.
and Mr.. Warren chairman OF the
committee replied that the Presid ent
had no authority to restore them with
all rights and privileges after ninety
days. and that for that purpose the
proposed legislation would have to
be enacted.
In presenting his minority report.
Senator Foraker, dropping into the
language of the court, proceeded 20
say:
Now, II you honor please"
Laughter greeting this remark.
coming events cast their shadows.
and may be, that inuuenced the
words added Mr.. Foraker, Vice
President Fairbanks being in the
chair.
Mr.. Tllman said he wanted all the
reports and the Presidents message
printed In a single volume
Il also want in the document, q"
said Mr.. Tillman, 1.-The message of
the President discharging these men
and then his message taking il back. ="
After taking his seat, Mr.. Tillman
again arose and added, in rasplng
tones
Il want the entire report, so it can
be sent out for the benefit of the
'niggers' of the country"
TO SATISFY DISSATISFIED VOT-
ERS.
Senator Bailey inquired whether
the committee had prepared a bill TO
reinstate the colored soldiers. Re
ferring TO the Presidents recommen-
dation and to the recommendation
of several members of the commit
tee for legislation 10 restore the col
ored soldiers, Senator Bailey said
there seemed to be a race of diligence
TO see who could satisfy the dissat-
isfied Republicans before the Repub-
lican convention and before the gen
eral election.
THE Senator is. of course, giving
his views from a Democratic stand
point" retorted Mr.. Warren.
Mr.. Bailey replied that people
could not see themselves as others
see them.
And most fortunately il is they
cannot" said Mr.. Warren.
But If some power would give
the Senator from Wyoming power
TO see the Republican party now, he
would be more ashamed OF this than
have ever been ashamed of myself;
that is. if he can be put TO shame"
"I am quite content" MIR. Bailey
continued Ito sit here and see the
Senator from Wyoming and the SEN
ator from Ohio (Mr. Foraker) fight
this out between themselves. The
truth is the Senator from Ohio needs
none of my assistance or sympathy
but as between a multitude and one
man l almost sympathiz2 with the
one man If ne is wrong"
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THE HAGERMAN RANCH
WON PRIZES.

According to the Albuquerque Jour
nal the following prizes were won al
the National Irrigation Congress by
the Pecos Valley:
Eddy County won the Hearst cup
for county exhibit.
May Millsap, of Artesia, won the
second prize of $50 offered by the Al
buquerque Journal for the best ten
pounds of onions raised by boy or CIR.
nder 16 years of age.
The Continental Oil Company tro.
ply, a silver cup, for the best ixhib
it of fruits of all kinds grown by a sin.
gle individual was awarded to j. J
Hagerman, owner of the great Hager-
man ranch at Roswell, N. M.
The Thomas B. Catron $500 cash
prize for the best exhibit of apples
grown in a single irrigated orchard,
800 for pears and 500 for apples,
went to Feemster & Cannon, of Hope
and ]. J.. Hagerman, of Roswell.
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pleasure of said Dexter School Dis
trict No. 8, at any time arter ten
years, and are absolutely due and
payable thirty years after the date
hereof, with interest at the rate OF
six per cent. per annum payable semi
annually on the first day of January
and the first day of July Of each
year, both principal and interest to
be payable at the office of the County
Treasurer, in Roswell, of said coun-
ty of Chaves, upon the presentation
and surrender thereof of the annexed
coupons as they may severally be-
come due.
Coupons No. 1 are payable January
1st, 1909, but will be detached and
paid when the bonds are old and
paid for.
Advertised in the Roswell Record,
Oct. 2, 9, Is and %, 1908.
J. S. LEA,
Treasurer a1d Ex-Oficio Collector.
Chaves County, New Mexico.
Roswell, n. NJ, Oct. 1, 1908.
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Notice of Bond Sale.

