The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1908-12-17
LODGE GOES
FOR FORAKER
DenOunceS effort to Make
Race Issue" Out
OF BROWNSVILLE AFFAIR
sses---
Is Military Discipline 0nly-Speaking as
Champion of the Negro, He As
ssrts the Unconstitutionality
Of the Foraker Bill.
OF BROWNSVILLE AFFAIR

Washington, Dec. 1.-THE Browns.
vile Shooting up revival again occu.
pied the attention of the Senate yes
terday, as a sequel Of the presidents
special message and Senator Foraker's
amendment OF his own bin so as TO
take the matter OF reinstatement OF
the discharged negro soldiers ALSO
lutely out of the executives control.
Senator Lodge took the floor for
lengthy speech in which, as was ineyi-
table he came to the defence Of Presi-
dent Roosevelt and condemned the po-
sition assumed by Mr.. Foraker. He
declared that no was bred up" with
a profound sympathy for and interest
in the negroes Of the United States
and had tried always to aid and serve
them--a bill which he reported, and
which passed the House Of Representa-.
tives representing the last attempt
made to secure to them, their political
rights in the south.
81 have encountered criticism, odium
and political attack in their behalf" he
declared, (which cannot be said OF
many Of those who, outside of this
chamber for one reason or another
have busied themselves with this AZ.
fair and sought to make capital out of
it. / speak, therefore, as their friend
when / say that no greater misfortune
has happened to them in late years
than this effort to make race issue
out Of a case of military discipline
Sympathy For Criminals
self-selected champions Of these sol
diers in various parts Of the country
sought, he said, not for equality be.
fore the law, but for special treatment
for the Brownsville soldiers, on the
ground of race.
"As friend Of the negro race | de-
plore the agitation which had this end
in view" he said "These soldiers are
entitled to the same treatment. as sol.
diers and citizens, that white men
would be entitled to--nefther more nor
less"
lie deplored any appeal to sympathy
for criminals, which 'shas become the
ldaniOn VI iHt llDlfs II dCtiOH III tHls
matter is to be determined by sympa-
thy, he said, his sympathy would not
go to the men who did the shooting,
but to the harmless boy who was killed
to the lieutenant Of police dangerously |
wounded and injured for life in the |
performance Of his duty. and !, the |
women and children covering lie /
floor while bullets crashed througa the /
thin walls of their dwellings. Brushing
wished exact justice so far as it could /
be attained. The crime of these men 1
was made greater because they were /
Unuited Stats soldiers employed for
The protection Of the people.
He favored the Warner bill, which /
allows the president to restore the i'm /
nocent to the army whenever he is
satisfied that any of them we're blame
less. He condemned the Foraker bill,
which, he said, attempts to force back
into the army not only innocent men,
but men who were guilty of serious
crime. He made an exhaustive argu-
nent on the unconstitutinnalty Of
The Foraker bill, which obliges the
president to re.enlist these soldiers
whether he thinks they ought to be re-
Enlisted or not. Such an act, he de-
Jared, would be an ancroachment upon
he constitutional rights OF the presi-
lent and subverssse Of discipline in
,he army.