The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-04-21

\A/ Texas, again called forth the
Wv most intense interest in the
Senate to-day. In his maid
en- speech in the Senate. Senator Borah,
or Idaho. taking the ground that the
testimony showed concusively that the
negro soldiers Of the Twenty-nfth Reg
lment shot up the town, gave careful
analysis OF the evidence
There was an unusually large num-
per OF Senator'S present. The morale
OF the army. Mr. Borah said, is para
mount to any mans right to remain
IN II. IT any man In the Twenty fifth
regiment Is connected In the riot, and
II others connived at the crime by con-
cealing knowledge Of 1t to shield tho
guilty parties then both were guilty
alike, he declared.
MIR. Borah called attention to Mr..
foraker's suggestion that tile citizens
OF brownsville might have shot up their
town to secure the removal OF the me-
gro soldiers. THE charge OF a gen
eral conspiracy" he said, Involved the
necessity of long preparation; the steal
ing OF the shells and their distribution
upon the streets OF Brownsville. but,
It Is worth anything at all. this conspir-
acy not only steals the shells and
scatters them upon the street, but 1t
also furnishes the men who did the
Ifring-thc men who actually went upon
the streets OF their own town, assault
ed their own homes, the wives and
children of their friends, shot the arm
off a policeman and murdered citizen!
Guilty Beyond Doubt.
Now / confess that there might
possibly have been desire TO attack
the soldiers, but 1t seems that this
conspiracy, IL It had an existence,
L a,.va L., ,syo
It's own people,"
He referred to "the Judgment passed
upon these soldiers by their own Of
ficers," and quoted their testimony to
that effect. given prior to the Sem
alto Investigation. Mr.. Borah announced
his conclusion that testimony dis
closes the guilt OF certain members OF
the Twenty-Fifth Infantry. as partici-
pants in the Brownsville raid beyond
/ a reasonable doubt. eff" he added.
they were guilty at all they were
guilty OF deliberate murder-murder
1 planned and deliberated on and ac-
complished with deadly precision.
.The one point in which the rioters
failed was with respect to the number
iof their victims. They evidently ex-
pected 10 kill more than they did.
Moral Treason.
no more serious charge than this
was ever made against soldier OF the
United states. For these offenses
many a soldier has been condemned
and shot at sunrise. To my mind. 1t
was treason; IL not technically 50. yet
morally treason in most aggravated
form"
4 Mr.. Borah dwelt at some length on
the accomplishment of the negro race
since the abolition of slavery. and
found much cause for congratuiatlon;
but, he said. this fact could not ex-
cuse individuals from punishment for
crime, even If such leniency should be
given the race, which should rot be.
Concluding, he said:
Let 1t be understood by them and
by all that this government is, their
government as we'll as ours; that their
hands, their labor in slavery and out,
helped to make It; that their va1or and
heroism helped to preserve 1t, and that
Justice Will be meted out both in pro-
lection and in punishment: that the
door OF hope will not be closed nor an
escape from Justice permitted. Let 1t
be known. as every man must at last
know, that II this republic is to en-
dure. obedience to the law is to be
the first tenet of our faith, and that
: the great army OF the United States
must be one in which the women and
children can feel perfectly secure whe
they retire for the night"