Under and by authority of section
1912, Compiled Laws of New Mexico
I, J. S. Lea, Treasurer of Chaves
county, New Mexico, will offer fol
sale to the highest bidder for cash
at the front DOR of the Court House
of said County of Chaves, New Mexi
co, at 10 o'clock a. M, Saturday, Octo
Der oath, 1908, the following described
School House Bonds of Dexter Schoo.
District Nc. 8 of Chaves County, New
Mexico.
Bond No. 1, $4,000, and Bonds Nos
2, 3, 4, $4,000 each. Total issue.
81, 10000
Said bonds are redeemable at the
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WILL HAVE BIBLE
SCHOOL INSTITUTE.

the organization of a Bible school in
stitute among the Sunday school teach
ers of Roswell. The start has been
made among the Baptist Sunday
all schools are invited to join them
in their work. They plan to take a
correspondence curse in Sunday
school instruction and the members
will be graded and graduate the same
IS in other courses. The first meet.
ing will be held at four o'clock next
Sunday at the Baptist church. Books
have been secured by many of the
prospective attendants.
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IARRAZOLO NAILS LIE

THE RECORD CALLED THE ATTENTION OF O. A. LARRAZOLO
TO THE LIE MANUFACTURED AND CIRCULATED BY REPUBLICANS
IN THE REGISTERTRIBUNE, AND THE FOLLOWING REPLY, WHICH
COMPLETELY DIsPROvES AND SHOWS UP THE FALSE AND MALI
CIOUs CHARACTER OF THE REPORT, WAS RECEIVED:
3 TO THE VOTERS AND TO THE PEOPLE OF NEW MEXICO: g
3 My attention has just been called to the following g
g article appearing in the RosweIR egEterTribune Of September Is, g
g in which this language is attributed to me: g
8 "Is it, m y countrymen,. that we are to be cast aside IS g
g unworthy by those who have overrun Jul land, made light of g
g III traditions, sneer at our u m and revle our religious q
g ceremonies? Have we not felt the heel of. the grngo upon g
g III necks these many years? Shall we not make a supreme g
g effort to take our rightful place in legislative halls? And a 9
g you do that tin any other way han by ranying around the stan g
g drd of one of our W blood, your customs, your W g
g religion? What as the domlne9ring, graspng Americana ever .
g done for us? Nothing but abu e u confidence, steal III lands g
g and u mines n grind us deeper into the dust of the high g
8 way. Vote fol a man of your own blood, a ma of your W g
g faith, a M who loves tn Aex "a Inc hates the despised and g
g heretcal gringo" CThe paper adds: Further comment IN the g
g above is unnecessarily @
g It is almost humiiatn to be compelled to take notice g
g Of uch malicious an scurrilous charges as are contained in he g
g tempt that it deserves, rel it n 10 for fear that a few of the people g
g who have recently come o New Mexico, and who are b slightly. g
g admission of M charge therein nj Is the third rae 1 make In q
g this Territory or Delegate to Congress, an I have o different DC g
g caIons discussed political tissues in all the principal towns in each @
g and every one of the counties of this Territory; my political oppo- g
g n this is the first time that n such charge has been made g
g against me. 1t is needless to ia that the accusation is a wilful g
g deliberate and malicious fabucat o coming from the opposition; g
g were it lot &c, the TIME and PLACE where such language a G
g charge is made only prove n desperate position to which the g
g opposition has been driven. Not only have I v used any suc 9
9 ut tn people OF this Territory will bear witness to the fac that @
g my best efforts have always bee directed to eradicate rac preju- g
g dice from h minds of he people n establish a brotherly feeling G
. among all classes Of u citizens. very respeetfuny, 9
g (Signed) O. A. LARRAZOLO. @
9 g g g g 8 6 g g g g g g g @ g g g g g g g g g g @ @ @ g g @
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which he was Great Sachem last year.
According to the custom of the lodge.
he, as retiring Great Sachem, was ell
ected Great Prophet. DIR. Mills, of Las
Vegas, was the newly elected Great
Sachem. There were four delegations
from the Pecos Valley. The meeting
was the biggest in the history of the
lodge n the reports showed the
most successful year in its history.
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J. D. Cooley is in from Scottsboro,
on the Plains, preparing for the freight
ing of the stock of goods to the new
store that he and K. K. Scott have
built. Both proprietors and their stock
will go out to the new store next
week.
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BOARDS OF REGISTRATION.


