The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-04-06
TEXAS KICK AT NEGRO TROOPS
NINTH MOVED FROM THE CAMP
TO PLEASE GARNER.

NINTH MOVED FROM THE CAMP
TO PLEASE GARNER.
HIS Triumph likely 10 Hurt Him BADLY
ReGiment Going on DOrdcr Patrol.
hut Companies VIII he Posted At
brownsville and Lar edo Both Angry.
SAN ANTONIO. April s.--Perhaps the
most unexpected boomerang that hns
sailed out Of the House OF Representatives
In Washington and back again for some
time past is due to hit the head Of Con-
gressman John N. Garner. who represents
the district Of Texas wherein the town OF
Brownsville is situated. AZ result OF
Mr.. Gamers efforts Brownsville is about
to see negro troops auartered in its pre-.
cincts for the fret since a battalion OF the
Twenty fifth colored infantry contributed
the Brownsville incident" Of four years
ago.
Though Gen. william II. Carter. in COM
mand OF the division mobilized at the Fort
Sam Houston reservation. said yesterday
that he did not expect orders detachins
the Ninth Cavalry Of negro troops from
his command the orders came to him
from the War Department last night
simultaneously Gen. Joseph W. Duncan.
in command Of the Department OF Texas,
received orders to recall the Third Cavalry
from patrol duty along the border and to
send out the Ninth Cavalry to take the
place OF the Third in the Job Of preserving
the neutrality Of the United States along
the I 800 miles Of International boundary
comprised 10 the limits OF the department.
by these orders the Third Cavalry will
60 under the command Of Gen. Carter.
taking the place the Ninth had held as a
part OF the independent cavalry brigade.
and the negro cavalrymen will fl! all Of
the posts along the border which have
hitherto been covered by the Third Cav
airy. One Of these posts is Fort Brown.
at Brownsville. and another is Fort Sam
Fordyce. sixty miles away.
When Gen. Duncan was asked to-day
about the present disposition OF the Third
Cavalry he said that the regiment was
| scattered from Fort Hancock in the ex-
treme western portion Of Texas near FL
Paso to Fort Brown. When asked il a
portion Of the negro cavalry would 60 to
take the place OF the Third Cavalry now st
Fort Brown he declined to answer. say
ing that he was not at liberty to tell what
his orders were.
| The transfer OF the negroes from the
division to the Department OF Texas
was almost the single topic Of conversa-
ton among the officers in all regiments
at the camp to-day. Since an inspired
telegram quoting Congressman Garner
appeared in a local paper yesterday
under a Washington date line which
seid the Texas GonGrsssman had secured
President Taft'g promise to move the
Ninth Cavalry away from San Antonio
it was the general opinion among the
army men that Garner was responsible
for the order that came last night and
which was not made public until this
morning
! Garner does come from the Congress
eional district which includes San An,
tonic. His excuse for interfering in be-
half OF San Antonio. as he gave it to the
Washington correspondent Of the San
Antonio paper. was that Representative
James NJ Slayden OF San Antonio had
been absent from Washington and tha,
he (Garner) had thought 1t necessary
to act for Slayden in his absence.
The Congressman from the Southern
district was quoted as saying that the
refusal OF the men of the Ninth to be
bound by the Texas Jim Grow law foi
public conveyances had led TO severa
instances Of violence on the street rail
ways Of San Antonio. and that the con
tinued presence OF the negroes at the
camp here was a menace to law and
order. This was despite the fact tina
the chief OF police had only heard Of on'
disturbance on the street cars caused
by a negro soldier. and the general man
ager OF the traction company has haC
only two brought to his attention.
There was nothing in the orders tina
came from the War Department to Gen
Carter and Gen. Duncan to indicate tha
the Ninth Cavalry was being transferred
for any other cause than exigency OF th'
service. The orders said that the transfe
should be made in accordance with tn,
scheme for rotation OF regiments in tn,
border patrol
Gen Duncan said to-day that the frs
OF the negroes would begin to move on
by Friday. He was in consultation will
Col. John r. Guilfoyle. in command Of tn,
Ninth. and his regimental quartermaste
for several hours this morning and tn,
distribution OF the regiment down to th'
last man was plotted on Gen. Duncan,
chess board OF the border.
The twenty-eight officers OF the Ma
tionai Guard of New York who arrived
at the division camp yesterday have al
been apportioned ont among the regular
army ofioers and have begun to get the
advantage OF studying camp routine a,
first hand They are distributed between
the Tenth. Eleventh. Thirteenth, Fit.
teenth, Seventeenth. Eighteenth and
Twenty eighth Infantry regiments and
the Ninth and Eleventh Cavalry con-
tingents. Life is not particularly hare
for any OF them, 1t may be said for the
benefit Of their friends at home.
LARrDo, April 5. The report that two
troors Of the Ninth Cavalry and the
re gir entail band are to he sent by Gen
Duncan TO Fort Mcintosh. located out.
side OF this town, has caused considerah,
excitement amcng the citizens OF Lared,
and the surrounding towns. This after
MON n pNtjtiOp was being circulated 10