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Show "I TAFT UPHOLDS PRESIDENT-IN PRESIDENT-IN DI3CHARGE0FSQLDIERS Secretary of War Thinks Roosevelt Did Proper Thing In Dismissing From Service Battalion of Negro Soldiers. Washington An extract from the annual leporl of Secretary of War Tafl relating to tho Ilrownsvlllo, Tux., outrage by negio soldiers, was made public on Wednesday. Secretary Tnft recites the erlnie of tho Holdk'rs, ns alread) described In news dispatches; tho failure of the war department to obtain the names of the offenders and the dlsclmige of the battnllon. Secretary Sec-retary Tnft Junllfles the discharge, salng. "It may be that In tho battalion aro a number of men wholly InnoB-nt, who know neither who the gulltynen aro, nor any rlrcumstancus which will aid In their detection, though thlH cannot be true of many. Uecauso there tuny he Innocent men In thu battalion, bat-talion, must the government continue to U'o It to glial d communities of men, women and children when u contains so dangerous 1111 element Impossible ot detection? Certulnly not. iTho qnly means of ridding the mllltaty servlco of a baud of would-be mtmicrerg of women nnd children, and nittunl murderers mur-derers of one mail. Is the ulschrrrge of the entire battalion," |