The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1908-02-28

will no doubt support Senator For
aker's resolutions if they come up in
the senate after the committe is dis
charged.
In the three hours session of the COM
mittee to-day, quite number of res
olutions were offered. Senator Lodge
offered a resolution as follows:
"That in the opinion of this COM
mittee the shooting affray in Browns
vile on the night of Aug. 1914, 1906, |
was done by some of the soldiers be-
longing to the Twenty-fifth United
States Infantry then stationed at
Fort Brown, Texas"
Senator Foraker offered as a sub
stitute the following:
"The testimony wholly fails to iden-
tify the individuals or any of them
who participated in the shooting af
fray"
The Foraker substitute was defeated
by vote of to 5, the affirmative
being Scott, Foraker, Hemenway,
Bulkeley and Dupont. The negative
were Warren, Lodge Warner, Talia-
ferro, Foster Overman, Frazer and
McCreary. The last five named are
Democrats. The alignment substantial
ly was the same on most Of the sub
stitutes offered The Lodge resolution
formally was adopted by the same de
cision except that Senator Dupont
did not vote, making three Republi-
cans and five Democrats in favor
of supporting the discharge of the Ne
groes and four Republicans of record
against it.
The other Foraker substitutes were
as follows:
"The testimony wholly fails to show
that the discharged soldiers of the
Twenty fifth United States Infantry,
or any of them, entered into any agree
ment or so-called conspiracy of silence
or that they had among themselves
any understanding of any nature to
withhold any information of which
they or any of them might be pos
sessed concerning the shooting affray"
Five Senators voted for and eight
against the resolution.
The testimony is so contradictory,
and much of it so unreliable that it is
not sufficient to sustain the charge
that soldiers of the Twenty-fifth
United States Infantry or any of them
participated in the shooting affray"
The affirmative votes were four and
the negative nine, Senator Dupont
joining the latter.
"The weight of the testimony shows
that none of the soldiers of the Twen
ty-ffth United States Infantry parti
cipated in the shooting ARRAY"
! Only Senator Foraker and Bulkeley
5 voted for this resolution and eleven
Senators opposed it.
+ The final substitute offered by Sen
t ator Foraker declared that the testi
r mony showed discharged men had {
o good record as soldiers and that it Is
v the duty of Congress to pass legisla
|. tion providing for their reinstatement
i in the army. 1t was defeated by tiy'
e yeas and eight nays.
$ PRESIDENT SUSTAINED.
Senator Duponts substitute declared
q that the testimony showed the shot
l. we're fred from Springfield rifles is
a sued to Company B, Twenty-fifth II
A. fantry. In effect, it asserted the IL
2. nocence of Companies G and ID, bot
le of which were discharged with Con
x Dany B. Only the author of the resC
r luton and one other Senator vote
at for its adoption.
a Senator SCOTS resolution declare
X the evidence insufficient to hold guilt
le any particular person or persons an
IS. the identity of the guilty parties III
10 known. 1t was defeated nine to four
ed There being no further substitute
as offered, the original resolution We
Of adopted
hit Senator Warner then offered the fc
,e. lowing resolution;
To- THAT the testimony fails to ideni
to fy the particular soldier or soldie
bo who participated in the shooting a
W. fray"
tn It was agreed to by vote of eig
yeas five Republican Senators Oppose
~ to the Lodge resolution not voting.
~ a democratic senate or an entire
80 democratic committee would ha
- been more unanimous in their repoI
~ because when Texas grand jury
o+ fuses to find a bill against a Neg
~ or set of Negroes, there certainly G.
49,, he no evidence, and, too, when all t
officers of the company were eXon'
~ ated by courtmartial, there is
y. doubt about the innocence of the co
panies at large. Had these soldit
been court-martialed before they We
dismissed without honor they wor
nm have been eyonerated and the COZ
.he try would not have been burdened Il
in long with what is commonly kno'