The sun., 1909-02-28
RELIEF FOR NEGRO SOLDIERS
JHE FORAKER BILL PASSED
~ the HOUSE, of0 TO fOf.

| II Authorizes Board OF Ofiicers 10 Pass
on Applications OF the DISCHARGED
Men for Restoration to the Rolls
IIobson's stirring Appeal for Them.
WAsHfSd1 on, Feb. 27.-President Roose-
welt now has an opportunity TO put
into effect the tenor Of the suggestion
ne made in connection with the dismissal
II members OF the Twenty-ffth Infantry
that If they could show that they were
NOT connected with the Brownsville riot
they would he restored to the service.
After a choppy debate, lasting an hour
and a half, the House OF Representatives
to-day. 2iO to i0i, passed the Foraker bill
appointing a board of army officers TO
pass upon the applications OF Me dis.
charged men for restoration to the rolls.
The passage OF the bill was advocated
hy Nessrs. Hull Of Iowa. chairman of the
committee on Military Affairs: Parker
Of New Jersey. Prince and Madden of
Illinois, Douglass Of Ohio, Hobson Of
Alabama. Waldo OF New York. Sulzer
Of New York. Cochran Of New York.
Aiair Of Indiana. Miller OF Kansas and
Refer Of Ohio. and opposed by Messrs
Henry. Slayden and Garner OF Texas
Bartlett Of Georgia and Clark OF Missouri.
Dir. Slayden characterized the Presi-
dents order Of dismissal as -the most
righteous act OF Roosevelts Administra-
ton"
Messrs. Sulzer and Cochran supported
the bill on the ground that it ought to
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lowest or meanest to be made the victims
n injustice. The only way. declared Mr..
Cochran, that the white man had main
tanned his supremacy was by doing justice
TO the inferior races.
Champ Clark, the minority leader, said
this was not true. Wherever the two
races came In conflict. the white man con-
auered. II at all. by the power OF the
lion paw or the eagle claw He said
there was nothing in the issue but legal
question: Should the men guilty OF
murder be punished?
Mr.. Bede OF Minnesota asked Mr.. Clark
il he ever knew Of 1877 men being enga ged
in a conspiracy?
Sure replied the Missourian. "The
Molly Aaguiree. the Whitecappers and
the mob that burned the negro in Spring
field Ohio Laughter and applause.
On the vote Speaker Cannon had his
name called and was recorded in the
Affirmative.
Capt. Hobson of Alabama reused the
House in three minute speech strongly
advocating the passage Of the bill.
This three minutes said he in COM
mencing his speech. will cost me a con-
test in my district and may cause my
defeat for reelection. l wore the uniform
Of the United States for eighteen years,
and have never known a case where an
officer or an enlisted man was punished
at all severely without a court Of inquiry.
! know that he is not allowed to be pun
ished TO the extent Of thirty days i'm
prisonment without a court-martial.
when these crimes were committed
at Brownsville the President Of the United
States should have ordered all officers
and men to remain within the barracks
and should have ordered a court Of in
quiry. followed by court martial. and
should have established the guilt and pun
shed the guilty there; But he did not. He
has scattered the guilty and the innocent
10 the four winds and prevented the exc
cution Of justice.
MIR. Speaker, I saw black men on San
Juan Hill; have seen them before Manila.
black man took my father wounded
from the field Of Chancellorsville. Black
men remained on my grandfather's
plantation after the proclamation OF
and took care of my mother |
and grandmother. The white man Ia
supreme in this country; he will remain
supreme. That make il only the more
imperative that he should give absolute
justice to the black man and We ought
not to make a party measure OF this