The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-01-13
IH0THER shot
At ROOSEVELT
IN THE SENATE
eoraker Flags the President
Alive and Puts Judge
Taft on the Grill.
BROWNSVILLE AFFAIR
REVIEWED IN DETAIL
..tERiEs FILLED AND MEM
.ras OF HOUSE CAME OVER
IN LISTEN TO SENATOR.

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J. washington, jan Fine sehdte
:.sn,tad a resolution today present
a ~, senator Foraker calling on =
~. -scretarv of the treasury for an -
...,,izad statement for the eXpen- =
5i.,,re of The s.. 00O 600 appropriated =
: Nv tho act of March 3, 1899, to be :.
sy,andcd at the direction of the -
.~asideut as an emergency fund. ="
: This is the fund out Of which de- =
. tsctfyes were paid for investigating ::
. the Brownsville affair
washington. Jan. IA renewal of
,,e discussion Of the Brownsville affair
an the senate today by Senator Foraker
called out a large gathering that filled
the galleries to overlooking
The senator had the strietest atten-
49,, Of his. colleagues on the floor, near
Ia all Of whom were present, together
-itb a large number of members OF the
tonsA who occupied places in the rear
~ the chamber. Among the visitors IN
Tho gallery there was a large number
~ negro men and women many of whom
nave been present on every occasion
when Mr.. Foraker has defended the ne
rroes Of the Twenty-ffth regiment
against the charge of having "shot-up
Inc town Of Brownsville on the night
Of Aug. 1914, 1906.
senator Foraker had prepared his
speech very carefully, but his reading
Of tn, manuscript had all OF the inter-
est of an extemporaneous address.
Taft Equally Guilty.
Illegal diversion Of public funds by
the president and William II. Taft
while secretary of war, to pay for the
Investigation by private deterctives into
the Brownsville affair was charged by
Senator Foraker in replying to state
ments Of Herbert J. Browne of this city
and William G. Baldwin of Roanoke.
Va. who were employed by the secre-
tary Of war to secure evidence of the
guilty negro soldiers of the Twenty-fifth
Infantry, L. S A, in shooting up
Brownsville on the night of Aug. 1914,
1896. The government use of the pri-
vate detectives was characterized by
Mr.. Foraker as tatTocious, shocking
and revolving"
Money illegally Diverted.
This charge of illegally diverting s15.-
600 from the war fund of SS.O00,O00 ap-
propTiated by the deficiency act OF
March 3, 1899, was made by Mr.. For
aker I'm concluding his remarks, which
consisted of very c6~aful considera-
ton Of certain legal phases of the
Brownsville affair and the reading Of a
number Of affidavits by soldiers whose
testimony and confessions" Mr.
Browne alleged he had secured to IN
ravel the mystery of the identity of the
men who did the shooting, and these
sfidavits denied with great particular
lty nearly every statement of impor-
lance by the detectives.
Speaking Of the $4,000, 900 war fund of
ha appropriated as an emergency to
meet Unforeseen contingencies con-
SANITY arising to be expended at the
discretion of the president, Mr.. For
aker said:
Old Law Construed.
It viii probably be surprising in
formation that the appropriation made
len years ago at the close Of the Span
E1-American war. To enable the presi-
oent to meet emergency army contin-
senees SIch as were then arising in
junction with our military establish
Heht should have been construed to be
permanent appropriation"
Al- Foraker declared that the stat
u'eS directed the head of each depart
uleht 10 make an annual report to con-
steSs' giving a detailed statement of
-t manner in which the contingent
pended.
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