The Cairo bulletin., 1908-12-15
FORAKER TALKS
ON BROWNSVILLE
MATTER or DISCHARGE OF NE.
GRO eoLDlERS BEFORE SEN
ATE NEARLY ALL DAY.
MESSAGE GF PRESIDENT
Recommends Reinstatement Of Some
. scharqed Nearo Soldiers II
They VIII Tell the
Truth.

Washington Dec 1.-THE Erc s-
vile affair construed nearly the cn.
tire session Of the senate today. For
aker obtained the loor early In tie
5day and read letters from former
soldiers of the Twentylifth regiment
telling Of the procedure Of the gov
eminent detectives in attempts to
: gee confessions from them
/ Foraker introduced an amendment
10 his original bill for the reenllst.
/ lment Of these soldiers provinding
/ that a commission Of three roircd
iarmy officers Re created to determine
whether the discharged soldiers ar3
Imnoceut Of completely in the shoo.
ling up of rr yasuGe as q pr
{reauisita their enlistment instead
icf leaving that duty with the pres
Mt as provided nv the Warner Tilt.
| The presidents message on the
! Iresuts of the war departments in
vestiaatian Of the Brownsville affair
was read ana Foraker again I ok the
/ floor to comment upon the message.
/ Senator Carter announced that TO.
morrow he would speak unon the
postal savings bank bill AMI would
ask that It be made the unfinished
| business Of the sena'e
Presidents Spec a Msssag-.
To the Senate:
inclosc herewith a leu9r + fcm
the secretary Of war Transmitting a
lreport OF the investigation made hy
Mr. Herbert J Browne. employed By
the department IN conjunction with
Capt ~ G Baldwin TO investigate
as far as fossible what hapnencd at
| tff0wnsvtiip an the 18th and iith "
| august, 1906. The report aud d0cW
mouts contain some information a
great value and some statement.
that are obviously worthless but
submit them In their entirety
This report enables us TO fix with
tolcrable deGniteness at least soma
Of the criminals who took the lead
N the murdnrous shooting of private
citizens at Brownsville II estab
fishes clearly the fact that tbo
colured soldiers dil the shooting;
hut upon this roinc further record
was unnecessary, as the fact that the
colorcd soldiers did the shooting has
already been established beyond all
possibility o }aoubt The inycstieR
tiop has not goro far ENOUGH to on.
able MS 90 determine an tbe facts,
and we viii nroceed with it. but il
has gone far enough 90 determine
with sufficient accuracy certain facts
of onorgh Importance 90 make Il ad
visable that place IN crepCrt before
YOU. 70 appears that almost an the
members of Company B must have
been actively concerned In the
shooting. either to the extent ~
being participants or 90 the extent ri
virtually encouraging these who
were participants AS 30 Companies
e and p. there can bc no question
that practically every man u thom
must have had knowledge that ttr
shooting was done by some of ths
soldiers OF 9 Troon and possibly ly
.one Cr two others in tho other -rIn.s
This C0uccalWeut was #..f g grove
uTelsa. which was ur HtH Fe-rI.a--
lea by their testful before tra -0H.
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