| Show I F CHAMPIONS OF NEGRO T Two Resolutions Introduced inthe inthe in inSTATEMENT the Senate on Behalf of Discharged Soldiers STATEMENT OF FORAKER POWER OF THE PRESIDENT IS QUESTIONED QU ESTION ED Washington Dec 3 Surprie lit Ut up the faces aces of the senators when wen Mr Penrose injected into the tho formal open openIng openIng Ing ceremony of that body today a re resolution resolution resolution solution of inquiry addressed to the president regarding the discharge dischar e of three negro companies of the Twenty I fifth infantry I When Mr Penrose said he h had a re 10 resolution I solution for which w he should like imme immediate diate consideration Mr Ir Fairbanks arose and after hesitating h a second rc re remarked marked The usual rule is not to consider re resolutions resolutions solutions or miscellaneous matter until after the he message of the president is received Then rejoined Mr 11 Penrose I f Ishall shall haIl ask unanimous consent to have havethe havethe i the resolution read This was granted It follows Resolved That the president is re requested reQuested reQuested quested to communicate to the seriate senate if I not Incompatible with the nubile in interests ir Ic t r full information bearin bearing upon the recent order dismissing from the k Lc military service of tho the United States three companies of the re regiment r regiment Infantry United States troops colored Substitute Mr Foraker of Ohio was up UD on his feet at once saying I 1 have a substitute for that in iu the following resolution and I ask that it bo be b read and that both lie over Mr 11 Spooner secured the rereading of the first resolution and Mr Warren n of Wyoming asked that both KO go o over The Foraker resolution was road read rear at athis athis athis his request It was addressed d to the secretary of f war ar directing that official to furnish the conies CODies of nil all of official i 4 letters telegrams ador 01 I 11 ders filed with the he war department in I connection with the recent discharge of the troops in question together with nth a complete list of the men discharged showing the record of each the amount of retired pay each was entitled to un oer certain sections of the revised ed I statutes Ruling Asked The Th ruling of he ne department is asked on fin this or any other similar case cae re regarding regarding garding the right of the men iHen to such retired pay Day also the ruling of the de do department as to the right of such uh u h dIg dis discharged dl charged men to retire r tire on pay with allowance and I 4 clothing their rights to enter eiter r the na national national onal t soldiers homes to be bt m in n i 1 t national cemetery tery to receive e subsist subsistence t enc ence net and transportation from the place of discharge to their the homes hornet also the complete official record r cord of o th Twenty fifth regiment of r from the time of ol its muster in to the date dati of the ds charge darge of the th companies com mentioned m I Under the various varus requests l that the matter go over nothing further was said Raid after the of the resolution resolution tion lion Statement of Senator Foraker Senator Foraker explained e the pur purposes purposes purposes poses of his resolution in an interview j as follows The resolution sw als for fr itself I cannot it I will vilI ray cay ay however I have no purpose of If raising r the race rac question tu The rhe question iut Uon involved inv is broader br ader It would be hf b unfortunate to 1 Lave ave it narrowed narrow d Town down by drawing the Uie t theolor e olor color line It concerns white whit as wel vel as ast t lored soldiers It is a question o t f constitutional power powel n fl the one bond h nd find nd constitutional and aw statutory tr r the other Until we have hwe a complete record I do not know just what ques questions tons Hons will arise but we mav have to consider whether a L man can eal be con convicted of felony f lony by order and whether following such a conviction sentence may be imposed and punishment in inflicted by order Discharges without I may maybe be granted grunted where wh rc they are rot based on an offense the thela la law of the the commission of v which is denied and where no punish punishment ment nt But where there s con sentence and an punishment I have always supposed there would have to tJ be also a trial lither either in a civil cc urt or in a court martial or nr before some other tribunal thereunto th duly luly ap by law But it is idle to discuss imy ln of or these questions until we know v whether nether they ar aN raised by the rec record record record ord |
