The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-12
TAFT GAVE THE ORDER TO
 uIsBAND NEGRO TROOPS.
If Was Formally Issued Before Cable Was Received from President
 Roosevelt.


 NY. ..A,n1ton snecIal to N. Y. World.
 The portals of the Ananias Club seem to he opening for the reception or one or two distinguished liaxe citixenwy nwiliiSm hH H. Ta9t of responsibility for the dismiss ssi of the negro soldiers accused or shooting up Brownsville Tex o..-
 IJentenant General Henry z. Corpi,n ,r hfs Interview putting all the credit or all the blame for the dlsmlssai on President Roosevelt said that SecreIsary Taft was in the West trSsaTT Waep TIg Taft ot mad nothing to do with the orders at ali. The fact that General Coroin gave ous a mart of the hitherto unpuDnsned anu smhiact has been commented upon. but thsf ia not the only omission of ma terial fact in the Generals view.
 Secretary Taft sSsPendedd dedef fhs so as to cable the President. who was then ln SiTh T6st makes t appear that Secretary actsd ImnulsIveiy If not wrongfully in ordering the dismissal without hon
 But General corbin did not state the fact made clear by the part or the rec ord submitted to the Senate. that Sec- retary Taft without waiting to near from President Roosevelt. on Noyem . tion of the Presidents order be no longer delayed. Accordingly It was carried out. r.s. susnanded the execution of the order so he could cable to the President ask ing him if he did not desire to cnahge . his mind. presumably because ot the row the order had created. although th e failure of General Corbin ana Presl- dent Roosevelt to make public Secre- tary Taft's cable to the President leaves 0n his own initiative Secretary Taft also rescinded his order of suspension and directed. that the execution or the order of dismissal be carried out rorth- When he did that Secretary Taft did not know whether the President want : ed to change his mind or not He dld PTssident adhered to his original pur- pose to dismiss the whole battalion with out honor.
 The message quoted py General Cor bin but suppressed until then by the administration Is dated Ponce. NoVem- fore noon of that day. The time of its formal statement given out by ,secre- tary Taft. He then said that It was received at Ii o'clock on the morning 6 of November 2l. just about about twenty-f4Sr .h!, our Presidents order be executed.
 The credit of having taken final and decisive action in the matter belongs shown by the record In the case sent to the Senate in response to a resolution asking for all the correspondence in the matter.
 The President In response to that resolution sent up a mass of corres- pondence. The inference to be drawn from his message of transmittal and the form in which the documents were forwarded Is that all the correspond- ence was sent. At no place in the rec ord Is there anything to indicate that messages were exchanged between President Roosevelt and Secretary Taft by cable. although the newspaper ac- counts at the time do indicate that such messages were exchanged. The supposedly complete official record sent to the Senate Is innocent of asterlsks or any other indications that something had been omitted.
 The Corbin interview indicates too that Secretary Taft never expressed an opInion as to the merits of the contro- versy as to who shot up BrownBvtlle. Tn the Incomplete record sent Co the Senate there are two uttAranceH then