The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-13
BROWNSVILLE
 AFFAIR AGAIN Renew of Discussion
 Foraker.
 TAKE RAP AT ROOSEVELT Foo of Senate and Galleries
 Crowded. senator Forsker Declares There wiil -Bs . Time whsa Reesevelt wnl
 Be Carlea To Account As
 Other Men. =.

Washington, Jan. f2.--A renewal of | fair in the Senate today by senator | Foraker, called out a large gathering
 that filled the galleries to overflow ing
 The Senator received the strictest
 attention of his colleagues on the
 floor and nearly, all of whom were present. together with q considerable number of members of the House who
 occupied places in the rear of the chamber. Among the visitors in the | gallery there was a large number or negro men and wonien, many of whom have been present ola every occasion when Mir. Foraker has defended the
 negro soldiers of the 25th Regiment against the charge of having shot | up'' the town of Brownsville. Texas, on the night of August 1s-i4. 1906. Senator Eoraker had prepared his speech very carefully but his reading | of the manuscript had all of the in-. I terest of an sextemporaneouS address. | The galleries were filled and there | was large attendance of senators present when Senator FoFaker arose | to deliver hia, address. Mr. Fofaker read his address in clear voice that enabled all to readily follow -@eyery | s
 The row of seats reserved for the President was empty throughout the
 time Senator Foraier was speaking.
 As Mir. Forake proceeded. the at-' tendance on the Republican side of the House was lncreHsad by the ar rival of additional senators, so that nearly every seat was filled. The ate l tendance of Democrktic senators was not large, soniy about one-fourth of I At.. ants In fir I places throughout the discourse. When Mir. Foraker commented on a l statement of the detectives respecting l a letter he had written to one of the l discharged soldiers, he laid down his
 manuscript and with considerable I vehemence deciared:
 l T have doubtless written some let
 tors nesding explanation. have | tiouhsiess written s0En1 letters that I khe Information I got ct some other l time. But newer hays4 written any I letter since Ktfeft my h3otl1ek'k knee l of which I have been ashanied or
 that needed any lying to explaill.''
 As he proceeded his voice grew more and more intense.
 'Tf have shown any undue zeal in l commenting on thfs proceeding" he said, again departing from his man uscript, it is not through anger, but through that Indignant resentment that every self-respecting man feels | he ig spied on by the government he iB attempting to serve. No language can completely describe such . shame | ful performance and I do not exempt anybody from that remark who has
 been connected with 1t, from the high est to the lowest"
 As MT. ForRker read letters from
 some of the negro soldiers denying the statements of the detectives, he | referred to . bundle of letters on his | delxs and said the originals were there l if anyone cared to see them. He add ed that so much suspicion has been
 cast abroad he did not care to as-
 suine anything. There win be . tine." he said, | as, he threw, his manuscrfpt down on his desk and looked over the Senate
 chamber, "when men will not deal l lightly with such charges and insin-
 dations. There will Dc a time when they win be where they can be called
 to account as other men can be called | to account - 1 Reading an afEldavit of G. O. Ar
 mold. tho, sheriff who denied the state- | ments of the detectives in relation to
 alleged ';confessions' secured from Boyd Conyers. MT. Foralxer asked Sem
 ator Clay, or Georgia. what kind of l man Arnold was.
 Senator Clay said he had known Ar-
 mold fifteen or twenty years and that he was a most excellent man in every respect"
 q doh't think that Arnold needed
 a certificate of character" declared Mir. ForaiSer, except to those who he.
 lieve Ill of all those who do not agree
 with, them"
 Commenting on the report of Her
 bert J, Browne, who had charge of l the investigation by detectives. MT. l Foraker declared that he had been
 shocked and mortified when he read his statements.
 'I wish," he said. his voice resound-
 ings throughout the chamber, some. body who prates about the dishoneatv
 of other people; evidently meaning
 the President. ''could be shocked and
 horrined."
 Senator, Lodge speaka.
 When. at 2:40 o'clock. MT. Foraker
 concluded. Senator Lodge took the floor.
 saying he had only one comment to
 make on MT. Foraker's remarks, that being in relation to the legality of the
 employment of Browne and Baldwin. without referepce- to their methods, or l the merits of their work
 He said expenditures had been ri1nde from this fund under President McKin- | ley. as we'll as President Roosevelt, and also by Mir. Root. President -elect Taft. and General Wright. as Secretary. of War. and no constitutional provision. Mfr. Lodge said has been violated by these expenditures.
 The employment of Browne, he said.
 was clearly not illegal. because he was
 not detective by profession. and be- longed to no agency. The clause under
 which objection to the employment IS
 made is that mo employe of the Pink
 erton or similar agencies should be en- | ployed in the government service, or by any officer of 1t. or of the District of Co., lumbia." Therefore, he said, the re- | striction could only apply to Baldwin,
 who was a professional detective Going back to the intent of Con-
 gress In Iegislafing against the employ
 meht of PInkorton detectives. Mir. Lodge said 1t grew from the armed conflict betweSn hundreds of Pinkerton detect
 Ives ard strikers at Homestead during the great strike there many years ago II