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Show : I Discharged Negro Soldiers May Now Prove Their Innocence. Washington. Under a special rule ' the house on Saturday passed the senate sen-ate bill granting to the discharged negro ne-gro soldiers of the Twenty-fifth infantry, in-fantry, said to have be'en involved in , the "shooting up" of Brownville,' Tex., I the right to prove their innocence i rnd thus make them eligible for re- j ptoration to the army. Many speeches were made. Mr. Slayden of Texas spoke in opposition, and declared that congress was seeking by this bill to set aside the most righteous act of the Roosevelt administration. The bill now lacks only the president's signature. |