Commissioners of chaves County,
New Mexico, at a Special Meeting
Thereof, Held at the Court House
on Wednesday,, Sept. 2, 1903.
Present: w. NJ. Atkinson, Chair
man; Thos. D. White, Commissioner;
F. p. Gayle, Clerk.
It is ordered that the Following
named persons be and they are here
by appointed in the several Boards
of Registration in and for the var
ious precincts of Chaves County for
the General Election to be held on
Tuesday, Nov. 3, 1908:
Precinct No. 1.-R. NJ. Parsons
Earl Stone, Fred C. Hunt.
Precinct Nc. &c. A. Moore, M. U.
Finley, J.. w. Johnson.
Precinct No. 3-W. P. Chisum, J
T. Randle, J. r. S1ease.
Precinct No. 4.-Jerry Cazier, J. c
Weaver, A. V. Hair.
Precinct No. Sc. M. Sanford, C
w. Davisson, Howard Russell.
Precinct No. Ga. J. Foster, J
H. Boyd, M. O.. Becker.
Precinct No. TT. w. Cadenhead
Boyd Williams, B.. C1eve.
Precinct No. Sc. S. Crosby, D
J. Miller, C. H. Marx.
Precinct No. "a. Stinson, B. H
Marsh, e. S. Mundy.
Precinct No. 1O.-Green B. Patter
son, B. J. Kimbrough, J. 1. Blanton.
Precinct No. Thames Brogden
Edgar Harral, w. T.. Cowgirl.
Precinct No. 12.-Harry Thorne, B
L. Cooper, Robert E. Lee.
1t is ordered hat the following
named persons be and are hereby ap
pointed delegates to the Sixteenth
National Irrigation Congress to be
held at Albuquerque, N. NJ, Sept. 2e
to Oct. 10, 1908: Clifton Chisholm
James F. Hinkle, M. w. Hodges, Chas
de Bremond, Eliza White.
No further business appearing, the
Board adjourned. CSigned)
w. NJ. ATKINSON, Chairman.
Attest: F. P. GAYLE, Clerk.
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Have you registered? If not, why
noe? You will not be permitted to
ballot box unless you are registered
and this 81 something every true citi-
zen should do, be he Republican, Dem
ocrat or Socialist.
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The indications are for the greatest
Democratic vote on record in the Pee
aroused and will vote right, and that
to vote the Democratic ticket.
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Entertainment.

Two Hours Free Entertainment.
1000 Post Card views shown en-
larged on canvas inside the ANNEX
Saturday night, 7:30 to 9:30.-Inger-
soil Book, Stationery, Art & Post Gard
Co..
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For Sale or Trade,

Forty acres at head of North Spring
river, described as NV IA SW IA
Sec. 25,-1OS.-23E. Make me an offer
T. M. Waller, Lakewood, N. NJ. Cite
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Ed Kinsinger writes that he may sell
his telephone system at Salem, Ia,
within the mex twenty days and in
that event he will surely return to
Roswell, he says.
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Leroy L. Moore, of Santa Fe, Field
Chief of the Twelfth Division for the
Government, was here yesterday in
speeding the land Office.
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Stoves, stoves, stoves. See our line
before you buy.-Independent Hard
ware Co. SStf.
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Thirty4nine year ago yesterday,
Franklin Pierce, the seventeenth
president of the United States died
at Concord, New Hampshire.
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Make Your Old School Books Pay.
We take them in exchange for new
school books or CASH.-IngersoI
Book, Stationery, Art & School Book
Co.
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Grand Lodge of Red Men.

George F~reidenbloom returned last
night from Albuquerque, wheue he at
tended the exposition and the Great
Camp meeting OF the Red Men, OF
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Miss Ewing's room of the North
Hill school, did not have a single case
of hardness during this month-the
only room to get ON the honor roll.
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Cab fare, one way, for one
person, to any place in the city.
rs cents. City Livery & Trans
fer Co., and Palace Livery.
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Judge J. r. Evans, who has been
confined to his room several days with
rheumatism, was able to be out to
day.